http://lungfishopolis.com Video games on our minds Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:46:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just encountered a disheartening example of corporate personhood. The argument against piracy is primarily that the creators of a given work should continue to receive recompense for that work. Pirates deprive them of that profit. Do you know what else deprives them of the same profit? Publishers who come ... http://lungfishopolis.com/2012/02/not-abandonware-yet/ I'm not sure whether I can technically call this a postmortem, since I'm going to continue to play the game, but I finished Skyrim's main plot last night. Not only did I finish the main story, but I found 20 shouts, read 50 skill books, got married, and I'm the ... http://lungfishopolis.com/2012/01/skyrim-postmortem/ So Capcom just confirmed Resident Evil 6, due to come out on November 20. Great! I've played each of the numbered Resident Evil games to completion and loved them all, even if I've found all the even-numbered games to be superior. I'm hoping that RE6 is also awesome. Not that it ... http://lungfishopolis.com/2012/01/what-i-want-from-my-resident-evils/ At this point, I'm sick of writing about 2011 games, and I'm sure you're sick of reading about them, so I'll wrap it all up. I did a best of 2010 post last year, and now here's this year's best of 2011 post. In my number five position is Bastion. The game had stellar ... http://lungfishopolis.com/2012/01/the-best-games-of-2011/ Many people have written off their Wii as a dead console. Probably most of the people who haven't are the ones playing Skyward Sword or the ones still stuck on Wii Sports. At our house, the Wii game that sees the most play is Super Mario Galaxy 2. From the ... http://lungfishopolis.com/2012/01/the-games-of-2011-part-xi/ Disclaimer: There are many concerns about kids and video games, and so I'll state up-front that parents absolutely need to be familiar with the games that their children play and the ESRB ratings of those games. You should no more let your child play Call of Duty or Grand Theft ... http://lungfishopolis.com/2012/01/family-gaming-single-player-games-as-parent-child-experiences/ It's hard to think about all the games coming out in 2012. I'm up to my neck in Skyrim and Trine 2, I still want to finish off the Riddler challenges in Arkham City, and I have yet to start Skyward Sword, Deus Ex, Ico, or Infamous 2. With the exception ... http://lungfishopolis.com/2012/01/my-20-most-anticipated-games-of-2012/ [caption id="attachment_3093" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="What is the story behind the overturned cabbage cart?"][/caption] Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim. Yes, it's nearly all I've been playing for the past few months, and I've put in a lot of time. I've written about the game so much at this point that I'm hesitant to include ... http://lungfishopolis.com/2012/01/the-games-of-2011-part-x/ Although I've been progressing through my 2011 games more or less in alphabeticaly sequence up until now, I've got to briefly break from that to hit a game that seems to have slipped through the cracks somehow: Limbo.               Like so many other XBLA exclusives that eventually come to other platforms, I ... http://lungfishopolis.com/2011/12/the-games-of-2011-part-ix/ Even if you haven't tried Skyrim, you probably don't need me to tell you how huge the Elder Scrolls games are. They eat your free time like the Cookie Monster with a box of Chips Ahoy. In January, Bethesda is releasing the Skyrim Creation Kit, and the mods that have ... http://lungfishopolis.com/2011/12/mods-i-want-for-skyrim/