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GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #228

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: Sonoma And Napa Wine Country Is Surprisingly Hilly and Beautiful When You Are Hammered On Wine, Chatting With People On Twitter About Why They Are Wrong And I Am Right (I Kid, By The Way), Cycling

Dislikes: When I Was A Kid I Played This Ridiculously Hard Adventure Game On The Original Macintosh That Took Me Months To Defeat, And When I Finally Put In The Final Piece To The Final Puzzle All It Said Was Game Over And Restarted (Note: I Did Not Petition The Company To Redo The Ending), My Stupid Broken Rib

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, Journey, MyTown 2, Tiny Tower, Pinball FX 2, Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational, Super Stardust Delta, Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, Draw Something

Andrew Reiner

Interests: Mass Effect 3's Baseball Card-Like Loot System (I Love Getting New Gear After Mission Completion), Mass Effect 3's Ending (It Made Perfect Sense To Me), LEGOs DC & Marvel Sets (I'm Buying All Of Them), I Am Alive's Gunplay/Intimidation System (I Like Giving Enemies A Chance To Live)

Dislikes: BioWare Caving In To Fan Demands, LucasFilm's Decision To Keep Darth Maul Alive (You Might As Well Bring Back Yoda While You Are At It)

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, I Am Alive, MLB 12: The Show (PS3 & Vita), Asura's Wrath

Matt Helgeson

Interests: Justified, Enter Naomi: L.A., SST, And All That By Joe Carducci, Spring, Riding My Bike

Dislikes: New Orleans Saints, Ricky Rubio's Season-Ending Injury, Primary Season

Current Favorite Games: Draw Something, Mass Effect, Super Stickman Golf, Joe Danger

Matthew Kato

Interests: The Return Of Mad Men, TCM's Month Of British New Wave Cinema Mondays, Warby Parker Glasses, The Mass Effect 3 Datapad (More Games Need This Kind of Game Management App)

Dislikes: BioWare's Caving To Angry Fans For The Mass Effect 3 Ending, People Low-Balling User Reviews Out Of Spite (A Bad Metacritic Could Mean Developers' Jobs!), My iPhone Randomly Skipping Over Songs For No Apparent Reason

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, Journey

Adam Biessener

Interests: Expansions That Rekindle My Love For Great Games, Getting Back On My Bicycle, Fantasy Baseball Starting Up Again, Going To My First MLB Home Opener (How Have I Not Done That Yet?), Having An Objectively Clean Garage For The First Time In My Life

Dislikes: The First Major Injury On My Fantasy Team Coming Before The Season Even Starts (What The Heck, Soria?! I Know Your Team Sucks, But I Was Counting On Those Saves), People Who Think Littering Is Ever Okay, The Train Wreck That The Twins' Season Is About To Be

Current Favorite Games: The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition, Tropico 4: Modern Times, Total War: Shogun 2 – Fall of the Samurai, Kingdom Rush

Interests: David Foster Wallace: The Big, Uncut Interview, Grain Belt (Stuff It, Beer Snobs), Spelling Tests, I'm Too Old For This!

Dislikes: The Back To The Future novelization (The Commentary Is Great, Though), Encyclopaedia Britannica Going Out Of Print, Pi Day (Dumbest "Holiday" Of The Year), I Am The Lorax – I Speak For…SUVs? (I Hate You, Mazda)

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, Tiny Tower, Draw Something, Journey, Devil May Cry HD Collection

Matt Miller

Interests: Early Springs In Minnesota, The Penalty of Knowledge, Star Wars: Dawn Of The Jedi, The Increasing Focus On Storytelling In Multiplayer Games,  The Right For Creators To Conclude A Project The Way They Want

Dislikes: Fans Feeling They're Entitled To Change The Vision Of A Creative Team, The Closing Of Picnik, The Long Wait Ahead For This Holiday's Awesome Game Lineup

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Assassin's Creed III

Matt Bertz

Interests: 80 Degrees March In Minnesota, Chronicle, Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself, Sonoma House Party 2012, Watching The Brilliance Of Lionel Messi, Assassin's Creed III Embracing The Open World, Finally Getting More Battlefield 3 Maps

Dislikes: BF3 Going Close Quarters For The First Map Pack, Entitled Fans Clamoring For A New Mass Effect 3 Ending (If I Can't Get A Real Deadwood Ending, You Can Eat Your ME 3 Finale And Like It), The Vikings' Stunning Inactivity During Free Agency (2-14 Here We Come!)

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, I Am Alive, Journey, Assassin's Creed III, Draw Something

Interests: Messing Around On My New IPad, Finally Getting Around To Playing A Ton Of Fun iOS Games, Catching Up On Mad Men

Dislikes: Companies That Coddle Entitled Gamers, Entitled Gamers, Having To Avoid Spoilers In News Stories About Companies Coddling Entitled Gamers

Current Favorite Games: Assassin's Creed 3, Epic Mickey: The Power Of Two, Jet Pack Joyride

Ben Reeves

Interests: The Walker’s Lifelike Exhibit, Comparing Dallas BBQ To Kansas BBQ, Open Eye Figure Theatre’s The Sorcerer's Apprentice Puppet Show, Trips To The Dentist That Don’t End In Pain

Dislikes: The Hunger Games (The Book Wasn’t Terrible, But I Don’t Understand The Hype), The Way People Are Reacting To Mass Effect’s Ending (Go Make Your Own Ending Out Of LEGOs Or Something)

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, Journey, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Resident Evil: Revelations, Draw Something

Bryan Vore

Interests: The New iPad, Going To The Hunger Games Movie Very Soon, Watching Wrestlemania, Game Of Thrones, And Mad Men In One Big Superblock On April 1st, Dorito Loco Tacos, Thai Boxing

Dislikes: Paying Lots Of Money For Thai Boxing Workouts, The New iPad Not Having A Real Name, iPad Addiction, Having To Stay Away From The Internet Because Of Mass Effect 3 Ending Spoilers

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Resident Evil: Revelations, Galaxy On Fire 2 HD, Draw Something

Philip Kollar

Interests: Hunger Games (The Book, Which Has A Great Concept Despite Kind Of Silly Writing), A Storm Of Swords (Finally Finished, And It Was Nuts!), Game Of Thrones On DVD, The New Fun CD Some Nights, The Resurrection Of Baldur’s Gate, Preparing For My First-Ever Trip To PAX, This 20 Years Of Sonic The Hedgehog Let’s Play

Dislikes: The Unnecessary Hate For Japanese Games At This Year’s GDC, John Carter, Random Food Poisoning, Comic Thieves

Current Favorite Games: Guild Wars 2, Yakuza: Dead Souls, Xenoblade Chronicles, Etrian Odyssey, The Last Story, Mass Effect 3

Jeff Marchiafava

Interests: Apparently Winter Is Over Even Though It Never Really Started, Cooking A Week’s Worth Of Chicken Fried Rice At A Time, Shooting Ben Hanson In The Crotch With Nerf Darts, Ben Hanson’s Comically Exaggerated Reaction To Getting Shot In The Crotch With Nerf Darts (You’d Think They Were Made Out Of Lead…The Darts, That Is), Pizza (I Don’t Need An Idiotic Twitter Count To Still Love The Stuff)

Dislikes: How Bad Ben Hanson Is At Draw Something (As If I Didn’t Already Have Enough Reasons To Shoot Him In The Crotch With Nerf Darts), Online Petitions, Nazis

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, Draw Something, Blast Monkeys

Dan Ryckert

Interests: Proving That I Am Objectively Intellectually Superior To Joe Juba, Wrestlemania Season, GDC Karaoke Parties, Dorito Loco Tacos

Dislikes: Birds Crapping On Me In Target Parking Lots, Every Single Thing That Happened On The Oscars, QTE Overload In Ninja Gaiden 3, Most Things About San Francisco, Everything I’ve Seen About Kinect Star Wars, Kinect Not Recognizing Voice Commands In The Middle Of Mass Effect 3 Battles, That Smelly Fat Lady Next To Me On That Flight

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Jak & Daxter Collection, Hero Academy, Draw Something

Interests: Rock Climbing, Warm Weather, Volcano Curry, Breaking Bad, Barefoot Running, Blink, Netflix, The Cat I’m Watching, Kicking Dan In Muay Thai, Heavy, All That Remains, Video Game Music, Biking

Dislikes: Constant Dubstep Everywhere, Constant Internet Chatter About Mass Effect 3’s Ending, Not Having The Drive To Play Star Wars: The Old Republic

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, I Am Alive, Asura’s Wrath, Resident Evil: Revelations, Draw Something, Journey, Super Mario 3D Land, Dillon’s Rolling Western

Ben Hanson

Interests: Biking, Monster Mix, Super Replay Showdown Drama, And Please Don’t Tell Anybody But Also Celebrity Apprentice

Dislikes: Having My Bike Fall Apart On The Second Ride Of The Season, Mass Effect 3 Spoilers, The Internet’s Reaction To Mass Effect 3

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, Journey, League of Evil 2, Super Paper Mario, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

Kyle Hilliard

Interests: I Finally Finished Reading The Hunger Games Trilogy And Early Feedback On The Film Is Making Me Very Optimistic, Community Is Back On The Air And I Really Hope It Stays, Watching The Game Of Thrones HBO Television Series And Having A Wife Who Read The Book To Explain Everything I Am Missing, Shameless On Showtime, Doug Loves Movies Podcast, Sweetart Jellybeans

Dislikes: PlayStation 3 Download Times (4 Hours To Download the ~500 MB Journey Is Absurd), Trying To Change The End Of Mass Effect 3

Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Draw Something, Resident Evil: Revelations, Jak II

Jim Reilly

Interests: Girls With Good-Looking Teeth, Reading Things Written By Tim Turi, Warm Weather

Dislikes: Bad Shampoo, Having To Buy Toilet Paper, The Way This Hockey Season Is Ending

Current Favorite Games: Fallout: New Vegas

Jason Oestreicher

Interests: Chicago Style Stuffed Pizza, Live Streams, Green Light On Phase One

Dislikes: Everything QA Missed In Street Fighter X Tekken, Changing Endings, The Box Maze In My Living Room

Current Favorite Games: Street Fighter X Tekken, Mass Effect 3

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Comments
  • Interests: Doritos Locos Tacos, Going to a Hawks game, March Madness, MLB season about to start, Starting Mass Effect 2, The Hunger Games

    Dislikes: Sardines (nastiest thing I have ever eaten), giants in Skyrim, PS3 download times

    Current Favorite Games: Skyrim, Mass Effect 2, NBA Jam

  • Interests: Laying enemies to waste in Skyrim, Trying to spot the worst fake effects in horror movies, Getting Achievements on Xbox Live (they make me fill so fulfilled!!!), Trying to read seat-belt directions in Spanish, No scoping

    Dislikes: F*****G LAGGING!!!, Getting killed while reloading in shooter games, Hackers, Getting killed by your own teammates, and most of all CAMPERS!!! God i hate campers...

    Current Favorite Games: Skyrim, Battlefield 3, Tekken Collection

  • Interests: Eating,sleeping & breathing photography,the new Nikon D800 powerhouse of a camera (I want it so damn bad!!),BBC's Peep Show,Assassin's Creed 3,Darksiders 2,Far Cry 3,Max Payne 3,Hitman Absolution,Halo 4,Prototype 2,Bullet hell games coming back,finally seeing some people getting frustrated @ how DLC is being handled in games now just as much as I am,the weather finally warming up,repairing my dirt bike,cleaning up my street bike & getting ready for bike nights again,building my own photo site so I can sell some of my work & travel the world,lots more interests too many to list....

    Dislikes: DLC getting out of hand & companies thinking we're all idiots,how Ninja Gaiden 3 was handled,the ending to Death Note (it wasn't bad but I was expecting more),Darker than Black ending (too good of an anime for only 2 seasons),making the hospital my 2nd home because my body is losing the fight to my illness,having to use walkers & wheelchairs @ my age already,Hulu messing up & only having One Piece up to season 3 then out of nowhere jumping to season 10 (WTF?!!? WHY?),insomnia,my backlog of games,etc....


    Current Favorite Games: Dark Souls,Just Cause 2,Gatling Gears,Forza Motorsport 4,Reach & MW3 MP,anything currently in my backlog
  • whoa whoa whoa!!! where are all the women??!!! this is not what i signed up for.

  • *** you GI.

  • Interests: I Am Alive, Spring Training, Fantasy Baseball, Playstation Vita, Tebow to the Jets, The Killing and Game of Thrones upcoming seasons.

    Dislikes: The Mass Effect ending hype, Sketchy ebay sellers, unemployment rate, and bell peppers.  

    Current Favorite Games: (now playing) Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Dante's Inferno.

  • Mod

    Some of these pics are pretty funny. I like this format too.

  • Interests: Game Of Thrones (just finished the 1st season), Mad Men's return, Image Comics, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes' return, Ultimate Spider-man cartoon

    Dislikes: Mass Effect 3 cry babies

    Current Favorite Games: Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Max Payne 3, Lollipop Chainsaw, Darksiders II, Starhawk
  • Interests: My new laptop.

    Dislikes:Bad sleep schedule.

    Current favorite games: Assassins Creed 2, Jak and Daxter collection, Dark Souls, Minecraft, Team Fortress 2.

  • Interests: Hunger Games, Smartest Man in the World and other comedy podcasts, Thinking About Taking on Zen Pinball, Doctor Who, Arrested Development, Awesome Free To Play MMOs

    Dislikes: This Mass Effect 3 Hubub, Mario Kart 7 AI, Yahoo.com, The Wait For The Next Books in the Artemis Fowl and Tunnels series is too long, the Fact That I Haven't Beat Twilight Princess Yet, Picky little S.O.B.s in the Global Trading Station in Pokemon White (Just Give Me a @#$% Haunter!)

    Favorite Games: Mario Kart 7, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Zen Pinball, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Lord of the Rings Online, Windows XP 3D Pinball

  • I've concluded that 95% of the GI staff must suffer from cognitive disabilities if they can't understand the ME3 ending hubbub. THERE'S A REASON so many people were baffled and insulted by it... because it was dumb. Being able to discern illogical plot inconsistencies doesn't make the fans whiners, it makes us consumers holding publishers and devs responsible for the products they sell us.

    Bioware, you can be artists on your own free time, like I do.
  • We'll miss you Phil!

  • Matt Helgeson,

           Mass Effect, as in the first one? Have you not played it, yet? It is truly an awesome series, and I have to ask, "Have you fallen more into Renegade or Paragon?"

  • I believe this game is going to bigger than people expect. They have an awseome crew working on it and it has an amazing story line.

  • I believe this game is going to bigger than people expect. They have an awseome crew working on it and it has an amazing story line.

  • Interests:Altair,Ezio,Assassin's Creed games              Dislikes:Idk                                                        Current Favorite Games:Assassin's Creed games                                                                                                                                   Ideas for AC3:Bring back the Sword of Altair,a weapon similar to the Metal Cetus in AC2,bring the Syrian Sabre too,and other saber weapons,I heard of a special unit in the British Army called "Dragoons" so add them into the game as Brutes,please add the smoke bombs into AC3,and also add dogs you can train to killBritish soldiers.      

  • If you like my ideas,please submit my ideas to the creator of Assassin's Creed III so I can see my ideas because it would make it better and more entertaining for the gamers,plus the ideas for adding sabres and the Sword of Altair,and the Dragoons as Brutes would be nice because the sabres could a reward for assinating an important British official and Sword of Altair as the last reward,plus the reasons for adding the Dragoons as Brutes would be fun because youcould get to assinate Clinton Addicts,a high ranking Dragoon,plus when you kill him,and you get his saber as a reward for killing him,plus Dragoons were calvary units so that would be new seeing a Brute on horseback,and please submit these ideas to the creator of Assassin's Creed III so you can see them make the game more entertaining.

  • "Dislikes: The Hunger Games (The Book Wasn’t Terrible, But I Don’t Understand The Hype), The Way People Are Reacting To Mass Effect’s Ending (Go Make Your Own Ending Out Of LEGOs Or Something)" <--- LOL. I haven't watched the movie, and it looks interesting, but I was never really into the fandom that much :/. I need to watch Battle Royale. "Make your own ending out of LEGOs", or fanfic it, lol.