Hey there folks. Today I’m going to look at three characters that are mindbogglingly popular despite being awful characters. Video games tend to be a horrific mesh of stereotypes and marketing campaigns, so it only follows that horrible characters would permeate the medium. The weird part is how popular some of these characters are. I’m…
After playing the demo for Asura’s Wrath and discovering its huge dependance on quick time events, I figured it would be a good time to look at the controversial gameplay mechanic in some detail. Quick time events (QTEs) have been around for a very long time. Going as far back as the 80s, QTEs were…
Video games have been portraying people for as long as an ugly collection of lights could be made to look a little bit like a person if you squinted and used your imagination. Since then, video games have been constantly dealing with men and women and various anthropomorphic animals. Like movies, video games lend themselves…
Well, here is the post that I promised you yesterday. Its now less than a week before Christmas, and I’m being constantly assaulted by Christmas decorations, shopping, and more importantly Christmas specials. Every television show seems to capitalize on Christmas. So, I though to myself Why don’t video games capitalize on this most holy of…
Mistranslations for the Modern Gamer 