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I think so long as you understand it's an MMO first, and not an Elder Scrolls single player game, you will probably be okay with your purchase. Now that it's free to play, even if you find it's not your favorite game, you're at least not locked out of the experience if you chose just to play it...

If we're talking the company who has given me the most bang for my buck reliably, it has to be Capcom. They were once among the most respected companies in gaming. Even if you didn't know what the title was that you were looking at, if it had the Capcom logo on it you were willing to give it a...

I think it's a flawed notion, to be honest. While cinematic elements have made it into games, it's a false equivalency to compare the two mediums. What makes film great is different from what makes games great, so attempts to adapt the two mediums between each other are destined to leave gamers...

If we're talking all the games and accessories that go along with it I'm certain I've spent several thousand on one console before. I had a Playstation 2, Xbox, a Gamecube, and a Gameboy Advance during that particular generation so...gods, it must have been over 5k I dropped through those years...

My first game was either Defenders or Maze Craze on the Atari 2600. I don't remember which, for sure, but both of them were games I played a lot as a small child. Defenders was really difficult for me because the Atari joysticks were stiff and I was only five so I wasn't dexterous enough to...

It all depends on my mood. Sometimes I like to just sit down and go through the motions of a game I've long since beaten. I'll pop in an old SNES game on those evenings. Other times I'm riled up and eager for a fight so I'll put in something hard or unfamiliar. My favorite titles I end up...

I really like Gul'Dan in World of Warcraft. He made a reappearance in Warlords of Draenor and he's voiced so expertly. You can hear the torment of his past, the barely contained hatred of basically everything he has just simmering under the surface in everything he says.

Somewhere around age five an Atari 2600 appeared in our house. It was like 1985-86 and I'd never seen a video game before. While I wasn't dexterous enough to really do well, the games of the time were often just a single screen so my level of maturity was pretty much on par with the...

Right now I'm engrossed in Splatoon 2. I have to say, it's a breath of fresh air. It's fun, colorful, upbeat, and there's a surprising amount of depth to the combat system that isn't necessarily evident from the start. Once you get past the honeymoon phase you really start seeing how well...

True but this franchise's single player campaigns have been tacked-on for a long time. I had a lot of fun with the classic Call of Duty games, for sure. But I'm not going to pay $60 for a 13 hour campaign, especially if they haven't fixed the networking problems. I'll be keeping my eye on this...

This will change daily for me so I'll list a few that I especially love. Currently it's Splatoon 2. It's mix of contemporary pop music with classic rock guitar riffs is very satisfying to me. Yoshi's Woolly World has an excellent Americana sound track that I find endearing and go back to from...

Skyrim is that game for me. To be clear, I really do like the game and I'm not saying it's not a quality piece of software. But I just over played it. I have half a dozen characters with like 500+ hours on each and I just can't do it anymore. I've seen both sides of every major quest line in the...

I think maybe it's Exdeath from Final Fantasy V. The otherworldly form he takes as you fight him was really exciting to me. I loved the "The laws of physics are broken" message that would play which really drove home the power and depravity of this being. Similarly, Gygas from Earthbound was an...

I expect that will happen at some point, probably sooner than later. It really depends on whether or not console makers can strike a balance between keeping their hardware up to date with performance expectations, and well below the price of entry level gaming PCs. Right now you can buy a new...

We had a local pawn shop that used to sell Super Nintendo games for $4 a pop. What made this great was it was back when the SNES was still a relevant system you could buy in stores! They never came with manuals or boxes, but I didn't care at the time. It was just great to be able to go in the...

I'm not sure if it really qualifies as an e-sport exactly, but I really enjoy watching speed runs. My favorite are focused on standard gameplay where no glitches are being exploited and no short cuts are being taken. I like to see the game played expertly and all the way through.

I love tournament style gaming. It's great that you can have so many different experiences within a small set of rules. A huge bonus for me is that with these types of games, you get a product for the life of the platform you're playing on. For instance, I just bought Splatoon 2. It's not a huge...

Steam refunds are a great idea but I'm a little skeptical of the conditions. They're too vague to rely on. You can only return if you haven't abused it, which is how it's worded instead of giving you a specific number. You also can only return a game if you've only played it for so long. I don't...

Absolutely! As an older gamer you tend to find a lot of software has a sort of "sameyness" to it. It gets harder to be surprised by the hobby when you've spent decades involved in it. Because of that, it's so easy to purchase a game that leaves you with buyer's remorse. And that's not...

That last bit is an area of research I'm very interested in. I've seen studies that suggest keeping mentally active by challenging your mind with lots of new things as you age staves off dementia. I wonder if a steady diet of daily video game sessions has any meaningful impact on that for...