“Many video gaming sites do a pretty damn decent job relating the experience of playing a video game with their audience.  While I’m not a huge fan of IGN’s prose, I applaud their review break down system as being a logical process of evaluation.”

I inserted the quotes because I said that (paraphrased, of course, because I had a few drinks) last weekend to a friend at a local bar.  He then replied with a stellar follow-up question, “So what the fuck does your site do that’s so special?” He was being honest – and for that I thank him.  Below you will find the outline of what ended up being a very fun conversation.  The Sam Adams didn’t hurt either. Continue Reading

Just yesterday I turned  on the TV to watch a spot of Comedy Central when this commercial comes on.  You know which one I’m talking about.

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Glitchoris wants you to be happy with everybody in your life; especially those closest to you.  Significant others are just that: significant!  You should be happy and thrilled to see your girlfriend open the door to your apartment.  Cell phone ringing in the next room?  I bet you have a special ringtone saved just for her.

But…life is not always like this.  Sometimes the inaudible sighs say more than our actual words.  Then comes the epiphany.  “Am I actually better off without them?”  That sucks.  It does.  It just kinda sucks.

Follow the advice below to set yourself up in the best position to let her down softly while keeping your integrity (and consoles). Continue Reading

For most video gamers, Final Fantasy recalls multiple times in our lives.  We biographically catalog specific years with which game we played.  For me, Final Fantasy VII marked the end of my senior year in high school (2000).  That was not when it was released, which was much earlier in 1997, but rather when I popped the old school black-back disc 1 into my gray squared PS1.  Final Fantasy X takes me back to my junior year of college after my back surgery.  I figured I liked FFVII and FFVIII a great deal (even though I fostered a love/hate relationship with FFIX).  Might as well give myself something to play while I lay on my side and let the stitches heal up.

But then FFXII released.  I was pumped.  I, like most overly-eager obsessives, pre-paid for the game and strategy guide.  I sectioned off a full week from work and duty, with fond memories popped the disc into my dusty PS2, and plopped my nicely healed back onto the couch.  It wasn’t until much later that I realized the game was…well…mostly fluff.

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Gamefly is killing me.  It is the DMV of the gaming world.  This is the third time in as many months where I have over 5 games in my queue but not has shipped to me yet.

Oh I get it.  I understand newer games are harder to get because everybody and their mother wants a copy.  I also comprehend the mechanics of the queue: the longer the game is in my queue, the higher I am in the food chain.

But no game.  No Fable 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Call of Duty: Black Ops, or Medal of Honor.  The last three of those games I have queued up for both consoles mind you.

And the not-so-funny funny thing here is that I have had those games queued up for months.  We all want what we pay for.  I pay $23 a month for games.  Right now I am paying $23 to host empty consoles.

Now I do not know the inner workings of Gamefly.  Maybe their contractual business only allows them x number of copies when 5x people want them.  But I really hope this isn’t the case because then Gamefly’s queue system should be capped at how ever many games one pays for.  Want a queue with 5 slots?  Pay for five games out at a time.  Because this whole “I have twenty-three games in my queue” business really isn’t transposing into games actually checked out.

Maybe Gamefly will come through.  Maybe Gamefly will start running the way everybody wants it to run instead of the way it actually sputters.

Come on Gamefly.  In the words of David Barrett, CEO of Expensify, “It’s easier to suck more than to suck less.”  Find the way!