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Feature: Top 10 mini-games
Shenmue - The game where the mini-games are the game, man.
Before venturing any further into what will surely be dubbed an inadequate list by the lot of you, I’d first like to try to define just what a mini-game is. For starters, despite what the internet seems to think, it’s not Call of Duty‘s Nazi Zombies mode; that’s a full-fledged feature. It’d be like calling Gears of War‘s Horde mode a mini game. No, mini-games need to differentiate themselves from the core gameplay in some way. But they also need to realistically exist within the context of and feel authentic to the game-world, which rules out randomly misplaced distractions like Project Gotham Racing 2‘s Geometry Wars. Lastly, a mini-game needs to be something that can be returned to again and again regardless of where you are in the game’s story. In other words, it has to exist outside of one or two quests. Oh, and I’m ruling out mini-games from mini-game compilations in this list; sorry WarioWare and Mario Party. Following this definition, I give you ten of the best mini-games in a vast landscape of mundane wood chopping and mediocre button-mashing.
Author: Cody
Feature: Top 10 games to play when you’re depressed
Some might think I’m making this list because I’m depressed about not being able to cover E3 in person. That would make for a very appropriate top ten list with E3 kicking off this upcoming week, but anybody with half a brain should be terrified at the prospect of covering E3 in any capacity, let alone in person. No, this melancholy musing is the result of life just being lifey. As they say, you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you just might find a video game capable of occupying your thoughts until what you want changes.
Author: CodyReactions: More GTA V Rumors!
GTA IV + I = GTA V!
In more sequel rumors that surprise absolutely nobody, another casting call has been put out for voice-over work for what looks like the next game in the Grand Theft Auto series. The telling role that is being cast points to a west coast return to the series and is for one James Pedeaston, a man-boy love aficionado who made appearances in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as a radio talk show host, and GTA IV where we found out that he was arrested for child molestation in Indonesia. The casting call describes Pedeaston as ”a man-boy love activist who just got released from an Indonesian prison,” so he is clearly the same James Pedeaston that we’ve seen in the GTA series before.
Author: RyanFeature: 6 franchises that should get a fighting game
On the contrary, I strongly believe that Afro Thunder deserves his own adventure game.
Perhaps it’s a guilty and fruitless pleasure, but we as nerds love to ask the question “What would happen if these two dudes fought?” I mean, who wouldn’t like to see Kratos in a fight to the death, mano-a-mano with some other bad ass? But quite frankly, cross-overs seem to be a bit of a legal hassle. Can you imagine Sony agreeing to put Sack Boy at the mercy of some schmuck who wants to see how bean bags react to the Master Chief’s fist? Yeah, it’s probably better that we restrict this list to collections of characters from the same game universe. Because when it’s Mario pounding Peach, it’s just hot profit-generating action and everybody’s happy.
Author: CodyFeature: Where’s the “Citizen Kane of video games”?
It seems like a concept that’s thrown around a lot these days is the parallel between video games and cinema, and the taunting question of when’s our Citizen Kane going to come around? But I wonder if all the people pondering this aloud truly understand what they’re looking for. I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that the vast majority of gamers haven’t actually seen Orson Welles’ 1941 classic. I have. And while I certainly believe it to be a great film and can recognize its significance in the history of motion pictures, it’d be a stretch to call it the greatest movie of all time.
Author: CodyFeature: Top 10 Most Influential Video Game Franchises (Part 1)
Continuing with the theme of great video game icons, I have decided to show you wonderful readers what the top ten video game franchises are. What’s the criteria for this list, you ask? All these games have influenced the way in which we play games, either by introducing us to a new genre, reinventing a genre, or creating a new gameplay mechanic to keep us addicted. So why should you read this list instead of the hundreds of other lists like it? Because of my amazing wit and rhetoric, of course.
10. Halo
Author: Ryan
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