Tag Archives: Why I Love

Why I Love Attack on Titan PS4 gameplay

Attack on Titan PS4 knows something you might not: Spider-Man 2 for PlayStation 2 sucks now. It was amazing back in 2004, no doubt, but today? Its primary pleasures have aged from wine into nasty, jagged polygon vinegar. What Attack on Titan understands is that web-slinging or grapple hooking or …

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Why I Love: The Time Crisis foot pedal 20 years later

Time Crisis looks bizarre when viewed with 2016 eyes. Imagine the teenager accidentally stumbling on Namco’s 20 year old arcade cabinet in some sticky-floored, college town movie theater. It’s Friday night, that midnight screening of Deadpool’s sold out, and here’s this ancient arcade game, its blocky characters diving slowly behind …

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Why I Love: the finger-chopping scene in Heavy Rain

“How far would you go to save the one you love?” asked Heavy Rain (opens in new tab) creator David Cage – repeatedly – during the promotion of the game’s PS3 release. Personally, I never knew the answer to that question. When Heavy Rain appeared on PS3 back in 2010, …

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Why I Love: the Sunken Woman from Fatal Frame 2

You’ve never alone in Fatal Frame 2. No matter where in the eerily empty All God’s Village you choose to cower and regret your choices, the voices of its ghostly inhabitants always find their way to you. You may adjust to it overtime, but one change to the formula and …

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Why I Love: Earning Trophies and Achievements in old games

So a couple weeks ago, Final Fantasy 7 hit the PS4’s digital storefront. I’d been wanting an excuse to play it again, and despite the fact that this would be the 378th time I’ve spent money on FF7, the added features (especially the ability to fast-forward through random battles) seemed …

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Why I Love: Exploring Lara Crofts mansion

A lot of attention is given to Lara Croft’s exploits to the furthest edges of the earth. It’s understandable – the game is called Tomb Raider, so you’d expect that she’d visit exotic locales, poke into their forgotten crevices and shove everything that isn’t nailed down into her knapsack. But …

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Why I Love: That forgotten Uncharted card game

Start rattling off the names of games in the Uncharted series. Even if you remember “that one on Vita,” odds are pretty good you’re referring to Golden Abyss, and not Fight for Fortune. And fair enough, because while the former was basically Uncharted Lite, the latter was, of all things, …

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