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I’m reviewing all of the Boss Fight Books releases, so subscribe to this channel and click the bell notification icon to be sure you don’t miss future reviews. For the next few paragraphs I’m going to tell you why I loved this book, and it may surprise you, but this book isn’t actually just about Red Dead Redemption. But that’s a good thing, I promise. See, this book by Matt Margini does one of the things that, for me, all great books should do. When I reviewed Postal, by Nathan Rabin and Brock Wilbur, I noted another thing that great books do. They force us to ask, and really think about, interesting questions. In that book, the question was: can I love a product made by unlovable people? There’s no definitive answer. It’s a question of ethics and morals that each person has to answer for themselves. What Margini’s book does is the other thing great books should do, which is related to asking great questions: great books should be catalysts for understanding. Margini’s book is perhaps one of the very best examples of a book that takes a seemingly benign topic and uses it as a catalyst to explore something much greater. This book examines the very American idea of frontierism through the lens of Western books and movies, and, of course, a video game.Posts By Caleb J. Ross
Caleb began writing his sophomore year of undergrad study when, tired of the formal art education then being taught, he abandoned the pursuit in the middle of a compositional drawing class. Major-less and fearful of losing his financial aid, he signed up to seek a degree in English Literature for no other reason than his lengthy history with the language. Coincidentally, this decision not only introduced him to writing but to reading as well. Prior this transition he had read three books. One of which he understood.
Video games have a relatively brief, but no less interesting, history of using blood as a character weapon. From Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, to The Binding of Isaac, to Bloodborne, to Death Stranding, and plenty more. The idea of using a person’s own life as a weapon is intriguing. Intriguing enough to make a dumb seven minute video about it.
I haven't touched Google Stadia in a while, but after their recent Google Connect video, I dove back in. I was reminded of a really cool feature: Google Stadia recognizes a variety of different video game controllers without the need to restart games or update drivers (I think this is called hot-swapping). It's pretty cool.
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Finally, I'm ready to talk about my 5 favorite video games of all time! After 19 videos counting down my top 95 games, it's time for my top five video games. I'm excited. Are you excited? You should be.[su_button icon="icon: gamepad" background="#e52d27" size="10" animate delay="3" inline="yes" url="https://www.youtube.com/user/calebjross?sub_confirmation=1"] Subscribe on YouTube [/su_button]
I hit a video game milestone recently: I have beaten 100 games! I thought it would be fun to rank all 100 of the games in a series of videos. Here’s the nineteenth video, ranking games 6 - 10.[su_button icon="icon: gamepad" background="#e52d27" size="10" animate delay="3" inline="yes" url="https://www.youtube.com/user/calebjross?sub_confirmation=1"] Subscribe on YouTube [/su_button]
I hit a video game milestone recently: I have beaten 100 games! I thought it would be fun to rank all 100 of the games in a series of videos. Here’s the eighteenth video, ranking games 11 - 15.[su_button icon="icon: gamepad" background="#e52d27" size="10" animate delay="3" inline="yes" url="https://www.youtube.com/user/calebjross?sub_confirmation=1"] Subscribe on YouTube [/su_button]
I hit a video game milestone recently: I have beaten 100 games! I thought it would be fun to rank all 100 of the games in a series of videos. Here’s the seventeenth video, ranking games 16 - 20.