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SG Survival Guide: Resistance 3 Superhuman Difficulty

September 15th, 2011 · 7 Comments

 

Editor’s Note: This is yet another in a long list of kick-ass Sarcastic Gamer Survival Guides.  If you want to check out the others in the series, click here for the list of guides, which includes StarCraft II, Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops!

For this, the ultimate test of survival, you’re gonna need big guns and a lot of patience.  Big guns aren’t a problem; Insomniac Games specializes in that trade.  Perseverance, however, is up to you.

Superhuman is more manageable than the name might indicate.  If I can beat it, then so can you.  It’s definitely hard, and you’ll die a lot in certain areas, but if you can beat Difficult, then you can survive Superhuman.

As with all of our SG survival guides, we’re here to help.  The vicious, overwhelming Chimeran armies want to crush humanity and turn Earth into a giant icebox, but with these tips and a “Goonies never say die” attitude, you can make the hard journey to New York City.

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Welcome to Sarcastic Gamer: as seen on TV!

September 12th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Oh hey, internet! If you’re from the UK and you watched a programme called Rude Tube on Channel 4 on Monday night, you might’ve seen a man called Doc singing about his killstreak (or a lack thereof) in Call of Duty: Black Ops. That song right there, above these words, actually. That was a parody song done for this very website: SarcasticGamer.com.

If you’ve found us through Rude Tube then hello! Sarcastic Gamer’s all about poking fun at games: occasionally we’ll go all serious and speak our mind about what’s happening in the gaming world but most of the time we make fun at the latest titles, record a bunch of podcasts about them and joke around with our dedicated forum community. Oh, and we make other parody songs too. And game for charity.

Check a few of them out over the jump.

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SG PAX Prime 2011: Exclusive BattleBlock Theater interview with Dan Paladin

August 31st, 2011 · No Comments

The Behemoth booth is hard to ignore at public tradeshows.  Each year it seems to get bigger, more awesome and more popular.

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Video games of fall, holiday and spring in haiku

August 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments

At Sarcastic Gamer, we strive to bring the latest in video gaming in a fresh and new way.  This preview of upcoming video game releases is definitely fresh … but not so new.

Hit the jump to check out a preview of upcoming games in the form of multiple haiku.

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SG History: Pinball is the DEBULL!

August 17th, 2011 · 5 Comments


For a new feature on Sarcastic Gamer, I will scour the internet news archives for interesting and shocking video game headlines, and bring them to your 21st century face. So prepare your faces to be interested, and shocked! (more…)

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16 Reasons to be at PAXtra Life 2011

July 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments

We at Sarcastic Gamer know how to throw a kick-ass bashPAXtra Life 2010 was a big success, and we’re doing it again this year.  Once again, the SG community will take over the Fox Sports Bar in Seattle for a night of fun, drinks, friends and shenanigans.  With luck, Jonny Nero will return to PAXtra Life for another performance.

Doc posted the pertinent details of PAXtra Life 2011, which you can read here, but I’m here to tell you why you need to be at this year’s bash.

PAXtra Life 2011 will be an unforgettable event because:

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Havok’s Top 5 PlayStation Store Games

July 19th, 2011 · No Comments

The PlayStation Store catalog has grown markedly since my last (and first) list of favorite PSN games.  Many new and awesome games have come to the digital marketplace, and I have updated my top selections to better reflect the current library of games.

Sure, Warhawk, PixelJunk Eden, PixelJunk Shooter and Fat Princess are still great games, but 2011 has been very kind to PSN users, and better, newer games have moved to the top of the heap.

For this update, I’ve shaken things up a bit.  In my previous article, I included PSOne Classics into the mix.  This time they’re out, as I have only included games released this generation.  I still highly recommend Crash Team Racing, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, but it’s time to let the new class shine.

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Top Video Game Music of All Time Pt 2: The 16-bit Era

July 14th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Last week we listened to the best music that the 8-bit era had to offer.  This week we will listen to what I believe to be the best music of the next generation of games, the 16-bit era.

The 16-bit game systems started to show up in the late 1980s with the Turbografx-16 followed by the Sega Genesis, Neo-Geo and SNES.  The increase in graphical power also boosted video game audio, which gave gamers better sound effects and more lush symphonic soundtracks.

Similar to last week’s top 5, I have chosen games that have a comprehensive killer soundtrack, not just one song.

Now put on your headphones, and let’s do this.

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SG Review: Alice: Madness Returns

June 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment

Alice Liddell’s latest trip to Wonderland is as demented and bizarre as any summer adventure.   In fact, it’s undoubtedly one of the most eccentric tales to unfold in recent years.

A far cry from Disney’s beloved 1951 cartoon classic, Alice: Madness Returns takes players to a Wonderland few would recognize – including titular Alice.  Amid a bleak, twisted and strange version of a familiar world, Alice attempts to save her sanity and the otherworldly place to which she desperately clings.

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SG Survival Guide: Dead Nation “Grim” difficulty

June 14th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Editor’s note: This is yet another in a long list of kick-ass Sarcastic Gamer Survival Guides.  If you want to check out the others in the series, click here for the list of guides, which includes GTA IV, Call of Duty 4, Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Life sucks when you’re perpetually running from thousands and thousands of vicious zombies.  We’re talking mucho flesh-munchers who want to tear you to pieces, devour your delicious organs and fashion a six-string guitar from your intestines.   There are more zombies in Dead Nation than there are teabags in Halo, and you’ll need every ounce of strength and courage that you can muster to make it through.

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