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Modern of the Month: Just Cause 2 and Skyrim
Posted by Swifto
Posted on 1 August, 2012 at 00:03AM ↑ 0 ↓ 0
Modern of the Month: Mirror's Edge
Posted by Swifto
Posted on 1 July, 2012 at 1:26PM ↑ 0 ↓ 0
Modern of the Month: Mirror's Edge

I would like to induldge in a little personal history a moment.

See, I've always been a skinny guy. As a toddler, to elementary school, throughout high school, I never had much meat to me.

Oh yes! I was made fun of. Not an enjoyable youth. But let's not get into that. I still thought myself a fast person, able to run quickly and move quickly, but never for very long. Endurance was always my weakness. Years after graduating high school and working in the real world, I was still

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END THE STAGNATION!!! AVP.
Posted by Metal_Kitty666
Posted on 30 June, 2012 at 8:46PM ↑ 0 ↓ 0
END THE STAGNATION!!! AVP.

   Aliens vs. predator, for some people they are transported back to the '90s to a time of the Jaguar. Others not so far back to some, alright movies. I thought they were alright anyways. But an even fewer number of folks think back to the latest Aliens vs. Predator game, for modern consols.

Well, here we go. Time to dive into another game that wasn't really well recieved.

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Modern of the Month: Bastion
Posted by Swifto
Posted on 1 June, 2012 at 6:08PM ↑ 0 ↓ 0
Modern of the Month: Bastion

Sometimes, things work out just right.

You can slave away on a project for months, and it'll only come out 'merely okay'. Pour your heart and soul into it, and it'll be recieved as strictly normal. That's always a possibility of the world. Just how it goes.

But then sometimes, it all just works perfect. The right people working on the right things at the right times with the right help. It all comes together into something amazing.

Such is what I like to think is the c

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YOU PLAY NOW!!! Metroid Prime 3
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Posted on 19 May, 2012 at 5:45PM ↑ 1 ↓ 0
Modern of the Month: Deus Ex Human Revolution
Posted by Swifto
Posted on 2 May, 2012 at 08:13AM ↑ 1 ↓ 0
Modern of the Month: Deus Ex Human Revolution

I will admit to being a bit jaded and ornery when it comes to the games I like.

There are some games that people expect me to love, and yet I'll have only a few good things to say about them. And yet, other games that even I wasn't expecting to like, I absolutely adore. In cases like that, it's usually some indefinable quality that I can't put into words that makes all the difference. I'll say outright the flaws to be had in the game, and yet confess undying love for it regardless. I

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Onechan Bara, Sexy samurai in bikinis kill zombies? How Can I refuse?
Posted by Metal_Kitty666
Posted on 26 April, 2012 at 9:27PM ↑ 0 ↓ 0
Onechan Bara, Sexy samurai in bikinis kill zombies? How Can I refuse?

Actually, pretty easy to refuse this one.

Onechanbara is a japanese game where you play as either a sexy lady in a cowboy hat, her little schoolgirl sister or the moonwalking skimpy police woman. Right off the bat only the Bikini Woman, Named Aya, but you get to play as the other two later in the story.

STORY

Now, down to business, the story... The story kind of just starts outta nowhere, it opens with Aya in the shower in a glorious PG-13 cinematic, which means, no full nudity... *Cry* Well after some dialog between Aya and her sister, which is hard to get into because the game is not dubbed, just subbed, as they are watching the news, suddenly ZOMBIES!!! AHHHHHHH!!! And then they leave to go fight... ZOMBIES!!! AHHHHHHH!!! That's pretty much the beginning of the story, there are just zombies, and that is that.

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To The Moon
Posted by Swifto
Posted on 22 March, 2012 at 11:17PM ↑ 0 ↓ 0
To The Moon

I typically like to write about older games. Games that were made in the heyday of the medium, before it became a cashcow that had decisions being made by bearucratic publishers rather than by trained game developers. (not to cast too negative a light on the state of modern gaming) I feel that there's usually more.... Soul. More love, more passion, more tiny details put into the games of old. Little things that don't really contribute to the gameplay at all, but are there just because someone cared about the game enough to throw in a little something extra.

The game we're featuring today, however, is from this century. More notably, this decade! (at time of writing) Even MORE heinous than that, it was released late 2011! (November 1 2011, if I must be precise.)

But you know how it is with these retro-themed games. Some of them manage to capture that ol' classic gaming spirit so well that they could easily go alongside anything made for the SNES, Genesis, DOS or NES or whatever fancy dangle you kids play these days.

So here I am talking about something that's probably even newer than your last haircut. Today's focus is; To The Moon.

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