Starter Tips for Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization

Hollow Realization is the latest video game installment based on the wildly popular anime series Sword Art Online. This mock-MMO JRPG is quite expansive, taking players back to a world inspired by the original arc's Aincrad, though without the real-life perma-death feature. And while it's sometimes overly verbose, Ainground does a surprisingly bad job at telling … Continue reading Starter Tips for Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization

New to Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen? This May Be a Good Place to Start!

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is finally available for PC players today, and I've noticed a significant spike in traffic here for a few of the guides I wrote during its prime on consoles. Rather than ask you to use the search function at the bottom of the page, I wanted to save you the trouble and post them … Continue reading New to Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen? This May Be a Good Place to Start!

Glyph of Felguard, Y U NO?! Allow me to explain.

When my newbie Demonology Warlock, Rambobrite, dinged 50, the first thing I did was pop in the minor Glyph of Felguard. This glyph allows your Felguard/Wrathguard to equip at random any 2H sword, axe or polearm from your bag. I hit up the AH, picked up a cheap-ish BoE 2H sword (shown above) and wondered … Continue reading Glyph of Felguard, Y U NO?! Allow me to explain.

Dragon’s Dogma – Dark Arisen FAQ

This Q&A is based on my traffic history search info. If you have a question that I haven’t answered, feel free to drop me a line in the comments and I’ll answer it as best as I can. My answers come from my own personal experiences in-game, to which I have over 300 hours invested … Continue reading Dragon’s Dogma – Dark Arisen FAQ

Dragon’s Dogma: Building a Better Pawn -or- How Not to Suck at Being a Virtual Pimp

UPDATE: This guide was initially written during the game's initial launch five years ago, and was then updated for the release of its Dark Arisen expansion. The same information should remain helpful for the current PS4 and Xbox One remaster. If there is one thing Capcom failed to do with Dragon's Dogma, it's explain how … Continue reading Dragon’s Dogma: Building a Better Pawn -or- How Not to Suck at Being a Virtual Pimp

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona (PSP) – How to recruit Reiji!

Numerous FAQs on the internet have the wrong information for recruiting, in my opinion, the best of the secret characters in SMT: Persona - Reiji. If you're interested in getting him in to your party, prepare for a little bit of traveling around the map and going through some hard times with only four characters, … Continue reading Shin Megami Tensei: Persona (PSP) – How to recruit Reiji!

Dragon’s Dogma starting advice – Ten tips that will hopefully help you die less early on.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen isn't very challenging in terms of gameplay, but Capcom left a lot to be desired in terms of explaining its intricacies to new players. Thankfully, I've gotten beaten down enough that if I started over right now I'd have a much better understanding of what to do. I suppose that's what happens with … Continue reading Dragon’s Dogma starting advice – Ten tips that will hopefully help you die less early on.

Trophy Hunting – Unlocking “Oblivion Walker” in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Unlocking trophies in Skyrim is pretty straightforward, but this trophy is giving players the biggest headache on their way to a platinum. Being the only missable trophy in the game, I wanted to outline how to earn all 15 Daedric Artifacts and also make everyone aware that 2 of the artifacts listed in the official … Continue reading Trophy Hunting – Unlocking “Oblivion Walker” in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.