Miscellaneous

I don't know what came over me. Really. Usually I am scrupulous to the point of obsession about playing games in order. I can't even watch a serialized TV show a la carte. If there's a big story arc, I have to watch it all, or not at all. So why did I play Fallout 3 before I played any Elder Scrolls games? I read the reviews, I listened to the podcasts.

Somewhere in the burning sands outside of Plegia castle, beneath an oppressively hot sun, the corpse of Cordelia's body was feeding a vulture. She was just one of many who had fallen in battle, destined to become a feast for crows in a lifeless landscape, but she was different from the others. She was my soldier. I had plans for her.

I stand in the middle of the large room, an entire spectrum of lights above me illuminating the stage and the crowd gathered before it, leaving the rest of the room engulfed in shadow and darkness.

Eddie screamed at about the same pitch as the shrill whistle that woke him from his slumbering state. He barely had a moment to acknowledge the drool down his chin and the image of Leon Kennedy on the screen, standing at the ready for input. Instead, his attention was brought to the ghastly apparition before him.

Eddie Scrudge's nostrils flared as he pushed his glasses back up the bridge of his nose, the multi-colored lights on the Christmas tree reflecting in his lenses. A scowl had scrawled itself across his face as his eyes gazed at the dismal dance before him.

Author's Note: This is the most interesting way I could think to write about the game Hometown Story, and my disappointment in it. "Here comes old man Hubbard," I say to Scarecrow.

“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” – Lieutenant Commander S'chn T'gai Spock, Starfleet

Ccesarano, I think you and I would be of like mind on the [state of games journalism]. Even where I have not always succeeded, my goal in everything I have written has been to challenge people. Sometimes those people were in the industry, sometimes it was the reader and on occasion it was even my peers.

Peter Parker made a choice when he witnessed the thief stealing from his wrestling manager. A player, acting as Jack, saves or harvests Little Sisters in BioShock. Agency reflects the desires and values of the character or player upon and within the fictional world they inhabit.

My PlayStation is scheduled to hit my welcome mat on Friday!

Miscellaneous

Backward Incompatibility

Cordelia

A Congregation of People

A Gamer's Carol (Part Two)

A Gamer's Carol (Part One)

Hometown Stories

Waiting and Wanting

Gratitude

Agency

Re:generation

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