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GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #227

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: Austin Hill Country Biking, Timberwolves Basketball, DICE Speeches By Todd Howard, Tim Sweeney, and Many Others, Getting To Know My PS Vita (Not Sure It Is A Hit Yet But I'm Enjoying My Time Quite A Bit), The Hunger Games, Nook

Dislikes: Bad Internet, Texas Drivers And Crappy Shoulders For Bikers, The Vita Browser

Current Favorite Games: Pinball FX 2, Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational, Super Stardust Delta, Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning

Andrew Reiner

Interests: Firing Up Mass Effect 3 (I'll See You In April!), Breaking In My Vita (The Sexiest Handheld Yet…Yes, I Like It More Than The iPad), Getting Back Into The Pinball Swing (Many High Scores Have Fallen And Many More Will In The Days Ahead), The Return Of Baseball Season (Go, Cubs!!!), The Darkening Dream By Andy Gavin

Dislikes: The Usual Software Lull After A System Launch (Here's Hoping The Vita Doesn't Suffer The Same Fate), Day-One DLC (Let's At Least Wait A Few Weeks, Publishers), No Longer Getting Manuals With Games (This Bums Me Out Whenever I Open Up A New Game)

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, Asura's Wrath, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational, Fairway Solitaire, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, Pinball FX 2

Matt Helgeson

Interests: Jacked: The Outlaw Story Of Grand Theft Auto By David Kushner, Justified Season 3, The Walking Dead, The Minnesota Timberwolves Playing .500 Basketball

Dislikes: Being So Behind On Movies I Will Never Catch Up, Flu/Cold Season, The Jennifer Hepler/BioWare/Reddit Incident

Current Favorite Games: Grand Slam Tennis 2, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Super Stickman Golf, Where's My Water

Matthew Kato

Interests: Peep Show, The Upcoming Moonrise Kingdom, Kurt Andersen's Vanity Fair Article "You Say You Want A Devolution?", Using Discogs.com To Organize My Record Collection

Dislikes: Foster The People, Futuristic Sports, Roger Gooddell's Extension, Budding In On Other People's Conversations, Talk Of Another Star Wars Movie (I Can't Care About This Franchise Anymore)

Current Favorite Games: Assassin's Creed 3, The Last Of Us, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Journey

Adam Biessener

Interests: That A Game I Have Sunk Hundreds Of Hours Into Can Still Kick My Ass (I Love You, Shogun 2), Pitchers & Catchers Reporting, Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep, The Timberwolves Finally Being Worth Watching Again, My Fancy New Kindle Touch

Dislikes: Weird Skype Problems During Important Interviews, The Wild Being Nowhere Near Watching, The Twins' Upcoming 90-Loss Season, The Lack Of Anything Resembling A Good Space Combat Game In Years, Hard Drive Death

Current Favorite Games: Total War: Shogun 2 (And The Excellent Rise Of The Samurai DLC), Crusader Kings II, Civilization V, Magic: The Gathering (Innistrad Is The Best Block Since Ravnica), Dominion

Interests: Boardwalk Empire (Just Started Season 1), A Giant Rope Swing, This Isn't Exciting…But It Is Fascinating, Diamond Shreddies (We Don't Have These In The U.S., But I Love This Advertising Campaign), Getting Audiobooks From The Library (News Flash: It's Free!)

Dislikes: Worst Sentence Ever, Not Getting Into Skyward Sword (I'll Come Back To It Eventually), I Will Never Buy A Subaru Thanks To This

Current Favorite Games: Final Fantasy XIII-2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Cave Story, Abobo's Big Adventure

Matt Miller

Interests: Star Wars: Dawn Of The Jedi (Now That's How You Do A First Comic Issue), Downton Abbey: Season 2 (But How Will World War I Affect All Those Burgeoning British Romances?), The Revisionists By Thomas Mullen, Chronicle (What A Great Super Hero Movie!), The Smell Of Good Indian Food

Dislikes: The 3DS 3D Function (My Dial Is All The Way Down, Thank You), Still Playing Catch Up On Holiday Games In February, The Smell of Good Indian Food Leftovers In Your Car After A Two Hour Movie, Waiting For Mass Effect 3

Current Favorite Games: Guild Wars 2, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Saints Row: The Third, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Pinball FX 2, Uncharted 3: Drake's Fortune

Matt Bertz

Interests: Terence Malick's Tree of Life, Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas, Grantland.com, The Resurgent Minnesota Timberwolves (They Suck Less!), Jordan Mechner Resurrecting Karateka, Watching Epic's Tim Sweeney Talk About Technology, Ice Fishing On The Lake Of The Woods

Dislikes: Having My Router Burn Out A Month Before The Cool New Ones Release, Waiting For Mass Effect 3, Waiting For New Battlefield 3 Maps, Zynga's Poor Excuses For Blatant Plagiarism, The Minutia Of Wedding Planning

Current Favorite Games: FIFA 12, Battlefield 3, Contre Jour, NBA 2K12, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Interests: Fringe Season Four (It’s CUHRAAAAZY!), Realizing That Assassin’s Creed Is Kind Of An Awesome Series, Fruit Pies, Realizing I Haven’t Washed My Car In Three Years

Dislikes: Kids Deleting Save Games, When The Kids In Question Are Yours So You Can’t Tell Them To Go Home, I Don’t Even Know Anymore

Current Favorite Games: Pinball FX 2, Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, SSX, Mass Effect 3

Ben Reeves

Interests: Mifune Videos (This Old Guy Is Spry), The Adventures Of Superpup (Maybe It’s Time To Finally Create This Show), Wearing Kilts To Weddings (Haven’t Done That Yet, But My Sister’s Getting Married This Summer, So Maybe!), The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

Dislikes: The Addictive Properties of Caffeine, The Way Parents Going On About Their Newborn As If It’s Better Than Me (BTW, Congrats James and Melissa!) Mistaking Arby’s For The Art Museum (That Was A Disappointing Lunch)

Current Favorite Games: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Resident Evil: "Revelaitions", Infinity Blade II, XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Bryan Vore

Interests: Are You Bad Enough? -- A New Classic Gaming Blog By My Pals Ross Pfund And Dusty Ness, That The Girl Who Played With Fire Kind Of Plays Out Like A Phoenix Wright Case, Getting On The Library Train

Dislikes: How Easy It Is To Slip Back Into Unhealthy Habits, Trying To Catch Up On Oscar Movies Before The Awards, Probably Not Having Enough Time To Do An Evil Mass Effect 2 Playthrough Before Mass Effect 3 Comes Out

Current Favorite Games: The Last Of Us, Mass Effect 3 Demo (Multiplayer), Resident Evil: Revelations, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, Syndicate

Philip Kollar

Interests: A Virtually Non-Existent Winter In Minnesota, The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret, Continued Slow March Through Reading A Storm Of Swords, Going Straight From Mark Millar’s Awesome Run On Fantastic Four Into Jonathan Hickman’s Awesome Run On Fantastic Four, Fun’s Great New Album Some Nights, Final Fantasy XIII-2’s Time-Traveling Gameplay And Monster Collecting, Writing

Dislikes: I Somehow Still Haven’t Listened To The New Sleigh Bells CD, Being Forced To Play The Dumb Slot Machines In Final Fantasy XIII-2 To Get The Final Fragment And The True Ending, Final Fantasy XIII-2’s Dumb Story

Current Favorite Games: Final Fantasy XIII-2, Mass Effect 2, Guild Wars 2, Alan Wake, Resident Evil: Revelations, SoulCalibur V

Jeff Marchiafava

Interests: Getting To Hang Out With Some Of The Guys From Zen Studios, Neil deGrasse Tyson (In A Perfect World He’d Be A Role Model To Kids Instead Of Random Rich Morons), Peep Show (Rarely Do I Find British Comedies This Hilarious), Trying To Cook Rice Dishes With My New Rice Cooker (So Far The Results Haven’t Been Great, But I’m Learning)

Dislikes: When Monetization Schemes Break Good Gameplay, “Linsanity” (I Don’t Have Any Feelings Towards Lin, But The Ridiculous Level Of Hype Makes Me Question Sports Journalism As A Whole), Ben Hanson Loudly Eating Nuts All Day Long

Current Favorite Games: Skate 3, Pinball FX 2, Router, Tiny Tower

Dan Ryckert

Interests: Going To Both A WWE Pay-Per-View And Raw Within A 24-Hour Timespan, Meeting Vince McMahon, That Place I Saw In Milwaukee That Offers Bail Bonds And Hot Wings, The Upcoming Dorito Taco At Taco Bell, Thin Lizzy’s “Cowboy Song”

Dislikes: Tool, The New Tweetdeck, My Crappy Pickpocketing Skill In Skyrim, Dancing Bearded Babies In Just For Men Commercials

Current Favorite Games: Skyrim, Soulcalibur V, Twisted Metal, Triple Town, Temple Run

Interests: Rock Climbing, Peanut Butter Banana Smoothies, The Grey, The Legacy Music Hour Podcast, This Song, The Artist, Yoga, YOUWRETCH, Kicking Dan Really Hard In Muay Thai Class, Kitty, Breaking Bad, All Video Game Music, Warm MN Weather In February, Reddit

Dislikes: The Mothman Prophecies, Not Playing Hockey, Gastrointestinal Effects Of Black Bean Burgers, Paul Ryckert, Waiting For Mass Effect 3, Not Having Enough Time For Games

Current Favorite Games: Jak 3, Sly Cooper & The Thevious Raccoonus, Resident Evil: Revelations, Kirby’s Return To Dreamland, Pokémon SoulSilver , The Last Of Us, Mass Effect 3

Ben Hanson

Interests: Convincing Myself That I’m Going To Be Extremely Physically Active When Summer Arrives, Becoming The Robert Muldoon Of Mice, Worshipping Boogie Nights And 2 Player Productions

Dislikes: Free Games With Pay Walls, Games That You Can’t Listen To Podcasts To While Playing, Jacob From Mass Effect 2 (I’m Sorry, But I Just Don’t Care About Him)

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 2, Triple Town, Hero Academy, Pokémon SoulSilver

Kyle Hilliard

Interests: That I’m Nearly Done With The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Second Season Of Shameless Has So Far Made Sunday A Day To Look Forward To, The Office Without Steve Carell (I Like Steve Carell, But I Am Enjoying The Show Just As Much Without Him), Babies (Specifically My Own), Wives (Specifically My Own), Knowing Tim Turi And Hearing Him Sing The Family Matters Theme On The Roof Of The Game Informer Offices, Ben Hanson Buying Me Pistachio Nuts

Dislikes: Ben Hanson Eating All My Pistachio Nuts, NBC Should Be Ashamed Of Itself For Putting Community On Hiatus, Video Games That Are Much Longer Than They Need To Be A.K.A. JRPGs

Current Favorite Games: Jak And Daxter Collection, Resident Evil: Revelations, Escape Plan, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Saints Row: The Third

Jim Reilly

Interests: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, Wearing My Suits, Being The Best Dressed Person At A Bar, Getting Compliments On My Suits

Dislikes: When My Power Goes Out, My Chemical Romance, Shaving My Neck

Current Favorite Games: Fallout: New Vegas

Jason Oestreicher

Interests: Finally Bringing My Wife To Minnesota, Living On An ISLAND!, Spending Time With Friends In Atlanta, Getting My Life Back To Normal

Dislikes: Breaking Sleep Habits, Washer/Dryer Combo Units, The Wasted Potential Of NeverDead

Current Favorite Games: Street Fighter X Tekken, Pinball FX 2, Soulcalibur V, Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, Mass Effect (All Of Them)

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Comments
  • nice to know others like the games i do

    Interests: Playing Alan Wake on the pc (it rocks), Skyrim, getting bored and cracking out old classics

    Dislikes: not much pertaining to video games...general mills

    Current Favorites: Everything above an 8 reviewed by gameinformer, and of course Skyrim
  • Interests: Reading some books I love. Getting into Resident Evil: Revelations. Getting more powerful in SWTOR.

    Dislikes: when nieces make themselves throw up to stop eating.

    Current Favorite Games: Resident Evil: Revelations, FF XIII-2, SWTOR

  • Interests: Finally being done with college, Mass Effect 3 spoilers in the art book, video game art books in general, H.P. Lovecraft comics

    Dislikes: Interviewing for jobs, dressing up for interviews, cleaning up all of my school papers (I think I have a whole forest of trees worth in papers)

    Current Favorite Games: Skyrim (Still), Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Pinball FX2, The Old Republic
    BTW Phil: I am also slowly getting myself through a Storm of Swords.
  • The Vita Browser is pretty bad.

    I am interested in seeing how the rest of the month pans out for The Last of Us coverage.

    Also, Kyle forgot to list his interest in being on the awesome community podcast known as The Indie and Mojo Show, he thinks you guys should listen to episode 22.
  • hey andy im one of those texas drivers!!! sorry! Interests: Mass Effect 3 Cinematic Trailer, Finishing High School(finally!), receiving acceptance letters, receiving scholarship letters, turning 18, my new car,The Walking Dead Dislikes: having to wait 2 weeks for ME3......tests, slow walkers,my subscription ends in a week :(
  • Interests: Surviving the semester, waiting for A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (last book in the Wheel of Time series), catching up on my backlog of games.

    Dislikes: Feeling extremely itchy, random internet crashes, not getting enough sleepy, trying to balance things.

    Current Favorite Games: Super Mario 3D Land, Portal 2, Skyrim, Skyward Sword, Mario Kart 7, Civilization V (soon).

  • Interests: Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer (It's Actually Fun!), Getting a poster from the Kung Fu Panda Team at DreamWorks, Building a gaming PC, Getting ready to go to college, Watching the new Borderlands 2 trailer (So much awesome.)

    Dislikes: Paying for a gaming PC ($2000?!), Filling out scholarship applications, Having no interest in The Last of Us because I don't have a PS3, People who bash unreleased games/consoles.

    Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Borderlands, Batman: Arkham City, Minecraft
  • Interests: Getting important meetings with people done, burgers (and variants thereof), new podcast episodes of the shows I like, spring-like weather in February (take that old-man winter!), rediscovering old games, the new Boarderlands 2 trailer, Loading Ready Run.

    Dislikes: Missing out on a meal, seeing new books that look interesting but I cannot afford them, trying to figure out audacity, GameCube controllers breaking.

    Current Favorite Games: Mischief Makers, Boarderlands, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

  • Interests: The amazing first half of the newest Walking Dead episode, Mass Effect 3, the Chicago Bulls, Darksiders' awesome ending, Gamefly allowing me to play all of the great games I've missed over the years.

    Dislikes: The 2nd half of the Walking Dead episode not being as ridiculously awesome as the first half, waiting for Mass Effect 3 to come out, writing so many essays and math equations.

    Current Favorite Games: Okami, Darksiders

  • Interests: Sendak, Seuss, Silverstein, Henson, Carpenter- OKC Thunder and them having a ton of nat'l games on this week (All-Star Week); Witcher 2 Electric Booger-shoe for 360; Borderlands 2 trailer; being able to take split-screen players online in Borderlands 2;

    Dislikes: 100% CGI monsters/creatures in 'live action' films; weeks without OKC games on (they're the top team in the West, and are trading off with the Heat as the no. 1 in the league- put that ish on TV!!!); the way SportsCenter chops up the sports you want to see highlights/scores for with NASCAR;

    Games: Epic Quest (PFX2); NBA2k12 (in my 2013-14 season now); B33F (got about 3-4 latecomer friends that just picked it up finally, yusss!)...

  • Interesting to see some people have SoulSilver as their current favorite game instead of Black or White.

    Interests: Mass Effect 3, Cowboy Bebop, The Last of Us, Catching up on tons of games and platinuming them, watching random anime

    Dislike: My internet being charged by the GB starting next month.

    Current Favorite Game: Team Fortress 2, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, Cave Story, Rhythm Heaven
  • Interests: The Hunger Games and Skyrim

    Dislikes:lack of sleep and school

    Current Favorite Games: Skyrim

  • There's no nice way to say this... but Jackasses are the only ones that don't understand what Tool is about. I forgive you Dan.
  • Interests: Reading A Clash of Kings, lots of music, and gaming of course.

    Dislikes: School, stupid local newspaper articles (heroine can lead to crime, sickness and death?  Who knew)

    Current Favorite Games:  Batman Arkham City, Modnation Racers, Mass Effect 2.

  • INTERESTS: Getting hundred dollar checks in the mail for my missions trip to Thailand, Martha Marcy May Marlene's Blu-Ray release, That nice little bit of snow we just got, the mountains, Justified Season 3, The Walking Dead actually seeming a bit better without Darabont, Studying film, The Criterion Collection, The Last of Us news, Mad Men March 25, Community coming back, Some people, Vimeo, Getting back into poetry, Photography, How much I'm loving the Starhawk beta (a nice surprise), Writing, Finding dubstep... that is actually good!

    DISLIKES: Writing, The Academy Award Nominees (worst year ever), Waiting for Mass Effect 3, Most people, Colds, Feeling Dizzy, Paranoia, OCD, Lot's of stuff

    Current Favorite Games: Starhawk, Portal 2, Singularity, Batman: Arkham City

    Current Favorite Movies: Fredrico Fellini's 8 1/2, Fellini's Armacord, Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, Steve Mcqueen's Hunger

    Current Favorite Music: Kuedo - Severant; Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea; Sbtrkt - Sbtrkt; Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres


    Current Favorite TV: Justified, Park's and Recreation...
  • Jim needs to step his game up. Interests: Rewatching Breaking Bad (and loving it just the same the second time), Grouplove, My impending iPhone 4s purchase, Twisted Metal's online insanity, The Blazers beating the Spurs by 40, Louisville basketball. Dislikes: Twisted Metal's absolutely atrocious interface/ matchmaking, My total lack of interest in J&D HD Collection, Breaking Bad Season 5's lack of current existence, The Walking Dead's inability to understand its strengths and weaknesses (They need to cut down on the number of story threads--I don't give a hoot about the woman in shock lying in bed).
  • Wish I could of seen Tim kick Dan :D

    Interests: Skylanders actually being pretty good, trying to beat FFXIII, Passing over 200 hours in MHFU, finished the Eragon books, the Last Story coming to the U.S., Learning Japanese.

    Dislikes: Scalpers selling skylanders online for 5 times more than retail, FF XIII-2 sitting on my shelf as I try to beat the first one, finished the Eragon books, can't stop reading GI instead of doing schoolwork.

    Current Favorites: GT5, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD.
  • Interests: Possibly having a place to live in Minnesota!, Almost being able to leave Oklahoma,Having so many great games to review, writing game news, Chronicle (bad ass movie).

    Dislikes: The act of actually moving, Packing, Having so many games to review, Looking for places to live across the country.

    Current Favorite Games: Jak and Daxter HD Collection, Tekken 3D, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Pinball FX 2.
  • Interests: A Song of Ice and Fire series (almost done with A Feast for Crows; the whole series so far has been awesome), Noctourniquet by The Mars Volta coming in March, The Malkin Jewel by The Mars Volta (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fra4GZw88kY), Port of Morrow by The Shins coming in March, Giants winning the Super Bowl (I know it's been two weeks, but hell I'm a Giants fan so who cares?), the return of baseball (Go Yankees!), The Last Story being announced for North American release

    Dislikes: Waiting for new Mars Volta and Shins, The wait for baseball (can't stand basketball anymore, and just can't get into hockey sometimes)

    Current Favorite Games: The Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Collection, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Mario Kart 7, SSX demo
  • Interests: COMMUNITY FINALLY RETURNING ON MARCH 15! Foot long buffalo chicken with pepperjack cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, and ranch on flatbread from Subway. The new Borderlands 2 trailer and immediately going out to preorder it. Replay and all things that go along with it. A Toy Story marathon with my sister.

    Dislikes: Running into 4 game breaking bugs in Fallout 3 within a week. The totally, utterly, completely disgusting and broken business side of boxing. Floyd Mayweather being called a racist for telling the truth in a jerkface type of way. Politics.

    Current Faves: Rayman: Origins. Back To The Future: The Game. Trine 2. Shadows of the Damned.

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