At long last, it's time to talk about some freaking football in this guide to a football game! If you've read this guide up to this point, you may be forgiven for assuming that Retro Bowl is not so much a mobile football game as it is a mobile middle management simulator. But that's not … Continue reading Rob’s Complete Guide to Retro Bowl: Winning Football Games
Building Through the Draft: The First Two Years When you begin your career, your team will stink. All of the players on your roster will have low ratings and limited potential, and will often be on the downward slope of their late careers. You will not have enough coaching credits to afford top-tier free agents … Continue reading Rob’s Complete Guide to Retro Bowl: Drafting and Managing Players
The front office is the foundation of a winning team. Now that I've outlined how to lay this foundation intelligently, it's time to to take a look at building the house. The house, of course, is the team itself. Your roster is everything. Without a good group of good star players, your hopes of making … Continue reading Rob’s Complete Guide to Retro Bowl: Roster Basics and Player Evaluation
(Note: I updated the Introduction to this guide on 4/14/21, and again on 4/20/21; please read the updated intro if you haven't already done so! This portion of the Complete Guide to Retro Bowl was edited on 4/20/21 for continuity and clarity.) I've never met legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, and while I make it … Continue reading Rob’s Complete Guide to Retro Bowl: The Front Office
New Star Games' Retro Bowl is entirely too much fun.I say this as someone who is both inherently suspicious and inherently dismissive of phone games, and who plays them minimally. Long have I looked down upon the world of mobile games as a micro-transaction choked hellscape, a place where providing a legitimately fun experience is … Continue reading Rob’s Complete Guide to Retro Bowl: Introduction (2nd Important Update 4/20/21!)
What's that? You could go for some more accessible stoner picks? Hell yeah! I got you some accessible stoner picks! Witchthroat Serpent – Sang-Dragon (Released 2016) Okay, I know I implied that everything featured in this installment of the OMR was going to be easy to get into, and here I am immediately confronting you … Continue reading Obscure Metal Roundup 17
Here's the thing about the classic BioWare games (Baldur's Gate, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, etc.); in many respects, they're all the same. They're party-based RPGs in which the player creates a main character, and other, pre-made characters provide support. Combat occurs in real time, but can be paused so that the player can issue specific … Continue reading Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic – An Examination
Doomsword – Resound the Horn* (Released 2002; *not found on Bandcamp) Discussing Doomsword presents a real challenge, since their style exists outside my pre-existing (and, in fairness, comically limited) apparatus I have developed for discussing metal. The first time I listened to Resound the Horn, I spent the full length of the album wondering, “Who … Continue reading Obscure Metal Roundup 16
You may think that, seeing as my last dispatch from the front lines of DOS2 was both positive and constructive, that in the time since I have entered into a Utopian state of bliss with the game. Alas, it is not so! Shortly after that post, I found myself stuck yet again, and for drearily … Continue reading Divinity: Original Sin II – The Roller Coaster Continues
Mountain Witch – Extinct Cults (Released 2020) At the risk of bogging down these proceedings with boring meta nonsense, I'm pleased to report that writing these posts has forced me to listen to doom/stoner/sludge/etc. metal a lot more critically than I used to. I do my very best to avoid placing too much on genre … Continue reading Obscure Metal Roundup 15
