New Horizons

After listening to Gabe and Tycho’s podcast from Penny Arcade regarding one of their recent comics, I’m starting to see the genius behind their ways, and more importantly, the shallowness behind mine. I’ve never really put much thought into my feeble attempts of humor represented in my comic strips. Probably the largest reason behind this weak attempt is the fact that I know that nobody is really reading them, and they are mostly for my own entertainment and self fulfillment. My most recent comedic barren comic illustrates one of my two favorite games that have arrived since the overly populated holiday season. The game I’m referring to of course is Poker Smash. For anybody who calls them selves a puzzler fan, they would be doing themselves a tremendous injustice not to give this game a gander. The level of polish put into this game rivals that of Mario Galaxy, the only difference, is that I’m driven to come back and play Poker Smash, but that is another topic in itself. I’ve just recently started to really enjoy puzzle games such as Puzzle Fighter and Puzzle Quest, but this one is on a level even more fitting for my interests. I’m also starting to realize how horrible I am at the mandatory ability to plan multiple steps ahead in order to gain any kind of real success in these games, especially on a competitive level.

The other game that I briefly referred to earlier which I have been enjoying lately, is completely new to my gaming repertoire. The game is called Culdcept Saga, and for anyone who listens to the 1up Yours podcast, you will no doubt recognize this title coming from the outspoken mouth of Shane Bettenhausen over the past few episodes. Since this article is starting to border on the length even beyond my own attention span, I will save my discussion of this game for my next post, but all I have to say now is that I am infatuated with this game and everything that comes with it. Once again this was a gem on the PS2 that was effortlessly overlooked by yours truly, like so many others that were off my narrow gaming radar at the time.

If anybody does ever come across any of my posts, no doubt by accident, and manage to make it to the bottom of this article, I would be more than happy to take other suggestions of games that may have slipped, no, consciously passed through my fingers when my peripheral game vision was drastically constricted.