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Very rarely, to be honest. The PC market moves a little slower than the console market so there's really no hurry so long as you don't go bottom barrel with your parts to begin with. Innovation int he consumer market has been severely bottle-necked for years so a mid-tier gaming PC has built-in...

The trouble is that gaming videos are the modern definition of market over-saturation. Everyone and his G I Joe figure has a gaming channel. You really have to have something special to make it worth the time otherwise it just gets lost in the roar of a million other gamers who think they're the...

Final Fantasy X is one of those polarizing titles. I could not disagree more. It is not a masterpiece, it's a testament to one dimensional character design, horrid voice acting made all the more heartbreaking by the fact that the usually amazing Billy West was involved, and meaningless pulp that...

The system I loved the most as a kid, to which I compare all others to this day, was the Super Nintendo. So it should come as no surprise that my favorite handheld of all time is currently the Gameboy Advance. Not only were the aesthetics very Super Nintendo-like, but so was the game design. So...

The old Atari 2600 was my first. I'll never forget how special it felt compared to other toys. This was before people were really "gamers" so it wasn't always hooked up. But when it was, it was great fun. The Atari very unique sounds, especially when you consider I had it in the early 80s...

I'm going to have to echo the Outlast sentiments here. Few games have put me in that paranoid head space where I whip around at the smallest sound to see what may be coming after me. This game does a great job of creating real tension, not just the cheap and boring jump-scares that have so...

I'm going to say "appropriate length" story modes. I don't want developers to shoe-horn in more content just to meet some arbitrary quota. Likewise, I don't want a story that has a good reason to be extra long to have to cut out all the good stuff just because it's gone over said arbitrary line...

The game is about 14 years old now I think. I can tell you that now is a great time to get started. You will hear a lot of us oldies complaining about the state of the game. Some of those complaints are valid, and some of us have unusually rosy glasses. The truth is that WoW has made a lot of...

Another game I'd really like to see is one which lets you be a dinosaur. I know there are a few titles out there that do this, but few of them truly put you in the role. What I want is a living, breathing prehistoric world that lets me forage or hunt, lay eggs and raise young, explore vast...

I'm not into sports games, mostly because I'm not really into sports in general. I'm kind of bummed by that too because modern sports games look like they put you into the action int he most realistic way possible without actually being in the big leagues. I wish I could find a meaningful...

Arthas Menethil is my all time favorite video game villain. What draws me to this character is how much time Blizzard spent crafting the narrative around him. You saw Arthas as a noble, if brash leader of his people, trying desperately against overwhelming odds to protect his kingdom. You saw...

I found for a time that I had the back light on my monitor set too high. This was leading to eye strain and the associated headaches that go with it on a pretty regular basis. I also found that it is best not to watch the screen in a dark room, rather have a lamp on behind you to offer some back...

I virtually never buy used hardware. My experiences with the practice have been very poor. Typically I've found that a large portion of the used hardware available was sold to the shop because some kid ruined it and they figured they could make a buck off of it. The other problem is Gamestop in...

I actually managed to get a platinum trophy on Playstation 3 in Skyrim! I'm not sure how difficult that really is but it was my only one and I was proud of it. There were so many to get in order to fulfill the requirements, too. I had to play through several times because the PS3 version of the...

Lots of them! Megaman X, Super Metroid, Minecraft, World of Warcraft, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Black Ops II...those are games that routinely find themselves back into my rotation no matter what else is going on. Obviously some of them I've been...

Megaman X is one of my favorite characters of all time. I love the multi generational story the games tell from his release from Light's hidden lab to his eventual death and resurrection as a force metal in the ZX series. I keep hoping Capcom will tell us more about the Elf Wars and make an end...

Right now it's definitely the Switch. I've been on a Breath of the Wild binge since it came out. I've gotten all the shrines and about half the koroks so far, too! My armor is about 3/4 of the way leveled up. It's such an engaging little console. It's great to play in handheld mode late at night...

It's a tie between run and shoot styled games like Megaman, and turn-based RPGs. Both of those genres have held my interest longer than the others and provided me examples of my favorite games I've ever played. I sometimes put in Megaman X just because I like the tactile way you manipulate the...

It's impossible to count them all. I grew up at roughly the same time the industry did so I was right in that sweet spot to be a kid for the classic era, a teen for the Playstation/N64 era, a young adult int he ps2/Gamecube/xbox era, etc. Without any reservations, I can say it's in the high...

Oh yeah. They actually bragged to shareholders about how much they were saving by recycling the same busted game engine for a decade. Activision's stable of companies aren't the only people who do this, of course. I'm not trying to single them out for that specifically. Profit margins have...