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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
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!
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.
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In 2012, no video game came close to clocking in as many hours with me as Capcom's first venture in to the western-style RPG genre, Dragon's Dogma. In a year full of big name, AAA titles, the part-action, part-hack n' slash RPG stood out from the crowd with its phenomenal combat system, punishing difficulty and innovative PAWN … Continue reading New to Dragon’s Dogma? Just pick up Dark Arisen? This might help!
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
Looking over the blog stats, I've been getting a lot of hits every day from people searching for a strategy on how to beat the last boss in Silent Hill Downpour, so I figured I might as well toss a fast guide up to help everyone out who has come here looking for answers, but … Continue reading How-to: Killing Silent Hill Downpour’s “Wheelman” boss.
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