Aaron Thayer
Aaron Thayer wears glasses. He is also a writer, drummer and designer living in Portland, Oregon. Aaron hasn’t made an income doing any of those things, but that hasn’t stopped him thus far. Super Mario RPG is the game he likes most.
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Posts by Aaron Thayer
Backlog: For What It’s Worth edition
April 6, 2011 - 7:21 am
Tags: Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley, Crysis 2, Fallout: New Vegas: Dead Money, Forza 3, Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light, Mass Effect 2: Arrival, Portal 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, X-Men
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Dig into our writing and you’ll find the editors of Silicon Sasquatch are a value-oriented breed. As we’ve explained many times before, we buy the games we review and only rarely are we sent review copies from the developers and publishers themselves. Which is O.K. — we know our clout hasn’t developed enough to afford [...]
Backlog: Spring Forward edition
March 5, 2011 - 6:18 pm
Tags: Call of Duty: Black Ops, Dead Space 2, Forza Motorsport 3, Limbo, MLB 2K11, Rock Band 3, Top Spin 4
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Welcome to this week’s Backlog! I’m your typist-guide — my name’s Aaron, but you can call me Aaron — and it’s my job to introduce our content. So let me do that. Today is a good day, and not just because I’m totally fond of our latest contributions about games we’ve all played during the [...]
Backlog: Love Me Do edition
February 11, 2011 - 12:30 pm
Tags: Assassin's Creed II, Dead Space 2, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Fallout: New Vegas, NBA 2K11, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Stacking
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Ah, it’s that time again. The taste of romance is in every gust of air. It rustles each leaf with libidinous intent while its bedfellow, infatuation, pours itself into our potable water reservoirs from the back of some unmarked van rented at an Avis by foreign insurgents. We’re talking about a biological terrorist attack of the [...]
Our Most Anticipated Games of 2011: Spring and Summer
February 10, 2011 - 12:23 pm
Tags: Beyond Good and Evil HD, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dragon Age 2, Duke Nukem Forever, L.A. Noire, Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Portal 2, Shift 2 Unleashed, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12: The Masters
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The modern videogame industry is just that: the aggregation of production and distribution focused on a central, profitable product. Each week of the 52 in a given year hosts at least one new game release, a perpetual influx so massive in volume and, well, industriousness that it’s mind-numbingly tedious to sort through the year’s calendar [...]
Backlog: Videogame Lethargy edition
January 14, 2011 - 4:58 pm
Tags: Fallout: New Vegas, LittleBigPlanet 2, Minecraft, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, Puzzle Agent, VVVVVV
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Has it finally happened? Have I lost my interest in the one pastime I’ve sunk the most effort into since I was a child? Are videogames suddenly boring? Maybe. Actually, I doubt it. In all honesty, I’m more overwhelmed with the industry right now than I’m disenfranchised with it. And I should be specific here: [...]
2010 Honorable Mentions: Aaron’s List
January 6, 2011 - 12:10 pm
Tags: 2010 Honorable Mentions, Game of the Year 2010, GOTY 2010
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Nick and Doug have had their chance to proselytize for their second-favorite games of last year. Now it’s my turn. Let’s get busy!
Backlog: Same Old Hack n’ Slash edition
December 10, 2010 - 4:33 pm
Tags: Blur, Breath of Death VII, Diablo II, Epic Dungeon, Forza Motorsport 3, Mass Effect 2, NBA 2K11
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Nick and Doug settle for the gaming equivalent of security blankets this week instead of embracing the unknown. I’m not judging them, at least not intentionally. But maybe I am now that I think about it. Our story so far: two editors walk down well-tread paths carved out of boredom while I charge blindly into trying [...]
New Vegas Travel Guide: The Journey of the Space Zombies
November 6, 2010 - 10:42 am
Tags: Fallout, Fallout: New Vegas, New Vegas Travel Guide
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by Aaron Thayer “Ghouls and Boys” Ghouls don’t tend to make conversation with Bob. Most of the time they’d rather tear humans’ insides out like sheets of paper from a spiral notebook. But at the entrance to an abandoned REPCONN rocket factory, a distressed ghoul used an intercom to bark a series of orders at Bob. The [...]