Dear E3

Dear Electronic Entertainment Expo: Hey, it’s Elrood, your faithful follower.  I always get excited for you, ever year!  New games, new consoles, industry trends, giant enemy crabs, the list goes on.  I’m with you on this year too, excited.  But I have some concerns.  I see things…happening that YOU are all excited about, but it’s [...]

Artemis: Let’s go be spaceships now

A shorter post for this fine Wednesday, as I don’t have much to review.  Turns out May has been a bit rough for the three of us at Faceplant, what with Elrood moving to a new city in order to escape his mob connections and Enosh coming down with a regrettable case of narcolepsy.  Me?  [...]

Final Fantasy XIII-2: Just roll with this

The review for Final Fantasy XIII was one of the first reviews I ever wrote for Faceplant.  It was a story of redemption, of rebellion and of hopelessness.  It was a story that br0ught six hapless people together in order to stop the destruction of all they know and love by first running down a [...]

I am Risen from the Dead! And so has Diablo!

Hi there Faceplanters, it’s me, Elrood.  NOT, as Tophat would want you to believe, Elrood 2.  I did miss last weeks article due to a combination of things, namely I’m about to move across the country and that the Prime Evil has unleashed demonic hordes upon the world of Sanctuary.  I can see arguments from [...]

League of Legends: D cups full of Justice

What do you get when you start with a real-time strategy game, automate the armies, and give the player control of a single champion on a team of five champions in a tower defense map? A nice little free to play game called League of Legends. Tophat and Elrood and myself have been sticking to [...]

Elrood is dead. Quick, help me loot his corpse for crafting materials

I’m not sure what happened to Elrood today, though I’m fairly sure it has 100 percent to do with the fact that Diablo 3 dropped this week.  Elrood has obviously been actually consumed by this horrific, ancient evil in his never ending quest to upgrade his loot I mean destroy evil forever.  Actually, the probability [...]

There is such a thing as a Free Lunch

It feels strange to speak of “the olden days” of gaming and be talking about 2004.  That’s when Blizzard released World of Warcraft and basically changed how people thought about games with a monthly subscription.  A niche Everquest audience was suddenly ten million people strong, all handing over cash on a monthly basis.  On some [...]

What’s up with Japanese RPG’s?

Japanese RPG’s made me the gaming nerd I am today.  I can remember the exact moment that gaming TRULY hooked me.  I went over to my friend Patrick’s house one afternoon.  His step brother was visiting from out of town and had brought with him a game called Final Fantasy 2 for the Super Nintendo.  [...]

XBLA Goodness: Trials Evolution and Fez

There’s a whole lot of  Xbox LIV(E)ing going on in Elrood land these days.  Since Mass Effect no retail game has struck me as must play but some of the Xbox Live exclusives that MS is pumping out these days are well worth the time.  Remember when the first piece of DLC hit Xbox Live, [...]

Oath in Felghana: Oh god my organs

I’m beginning to think that game developers have started using the phrase “metroidvania” just because they know I will purchase the ever loving crap out of their games.  I can’t help it.  I’ll admit it, I have a problem.  You take an action RPG and fill it with mystic items and spells and abilities to [...]