You know those games you always heard were ground-breaking and era-defining but you never got round to playing? The ones you know, as a devout gamer, you must experience at some point in your life?  Have you piled up 50 or so of these games over the years and need an excuse to play through them?  ...No?  Well I do! Welcome to Green Ornstein’s Bucket List! Where we go through the classics, the gems, and the hyped to which we all went “Wow, I should play that...if I have time and it goes on sale”.  Will these games ring true to their reputations or will all those recommendations have been for nothing? Either way, let’s have some fun. Let’s kick off with a recent gem! * Cue ragtime music * As an experienced Dark Souls (2011) player (*cough*I have a Platinum in Bloodborne (2015) *cough*) I am no stranger to difficulty in video games. While they can repeatedly crush your self-worth like a hammer made of crystallised failure, there’...

Written by The Curmudgeon Ugh… I don’t like writing lists. Well, I’ve got nothing against lists as a concept . Shopping lists are bloody helpful. As are my daily lists of reasons to actually wake up in the morning. What I mean is this: I don’t like list-y journalism . Listicles . They feel lazy to me. They’re clickbait-y. Top 10 this and Top 10 that. It’s a crash-course in how to write articles with all the flare and inspiration of that ungraded presentation you did back in high school. You know what I’m talking about – the one you left until last minute and basically made up on the spot. Regardless, we’ve made it through another decade. We’ve endured another ten years on this nightmarish hell-world we call Earth. It’s dog-eat-dog, every man for himself. It’s full Mad Max out there, baby – even if it doesn’t look it, it sure as hell feels like it. Or maybe I’m being dramatic to justify abandoning my creative integrity to make a listicle . My self-respect asid...