By Frank on February 24, 2010
Recently I began playing the God of War series for the first time (yes, yes, I know, years behind and all that) thanks to the God of War Collection game released for the PS3. I have to say, the game’s got a kind of charm that keeps me playing, even though I’m not typically the [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, god of war
By Frank on February 19, 2010
Over at Destructoid, Jim Sterling’s created a bit of a stir with his two articles regarding the “artsy” nature of games – one in which he decries the pretentiousness of indie “art” games for eschewing gameplay, and one in which he has to clarify what he was trying to say. The camp of opposition to [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged destructoid, Gaming
By Frank on February 18, 2010
So maybe I’m just a slight bit biased, but being from Chicago and being a local Midwesterner, I have to go ahead and support local stores that have done good and made it big. Look, we may have lost the Marshall Field’s name to that accursed New York Macy’s, and the Sears Tower to some [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, Threadless
By Frank on February 17, 2010
Syp has a notion regarding returning to an MMO, with LOTRO being the most recent foray back from other shores. Syp talks a bit about his experiences logging on, what’s changed, and how the community reacted to his need to accomplish game tasks.
I’m seeing this trend more and more among my fellow bloggers and MMO [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, Warhammer Online, WoW
By Frank on January 26, 2010
Ah, game trailers. Those little bits of eye-candy that tease us with epic details and amazing visuals. Ocular pornography for geeks who like games, I like to call them. You’ll see the latest trailer I assaulted my eyes with at the bottom of this post.
It got me thinking, really. I mean, gamers today react in [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged game trailer, Gaming, tera, you tube
By Frank on January 12, 2010
In my many travels around the gaming world, I’ve seen that among many ways you could categorize gamer type folks, you can put them into two camps depending on how they enjoy games. I class this as either the micro-gamers or the macro-gamers.
Micro-gamers are essentially tinkerers who like to see all of the moving parts [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming
By Frank on January 11, 2010
January is the month where people start to realize, if you’re in such a climate, that it is “really frickin’ freezing in here, Mr. Bigglesworth”. This makes Mondays about as appealing to people to deal with as a root canal followed by an injection of adrenaline to the heart. I know that as a denizen [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, mario, texts from last night
By Frank on January 9, 2010
Today marked an occasion that is seeming to occur more and more frequently the busier I get with life in general. This isn’t, unlike what some of you might think, consuming the amount of sugar/drugs/alcohol needed to make me so happy all the time. No, this is me playing a game that is hugely popular…months, [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming
By Frank on January 8, 2010
Ah, how far we’ve come being recognized, haven’t we?
If anyone out there is a Final Fantasy fan, know that one of the major announcements date-wise for the Distant Worlds concert series, which I enjoyed thoroughly these past two years, is that August 1, 2010, they’ll be playing at the Ravinia musical festival. The Chicago Symphony [...]
Posted in Gaming, Social Geekery | Tagged Gaming
By Frank on January 5, 2010
There’s a lot of things that can interfere with the lovely commute that you sometimes have to take while driving, whether that is from work, school, or home. Sure, there are people who probably learned to drive with a clown car in a circus or inexplicably lose their driving aptitude at the first drop of [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Fantastic Forums, Gaming
Subscribe for Optimism!