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GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #225
The Game Informer monthly staff page is a forum where we all come together and talk about what's cool right now. We'll get the ball rolling and would love to hear everyone's current interests, dislikes, and favorite games.
Andy McNamara
Interests: I Really Want To Install A Giant Second Monitor In My Game Room For Sports Viewing (I Know, I Have First World Problems, I Didn't Say I Was Doing It), Winter Training (I'm Finally Able To Workout Since My Kidney Donation, And I Really Want To See If I Can Do An Olympic Length Triathlon This Coming Summer. I'm Gonna Crush The 3K Miles I Rode Last Season On My Bike), Having A Full Staff Again (This Death Star Is Fully Operational), Skyrim Dreams, Bananas
Dislikes: Finding That Parking Space In The Lot That Isn't Next To An Idiot Who Can't Park, My Internet Speeds When My Neighbor Is Downloading…Ummm, Movies, That Minneapolis Is One Of Two Cities In The Country That Is Ex-Time Warner And Comcast Refuses To Upgrade Saying It Would, "Cost Too Much.", Dear Comcast: Eat Dirt
Current Favorite Games: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Star Wars: The Old Republic (There Isn't Time For Anything Else)
Andrew Reiner
Interests: The Overblood 2 Super Replay Is INSANE (You Guys Are Going To Love This Game), Next Summer's Movie Lineup Looking Dumber Than Ever (Battleship? GI-JOE 2? Hollywood Is On Fire!), The Holiday Break (10 Straight Days Of The Old Republic), Nintendo Updating The 3DS With A New Find Mii Dungeon & Puzzles!
Dislikes: George Lucas Adding 3D To The Star Wars Movies (He Must Be Stopped!), Probably Having To Wait Another Five Years To Read George R.R. Martin's Next Ice & Fire Book, The Cubs Doing Nothing This Offseason (Last Place, Here We Come!)
Current Favorite Games:The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword, The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Super Mario 3D Land, South Park: The Game, Overblood 2
Matt Helgeson
Interests:The True Adventures Of The Rolling Stones By Stanley Booth, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow, Minnesota Timberwolves, Spotify
Dislikes: David Stern, 2 Broke Girls, Childish Gambino, The Minnesota Vikings "Football"
Current Favorite Games: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (It's Enough Content For Five Games)
Matthew Kato
Interests: The Graphic Design Exhibit At The Walker & Saul Bass, The NHL Realignment, The Unofficial Archive For Select Magazine, Tony Hawk Returning To Its Roots, Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions -- Bavarian Fruit Bread
Dislikes: Fumito Ueda Leaving Sony, Matt's Ban On Fletch References, That I'm Not Excited At All For Any Of The Future Metal Gear Titles (BTW, Revengeance Is A Terrible Subtitle), The NBA Not Fixing Itself In Latest CBA
Current Favorite Games: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Assassin's Creed Revelations, Dirt Showdown
Adam Biessener
Interests: Not Being Tied To iTunes, Wild Hockey (#1 Baby! That Means We Win Despite The Fact That It's Midseason, Right?), Functional Plumbing, Laptops That Work As Advertised Or At All, Ascension, Tichu, Red Mars, Meeting My Idols In Person
Dislikes: Needing To Buy Shoes, Plastic Wrap Over The Windows, Talking Myself Out Of Doing A PC Rebuild (But A 2500k System Would Be So Sweet!), How Travelling Makes Me So Dependent On Battery Power
Current Favorite Games: The One I'm Writing About But Can't Tell You About Yet, Civilization V, The Witcher 2, Total War: Shogun 2, Tropico 4, Master of Orion
Joe Juba
Interests:Mind-Blowing Facts About Lava, Getting A Wedding Band Made Out Of Titanium (My Finger Will Be Part Robocop), Why Is This So Adorable?, Will Ferrell And Old Milwaukee
Dislikes: Game Informer's Lack Of A Holiday Party, Metal Gear Rising's New Subtitle ("Revengeance" Is Not A Thing), This Crap (I Think It's Supposed To Be About Hugging, Not Shirt Close-Ups), The King That Never Was, The New Xbox Dashboard
Current Favorite Games: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Saints Row: The Third, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Batman: Arkham City
Matt Miller
Interests: Dogs In Cars, Party Down, Twin Peaks (Better Late Than Never), The Increasing Production Of Awesome Third Party Transformers Toys, Having An Awesome Backlog Of Video Games For The Holidays (Zelda, Here I Come!) Dislikes: The New 360 Netflix App (Backwards Progress Is Not Progress), The Possibility That Community Might Get Cancelled, The Rising Need To Enter 25-Character Codes Before I Can Even Play A Game I Buy, User Agreements That Change On A Monthly Basis
Current Favorite Games: Trine 2, Infinity Blade II, Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Matt Bertz
Interests: The Boardwalk Empire Season Two Finale (Holy Crap, Nuck!), My New Turtle Beach PX5 Headset, The 2011 Minnesota Wild (Best Team In Hockey!), A New Look Timberwolves Team
Dislikes: The Embarrassing And Godawful Spike VGA Awards, Christian Ponder's Worrisome Inaccuracy, The Terribly Designed Den Defense In AC Revelations, Tim Tebow
Current Favorite Games: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, FIFA 12, Battlefield 3, Rayman Origins, Assassin's Creed Revelations, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Jeff Cork
Interests: Taking Things Seriously On The Internet, Getting Mad About Awards Shows, Rock Music, Getting Up At 4 A.M. Every Day So I Have Time To Play Games
Dislikes: People Getting Upset About The Three Stooges Remake Because The Original Shorts Were As Dumb As S--- Too, Jeff Marchiafava, Not Being Able To Get Up At 2 A.M. Every Day To Have Time To Play Games
Current Favorite Games: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Tiny Tower, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster
Ben Reeves
Interests: The New Muppet Movie (And All The Old Ones), The Christmas Party Season Blitz, Discovering Downloadable Games Like Rochard Long After They Came Out, East Coast Fish
Dislikes: Minnesota Fish, Pre-Christmas Deadlines, Waiting For The Walking Dead To Start Back Up, Missing Christmas Parties For Work Trips
Current Favorite Games: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Super Mario 3D Land, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, Trine 2, Rochard
Bryan Vore
Interests: Watching The New Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Movie, Spotify
Dislikes: People Who Complain About The English Dragon Tattoo Adaptations Because The Original Swedish Movies Are So Good (Americans Don’t Watch Foreign Films And Hollywood Exists To Make Money. What Don’t You Get?), The Small Amount Artists Get Paid Via Streaming Royalties
Current Favorite Games: Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Ghost Trick, Zombieville USA 2, Find Mii II
Philip Kollar
Interests: The Black Keys, The Orchid Thief By Susan Orlean, Hugo, The Muppets, Dolores Claiborne By Stephen King, The Last Of Us Announcement Trailer, The Bizarrely Warm Weather In Minnesota, My New 3DS
Dislikes: Most Of The VGAs Except For The Black Keys, The Current State Of The Economy, Melancholia, The Inevitable Cold Snap That Will Ruin The Bizarrely Warm Weather In Minnesota
Current Favorite Games: Rayman Origins, Super Mario 3D Land, Mass Effect 2, Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, Saints Row: The Third, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Corpse Party, The Witcher, Xenoblade Chronicles
Jeff Marchiafava
Interests: All Of This Year’s Awesome Games I’ve Been Playing, All Of The Awesome Games I Still Have To Play, Being 60 Hours Into Skyrim And Still Having Plenty Left To Do, The Impending Holiday Break
Dislikes: The New UI For Xbox 360 (Thanks For Making The Ads Bigger Than My Game List, Microsoft), New UIs In General (What’s The Fascination With Big Dumb Buttons? Are We Trying To Make Our Society Easier For Apes To Take Over?), The NFL’s Unwarranted Fascination With Tim Tebow (Stop Describing Other QBs As “Tebow-esque,” Unless You Mean They Have More Luck Than Skill)
Current Favorite Games: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, LittleBigPlanet 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Infamous 2
Dan Ryckert
Interests: Louis CK’s New Special, Stealing All Of Skyrim’s Apple Pies, The Black Keys, The Word “Revengeance”, Devil May Cry Actually Looking Good, My Amazing Waluigi Sandwich, Dragon Shouting In The Face Of Deer
Dislikes: Every Time Felicia Day Was On The Screen During The VGAs, The Ad For Blackwater On Kinect, The “Arrow In The Knee” Meme Getting Annoying In Record Time (Evidence), This
Current Favorite Games: Skyrim, Zelda: Skyward Sword, Rayman Origins, Modern Warfare 3, Saints Row: The Third, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, Serious Sam 3: BFE
Tim Turi
Interests: Chris Hardwick’s The Nerdist Way, Indoor Rock Climbing, Yoshi’s Island “Athletic Theme,” Dethklok, Minnesota’s Tame-Ass Winter (So Far), Reddit, P90X, Sonic’s Red Sneakers, Jeff Cork’s Face, Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, Getting Eight Hours A Night, Kyle’s New Haircut, Quitting Caffeine
Dislikes: Jeff M’s Incessant Lying, Icy Roads, Cold Soup, Idiot Drivers (Still), The VGAs, Commercials, Stupidity, Flakes
Current Favorite Games: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Super Mario 3D Land, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Infinity Blade II
Ben Hanson
Interests: Ping Pong, Ping, Pong, Music To Elevate The Ping Pong Experience
Dislikes: 98 Percent Of Modern Television, Fi From Skyward Sword, Trying to Find Unique Christmas Presents
Current Favorite Games: Pushmo, Skyrim, Infinity Blade II, Dragon Ball Origins 2
Kyle Hilliard
Interests: Michael Swaim’s Does Not Compute And Just About Everything Else He Does, Derrick Comedy, Community, Seeing Real Snow Outside For The First Time In More Than A Decade And Having A Legitimate Excuse For Staying Inside And Playing Video Games All Day, The Excitement In Ben Hanson's Eyes Over Late Night Pawn America Infomercials
Dislikes: The Current State Of Community On NBC (I Said This Last Month, But It Continues To Be Important), Still Waiting On Those Free Game Boy Advance Games For Early 3DS Adopters
Current Favorite Games: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Super Mario 3D Land, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Jim Reilly
Interests: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches From Acme Comedy Club, Hearing Dan Ryckert Freak Out During The SSX Tricky Replay Roulette, A Fresh Glass Of Cold Coke
Dislikes: Giving Someone A Business Card And Not Receiving One In Return, Having Too Many Games To Play, Having To Buy Adult Things Like Toe Nail Clippers, A Broom, And A Garbage Can
Current Favorite Games: Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls
Jason Oestreicher
Interests: Competitive Skylanders, Saint's Row Multiplayer, Watching Game Informer Videos On The 360 (Via The YouTube App), Mana Potions
Dislikes: Roommates Snoring, Star Wars: The Old Republic Peer Pressure, Chest-High Shower Heads, Missing The Protomen's Last Show Of Their Tour, Interlaced Video, My Wife Not Living In Minnesota Yet
Current Favorite Games: Skyrim, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Super Street Fighter IV, Saints Row: The Third, Splatterhouse, Space Marine, Probably Other Games That Start With "S"
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