Recent content by Hawki

That's a case of me not really thinking things through. Just chose the image semi-randomly, but also in part because in a list based on story, choosing an image of Link (given the game's themes) is a good fit. Not good, to be honest. Drath already knows this, but I won't be on this site nearly...

And last list, best 25 stories. More than anything, you should take this with a grain of salt, as this was a nightmare to rank. Thing is, when I say "story," I'm thinking of the sum total of the elements of a story (plot, characters, storytelling, worldbuilding, themes). So, Game A might have...

And the requisite Sonic list:

Did one for platformers. Lots of Sonic games here. Maybe I could do a list for that... Also, when I listed Sonic 4, that's taking all 3 episodes as one game.

Did one for strategy games, and again, struggled to make it to 25. In case you're wondering, the reason why The Third Age is again on this list is that it's referring to the GBA version (a turn-based tactics game) rather than the console version (an RPG game). Confused? Afraid that's the way the...

So I did RPGs next. This was actually kind of astonishing - since my personal rule is that I have to complete a game to rank it (unless the game lacks a completion state), I've only played about 27 RPGs in my life, despite (generally) enjoying the genre. Anyway, I'll let the list speak for...

There's no way I have the time or desire to do a top 25 of all time list (unless I limit it to one game per IP), but this looked fun, so I've decided to do lists in certain genres. Start with FPS:

So, I briefly logged in and saw myself mentioned. Huh. Okay, fair's fair. I really don't want to go into details, but even if not for the site likely being on its way out, I would have ended up leaving regardless. It's really just a conflux of issues coming to the fore for me that I really...

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Read some stuff: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (2/5) Halo: Saturn Devouring His Son (4/5) The Dragon Prince: Bloodmoon Huntress (4/5) Green Arrow: Stranded (3/5) A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel – Volume 2 (5/5) Diablo: Webtoons of Sanctuary (4/5) The...

This is all over the place, but: Okay, but really, neither BSG or The Expanse is anywhere like Mass Effect bar the basic premise of being set in space. ME is more in the vein of storytelling as Star Trek and Babylon 5. Problem being that hard sci-fi is harder to make a game around. How...

Star Trek: Picard - Second Self (2/5) Really didn't like this book. It takes place between season 1 & 2 of Picard, but most of its story/lore is drawn from Deep Space 9, what with the Cardassian Occupation, the Dominion War, etc. Stuff that I don't have much familiarity with, which in part...

Halo: Sunrise On Sanghelios (3/5) A short story (a very short story, actually) that takes place in the immediate aftermath of Halo 5, with John and Thel reuniting after years apart. It's fine, really. Writing's extremely basic, and I'm guessing this was jotted down in a hurry. The only thing...

I can't remember if it specifies. I think there's vague references to the world being on the edge of the galaxy/universe (so many writers throw around terms with no sense of scale), but really, the comic doesn't care, why should I?

Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy - The First Wall (3/5) The third installment in the Siege of Terra sub-series, further, ahem, "reinforcing" my belief that there's no way this series needed to be so many volumes. I actually enjoyed the ending sections quite a bit, but as a whole? Yeah...