All tagged with gaming connoisseur.
Gaming Connoisseur: The Bro-Op
While walking down the street the other day, I was approached by a young man who I’d soon find out was fueled by an inquisitive spirit. Being a role model means helping today’s youth find answers to their many questions, so I took a little time from my daily jaunt down to the market and [...]
Gamecations Gaming Connoisseur: Saving Spring Training
I am no longer a fan of baseball, but I hold no ill-will toward the sport. In fact, some of my favorite childhood vacation memories involve going to see the Atlanta Braves during spring training near our family vacation spot. As spring break hits this year it got me thinking about those sunny baseball days, [...]
Gaming Connoisseur: RPG Party Full of Badasses
After playing a ton of RPGs lately, I realized that my life up until this point has been somewhat unremarkable. Sure, I’ve got a good job, a great wife and all the modern-day convenances a man-boy could ever want but there’s something missing, something that my digital compadres get to experience on a regular basis. What I need in my life is [...]
Gaming Connoisseur: Open World Diversity
Until recently, open world games had ironically gotten painted into a bit of a corner. The complete freedom of gameplay was limiting the games themselves. It seemed like the genre was going to give way to more linear and focused games that were easy to create year in and year out. However, game designers have [...]
Gaming Connoisseur: Halloween Selection
Halloween is seen by many as a day for dressing up in silly costumes and parading around town in order to beg for candy. In reality, Halloween is probably the most dangerous time of year due to the shifting proximity of the spirit world and our own. For those of you willing to risk your [...]
Gaming Connoisseur: Gaming Marathons Part 1: Preparation
What I consider a gaming marathon today was actually just called gaming back when I was a young lad (what I call responsibility today was also vastly different as cleaning my room is one of many things I have to do now, oh childhood, how I squandered you). Today’s adult gamer just doesn’t have the [...]
Gaming Connoisseur: Tired of Being a Human? Be a Monster!
Being a monster is a loophole in my “always the good guy” gameplay routine. Monsters HAVE to destroy cities and eat humans (even babies, sorry, from their vantage point they can’t tell the size difference) as it’s part of the natural order. Without monsters, humans would go unchecked and overpopulate the Earth, causing environmental catastrophes that [...]
Gaming Connoisseur: Sampling of Real Time Strategy
After hours upon hours of unloading lead into the brains of bad guys with only an itchy trigger finger as a companion, the gamer brain begins to feel a bit neglected. The true gaming connoisseur knows that part of being pretentious and cultured in gaming is the ability to utilize all key functions of one’s [...]
Gaming Connoisseur: Location, Location, Location
Games have always given players the ability to travel to distant, imaginary lands to take part in activities uncommon to a normal person’s day to day routine. As realism has increased in gaming, so have the locations, to a point where we now have the ability to fight alien invaders or giant insects in locations [...]
Gaming Connoisseur: Gaming Grub
Food and entertainment have gone together since early man ate mastodon meat while watching their buddies paint the inside of caves. Whether it’s popcorn at movies or hots dogs during a baseball game, modern man has carried on this tradition with great enthusiasm (though at the cost of his/her waistline, but that’s a topic for [...]
Gaming Connoisseur: Environmental Control
We spoke in our previous segment about pairing games with movies in order to prolong a gaming experience. This helps with the before or after, but ignores the enhancement of the game as an individual plays. There are many ways to do this, but one in particular stands out as a solution that can be [...]
Gaming Connoisseur: Pairing Games with Movies
As strange as it may sound, sometimes you just need to be in the mood for gaming. The gaming addicts of the world may scoff at the prospect, but it can be a very real scenario. You just got home from a long day of work, your brain is fried and you want nothing more [...]
