A “Difficulty Setting” Dilemma
Most games provide us with “difficulty setting” options during the initial game setup, allowing us to determine the level of challenge we want to face during our play through. Whether […]
John 117: A Traumatic Backstory and Scars That Save
The backstory of the Master Chief isn’t pretty… the ordinary boy known as John-117 endured massive and horrific trauma that both scarred him and transformed him into the super soldier […]
Halo Loadouts: Limitations or Strategic Design?
For all of Master Chief’s advantages over his video game peers, he possesses a “limitation” that most of them don’t share. While gaming protagonists like Solid Snake carry an entire […]
A Detour Worth Finding
While Kingdom Hearts is a fairly linear gaming experience, it doesn’t mean that every item we need or character we’re tasked with helping are easily discovered… many are only revealed […]
Halo and the Xbox Launch: Plan and Purpose
When launching the original Xbox, Microsoft chose to make a game that was a brand-new, completely unknown property the star of the show… Halo: Combat Evolved. The story of a […]
Questions Within the Questing: Finding Purpose in the “Strange”
What is the strangest in-game item you have picked up and eventually found a critical use for in a game? No, I am not talking about collecting all the Korok […]
Finding God in Video Games 