#videogames
#videogames
By: RJ (@rga_02)
Growing up, I knew next to no one with SEGA hardware. To this day, I only know a couple of people who still swear by company like it was the early 90s again (clickbliss’ very own Editor-In-Chief being one of them). I’ve always viewed them as some secondary gaming company due to my little exposure to them. Some of their games looked interesting, but they were never on my radar. I’d only play them if I was at a friend’s house who owned SEGA games or if they were gifted to me. Looking back however, I’ve had a lot of memories with that “secondary company”.
By: Bridget Gordon (@thaumatropia)
This is the first of a three-part series. Look for the next installment next Friday.
I’m going to tell you a story.
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Once upon a time there was a young boy named Nathan. He was ten years old and lived with his Mom and Dad in Seattle. His Dad was English and grew up in a modest but loving home in South London, while his Mom grew up in North Carolina and met her future husband while studying abroad in England. Nathan had no brothers or sisters. They lived in a bright green house in Ballard. His Dad worked long hours but always made sure he had Sundays off. Sundays were their day together.
One Sunday in late November, Dad had surprised everyone with Sonics tickets. Nate was so excited to go to the game he could barely sit still. Everyone had a great time, even though the Sonics got beat pretty handily by Utah.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
13 days ‘til the end of the word. How should you spend those final days? Climb up a tower of course.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
I was recently helping out my parents set up their fancy new Bravia TV. I then noticed that it was PlayStation Now enabled. This spiked up my interest as I never really got a chance to play around with PlayStation Now for an extended period before. This service could be the future of gaming.
I had the TV all to myself for the weekend to experience the future. That weekend however, was one that made me shun the potential future of gaming.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
In the past, I’ve compared the Hyperdimension series to the days where you would bicker among your peers regarding about your favorite console of choice in the playground. This installment however would be a low budget movie. One that you would find being sold at the gas station next to the playground for dirt cheap. You know there are better films out there, but from time to time you long for some cheap frills.
By Matt Leslie (@Lesmocon)
You know what was a pretty good videogame? Batman: Arkham Asylum. It wasn’t exactly top class literature or a shining beacon of game design, but it was something that could be valued as a strong Batman experience. The concept of tossing Batman in the asylum and having to fight all his enemies at once on their own turf was strong, giving comic fans all kinds of neat Easter eggs and interesting locations while all the top Bat baddies got their own unique sequences. Shame about the ending, but for the most part Asylum showed off how to effectively use a licensed property in a videogame.
By Kevin (@prufesuroak)
Ultraworld is a first-person explorer that tackles existential crisis’.
You play… yourself dropped into this world that was built by an AI named Ultra who has become sentient and needs answers about himself, reality,purpose… etc. We find out that we were summoned in order to help him finder answers. On our quest to help Ultra we find another AI who suggests that Ultra does not know that he is there. He also mentions that If he is right there are more AI’s. A sub-plot is open to then find the other AI’s.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
I am a very forgiving person. There are a lot of games I enjoy that are critically indecisive within the gaming community. However, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon has shown that there are games out there that even I won’t accept.