Archive for January, 2008

EA: Level 10 alchemists, Level 1 Tech Support

Friday, January 11th, 2008 by golden jew

So unfortunately, like many Rock Band players, our guitar broke about a month ago. No problem, we have Guitar Hero 3 backups, so we’ll send it off for repair. Additionally, rumor is that you get a free EA game, so sure, we’ll take free stuff. …

Review – Eternal Sonata

Thursday, January 10th, 2008 by shota

I dislike bullet point reviews almost as much as I dislike people who smile too much and eat pasta salad. And yet, there are so many different aspects of Eternal Sonata that bear commenting on that I find myself gravitating towards the wretched format. So, instead of cleverly disguising a bullet point review with the …

Is this the beginning of the end? Looking back at the past two years

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 by golden jew

Two years ago, I was a fairly one dimensional gamer. I enjoyed 4X games on the side, enjoyed PC FPS and RTS… but my heart and soul belonged to MMOs. From punching the wall when dying one too many times in Everquest as an emotional 17 year old, to dumping a girl over World …

A Portrait of the Guitar Hero as a Young Man in a Rock Band

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 by zenstrabo

I started playing my mom’s beat up guitar when I was about nine or ten. At the time I thought it was fun solely because a friend taught me to strum and sing the Oscar Mayer wiener song, and I did so - often publicly. In middle school, I found a few others who for …

Mario Galaxy Non-Review

Monday, January 7th, 2008 by christian

Not long into Super Mario Galaxy, the player will become quite accustomed to, maybe even fond of, seeing Mario enter each level with his arms spread as he flies around and lands on a safe spot, shouting “yes!” on his success. About 20 stars in, it dawned on me; the next time I entered …

Two years down, too many to go

Monday, January 7th, 2008 by chris

In the past two years I have learned, among other things, how much more there is to learn.

First, from meeting and talking with Jay and co. here at videolamer, I learned about all the great RPG, strategy, action and adventure games on the various Sega systems I …

Buying on the cheap just got smarter?

Sunday, January 6th, 2008 by christian

I am pretty sure we have mentioned this in past VL blogs and articles, but seasonal clearance sales on games have become increasingly worthless over the years. The reason being is a combination of two facts. The first is that these sales are often meant to clear out the last of the old …

Heavenly Suck

Friday, January 4th, 2008 by shota

I cannot call this a review of Heavenly Sword simply because I have not beaten the game, but then again the reason for writing this is not merely to trash HS but to make the following point: people should be embarrassed more easily.

Allow me to explain… I do …

Two years of me - The Christian story

Friday, January 4th, 2008 by christian

I was asked to write a retrospective of sorts, about myself as a gamer. How I have changed in my time as a writer for this site. It isn’t terribly easy, as at first glance it seems to me that nothing changed at all. I still play a lot of games, of …

Videogame Child Support

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 by christian

Here is another article lamenting of the poor sales of Zak and Wiki on the Wii, courtesy of Blend Games.

Since many here at Videolamer have also advocated everyone to buy the game, I appreciate Blend’s promotion, as well as their warning that the game is …