When I think of Mass Effect, I think of synthesis… And not just because of that word’s prominent role in the series conclusion. There are so many layers to a video game, especially a story-based RPG, that it’s reductive to say “this game works because of X.” And I’ve certainly been guilty of this. When…
My brother Brad is currently spending a year-long retreat in Colorado as part of seminary. As a result, I have been sending him a bunch of snail-mail letters. This week, I’m honoring seven songs that remind me of him. My reflections will be in epistolary form, and I’ll actually print them out and mail them.…
Download link (you may have to right click and “Save As”) Listen to Part 1 (#10-6) here. The long-awaited finale is finally here! With their oddball picks out of the way, Dan, Collin, and Brian drill down into the hardcore classics, occasionally challenging and contradicting each other. [wp_biographia user=”dan”] [wp_biographia user=”brian”] [wp_biographia user=”collin”]
Download link (you may have to right click and “Save As”) Following their idiotic/inspired Mountain Dew podcast, Dan, Collin, and Brian are back with a countdown of their favorite video games of all time. Here, in part 1, they take turns revealing their #10-6 favorite games and discuss each other’s picks. Highlights include a discussion…
When it came time to come up with a third and final thing to suffer the wrath of my quarterly “BOTTOM Everything” post, I tried to single out the thing that most DISAPPOINTED me. And the one that hurt me the most, I think, was Dragon Age II. It’s not that DA2 is strictly a BAD game.…
I am writing this while the internet is down in my house, so this will be probably be short and contain factual errors. I apologize in advance. Final Fantasy is one of those cultural touchstones for people my age (mid-twenties males). So many of us experienced the series at one point or another, often spreading…
The first TV console I owned was a Playstation, which my brothers and I got for Christmas sometime around the year 2000. A few years later, I saved up some lawn-mowing money to buy an SNES on eBay. Great decision. Since I splurged for Super Mario All Stars (remakes of all 4 NES Mario games)…
100 Film Favorites – #27: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Edgar Wright, 2010) Okay…so, way back in Post #63, I emphatically declared Wreck-It Ralph to be the best video game movie ever. Well, it has some competition. Based on the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley and directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the…