I have been a fan of good old fashioned, pen-and-paper, table-top role playing games since I was a wee youngin, learning the games from my father, who was one of the original RPG players during the 70’s. I still had his old Chainmail and original D&D minis, made from lead, poking around here, all painted up nice and detailed. I still have his 1st edition Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master’s Guide, complete with all his little tabs, and a couple of the Monster Manuals. I started with the old 1st …
I am a late comer to the Mass Effect franchise, and I wish I had found it sooner. The first game is almost three years old now, released in November of 2007, and its sequel was just released this last January, 2010. I kept hearing about it, but just never thought about it until I found a cheap, used copy of Mass Effect and tried it out.
I was hooked.
Mass Effect, and its vastly superior successor Mass Effect 2, has set a new level for video game storytelling in my mind. …
Trends in popular literature come and go all the time, but ever since George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, people have had a fascination with the walking dead that has only grown as time has gone on. The funny thing is now that so much zombie media has been produced over the years many fans become defensive about what view of zombies are the “best.” Is it the slow, shambling, glassy-eyed zombies of early Romero fame, or the new generation of vicious, sprinting, diseased sort-of-undead horrors common to the …