It’s been an unfortunate break for me away from Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, owing to me wanting to do something banal like sort my life out, get some qualifications and maybe be less unhappy at work. None of this really worked out, so reverting back to old habits doesn’t really seem to awful a thing … [Read more…]
As much as I complain about the concept of games being ‘system sellers’, the Monster Hunter games have been this for me for both the Wii U and now the 3DS. Ever since my experience of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on the PSP, ever since I had to perfect the claw grip to manage both … [Read more…]
The prospect of exploration is a powerful thing: making known previously unknowns brings with it both the excitement of the idea of having been somewhere few others have and the trepidation of thoughts of why others haven’t been where you’re going. Though the latter may often be the product of an overactive imagination in the … [Read more…]
I don’t have the nostalgia that a lot of people have for NES or SNES-era platformers: I was a late starter when it came to video games in my own home, with my first console being a PlayStation and my first game being Actua Soccer. Owing to this apparently “unfortunate” conflagration of events, I find … [Read more…]
In DOTA, certain heroes have certain reputations: among the group of people I regularly play with, there is a special class of heroes that fall firmly into the category of “bullshit” – heroes that have a seemingly “unfair” advantage in certain situations, chief among these being Spirit Breaker (for his ability to charge around the … [Read more…]