Playing – Nov 24, 2008

Hey look, I’m back!
This holiday season is effing ridiculous, as it seems to be every single year. And I know everyone says this…but this year feels like the worst (best?) yet. For the first time in a long time I’ve had to practice some real restraint and remind myself that there’s no way I’ll play [...]

Cleared! – Final Fantasy II

So I’ve just finished doing something I don’t normally do — wasting a significant amount of time on a game that I really didn’t find all that much fun.
I consider myself a big Final Fantasy fan, mostly because I began my (somewhat cooling) love affair with the Japanese RPG when I played the original Fantasy [...]

The jinx

So last post I pounded my chest about how the player one podcast was about to reach its 100th episode without missing a week.
Of course, this week we didn’t publish a show — the first time that’s happened in 92 episodes. While not getting the 100 streak is a bit of a bummer, I’m still [...]

This time I mean it…I swear

Yeah…I suck at keeping a weblog. Not as bad as my podcast co-hort CJ (who hasn’t updated since the Pet Rock was a hit), but still.
So what’s happening with me? Well, the podcast is still doing fantastically. Player One is nearing its 100th episode, and we haven’t missed a week yet. We’ve built up a [...]

TEH BIAS!

I’ve been getting paid to write videogame reviews for something like 10 years now. And I’ve seen a lot of idiotic crap in response to things I’ve written — the most famous of which was the fallout from the 9.5 I awarded Chrono Cross in the pages of EGM. The odd death threat still finds [...]