Saturday Morning Gaming

The following is a definitive list of the titles that will launch with Google Stadia on November 19. This is the lineup and a in depth look at what kind of games will be available. Remember that you will have to pay for each and every game that you wish to play on Stadia as Stadia is separate from and is it's own gaming platform. While Stadia does offer numerous benefits as of now you cannot sync and play your Steam, Playstation, or Xbox library on Stadia. 1.Assassin's Creed Odyssey -86 metascore and a 5.6 user score gives a wide gab between what the critics and the audience felt about this action adventure open world game from Ubisoft. It has a 84% very positive score on Steam and launched on October 5, 2018 on the platform. You play as a Spartan hero in the game or you can play as an outcast and explore areas such as lush forests or volcanic islands. 2.Destiny 2: The Collection-Destiny 2 was released on October 24, 2017 and while having a very good score of 83...

Why do most games say "Game Over" upon death. Lot's of games do this including Mario and a lot of the Nintendo Games. Where did the phrase come from and what is it's history? The phrase "Game Over" first begin being used as early as the 1950's in pinball machines which would light up with the phrase Game Over with colored or original lamps. The phrase has traditionally evolved from the arcade scene before the invention of home consoles and personal computing. In an arcade a user would put in a coin to play a turn at a gaming machine and if he lost his lives or the character in the game died he would be presented with a message titled "Game Over". Sometimes it would be followed by the message "Try Again". Usually the user was given a finite amount of lives as this was a system designed to make the user spend as much money as possible while he was still standing there trying to progress further in an attempt to beat his last high ...

You might have heard of Steam, it's the king of PC gaming of coarse. It has the cream of the crop in terms of amazing titles that you can access through its library. Indies that you can only find here. AAA's that are exclusive only on Steam and we can't forget Valve which is the parent company of Steam own's games including Counter Strike Global Offensive and Dota as well as the Half Life series of games.  It's ubiquitous with gaming in 2019 and until the flare up with the Epic Games Store; the owners of Fortnite we would have thought there was nobody really trying to fight them.  What put Epic on the spotlight in the pc gaming world was it's method of trying to overtake Steam and steal it's customers and it's developers.  Steam has for a long time maintained dominance and in doing so has gathered millions of loyal customers. 90 million monthly active users as of April 2019. Also as of April Steam crossed the line to 1 billion registered account...

Why were Games in the NES,SNES, and even Nintendo 64 days simmingly more difficult to beat then modern games of today? Games such as BattleToads, Myst, Contra, Ghosts N Goblins, and Ninja Gaiden are classic difficult video games of the past. These games were harder to complete The main reason is that storage space on cartridges was very limited. You couldn't fit the amount on a NES cartridge as you could on a CD or a Nintendo Switch cartridge. So developers had to make do with what they had. This meant that they had 2 options, either make the game harder to beat or cut down on the graphical quality of the game as well as the soundtrack. As you can imagine the graphical quality was already limited due to the nature of the hardware being used. The onboard RAM limited how much could be put on their before the game started going down in frame rate. So the game was extended by increasing the difficulty of the game itself. Another reason older games were harder was because the pr...

Years of waiting has finally paid off. The Steam library has launched with a new redesigned look to it. We have had rumors one after the other that this would be happening but were always left short handed-until now that is. It is a fresh look and redesign and is now the default for everyone not just those who are opted in into the Steam Beta. The library has a modern look to it with a new home-page that comes as a  new feature for all of us that have become used to the old Steam design. What is still the same? Well the side-bar on the left with a list of all our games is still thankfully there. That was always my favorite part of the Steam UI. Compared to other launchers, Steam has always had the best UI for our games giving us the largest amount of titles in the simplest best way to show it. Even GOG falls short as their left side games list cannot fit in nearly as many games. For those with long scrolling libraries especially this is a big deal. The big parts of Steam are s...

I realize that now as a grownup gaming has slowed down for me. It's not what it used to be. I remember the days of being a kid and how it felt to play a video game then, there was an excitement and passion and euphoria that I just can't seem to recreate again. Maybe I will if a game comes along that really gives me that nostalgic joy again. My history of playing video games started with the Nintendo 64 when I was 6 years old. That was my first console and I played it to death, both my brother and I would spent Saturday mornings gaming and eating Ice Cream. I want to feel the feeling of sitting down to play on a Saturday morning and knowing adventure awaits you. If i could get that feeling again , it would be all I need in life. Saturday mornings were the most memorable for me because they were filled with so much fun for me. Back then I had just moved to the United States with my Dad and my brother and we didn't have much to our name. We had public assistance and we barel...

There are Extra A+++ difficult games that are super hard to the point of being unfair and there are games that are difficult but fair in their difficulty. If a gamer decides to put in the effort to beat it he will be able to. I’ll be talking about the second one as some of my favorite games fall into the difficult genre. Why do I skip the first type of difficult games. Well because they are made off artificial difficulty. That is a lot of these games where made in a time where the limitations of their hardware memory storage deemed that the only way to make a long experience was to crank up the difficulty. People would obviously feel cheated out of their money if they payed what is in today’s money $100–120 for a game and it was a 5–10 hour experience. So developers did what they could to prolong the length of the game. These games include Ghosts n’ Goblins, BattleToads, and Ninja Gaiden. I understand why developers did what they did but in today’s age when we have an unbelievable...