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2014: Ahhhh! (Too Much To Play)

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Some big life events happened for me this year, and none of them were really all that good. I won't go into details since I like to keep those sorts of things off of this site, but given those events it's very surprising that I managed to play as many new games this year as I did. In fact I probably tried to play too many, because most of the games that I picked up near the end of the year I haven't been able to spend as much time with as I would have liked. Regardless, there have been some real gems this year that are well worth talking about. More long form write-ups are still coming for several of these, but for now I'll briefly mention everything I played that came out this year and point out the highlights. Continue Reading

2013: A Year Reborn

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2013 has been a bit of a strange year for me. It's the second year in a row that a particular set of personal issues have come to light, but it's also been a year of fairly great and interesting discoveries in the gaming world. I haven't played enough games that actually came out this year to make this into your typical "personal game of the year" post. As anyone who has read even a little bit of this site can probably guess, I'm constantly struggling to balance my gaming time between retro and modern games. That makes keeping up with the hot games of the year not always an easy thing to do. However I do want to briefly touch on the few games I did play that qualify. Continue Reading

MonHan-scoveries

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I have been playing Monster Hunter 4 since the Japanese release date. If this were a past iteration of Monster Hunter (let's say, for example, Portable 3rd) my game clock would easily be over the 100 hour mark by now. My game clock in Monster Hunter 4 is just over 50 hours. As I'd mentioned in a previous article about my history with the Monster Hunter series, I'd gone through a bout of decreased interest with the series as of 3G/3 Ultimate on the 3DS/Wii U. However, I was really hoping that the changes brought about in 4 would spark my long held interest again. Well have they? I guess I can't answer "yes" completely given what I just said, so the answer is more like "Sort of". But I've begun to realize that it's because of an aspect of Monster Hunter that I somehow managed to forget about over time and a changing life situation. Continue Reading