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• Top 10 Most Underrated Video Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 49 Comments
  Last Updated:: December 14, 2008

  There are many underrated video games. These games pass by the gamer without notice not necessarily because they’re below average games, but because they were never fully promoted. Other games however can be considered underrated because they’re considered below average in popular video game opinion. These next games we feel should not go unnoticed and should not be considered below average. Some of these next games could be considered in the greatest games of all time list, and they are. Whatever one’s reason for underrating a game, they will need to reconsider their motives after reading through this list and understanding the power of these next ten games. These next games are not only underrated in our eyes, but can be considered as lost classics.

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• Top 5 Video Games You’re Currently Playing if You’re a Frat Boy

  

  Written by Zeromage 32 Comments
  Last Updated:: December 12, 2008

  We all know the frat boy type. When they enter into college, it’s party time 24/7 along with everyone else who feels entitled to spend their parents’ money on frat boy activities. The frat boy needs to fit into all walks of his friends’ life, so if that means playing some video games then so be it. There’s a difference though between the traditional video gamer and the frat boy video gamer. The frat boy video gamer only plays games that tend to induce chest bumps and cracking beer cans over their head when successful in one of the games. It’s a rare occurrence when you find someone in a frat playing Final Fantasy 3 for instance. You can rest assured that they would be kicked out of their frat if the “head brother” found them playing a game with an actual dialog.

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• Top 10 Worst NES Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 47 Comments
  Last Updated:: December 10, 2008

  Everything in our past is nostalgic. We look back on our days of school, vacations, hell even arrests, with a strange fondness that seems to increase with age. The NES was definitely a breakthrough in gaming. We at Old-Wiz look back on it with a rose colored blindfold sometimes, but it wasn’t all roses. There were some horrible stinkers that we spent our measly allowances on back in the day. This week we took a break from trumpeting our youth to get cranky on the old NES for a spell, so here it is, the top ten NES crap-sticks. Enjoy.

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• Top 10 Ways to Tell if You Spend Too Much Time on Video Game Forums

  

  Written by Zeromage 51 Comments
  Last Updated:: December 7, 2008

  Anyone who visits video game forums knows that there are people who spend a little too much of their free time on these boards. There comes a point where the gamer needs to get off the forum for a while, at least for a week, to refresh their memory on who they are in real life. This is not to say that all people who go on video game forums will be on this list, but definitely some, and some that we see every day. We think it’s in everyone’s self interest to recognize if they’re spending too much time on video game forums by seeing if they fall within one of these categories.

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• Top 5 Blizzard Games

  

  Written by Sage 20 Comments
  Last Updated:: December 6, 2008

  Blizzard is easily one of the greatest PC game creators of all time. Unlike many companies who release game after game, the people at Blizzard take their time and release only the most epic games. They are the definition of quality over quantity. They have even been known to pull games months before release because they aren’t completely satisfied with the product. We here at OW have always been huge fans of Blizzard and actually wish that their games weren’t so good. Hours of my life have been and still are being burned away staring at my computer screen trying to invade that last base or get that last piece of epic gear. Every game is Blizzard’s best game and with the release of the new WOW expansion and on the eve of the releases of sequels to both Starcraft and Diablo, here is our two cents on the matter.
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• Old-Wizard.com Recommended by Once Upon a Geek!

  

  Written by Zeromage 1 Comment
  Last Updated:: December 6, 2008

  Once Upon a Geek is one of our favorite nerd sites, as many of you already knew from reading our Top 11 Nerd Sites list. Well, it turns out that The Irredeemable Shag also likes Old-Wizard as we have been included in his latest post of “Comic Book Blog Recommendations”, saying “Not purely a comic book blog; really more of a video game blog. However, they do comic related posts from time to time. Also, the topics they bring up tend to be controversial, so there are always some fun arguments going on over there.” Check out the full post here.

• Top 15 RPGs of All Time

  

  Written by Zeromage 187 Comments
  Last Updated:: December 5, 2008

  It is hard to argue for a better video game genre than the RPG. No genre before or after has instilled such wonder and nostalgia in the video gamer. When playing the likes of racing or fighting games, one is enveloped by the momentary pleasure of winning a fight or driving as fast as you can to finish a race. The RPG though is quite the opposite of these genres. Anyone accustomed to RPG’s knows what they’re in store for before the game even starts; Endless hours of game play, always-evolving story lines, and perennial character development. The RPG is for the tortoise, not the hare, and would always prove to bring the most satisfaction to the gamer who was willing to let the parables of patience surround their being. In this list, we go through the 15 greatest RPG’s of all time with a focus on the games that were not just games, but timeless pieces of art.

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• Top 10 Star Wars Video Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 60 Comments
  Last Updated:: December 2, 2008

  The original Star Wars movies are some of our favorite movies of all time here at Old-Wizard.com, and as you might expect we also love the video games as well. That’s why this list was especially difficult for us to make, considering that both of us have been playing Star Wars video games since the early 90s.  After much debate though, we finally settled on ten games we could all agree on. These next games span the days of the Macintosh all the way to the Nintendo Wii, and in our humble opinions these are the ten best Star Wars games of all time, and we’re sure you’ll agree us with us. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

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• Top 10 Lamest Mega Man Bosses

  

  Written by Zeromage 27 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 28, 2008

  When Mega Man 1 came out for the NES, it was appropriate that the basic elements were represented as bosses in the game. After Mega Man 1 though, there was Mega Man 2 and 3 which had some of the most innovative bosses in the series. Who could forget the likes of Gemini Man and Snake Man who both made our “Top Ten Bosses from the Mega Man series” list. After Mega Man 3 though, the games decreased in quality and along with this decrease, the creative ideas for the bosses decreased. In this list, we will go through the robot masters that blew our mind in how poor they were as ideas for bosses.

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• Ten Steps to Making a Successful FPS

  

  Written by Zeromage 31 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 23, 2008

  With the release of “Left 4 Dead” for the Xbox 360, First Person Shooter (FPS) fans have come crawling out of their closets in as great of numbers as the zombies that attack you in these games. What’s the appeal of the first person shooter that makes these gamers keep coming back for more? In this list we’ll go through the ten steps needed to make a FPS that some gamers call “amazing” with sheepish predictability. The steps are fairly simple and are used in most, if not all the FPS games that have been released since Doom 1. Once the awareness of the predictability becomes more conscious, then maybe gamers will expect more out of these types of games.

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