Recent content by Sam Billin

Planetside 2 is pretty solid. The in-game store is one of the better ones I've seen. There is a cap to how much a weapon can cost, and money is pretty much showered on you. All weapons are available for purchase with in-game currency, and the only "premium" content is strictly aesthetic...

I played a lot of Supreme commander Forged alliance and the single player mode always felt a bit cheap to me. Usually completing an objective opens up a new part of the map with more enemy types, but instead of progressing naturally I would just sit on the first objective fending off tiny enemy...

The Souls series and Bloodbourne stand out to me as the most representative of innovation. I's been a while since mainstream gaming has seen a series that handles telling its story like those, or even the level of difficulty or accessibility. The online content and multiplayer are way off from...

That guy SUCKS! Especially hard if you get cursed in an early try, which the bastard is more than happy to do... Running something with some bleed damage helps immensely. I used the great scythe on my second playthrough and it makes him a non-issue.

I'd say Game Grumps have to be my favorite, with of course mention to JonTron's solo work. Lots of fun series with more of a light comedy feel; almost more improvisational than lets play focused. I've always thought of them as sort of a "mystery science theater" kind of a thing. They have a...

My least favorite subject has to boil down to reality tv. There's the TLCs weirdos and their lives type of shows: i.e honey booboo, sister wives, Duck Dynasty, teen mom. Then the Totally Super Dangerous Job shows where, sure the job looks interesting and tough, but the endless overplay of how...

I'm an old fan of Egoraptor and Jontron, so naturally the Game Grumps are my go-to internet personalities. I'm happy to see that both channels have really come into their own in the past year. I'm especially glad to see that NinjaSexParty continues to produce content, while working on...

I've stopped playing a quite a few games that just didn't interest me, but the weird ones are games that I otherwise really enjoyed. I never made it through the DLC of Dishonored even though I was still enjoying it. I stopped playing Valkyria Chronicles on the very last level. Up to that...

No matter the fervor over games like League of Legends, I just cant buy into them, and I've tried multiple times. I find the gameplay very slow and the in game community just awful. I watched a friend play a ranked match that was 30 minutes of neither team making any particular gains, and while...

I think that a big part of what drives this animosity is less what games people play, but how open those people react to gaming in general. We LOVE games. We've explored every facet of the culture, and here comes these people who claim to love games, but only know the AAA, massive hype...