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WIMP Diary #3
No, I haven’t forgotten about this little personal diary of game playing. That said, I’ve bulked up quite a bit on my list since I last delivered an update, so I’m going to do this in baby steps. For this particular edition, brief thoughts on the conclusions of two games I wrote about previously.
Spoilers below, [...]
WIMP Diary #2
Blame Grand Theft Auto IV for my tardiness.
Final Fantasy X
photo credit: (nutmeg)
I dodged lightening. I raced chocobos. I collected butterflies.1 I played blitzball. I did all of this not because it was fun (it really wasn’t), but because I felt compelled to do these things in order to acquire rare and powerful weapons for [...]
WIMP Diary #1
So it begins.
As promised, what follows is a running diary of the games that I’ve ingested over the past week.
Final Fantasy X (PS2)
Past experience has proven one thing: Regardless of my adoration for the Final Fantasy series, I never seem to bother getting around to play them as they come out. This in spite of [...]
Spoiling Games
I’ve been thinking about video games a lot as of late. Specifically, the way video games are written about. If we can all agree to the idea that video games are an important cultural product (and if you don’t agree, well, this post probably isn’t for you and the discussion should be saved for another [...]
Keeping A List
Inspired in no small part by Stephen Totilo at MTV’s extremely good video game blog, Multiplayer, I’ve decided to keep an up-to-date and accurate list of the video games I’ll play over the course of the coming year. Totilo has done this for a couple years running now, and I grew a little envious of [...]