Thoughts and Opinions on Various Gaming Topics
Adventure Rules recently had me mulling over my favorite video game series of all time, and why it is so special to me. SPOILERS- I picked The Legend of Zelda. However, his question got my brain thinking about my other favorites when it comes to video games, and which ones I have like the most … Continue reading Ranking My Top 10 Video Game Series
(This post has been updated from its original release, accounting for the release of Pokémon Sword and Shield) Welcome, Pokémon Trainers, to my revised Top 10 Favorite Pokémon list! I had previously set up my list of favorites on The Brink of Gaming in 2019, but felt that the addition of Generation 8 creatures and … Continue reading Pokémon 25: My Top 10 Favorite Pokémon
How many times have you been playing a game and having a great time, only to be swept up like yesterday's trash by an enemy that inflicts a crippling status condition? I'm not too proud to admit that it happens to me uncomfortably often. In the interest of sharing my misery with others, I thought … Continue reading Top 10 Terrible Status Effects in Video Games
Some games do not get the love they deserve. Whether due to a limited marketing budget, minimal press coverage, poor fan reception, or even just not making as big of a splash as their peers, several wonderful titles are looked over by many when they are truthfully hidden treasures just waiting to be discovered! I’ve … Continue reading Top 10 Drastically Underrated Games
Everyone…I tried. I tried REALLY hard. I’ve spent weeks thinking back fondly on my favorite games, remembering every quintessential song from their soundtracks, and trying to come up with a way to order them in a ranking. I’ve gone back and listened to dozens of hours of music, sometimes remembering tracks I had forgotten and … Continue reading Top 10 (+1) Video Game Soundtracks in No Particular Order
Great games need epic finales: that formidable foe to test your mettle and prove that you are worthy of saving the world! Whether it’s conquering evil or simply staking your claim in a competitive landscape, the send off needs to be powerful. Memorable. Many games start out by setting up expectations of grandeur only to … Continue reading Top 10 Epic Final Bosses
Don’t be fooled: this is not another ‘Top 10 Worst Games of All Time’ list. Everybody already knows that Superman 64 sucks, Bubsy 3D is bad, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for Atari should have been shipped directly to the desert grave where its surplus copies lay abandoned to this day. Instead of talking about games … Continue reading My Flop 10 Games of All Time
Top Ten lists can be deceptively simple: some might come to you as easily as a dog to a treat, while others feel like excavating a dinosaur fossil. This list started out as the former, but quickly turned into the latter. However, I thought this would be a good way to give you insight into … Continue reading Top 10 Favorite Video Games
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