Play to Win: Weeks 10 & 11

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Guess what! I still don’t have a computer! But I do have my consoles, and I’ve been able to have some fun with my new year resolution.

This week, I became thoroughly frustrated with Final Fantasy III, fell back in love with Chrono Cross and started playing a seasonal game at the wrong season.

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Play to Win: Week 8 & 9

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If you don’t follow GameTaffy on Facebook, you don’t know that my laptop died. It was tragic and depressing for everyone involved, but what can you do? Well, besides buy me a new computer…

Guys?

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Top 5 Ninjas

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Raiden is getting his chance in the spotlight with Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and despite that incredibly stupid title, Platinum Games is making this ninja game just as over-the-top and fun as I want it to be.

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Play to Win: Week 7 – Azure Dreams, BioShock 2, Final Fantasy III, Bloodrayne: Betrayal

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This week, I started going to the gym on a regular basis, usually after work. In the early weeks of Play to Win, I mentioned that I would probably get fat.

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Top 5 Licensed Games

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Most of the time, the surest sign of a waste of time is a licensed game. Whether it’s based on a TV show or movie, these games take someone else’s intellectual property and barely attempt to make it interactive.

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Play to Win: Week 6 – Azure Dreams, Crisis Core, BattleFantasia, BioShock 2 & Final Fantasy III

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This week saw some changes to my Resolution. In order to get through this list, I’ve decided to only play Azure Dreams on the weekends. A luck-based endless tower is not worth jeopardizing the entire Play to Win series.

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End Credits: The Ouya Doesn’t Need to Sell to Succeed

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Today, the Kickstarter-funded Ouya went on preorder with several retailers. The console will launch in June at $100. But with as much money as the Ouya closed at when it went through its public funding, the young company should have enough cash on hand to survive a total flop.

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Top 5 Bad Influences

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This week, two huge games launch, a violent survival-horror and a kid-friendly action platformer. But as I mentioned before, the game industry focuses too much on the M-rated games. Therefore, it’s time to put an E10+-rated game in the spotlight.

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End Credits: How to Sell the PS4

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Feb 20 looks like it will be an exciting day for gamers. If rumors and speculation is correct, Sony will reveal the PlayStation 4. We can speculate all day about what this will do to the industry, but for now, I’d rather imagine a world in which the PS4 is announced this month.

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Play to Win: Week 5 – Crisis Core, Azure Dreams & Back to the Future

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About mid-way through this week, I became so frustrated with the endless tower of Azure Dreams that I decided I would take a break and start beating some other games. It has been the best decision since I started this resolution.

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