Playing Video Games in Public

Although what I’m about to say is subjective and dependent on the group of people a person is around, I think it’s reasonable to state that playing games in public is a strange and complicated experience. To clarify what I mean by “public”, I want to say that I don’t mean playing games via streaming…

Videogames, Plot, and Dazed and Confused.

As I mentioned in another post, I have been playing a lot of Minecraft recently. However, while playing Minecraft and talking about it with my classmates, I started thinking about how Minecraft may have lore but does not have a plot. This lack of plot made me start thinking of media that doesn’t really have…

Video Game Adaptations Done Wrong

Video game to movie adaptations are notorious for being… just bad. The Last of Us recently began changing this perspective, and, even more recently, the new Mario movie seems to be doing something similar. One immensely popular video game, also created by Naughty Dog, was also recently adapted as a movie: Uncharted. Even though the…

Progression Via Dying A Lot: Hades

I wanted to play Hades because I thought the protagonist was hot. Look at him and tell me you don’t agree. I didn’t know who he was (not Hades), the storyline of the game (escaping Hades), or how the game worked (still a little unclear), but the game was on my wishlist regardless. My friend…