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Journey Review

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Though I don’t like to think of myself as a gaming neanderthal, games of the art house variety generally don’t do it for me. While I appreciate how titles like Ico, Braid, and Child of Eden push the boundaries of what games can be,  I generally find these games to be not that fun to play.

Journey is lauded in many circles as the latest great artsy game. If it weren’t for the tremendous amount of positive word-of-mouth for it, I probably would have skipped it completely. Is this the art game that will win me over?

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2012 Year in Review: In Third Person X Amazon

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At the beginning of 2012, I rolled out the Amazon affiliate program onto In Third Person. While I don’t do this for a living, and I know that people hate advertising, but it’s a means of compensation for all of the work I do for the site. At the very least, I’ve tried to implement it in a way where it makes things easier for you to buy what you were interested in purchasing anyway. Due to technological limitations with Amazon and WordPress, my implementation of it isn’t that great. With that said, I’m surprised (and thankful) for how much stuff you’ve purchased. In case you’re interested, most users bought fightsticks, though the variety of gaming stuff purchased was pretty interesting.

Going into next year, how would you like to see this improve? Would love to hear your feedback!

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2012 Year in Review: Most Disappointing Game

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Let’s get this point out of the way: Mass Effect 3 is not my most disappointing game of 2012. Sure, I am as butt hurt as everyone else over its terrible ending, but a terrible ending isn’t enough to completely sink a game that is really good otherwise. Instead, my vote for most disappointing game of the year goes to a title that started out great, but ultimately fell way short of my expectations.

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The Recurring Bosscast: 004 – Lisa Needs Braces

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An unusual side-effect to Jason’s wisdom teeth surgery has made him the perfect candidate to be a James Bond villain. At the very least, it doesn’t stop him and the gang from discussing all things related to the holiday season and Ikea Monkey. We also talk about the games we’ve been playing, which includes Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse, Assassin’s Creed III, Trine 2: Director’s Cut and a whole lot more.

Jett – In Third Person
Jason – Downstab
Mat – Biff Bam Pop

The ‘Language’ of King of Fighters XIII

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When it comes to comprehending the combo system in any given fighting game, I love using sentence structure as an analogy. Sentences in any language have a very particular rule-set that dictates how words can be arranged to make sense. When you have a mastery of that sentence structure, you no longer think about the rules; you just create sentences on the fly. Each fighting game is has its own unique sentence structure. And just like language, when you have a mastery of a game’s combo system, you’ll inherently know what series of inputs will string to form a combo.

A few months back, I picked up two fighting games on the same day: Persona 4 Arena, and King of Fighters XIII. While I am far from an expert at the former, I understand its ‘language’ enough to string together basic combos on my own. Even at this entry-level of skill, I’m having a lot of fun with it. The latter is a different story.

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Please Donate to Child’s Play Charity This Holiday Season

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With the holidays quickly approaching, now is a great time to donate to Child’s Play Charity. Since 2003, they’ve helped provide hospitalized children across North America with toys and games. This is a cause that I feel is very easy for us as gamers to get behind, and I personally have donated to the cause for the last few years. If you can provide some support, you can donate through the official Child’s Play website, or one of the many fundraising events for the cause.

Check Out My Nintendo Land Review on Splitkick.com!

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The Wii U is out, and with it is as large (if somewhat uninspired) launch lineup. A game you should be checking out though is Nintendo Land, which is basically the Wii Sports of the platform. If you’re lucky enough to score a Wii U Deluxe Set, you’ll have this packed in. If not, expect to pay full price for a retail copy. If you’re looking for some thoughts around this important title, check out my review on Splitkick!

Check out my Nintendo Land Review on Splitkick.com!

New Super Mario Bros. U Review

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At what point does the ‘new’ in New Super Mario Bros. U become false advertising? This is the 4th New Super Mario Bros. game in the sub-series and the 2nd one to hit this year. Does the world really need any more of this style of Mario game? I guess as long as they continue to be quality products, the volume of releases doesn’t matter.

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2012 Year in Review: Jett X Splitkick

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Up until this year, writing for any other publication other than my own was never in the cards. I have no ambitions to make a career out of this, and all of my efforts leading up to that point were strictly for personal enjoyment. I’ve been approached in the past to contribute In Third Person content to other websites, but none of those offers felt right to me.

However, when Splitkick approached me regarding the possibility of joining their writing staff as a contributor, it was an easier decision to make. I was genuinely excited to join a team of gaming enthusiasts that take their writing craft seriously. After submitting a few pieces as a contributor, I formally joined on as a staff writer.

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2012 Year In Review: A Slow Year for Video Games

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2012 was a slow year for me. At least as far as new releases go. Within this calendar year, I’ve only bought about 10 new releases across all of the systems I own. Instead of jumping from one new release to the next,  a of my game shopping and playing this year has been spent catching up on older releases, as well as some stellar downloadable releases. Trials Evolution and Mark of the Ninja in particular stand out.

I know that there were big titles throughout, and that tastes vary from person-to-person, but this has been the slowest gaming year for me in a long time. Things will likely pick up now that the Wii U is out and that more new consoles are supposedly on the way, but this year in general was a bummer. Was 2012 a down year for you too?