With a few minutes to spare, I filmed a few random matches in Injustice: Gods Among Us. I love the little kid in the background screaming, “Batman!” as my Bruce Wayne destroyed the Flash.
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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Review
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale isn’t going to win any awards for originality, though I don’t think that’s the point here. Sony at this point in its life seemingly has the cast of characters and the cache to pull this off, so why not? While this provides a decent Smash Bros.-like experience, the devil is in the details, which it misses in a number of key areas.
Quarter Up: The Evolution of the Video Game Business Model
I hate the concept of free-to-play games. As someone who has grown up mostly buying boxed copies of video games at the store, I greatly dislike the idea of being given a game for free and then constantly harassed to pay later in exchange for cosmetic items or other things that directly impact my enjoyment of the experience. The fact that these games are wholly designed to maximize profits rather than to fully-realize a great gameplay experience is something I find rather gross.
Having said that, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture. Video games have always been influenced by the business model behind them. Even if you go back to the arcade days where the monetization of the medium began, there was a business model driving that experience, too.
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time Review
Up until this point, I had never played a Sly Cooper game before. During its heyday, I was a big PlayStation hater and wanted nothing to do with Sony’s gaming endeavours. Since I bought a PlayStation 3 a few years back, I’ve been slowly making my way through the platform’s signature franchises. I can now cross Sony’s sneaky raccoon off the list, as I’ve played through Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. Admittedly, I didn’t think I’d get much out of this stealth platformer, but it managed to impress nonetheless.
Jett Plays Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
I blow into the Wii U GamePad like an idiot in hopes that it would move that stupid bag. Nope.
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Pokemon X/Y Review
Jumping into the world of Pokemon for the first time this late into the franchise’s life like I did is daunting. It immediately throws you into a world where you’re mom is totally cool with letting you travel across a giant city on your own by foot. It’s a world where everyone from toddlers to grandmothers are constantly picking battles with you for no apparent reason. Beyond trying to grasp the ridiculousness of its fiction, I found that Pokemon X/Y is a dense game that assumes you’ve already played every entry in the series before. While I’m sure that master Pokemon trainers would enjoy how this cuts to the chase, as a newbie I floundered through its first 8 hours and almost gave up on it.
Then, after crossing what I thought was the most frustrating stretch of the game, it suddenly clicked for me. I finally got a grasp on many of the RPG elements that the game doesn’t really teach. The path forward became clear…most of the time. Most importantly, I began having fun with it.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Matches
Finally got some matches recorded in HD! My opponent has a pesky Frank West that won’t go down without a fight.
Jett Plays X-Men
I use this arcade classic as an excuse to talk about all things X-Men related, including the 90s cartoon, the Legendary deck-building game, an underrated X-Men title on the SNES and more.
Gears of War: Judgment Impressions
I felt like Gears of War 3 was the perfect end for the series on Xbox 360. It further fine-tuned an already great formula while finally providing a narrative that was worth a damn. Had the series taken a hiatus until the next generation of consoles were ready, I would have been perfectly happy with that. Instead, we got Gears of War: Judgment, an unnecessary prequel that let me down in a big way.
The Recurring Bosscast: 036 – Pour One Out For Flappy Bird
The demise of Flappy Bird isn’t enough to keep Jason and Jett from playing the game throughout this episode. They also run through all of the news from Nintendo Direct, though the conversation reaches its peak when they discuss the state of the Wii U.
Games Mentioned: Bravely Default, Batman: Arkham Origins, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, DuckTales: Remastered, Forbidden Desert
Jett – In Third Person
Jason – Downstab
Mat – Biff Bam Pop
In Third Person 