Why did it have to be Slivers?

The 2014 core set brought Slivers back in a big way. I noticed that as I opened my 2015 core set booster box they have continued that trend into this year. I haven’t worked any of those cards into this deck, but I might see what I can do with them. I know that the trend is to run slivers as an EDH deck, but I don’t have a playable version of any of the commanders yet, so I will keep it as a 60 card deck for now.

Creatures – 22

Bonescythe Sliver – 2
Sentinel Sliver – 2
Galerider Sliver – 1
Syphon Sliver – 2
Battle Sliver – 3
Blur Sliver – 2
Manaweft Sliver – 2
Predatory Sliver – 4
Sliver Construct – 4

Spells – 18

Hive Stirrings – 4
Verdant Haven – 4
Abundant Growth – 2
Trace of Abundance – 4
Profit/Loss – 2
Ready/Willing – 2

Artifacts – 2

Door of Destinies – 2

Land – 18

Plains – 2
Island – 2
Swamp – 2
Mountain – 2
Forest – 2
Shimmering Grotto – 2
Transguild Promenade – 4
Unknown Shores – 2

This is my first serious attempt at a 5 color deck. I chose Slivers because they naturally lend themselves to including all five colors. There is not removal in the deck. It is simply about building a board and overwhelming your opponent before they have had a chance to do anything to defend themselves. I recently learned that it is highly vulnerable to removal if you are too aggressive, though, so it is a bit of a tight rope walk of when to go “all in”. All of my decks come with the caveat, “They might not win you may games, but they are fun to play!”

If I had to choose a few cards to cut, I might go with the onstructs and maybe the Hive Stirrings to get more slivers in there that directly affect the board with buffs of their own. Also, I might try to put some more land in there and maybe since I’ve rediscovered it, I’d include some Evolving Wilds. As with the Slivers themselves, this deck has the potential to change at any minute. Stay tuned for my updates.

Saved from the Cutting Room Floor: Magic’s Economics

I missed my deadline for my article about Breaking Madden yesterday. I won’t be able to post it again until next week, so in its place, I’m giving you all an excerpt from the podcast that didn’t make it into the final cut. This will both offer a different perspective and a sneak peek at the same time. Enjoy and there’s more to come soon!

 

5 Wii Games That You Should Be Playing

“What?! Who cares about the Wii?” you might be asking..well first, nice attitude buddy, and second, well, you should care, because there are actually some really great games that don’t have “Mario”, “Kirby” or “Zelda” in the title and you might be missing out on them. Here are my personal 5 favorite Wii games:

hodscreenHouse of the Dead:Overkill: It’s House of the Dead. It’s shooting zombies in the noggin using Wii light guns. You just can’t go wrong. ‘Nuff said.

 

warioscreenWario Land: Shake It!: I didn’t have high expectations when I bought this game, but for 10 bucks I figured I couldn’t go wrong. Long story short, Wario receives a globe and telescope that allow him to travel to the Shake Dimension. He has to rescue all of the Merfles (little guys who live in the Shake Dimension) who are prisoners of the Shake King, beat the bajeezus out of 5 bosses and finally the Shake King himself, and rescue Queen Merelda. For doing so he will get a reward of a bottomless sack of gold (greedy lil’ bastard). The general goal of each level is to rescue the Merfles, but there are tons of hidden treasures and side missions to keep the game entertaining.

 

tatvs cap screen Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All Stars: This is, in my opinion, the best fighter you will find on the Wii. There are over 20 characters between Capcom and Tatsunoko(an anime studio), to choose from. Although the gameplay is slightly less hectic than Marvel vs Capcom, it’s still really fun. The controls are really simple and special moves are a snap to pull off (ultimate combos can be pulled off by simply shaking the wii-mote). There are a good amount of mini-games to play as well, which gives the game a decent amount of replay value. If you are a fan of any of the Capcom Vs titles, definitely pick this one up.

madworldscreenMadworld: This game is something that you would never expect on a family friendly console like the Wii. It’s literally non-stop gore and violence. Definitely not for the little ones you may have running around. The visuals are all black and white (think Sin City) EXCEPT for the blood which is splattering everywhere at all times. The story is as follows: A terrorist group called the Organizers take control of Varrigan City and being the no good sonsab*tches that they are, force the citizens to participate in a really, really ****** up game called Death Watch. You play as Jack, a mysterious contestant whose main goal is to eradicate the Organizers. To do so you have get through all 6 sections of the city by brutally dispatching your opponents. You use any weapons you can find from signposts to chainsaws to mangle and mutilate your opponents. My personal favorite fatalities include throwing a tire over an enemy, impaling him with a sign post then slamming him into a spiked wall and the always fun throwing your enemy into a passing train. You actually get bonus points for doing sick crap like that. Yeah. It’s that kind of game. Oh, and the “game show” announcers are actually pretty funny and for the most part don’t get too repetitious or annoying and add to the overall psychotic feel of the game. The controls take a little bit of getting used to (uses both the wii-mote and the nunchaku), but once you get comfortable it’s not a big deal. If you are okay with intense violence and gore, this game is a must have.

murascreenMuramasa: The Demon Blade: This game is, simply put, beautiful. I can’t say enough about the visuals on it. It’s a 2D hand drawn (to look like a watercolor painting, I might add) side scrolling beat em up action RPG, produced by Vanillaware, the makers of Odin Sphere (PS2). You have your choice of 2 playable characters, a ninja or a princess, and they have different stories, different bosses to fight, and different abilities to unlock. You collect swords, (all told there are over 100 swords to collect and forge together) and can equip up to 3 at a time. There are no motion controls with this game, just good ol’ fashioned button-mashin’. Words don’t do this game justice, just go and buy it.

Currently Playing…Vol.5

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Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (360): I was a huge fan of the first two Marvel vs Capcoms’, so I was practically kicking in Gamestop ‘s door to get my hands on MVC 3: Fate of Two Worlds when it first came out. Little did I know that I had just fallen right into the classic Capcom trap. Yup, those clever bastards suckered me with their infamous multiple versions of the same title trick (although this was forgivable)*. 8 months after the release of Fate of Two Worlds the Ultimate Edition was released with 12 new fighters and being the weak, weak, gamer that I am, I couldn ‘t resist the call of all that shiny new-ness. Mainly because I was disappointed with the initial selection of fighters they had chosen. So I gave my copy of Fate of Two Worlds to Shawn and rushed off to buy the newest version of MVC3. With the Ultimate Edition I had nothing left to complain about. It ‘s essentially perfect and rates right up there with MVC 2 (which is my favorite 2D fighter of all time). I really love the updated graphics, the gameplay is actually faster and more frantic than the second game, and the super combos are practically seizure-inducing. On a side note, Deadpool ‘s super combo (BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!), is hilarious. Speaking of combos, this game is really geared towards combo fanatics. With the one button strike that launches your opponent up into the air the game engine makes unleashing massive combos a LOT easier than MVC 2. Last night, I hit my personal best combo: 78 hits using Nova ‘(clears throat) ‘.against an AI opponent that wasn ‘t fighting back. Or moving. Don ‘t judge me. I’m not proud. I learned long ago that there is a big difference between practicing combos on a dummy and fighting a real opponent like Shawn. Even after hours of studying my strategy guide (Q: Who the hell buys a strategy guide for a 2D fighter? A: This guy), practicing air combos and chaining together super combos; I was no match for my buddy ‘s thumbs of button-mashing fury. Needless to say that strategy guide is in a box somewhere and Bradygames made my list.

 

*To be fair, Capcom was planning on releasing the 12 new characters as downloadable content, but because of the earthquake and tsunami Japan suffered in 2011, it significantly delayed the release of the content to the point where Capcom said ?Screw it ?, and just released a revised edition of the game. Although, in my opinion, I think they would have ended up doing it anyways. It is Capcom after all.

A Broken Economy?

(Note: You want how much for that?)

I find myself doing something now that I never even considered previously. I’m not proud of it because it contributes to the problem instead of attempting to be a solution. It takes away from my enjoyment of Magic as a game and a hobby and it adds to my frustration over treating everything in society only in terms of money and profit. I don’t think that I will ever take the next logical step, but the forces driving that decision are strong. As I opened my new booster boxes of M15 and Khans of Tarkir, I would periodically type “(card name) price” into Google to assess the “value” of each card.

I became more aware of this topic after my student that plays Magic toldme a story of how he pulled a Sarkhan planeswalker card from one of his prize booster packs and someone offered him 25 dollars on the spot for it. I wrote Chris about it because we had only days before discussed that his Khans decks aren’t quite what they could be because the tri-lands and other cards are prohibitively expensive. He replied that he has known about the state of high priced cards ever since Ice Age. That stayed with me because as I’ve mentioned, Ice Age was when I stopped collecting before starting again recently. Economics wasn’t my main reason for stopping at the time. In fact, I had no idea that it even existed as a strategy in the hobby. I assumed that all collectibles, save the very rare ones, like steroid fueled home run baseballs, tanked in price because of oversaturation. That’s what happened to me as a kid when I tried to sell baseball cards at the local flea market. “Nope,” Chris replied before giving a very specific example from that former set.

The topic continued to ferment in my brain, catalyzed by discussions in the Magic Facebook group that I recently joined. everyone posted about how they “made back part (or all) of their money” from their booster boxes. Wow, I thought, a hundred bucks. After checking the posts, they were only selling a small fraction of the cards and that made the feat even more impressive. Someone else posted bragging about how they got such a good deal for their Rabblemaster at $6 because, even though nobody believed them, it was now worth $20. Hmm, I thought, I have one of those from the fat pack that I bought. Half of the purchase price of that fat pack could be recovered through the quick sale of one card.

I don’t understand economics as a subject in general. I can’t for the life of me, figure out how we can’t agree on anything as humans, but we all agree that a dollar is worth a dollar. Even when it isn’t worth a dollar anymore–like when people say, “In my day, you could get a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, and a stick of butter for a quarter and get change”–we still agree that it is a dollar. That makes no sense to me. It isn’t like money is a finite resource. The government seemingly prints new money daily. It is only finite for your individual circumstance due to your job, bills, and living situation.

I understand individual markets even less. Some make more sense than others. Mark McGwire only hit one #62 home run ball. I don’t understand paying millions of dollars for it, but if that’s your thing, then it is the only one out there. Like money, cards are not finite. Sure, some cards are more rare by design, but for $100 I can get 540 of those cards and so can pretty much everyone else. If they want, Wizards can fire up the printers and go to town on a whole new batch of them. Each pack contains 3 uncommons, and 1 rare or mythic rare card. Some packs have a foil. I don’t know the exact probabilities because I don’t have exact print numbers, but if the economics are to be believed, then I made back my money for my booster box with two cards, Sarkhan the Dragonspeaker and a foil Wooded Foothillls. That seems absolutely absurd.

I said that I would not ever take the next logical step, but that might be a lie. The foil card is sold out at Star City Games at a price of $60. That is about 2/3 of what I paid for a box that contains 540 cards in just one card. No matter what my individual thoughts might be on this subject, that is a tough deal to ignore. The problem as a collector, is that is the only copy of that card that I currently have. Therein lies the dilemma. While there may be many, many of those cards in existence, I only have one. Others may not have any because they didn’t open 36 packs of cards in the last week. The perceived value of the card is at least partially proportional to the perceived rarity of the card. I guess I do understand economics on some level.

I still think that it is absurd that somebody would consider paying $60 for a piece of cardboard just like I found it silly that someone paid $3 million for a baseball. Sixty dollars is hard to ignore, though. Back and forth. Sell or don’t. Ultimately, I don’t think that I will sell for two reasons. One, I don’t value money as much as I value the unique. If somewhere later, I can get someone to say, “Wow, you still have one of those?” that’s priceless. Second, the foil version of this card from an older set is currently worth $150. If I can get someone to both say, “Wow, you have one of those” and follow it up with, “I’ll give you $150 for it” then that is an unquestionable win for me.

Care to explain the changing/constant worth of a dollar paradox to me? Want to commiserate over coffee about the ridiculous pricing of certain cards as we play with paper and pen proxies because the hobby is too damn expensive? Looking to buy a foil Wooded Foothills for 60 bucks? In any case, let me know in the comments, by email, or on Facebook/Twitter. As always, thanks for reading and I will be back on Thursday with a new discovery (for me), Breaking Madden.

Calling All Collectors!

Hey you! We want to see your collection of nerdy stuff, including, but not limited to: MTG cards (or any gaming cards in general), video games, ‘ movies, or comics (or any combination of the above). Each month we will pick the best collection and run a spotlight article on the winner. Please send pictures, a description of what you collect (quantities and/or highlights) and your answers to the questions below to: noobandblond@gmail.com

 

  1. Where are you from? (Just town/ city and state..no street addresses..cana”t be too safe, there are some godamn nutties on the interwebz)
  2. When/Why did you start collecting?
  3. Whata”s your favorite/most unique item in your collection?
  4. Any collectingtips or anything else you would like to say to all of the other collector”s out there?

Good luck!

Zombies Ate Your Library

(Note: I consider playing this deck so cheap that I have only played it once, but it remains one of my favorite decks 2 years later.)

I returned to Magic a few years ago after a long absence. My return was marked by a purchase of a deck builder tool kit for the 2013 core set. As I opened the set and marveled at the treasures inside, I noticed that they included a helpful deck building guide with some tips. One of those tips that stays with me to this day is, “Build your deck with a theme and try to stick to that theme. Tell a story with the cards.” Being a natural storyteller, I took that advice to such a level that I searched for lands that matched the overall theme of the deck. The cards in the kit seemed to be pushing me to build a blue/white spirit deck, so I tried to find islands and plains cards that looked spooky or darker, like places where spirits might reside.

While I am not quite at that level of lore in my decks anymore, I still like to have an overarching theme to the decks. Most times, that theme isn’t necessarily even a strategy to playing the deck. Rather, I prefer to have tribal decks and there’s a potential story behind every card. This particular deck was built as a response to a life gain deck that Chris built. I actually read up on the various strategies behind various decks and learned aboutmill decks. I figured that would work nicely since I didn’t think that I would ever be able to put together enough damage to overcome his constant gain. Unsure if I would be able to win with a creatureless deck, I thought about it for some time before the obvious answer hit me.

Your library in the game is a metaphor forbrains and knowledge. Zombies like to eat brains. The deck came together as a match made in heaven. I can’t promise you that the deck will win very often and it definitely will not win friends, but it is fun to play and watch the opponent’s cards disappear into the graveyard.

Land – 20

Island – 4
Swamp – 4
Dimir Aqueduct – 4
Dimir Guildgate – 4
Dreadship Reef – 2
Nephalia Drownyard – 2
Haunted Fengraf – 2

Spells – 28

Crypt Incursion – 2
Curse of the Bloody Tome – 2
Dream Twist – 2
Essence Scatter – 2
Ghoulcaller’s Chant – 2
Jace’s Erasure – 2
Mind Sculpt – 4
Murder – 2
Paranoid Delusions -2
Pilfered Plans – 2
Thought Scour – 2
Unsummon – 2
Vile Rebirth – 2

Creatures – 12

Butcher Ghoul – 2
Crypt Keeper – 2
Diregraf Captain – 1
Ghoulraiser – 2
Hunted Ghoul – 2
Rotcrown Ghoul – 1
Walking Corpse – 2

The mana situation is tenuous and the deck might be made better by going completely creatureless and either splashing in some red burn or white control or even some more blue/black control spells, but it doesn’t quite match the overall story of the deck and that’s ultimately what I want to accomplish here. Still, I encourage you to give the deck a try. Maybe don’t try it against your friends unless you have a strong friendship that can withstand the trauma of watching a library consumed by the zombie horde.

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

(Note: Someone get me some Nuka Cola. I’m finally gonna finish this game.)

Relax, even though I’m going to beat the game, I don’t run any risk of losing my noob cred. Even though the game is over 6 years old, I still am going to need to use a walkthrough in order to beat it. You’ve no doubt already guessed that the game in question is Fallout 3. If you didn’t guess that, then not much about this article will apply to you other than the following sentences. Go, now, and buy this game. Seriously, do yourself a favor, click the link (Fallout 3 eBay), find the game for your system, and push that “Buy Now” button. I still contend that Portal 2 is the best game in terms of game play, story, innovation, and fun. While Fallout 3 isn’t the most innovative and the game play is somewhat less in my opinion, it is only slightly behind in terms of story and fun.

Mind you, I am not a Fallout fan boy. I never played the first 2 main games before picking up the third and I honestly don’t remember why I got the third. I did, though, and found myself playing it one night that turned into two nights and then three or four. I made it as far as Megaton, did some research, and found out that you could blow up the little town if you wanted. I’m a sucker for sandbox games, especially ones with really good story or acting. I will tolerate Grand Theft Auto because it is so open world and non-linear, but I haven’t played number 4 yet. Maybe that will be my next project after finally putting Fallout 3 to rest. The story to F3 (my lazy and not so original attempt at abbreviation) reeled me in hook, line, and sinker from the opening title screen and transistor radio playing old timey music. See the introduction here. As an aside, Bioshock got me the same way. There’s just something about altered history with the accurate little touches that really bring it home. I’ve also been a fan of post apocalyptic entertainment since Night of the Living dead scared 10 year old me so badly that I still won’t pass a cemetery when it is dark to this day.

As I said earlier, the game play takes some getting used to, but I enjoyed the story so much that I spent the next week searching for the “history” of this alternate United States. That history led me to Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics on Steam and played through the first half of Fallout 1. Since I have such bad luck with computers lately and can’t really play any of the powerful games, I may go back and play those games, too, in order to get the full effect of immersing myself in the story of a United States ravaged by a nuclear war.

After all, I’ve written recently about being in a gaming rut and lamented the fact that I have these games that I’ve bought and haven’t finished. I have done a few things to help break that rut. I downloaded the Magic online client and a new block hit in Magic that has me wanting to play that again. I also got Gauntlet (but my computer isn’t good enough to play it), so I have had to find other diversions to reduce my time in Hearthstone and Marvel Puzzle Quest. I find myself going back to Hearthstone entirely too much. I often say that if you’re not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Well, time to find that solution while I get lost in the mythos of Fallout.

Mono Green Ramp-Eldrazi Edition (Legacy)

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I know, I know, Shawn already posted his brutal mono green ramp deck (and it is brutal, take it from me), but I figured that variety is the spice of life or something like that, so I wanted to share with you, our loyal readers, my own mono green ramp deck.

Strengths: Lots of mana accelerators, lots of big green beasties, and some big ol’ Eldrazi. Once you get past the 5th turn of a game, this deck can really take over.

Weaknesses: This deck is designed to be mid range so aggro decks can be an issue depending on how fast they are.

 

The List (60 cards)

Creatures Artifacts

2x Ulamog’s Crusher 2x Scuttling Doom Engine

2x Hydra Broodmaster Spells

1x Artisan of Kozilek 1x Eldrazi Conscription

1x Pathrazer of Ulamog 2x Titanic Growth

2x Arbor Colossus 2x Phytoburst

3x Deadly Recluse Lands

4x Llanowar Elves 18x Forests

1x Nyleas’s Disciple 2x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

2x Arbor Elf Planeswalker(s)

2x Boon Satyr 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter

2x Golden Hind Legendary Enchantment Item

1x Witchstalker 1x Nylea’s Bow

1x ElderScale Wurm

2x Karametra’s Acolyte

1x Primordial Hydra

2x Primeval Titan

2x Sedge Scorpion

Confessions of a Hoarder

Anyone who has read some of my posts on this glorious website might have noticed that in a couple posts of literary genius, I mention that I’m a video game collector/hoarder. This is actually not true. In reality I should have wrote that I’m a game collector/ reformed hoarder. Yes. I can admit it now. I was a hoarder. I’m so ashamed. I had to own every game/ console even if I had no actual interest in it. If it was on sale or cheap on eBay, I would buy it. At one point I owned 18 consoles and a few hundred games. A lot of these games were unplayed and more importantly, still sealed. My collection was so out of hand that I had a whole room in my place dedicated to my collection (it seemed like such a great idea at the time), that my wife graciously let me claim. Once a week I would visit Gamestop and check out the bargain bins and buy a few games. This was on top of the games that I bought from eBay on a daily basis. Essentially there was a non-stop game conveyor belt leading right into my ?nerd room. ? Needless to say, in a span of about 2 years, my room was pretty full and I was proud. Until one day, a little over a year ago, I suddenly wasn ‘t proud anymore. It was like something in my brain clicked. There was no more happiness in buying a game. The joy was replaced by buyer ‘s remorse. It didn ‘t matter if the game was $5.00 or $25.00, I still questioned each and every purchase. ?Do I really need this game? Is it something I ‘m going to play over and over again? ? The answer was always a resounding ?No ?. Yet, inexplicably, I still bought them. I had to have them. It became clear that I wasn ‘t collecting for quality, I was collecting for quantity, and soon I wasn ‘t even collecting for myself anymore. I was collecting to see people ‘s faces when they walked into that room and saw everything. For some reason it was a source of pride for me. My family and friends ‘ awe-inspired faces were my motivation to keep buying, even though I had lost the desire to actually even play any games at all. They were all glorified dust catchers. Soon, even the compliments were not enough. So what changed? It boiled down to just one sentence…

My wife ‘s cousin had decided to drive 2 hours from New Hampshire to come visit us on a warm Spring Saturday afternoon. It was his first time seeing our place so we gave him the tour. Of course the end of the tour was my nerd room, as I thought it was the highlight of the whole place. I brought him in and proudly showed him around. After a few moments of silence, he asked, ?You have an Atari? ?. I said yes. He nodded, taking it all in and then asked if I had actually played all of these games. I was at a loss. No one had ever asked me that question. That ‘s when it hit me. I hadn ‘t. Not even close. Not even a quarter of them. I was honest with him and said no. He nodded again and said, ?Well, some people collect baseball cards and they just sit around on a shelf, it ‘s just that your cards are video games. ? There it is. That one sentence changed everything. You see, I grew up a sports card collector thanks to my dad. He got me started when I was only about 6 years old and I collected until I was about 14 or 15 (he still collects to this day). The reason I had stopped was because I couldn’t get past the fact that they serve no practical purpose other than existing on a shelf or in a shoebox. After that comparison of video games to sports cards the seed was planted; I had to sell most of my collection. If it was a source of happiness then I could justify owning it, but at this point, it was actually depressing when I thought of all the money I had spent on games that I hadn ‘t played, and in some cases, not even opened yet. In my mind, it had to go.

As with most decisions in my life, I sat down and talked to Caitlyn about it. She reminded me of the seller ‘s remorse I had when I sold my entire comic book collection (I was in a comic rut). The collection was mostly all Silver Age books (Tales to Astonish, Hulk, Fantastic Four, etc..) and right before the buyer showed up, a part of me wanted to back out. I didn ‘t and to this day I regret selling them. In the case of my game collection though, I was positive. Soon after our conversation I started the long process of separating what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to sell. In the end I only had 4 consoles and maybe 40 games that I actually played and wanted to keep. I took pictures, made a huge list of everything and posted it on Craigslist. After the endless emails from lowballers, spammers, and people who just wanted a game or two, I found 2 serious buyers: A store owner out towards Boston, and the other a collector from Pennsylvania, who said that he was going to be in the area and wanted them badly. In the end, I went with the collector. After exchanging emails back and forth for a few days, it became clear that this wasn ‘t about a profit to him; he actually wanted to hold on to everything. I expected the ?back-out bug ? to bite the day of the sale, but it never happened. As promised, he showed up on time with his girlfriend and we got to work loading the collection into his truck. While we worked, his girlfriend told us about how his collection was taking over their whole apartment (apparently they had a wii store display in their bathroom), but she was okay with it because it made him happy. I miraculously stopped myself from blurting out “for now!”, like the cynical a*****e that I am. After the last box was loaded, he paid me, assured me that it was going to a good home and drove away. I slowly trudged up the stairs, walked back to my nerd room and looked around at all of the emptiness expecting a wave of remorse to hit me. It never did.

It took me awhile to buy a game again. I would stand in front of the display shelves at Gamestop for what seemed like forever questioning if I was going to open Pandora ‘s Box again by buying a game that I might not make time to play, therefore starting the cycle of wasting money again. I’m sure I must have weirded out a clerk or two. In the end I always walked out with nothing, and for awhile, took it a step further and avoided going into a game store altogether. After taking a hiatus for a few months from buying games, I started reading reviews and watching Youtube videos so I could make an informed decision when it came to a game purchase. I was finally able to identify what games that I had an actual honest to god interest in playing and the ones that I didn ‘t. Basically, I became a smart shopper again. Admittedly, today, I do have a decent collection, but it ‘s exactly that; just a collection. The best part about it is that it ‘s all games that I actually like and play on a regular basis. What? You thought those Currently Playing articles write themselves?!”.