Confessions of a gamer

I know that there are a lot of haters out there that love to spew their filth over games and the game Zombi isn't an exception. Zombi is the PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One version of ZombiU for the WiiU and it looks pretty cool. Sure it's a zombie game and yes there are a lot of zombie games out there but that doesn't make this game automaticly crap! What's so special about this zombie game? In Zombi you have some close encounters with zombies, which means you'll have to fight to survive at close range and not some safe shooting from a mile away. This makes the action intense and your struggle to survive even bigger because the zombies will eat you alive if you're not careful! Remember those moments in the Walking Dead game (from Telltale games) when a zombie would jump on your character and you'd have to mash buttons to get it off? Well this feels a lot like that, but then faster and more intense! But you can use guns? Sure, but I think it might be ...

Well it's official now, there's no splitscreen mode in Halo 5. I think this is a huge setback for everyone that loves to play games with a friend on the couch. Sure a lot of people play online with eachother these days but it's nice if the splitscreen option is there, which means you can play together when you're visiting a friend. Let's not forget playing games with your girlfriend, which is also nice if you can play together on one console instead of having to buy two just to be able to play together. For me this is a step back and I don't approve of this at all! Why is splitscreen so important? Because it allows you to play with a friend of your boyfriend/girlfriend when you're in the same house or living together. I mean if there is no more splitscreen then visiting a friend means that you can't play games together. Oh sure there are some games where you share the same screen (all the action happens on one screen without the need to split the scr...

That sounds like it's made up by some religious zealots that consider everyone and everything different then what they know as wrong (in their language that's already evil). You'd probably laugh at this idea but for the sake of filling a page let's get to the bottom (or as long as I feel like talking about it) of this ridiculous idea. Games affect you? I won't deny that, a sad moment can make me cry and a happy moment can make me laugh. But I still don't see how killing virtual characters in a game makes me want to kill real people, because people who do that are usually very disturbed and to blame it all on games seems cheap and lazy. Because there are usually a lot of things that happened in someones life that makes them go over the edge. That doesn't mean that games can't inspire or help realize a sick fantasy, for example that moment in Modern Warfare 2 where your character can (it's optional for you) shoot civilians. Of course you also have ...

A couple of weeks ago I told you about backwards compatibility for the Xbox One, which is great news for everone that is still holding on to his or her Xbox 360 games. People could vote which Xbox 360 game they wanted to be able to play first on their Xbox One. To my surprise a lot of old CoD games appeared in the top ten list. Is that a coincidence or are Xbox gamers CoD fanboys and girls? CoD games are good? Sure, but to see multiple CoD games in the top ten list is just strange. At least that's how I see it because there are so many games out there and that most people would vote for CoD is just weird. I mean CoD in a nutshell is shooting other people, which is fun but there are plenty of other games that offer you that as well. What I'm trying to say is that CoD isn't unique and not something I would put ahead of other titles that offer you so much more. There are platform games, RPGs, third person shooters, action/adventure or even survival horror games that are al...

The Wolf among us is definitely one of my favourite games for quite some time, so you can imagine that I'm looking forward to seeing a season two for this game. I won't spoil the ending but season one definitely left room for a season two. So Telltale games please make it happen! Is there going to be a season 2? It's definitely possible and the rumors are suggesting that it could happen in 2016, unfortunately nothing has been confirmed so it could just be wishful thinking. I guess we'll have to be patient and wait for a confirmation or disappointment. But looking at the succes and popularity of season one I can't imagine that Telltale wouldn't make a season 2 for the Wolf among us. Why should there be a season 2? Because the Wolf among us is an amazing game and the fans want to see more of that! Ok that's at least how I see it, but I don't feel that we're done with the characters and the story. I think there is still a lot of potential in thi...

I must admit that I'm suprised, not only does your playable character speak he or she can also romance his or her companions. Does that remind you of another game or perhaps even multiple games? Anyway it's nice that you can do other things than explore and kill, I mean we all need some time to relax every now and then and what better way to relax than to share some virtual romance with a made up character. How does this work? Well I don't know the exact details but apparently you can romance one out of twelve companions and this also includes your dog and some robots. Wait...what?!!! Yes as strange as that sounds you can romance robots and your dog, but I take it that with the dog it's some type of BFF thing instead of actual romance. I also don't know how that works with the robots but who knows maybe in the future they found a solution for that, I mean I did see that movie where robots can look like humans and you can have...well enough of that! It also doesn...

I was thinking about how I first started playing games, but then I couldn't help but think how my life would've looked now if I never started playing games or if I never liked playing games. Just think about it, if you never played games or never liked playing games then you probably would be doing something else with your life or do you think you would've end up in the exact same place as you did now? Games don't define who you are? No but the type of games you play do say something about you. I mean if you like survival horror games then you probably also like horror movies or thrillers. It's not a guarantee but it wouldn't surprise me if it did. If you like sport games or fitness games then you're probably someone that likes to watch sport on tv or maybe you even are a member of a sportclub or do some exercizes yourself every now and then. Once again this isn't a guarantee, but it definitely wouldn't surprise me if it's true. So in a way...