February 2012
3 posts
January 2012
2 posts
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Phil's Games - One a Day
I’ve set myself up a little blog and a little project for myself: Phil’s Games. Basically, I’m logging my video game collection, one game at a time, one day at a time. Check it out.
http://philsgames.tumblr.com/
November 2011
1 post
Adamant Ditto
Oh yeah so how about that Adamant Ditto? They’re a pretty swell group of folks who talk about video games and other stuff. Check ‘em out on their website and/or Youtube page.
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
12 posts
February 2011
2 posts
It's Marvel, Baby!
I think a big part of gamer culture might be knowing a lot about games you’ve never played. Maybe. I follow gaming news in general, and I’ll read up on Wikipedia about pretty much anything. I can play the Flash game Geek Mind pretty much endlessly, despite having played probably a fraction of the games in their screenshot database.
The same might go as much for comic books. I could count the...
Watchuhh making up rules
November 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
Of Mines and Men
For all the Internet hype, and for all the hours I’ve spent beneath the cubic earth, I can’t for the life of me understand why I continue to return to Minecraft. Every anecdote I can begin to remember is filled with either deep frustration or equally endless shame at the time lost to the game. And yet, something about the thing begs me to come back again and again, and I cannot bear but to comply...
June 2010
1 post
What if these games... had lyrics?
I’m no music snob. I’ll listen to pretty much anything if it ticks the indefinable boxes required for me to “like it”. From country to metal, from Eminem to Elton John, I’m willing to give pretty much anything a try. This, of course, makes the question “what sort of music are you into?” hard to answer. Even harder is “what are you listening to right now?”. When my MP3 player is running on shuffle,...
March 2010
2 posts
Final Fantasy 13 - 6 Hours Down
I haven’t played that much of Final Fantasy 13, given my seemingly infinite amount of free time. As of writing this, I have around-about 6 hours down, which is pennies for these kind of role-playing games (and not that hot for most other genres.) I wonder how much of that time has been spent watching cutscenes and reading the additional text bits that provide extra information about the world of...
February 2010
2 posts
What I Go To School For
Sitting in my shared room in the university halls of residence, I assumed I would be spending a fair amount of my time doing some of the most mentally-taxing work of my life. What has come to fruition in reality, however, is that I spend almost no time working. When deadlines draw near, I’ll open up a word processor and crank out some text, but for 90% (note: not a genuine statistic) of all my...
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formspring.me
Ask me anything http://formspring.me/thebigsteak
January 2010
2 posts
Like No One Ever Was
I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was…
Just that one line can spark relieving emotion in me. No doubt, it’s the same for many people who grew up singing that line in the early hours of the morning, and then again in the schoolyard with their friends. Maybe they were singing as they opened up a fresh booster pack of trading cards, or while they were connecting their Game Boys...
The Numbers Game
In a J-RPG, when you have no control over your characters beyond “attack”, it’s important to make sure that the numbers that fly pop up when you smack a dude are as high as possible. If you jump from an early save file to an end-game one, the biggest change you will most likely see is the extra digits added to your damage. Heck, the chances are your characters won’t look any different from...
December 2009
2 posts
Games for the Board
For the most part, video gaming is a hobby I enjoy alone in my family. My brother, a few years my older, enjoys the odd game or two, but aside from the occasional Rock Band session with him it’s a single-player experience. No amount of cheap alcohol could get my mother riled up enough to want to splatter zombie brains across the wall, but occasionally she’ll try and coax the family in to...
Playing the Roles
In gaming, I like to believe that every character has their place in the party. I love nothing more than to see the most cliché tropes fulfilled with a firm press to shape that cookie dough into human form (or the form of whatever animal mascot they’re going for.) I know there are people who like to dabble with the grey paints, but I’m at my most content when I know that each avatar under my...