Question of the Month – Cross Over Madness

It’s been a while since I’ve answered one of these, but considering that last month it was my question that was featured on Later Levels’ monthly gaming Q&A and the fact the question is pretty damn interesting, I decided to give it a shot.

The question posed by Hunstrasse, is simple: what is the best gaming crossover? I thought about this one for a microsecond and immediately knew what my answer would be. Sadly, someone else took that answer for this question, so let’s go with my 2nd pick. Continue reading Question of the Month – Cross Over Madness

The Bejeezus Files – Games and Moments that Scared me Silly!

I’ve often mentioned how eclectic my video game tastes are, how I’ll pretty much play anything as long as the characters and storyline are interesting and manage to grab me. But I have to admit that of all games I play, it’s horror games that I struggle with the most.

You see, there are horror games that depend on cheap tactics to frighten you, and then there are those where you’re gazing behind you, not in the game but swivelling your chair, because the atmosphere gripped you so thoroughly you’re suddenly afraid the bad things will come get you at home. These are the titles or even sections that I can’t play for more than a few minutes at a time and saving as often as humanly possible.

It’s strange to me because despite the fear and the tension, I keep going, hungry to find the big reveal, the core of the story and its characters, or to at least find a payoff for the dread and the chill in my spine.

Looking back on the many games I’ve played, I wondered which video game scared me the most? Which game fell right under that category of “scaring the living crap out of me?” There are many games I’ve played in that Courage the Cowardly Dog way, and surprisingly some of the scariest moments in gaming for me have been in otherwise non-horror games, just having sequences that scared the living daylights out of me. Continue reading The Bejeezus Files – Games and Moments that Scared me Silly!