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Top 5 Gaming Moments of 2010

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I was fortunate enough to be able to play a lot of 2010’s game releases. I didn’t get to play everything I wanted (Alan Wake, Mass Effect 2, Enslaved, Red Dead Redemption, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood), so it’s possible these top gaming moments would have been trumped, but eh, I’ll write another top 5 moments for those.

5. Deathspank – Greetings, non-descript citizen!

DeathspankI have never laughed at a game as much as I did Deathspank. Even if the gameplay was horrible, the visuals were abysmal, and the enemies were unforgivably difficult, I still would have played through this game just to see what Deathspank says next. I’m still not sure what my favorite quote is, if it’s “Greetings, non-descript citizen!” or “And I love you, you disgusting little orphan.” [Read more…]

Gaming Resolutions for 2011

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One thing I always do at the start of the year is declare my video gaming resolutions. This doesn’t mean that I resolve to make more head shots or try to make an honest effort with online gaming. I resolve to finish specific games by the end of the year (not try to, which is very important).

This started a couple of years ago when I vowed to finish both Kingdom Hearts 2 and Twilight Princess in 2008. Little did I realize how much a new baby would take up my time when I made such a vow, so only KH2 made the finish line. Twilight Princess is still sitting on my shelf gathering dust. [Read more…]

Thank you for your 2010 support!

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It’s the end of the year, and I’m about to go out of town for the holidays, into the land of no gaming systems. Thank God I still have some DS games to play from my stack of shame. But I’m digressing.

Since it is the end of the year, I want to thank all those who have been so incredibly supportive of Strategy Guide Reviews over the last year. Thanks to all of you, this little quirky idea I had one day has become something, and this something has been more fun than really any of my other writing jobs in the gaming biz.

HUGE thanks to:

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I’m looking forward to 2011!

Final Fantasy XIII Progress Report: Mission Complete!

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Final Fantasy XIII CompleteThis past weekend I completed all of the C and B missions that I could get to and were unlocked, so it was definitely time to tackle the final bosses. Thanks to all of the missions I completed, I had very little trouble with any of them, which considering my final time clock at 59 hours and 53 minutes, I was grateful for that. I have to say that I am so happy I pushed myself to finish this beast. I loved the story, the gameplay, and every little wtf moment.

However, I am disappointed with how the game ended in terms of the Crystarium and CP earned. I knew that the final levels of the Crystarium did not unlock until after you finished the story, but I expected the last bosses to dole out CP so I could continue to level up and have too much fun on Pulse finishing up the missions. [Read more…]

Final Fantasy XIII Progress

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Everyone who voted in last week’s poll regarding whether you finish your games all voted that they try to finish them. Either I asked a really bad question or all of you are terrible liars. Or you all really do try to finish games. The answer is probably the first theory, but my ego demands that it’s the second.

No poll this week because I’ve been focusing on Final Fantasy XIII and not really much else. I took a brief hiatus to watch and laugh at the Video Game Awards on Saturday, and I have a few poll questions from that but I need to stay focused. Like my l’Cie characters in FFXIII. Baddum kssh! [Read more…]

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