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Ocarina of Time is one of my unforgettable gaming experiences. As I've said many time in this forum, I had the pleasure of growing up with the industry and that has colored the way I see games quite a bit. It's hard to explain to younger people, but you have to understand that the...

I liked the "kids games". Fireball Mountain is one of my favorites to this day. The game board is this awesome volcano you have to climb. If you land on certain spaces, the volcano god at the top of the hill spits out fireballs (marbles) that roll down the hill and may hit you. I also really...

Everything in balance, of course, but that said I do like my failures to have a consequence. I am deeply unimpressed with the modern "no punishment" ethos of game design that has become entrenched in the industry. "Fun" is a hard concept to peg in a succinct way, but reasonably there must be...

I have a code I follow with games where I try not to cheat or use any type of guide as a rule. Games cost money, and frankly quite a bit of it. When you cheat you're literally robbing yourself of the value of that money, as well as the experience of overcoming a trial. That said, I do have soft...

It's certainly possible for a copy of a game to be corrupted on disc. Manufacturing errors happen. What you can do about it will typically be dependent on the policies of the store you bought it from. Most will not give you money back but will exchange the product for another, ostensibly fixing...

I have a tendency to be a year or more out of date at any given time. So I do buy games pretty frequently, but because they tend to be older I usually pay a lot less for them. I only buy new games when they're online experiences where it's important to be on the initial wave of people moving...

I would argue it already has! For years the rhetoric had been that video game consoles are becoming more like PCs. With the advent of off-the-shelf component construction of video game consoles, and adherence to x86 architecture, they're not like PCs anymore; they are PCs. Admittedly, they're...

I remember hearing about a guy who took a "pacifist" rout through World of Warcraft using a Pandaren. He killed nothing and still made it to level cap! I do like to do buster-only runs through Megaman games, myself, though I'm not sure how hard that really is since it's just simple pattern...

I have a theory (which may or may not hold water, I'd love to hear arguments against it) that the lowering of the bar to entry is responsible for this. Technology has simplified many of the processes involved in those crafts you mentioned to such a degree that it is now accessible to a hobbyist...

I honestly kind of miss those times. They had to get weird with their imaginations to make games feel different since the lack of system resources and storage capacity shoehorned what they could do. Games today have a certain sameyness to them, in contrast to all the far out concepts you'd see...

I very rarely feel the desire to do that since I don't like a lot of the "collect all the baubles" stuff devs throw in to try and spread the game a little further. The higher quality the content, the more I'm willing to be engaged with that content, but I wont waste my time chasing other...

I don't always have much time in my day since being older means you have to do stuff. But I try to make an hour or two a day for fun and gaming is usually what I turn to in those times. On weekends, though, I'm kind of disgusting. I'll just sit there and play for a solid 5-8 hours if no one...

I would say Hearthstone is more fun if you're also a World of Warcraft subscriber since there are occasional cross overs between the two. It's also a more enjoyable experience to unlock characters with money that aren't otherwise available. That said, I don't really see much impediment to just...

I just got Splatoon 2 on the Nintendo Switch and it's making my hand hurt from playing it so much. There's so much to love! The art style is bright and the character models are well done. The music is outstanding to the point I'd almost listen to it out of the game! Coming from a die hard...

I have to confess, I'm one of those goofy Godzilla fans. I love B-rate science fiction and horror movies, and Godzilla is the undisputed king of that genre. Because of that I've always been drawn to any video game that lets me be a giant monster. There used to be an arcade game called King of...

I never got myself into too much trouble with games. I did skip school a few times because I was excited about beating a particular game. The one that really comes to mind is when I finally got to the last zone in Mario 64. I called in and faked being sick so I could sit at home and play. I...

If I'm playing a single player game who's controls aren't to convoluted I'll map it to a Playstation 4 controller every single time. I grew up with consoles so it's sort of ingrained in me to feel relaxed with the controller in my hand. That said, it's usually not even kind of possible to play...

Yeah, it's funny how such a primitive console can still be good in an age of near photo realism. It's still fun to play with single colored blocks in worlds with black backgrounds. It just goes to show that it's good game mechanics and software design that makes a game good. Graphics and...

I've never liked them outside of proper arcades either. There's always something wrong with them. They are calibrated too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. There's a dead zone. The stick is either too stiff or too loose. Having said that, one of the few gaming related accessories I've never...

Skywind has become much more advanced since this post was first made. The music and level design aesthetic is nothing short of astounding for an ameture project. Likewise, Bethesda's cooperation with their efforts is something that more companies could learn from as this title serves to ad value...