It’s amazing sometimes the memories, or a place in time, that a particular song, or a distinct smell can bring a person back to. And just now I got hit with a one-two punch from my music player, armed and loaded with over twenty-four thousand tracks, and set to shuffle. And just like that – epiphany. Just now (actually a week ago today, as of this posting) I was listening to Jonathan Coultan/Ellen McLain’s Still Alive, followed by Godley & Creme’s Cry, and a thought that has been brewing in the back of my mind for sometime now, finally bubbled up to the top – and then as I said before, epiphany; sad, sad epiphany actually. The best gaming moments of this console generation, have very likely already come and gone . . . years ago. 
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July 15, 2012 | Categories: Entertainment, What's In Your Console? | Tags: 2010, Alan Wake, Andrew Ryan, Another World, BioShock, Bioshock Infinite, Call of Duty, Chaos Theory, Combat Evolved, Cry, Ellen McLain, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Faith, Fallout 3, Gears of War, Ghost Recon: Advance Warfighter, God of War, Godley & Creme, Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto V, GTA IV, Half-Life 2, Halo, Heavy Rain, Hitman: Absolution, Ico, innovation, Jonathan Coultan, Knights of the Old Republic, KOTOR, L.A. Noire, Liberty City, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Megaton, Mirror's Edge, Out of This World, Phantasy Star II, Portal, Prince of Persia, pushing boundaries, Rapture, Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil 4, Saints Row 2, Saints Row: The Third, Shadow of the Colossus, Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Star Wars, Still Alive, Super Mario Galaxy, The Bizarro Year, The Last Guardian, The Last of Us, Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider (2013), Virmire, Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Ōkami | Leave a comment
It’s been a while since I have actually made a blog post, but in all honesty, I have decided not to blog for blogging’s sake, but to do so whenever something comes up that I truly feel I need to say something. I know this goes completely against the proven formula of what makes a successful blog, successful (three regularly scheduled, new posts a week; creating a poll with every post, like you really give a shit about what the reader thinks, et al.), but I feel in the long term, honesty in my blog is going to be my differentiating factor. And honestly, there is no point in blogging unless I have something I really want to say . . . which brings me to the following post.
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March 8, 2012 | Categories: Entertainment, Tech, What's In Your Console? | Tags: 60fps, 75fps, AI, animation, Capture, cloud, Contour, David Cage, Epic Games, Facial, facial animation, Facial Capture, Fahrenheit, film industry, game industry, games, gaming, gaming world, graphics, Heavy Rain, Hollywood, id Tech 5, Indigo Prophecy, interactive, interactive arts, KARA, making dramatic strides, media, medium, MOVA, MOVA Contour, next generation, next-gen, OnLive, physics, proven formula, Quantic Dream, Steve Perlman, tech, the film industry, Unreal Engine 3, Unreal Engine 3.5, Unreal Engine 4, video game industry, youtube | Leave a comment
What the Hell am I Doing? 