kotaku game diary
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It’s Amazing That I Ever Finished My First Hardcore RPG
2Inspired by the recent 10-year anniversary of Dragon Age: Origins, I decided to revisit the BioWare role-playing game for kicks. I loved the game when I played through it in late 2009 and early 2010. It was my first BioWare RPG—I didn’t have a gaming PC growing up, and I generally came to a lot…
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I Will Always Love Where A Good 2D Background Takes My Imagination
Like a lot of things, it started with Street Fighter II. I was a kid, not nearly as good at the game as my extremely competitive uncles who would gather around arcades when arcades were still common. It would take a while before my little hands could pull off a hadouken every time, but I…
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I Fall Asleep To Puzzle Games And For Some Reason I Am Not Better At Puzzles
One of the poorer habits I have is playing handheld games in bed before I fall asleep. It’s not the best move — even with the brightness set all the way down, light has a way of messing with your sleep cycle — but sometimes it feels like the best way to slow my brain…
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I Found A Family In A Mario Kart Tournament
I fell off my barstool for the second time that night. My vision went blurry, my legs buckled, and the floor spun. Arms reached out to help me back up, and I leaned against the bar, sobbing incoherently. I wasn’t wasted — I was playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.