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In honor of National Puppy Day, we here at Byte have taken a look at the best canines characters that gaming has to offer.
Since Pokken Tourament's release last week, the Byte Features team has been pondering what Pokémon we would like to see make a grand entrance into the games world through upcoming DLC. Out of the 721 Pokémon these are the five we would like to see come to the game in the near future.
In honor of Women’s History Month, Byte is doing a month long Byteing Question about the most iconic female characters and why they matter. Every day two writers will look at two characters that are important to them in many different ways. Due to an unfortunate technical issue we are posting several posts from the last week. We will be getting back on track starting tomorrow.
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by Byte Staff and Readers Meghan Duffy @Smalls2233 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="515"] Photo Credit: Zelda Everything[/caption] Twilight Princess HD. No video game console brings better memories to me than the Wii, opening it on Christmas day when I was 10 to that console was magical. Twilight Princess was one of the games I got with it originally so it's also wrapped up in that incredible feeling of joy I get when I think of the Wii. Because of that I'm beyond excited for this game to release in March. CJ Streetman @Galledgiatric [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="557"] Photo Credit: Forbes[/caption] As much hype as I have for Doom 4 (thank god the series is going back to its roots), I can't wait for Dark Souls 3. I'm so incredibly excited for the latest journey into Drangleic/Lordran that I'm replaying Dark Souls 2 and Demon's Souls right now. I have a problem. Conner "Hyped for Cuphead" Nolan @nonnercolan [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="546"] Photo Credit: Studio MDHR[/caption] CUPHEAD. If your answer is not Cuphead, watch the trailer and get your priorities in line. I'm serious. Go buy Cuphead day one. Cuphead. #@!%ing Cuphead (coming to Steam and Xbox One, not sponsored). Brett [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="542"] Photo Credit: Movie Plot[/caption] Mass Effect Andromeda Jake Doolin @clingtoascheme [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="540"] Photo Credit: Campo Santo[/caption] Of course I'm super hype about a ton of Nintendo games (Fire Emblem, Pokkén Tournament, Twilight Princess) but the game that has me most excited right now is Firewatch. The people at Campo Santo have been pretty tight lipped about the story of Firewatch, which has made very beautiful trailer they release all the more mysterious. I just cant wait to venture into the Wyoming wilderness next month.
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by Byte Staff and Readers CJ Streetman @Galledgiatric Just last year I completed Destiny's Moments of Triumph which was basically to do all the hardest content in the game before the end of Year One. Thanks to some lovely folks from the Dames of Destiny, I was able to get it done with a couple weeks to spare. #screwyouskolas Kaylee Keesling @unbreakablekk Only crying, like, ten times throughout the 5 episodes of 'Life is Strange'. It's heartbreaking, man. I feel like that's an achievement. I need an award for this. Jack McGinnis @nativeabearican Playing through Borderlands 2 with every character on every level of difficulty. A.K.A playing Borderlands 2 a total of 18 times! Jessica Completing my 3-heart Ocarina of Time Masterquest run Jake Doolin @clingtoascheme When I was younger I would go over to my cousins house from time to time to play Super Mario Sunshine. We would never make much progress because they didn't have a memory card, but every time we played we got a little closer. The years passed and newer systems over took the Gamecube and we forgot about Sunshine. But last summer when a wave of nostalgia hit me, I splurged on a Gamecube and a copy of Super Mario Sunshine. It may have taken me a few months (that dang lilypad level!!!) but I finally beat it.
by Byte Community To conclude Byte's 2015 Game of the Year breakdown, we wanted to give you all the opportunity to say which games from this year were your favorites. We received several submissions, and the top three are below! 3. Fallout 4 2. Halo 5: Guardians 1. Undertale
by Byte's Editorial Board It's the end of 2015, which means it's time to pick the year's best games. Check out the video below to see what games Byte picked as the best of 2015. [embed]https://youtu.be/fkBWgVmnj20[/embed]
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Submitted by Byte fans Kelsey Hayes @IAmYourBossLady Being the Fallout superfan that I am, my favorite Fallout memory is probably bringing to life the homicidal toaster in the Big MT. The dialogue that they gave him was hilarious. Ian Pemberton Probably this one time where I was in the Republic of Dave in the wasteland, and then for some reason or another, the game glitched. I couldn't complete the quest to kick him out of power, so then I just killed everybody in the town. The children chased me for miles. Aidan Kearney @kearnishmas I'm personally not the biggest fan of Fallout 3. That being said, I had no idea what to expect when I wandered into the Dunwich Building for the first time. It's one of the few areas in the vanilla game that the player never has to visit, and I have a soft spot for those types of areas. Exploring the ruined halls, fighting off all the feral ghouls, and trying to figure out what in the world happened made it feel like a little slice of survival horror in an otherwise tongue-in-cheek game.
Submitted by BYTE fans Tiny Tina Zach Sexton @zjsexton Tiny Tina. Cause explosions and crazy. Gunner Bills Tiny Tina. She has the best tea parties! Brad Gonzalez Tiny Tina, because she kept her childish attitude about the world as well as her imagination, but progressively had to grow up. Her character is definitely improved upon in Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep, where it seems like she's denying the fact that Roland is dead, when she is really trying to remember him for who he was. Handsome Jack Rodri Meyens Handsome Jack, because as a villain he is marvelous. Kelsey Hayes @IAmYourBossLady I would have to say Handsome Jack. I know he's the villain, but if you really look at his characterization in Borderlands 2, and further characterization in The Pre-Sequel, he really is a complex and interesting character. I liked finding out what made him the person he became in Borderlands 2. Jason Lars @Breakupy Handsome Jack, because he is an awesome villain. Krieg Cody Cruz @irrelevantscrub I love Krieg, because of his British and funny personality and the humor based around him! Ian Pemberton Krieg. He's got a brilliant backstory, an interesting character, and he's fun to play as because he just plain and simple kicks ass. Not to mention that his intro video was well-written and the voice actor knows what's going on. Face McShooty Jack McGinnis @NativeAbearican Face McShooty. You shoot him in the face. Mr. Torgue Dalton Martin @DaltynMartyn My favorite Borderlands character is by far Mr. Torgue. Mr. Torgue can only be described as the spawn of hyper masculinity and a Micheal Bay film, which is simply a brilliant combination for a satirical character. Thanks to Mister Torgue High-Five Flexington (the single greatest name in gaming...ever), we are able to increase the total number of living things exploding ten fold, which is an agenda I can totally get behind. Claptrap Daniel Nguyen @iDroidVision Claptrap. His cowardice is only overshadowed by his overenthusiastic personality. He gets even better when he is transformed in to the Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap. Roland Shawn Sigurdon @ShawnSig Roland is my favorite character because he's like the leader of the group and he has skills that benefit his teammates in battle.
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by Features Staff Meghan Duffy (@Smalls2233) NoEnd House by far. It's a simple enough premise, a guy goes into a haunted house that his heroin-addicted friend told him about. But when he gets inside, it's creepier and more disturbing than he could ever think. Almost like Spooky's House of Jump Scares the rooms start out cheesy, silly and overall not scary, but turn into a horrifying mess of unreality. The story is addictive and interesting. But by far the scariest part out of all of it is how unfinished it is. It's been two years and no NoEnd House 3. But even with NoEnd (see what I did there) it's definitely worth the read. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Aidan Hall (@aidanhallbyte) I was always a sucker for Pokemon Black Version. I was scared as a kid that if I let my Pokemon faint they'd die and eventually haunt the very console I owned. And so when I was a kid, I'd grind my Pokemon until they were such a high level they couldn't be beaten, and I felt safe throwing them out. But, if they got poisoned, there were times where I'd panic my way to the Pokemon Center. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jack McGinnis (@NativeAbearican) The Holders. This series of Creepypastas contain a strange, and esoteric, view on human behavior and purpose whilst still maintaining a guise of pure horror that taps into what would really frighten someone in the real world. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CJ Streetman (@Galledgiatric) My personal favorite is NoEnd House because it's a perfect version of that classic "normal haunted house but something is amiss" story. Very creative, very chilling. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jake Doolin (@clingtoascheme) To me the scariest Creepypasta is also the one I remember hearing about first. It was at a slumber party in third grade and all the kids wanted to try and bring out Bloody Mary because someone's older brother had told them about it. We all gathered in the bathroom and shut the light off, but no one was brave enough to call for her. I just remember after about five minutes we all left without saying anything and it wasn't brought back up for the rest of the night. But when we were all getting ready to sleep I remember looking at the bathroom through the dark hallway and feeling something was there. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Graham Taylor (@GrahamTaylor_) Definitely Anasi's Goatman Story. It is, according to the story, a personal account of one teen's encounter with the Goatman. I can't explain why, maybe because of how it was written, but it just creeped me out to no end. I read it in broad daylight, in a classroom, and I was still uneasy for the rest of the day. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Eamonn Anderson WHO WAS PHONE? is obviously the best of all Creepypasta, but perhaps something slightly more serious is in order here. SCP Foundation is an excellent combination of Creepypasta ranging from the disturbingly hilarious (426 comes to mind) to downright creppy. Connected world between them all and the occasional interaction gives it some nice spice.
by Features Staff Courtney Tuchman I've got to go with Dan Barrows from the 1995 video game Clock Tower. I only say it because it made Jontron throw up candy corn. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Patrick Meyer My favorite is the many different Murlocs from World of Warcraft. These fish-like creatures are not very difficult to kill, but they spawn fast and can easily gain the advantage if you pull more than two. Murlocs are everywhere in Azeroth, and when your a low-level priest running along Westfall's coast, hearing the dreaded "rwlrwlrwlrwl" of the Murloc can give you the deepest sense of dread known. These creatures are so ingrained into World of Warcraft that there's even a song about them. How many monsters can claim that? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Morgan The Last of Us's Clicker is by far my favorite monster. Nothing has caused me more grief than those things. Even now, they still give me the creeps! Very good monster though. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Aidan Hall (@aidanhallbyte) My favorite video game monster would have to be king metal slime from Dragon Quest. Arguably one of the hardest monsters in the game and the one with the highest defense even amongst boss characters, and yet it's this bouncing ball with a goofy, stupid grin on its face that you love to punch in. If it weren't for my king slime hunting it would've been impossible for me to beat DQ9, only because they give great item drops and tons of experience for little effort like Audino in Pokemon, plus they're fun little adorable guys, that can be terrifying at early levels. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dalton Martin (@daltynmartyn) The ReDead enemies from Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker are my favorite. Once this thing sees you, it unleashes a hellish scream while its eyes and mouth enlarge. You try to run, but you can't; you're paralyzed. The only thing that awaits you now is the ReDead's cold embrace as it crushes every last one of your heart pieces to bits. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jack McGinnis (@NativeAbearican) My favorite video game monster is Phalanx (the 13th Colossus) from Shadow of The Colossus. Phalanx is one of the few colossi that in no way attempts to harm you. It causes this strange dichotomy between the player's intended motive and player's true motive. Perhaps YOU'RE the true monster... _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Lucas Schmidt (@schmidtyfro) I have never been more afraid while playing a video game than I was when I played Dead Space. The various monsters I fought were terrifying in their own regards, but none made me tense up and clench my jaw as much as the Brute. Sometimes Brutes casually walk around the corner and cross your path. Other times they charge through a wall to give you a good, old-fashioned jump scare. But regardless of how they approach you, a fight with a Brute is always a heart-pounding struggle. Other monsters in the game relied on speed or other attributes to hurt you, but the Brute was a simple freight train of raw power. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Eamonn Anderson Going to have to go with Outlast's Walrider. Not only haunting, but excellently tied to the story to boot. Extra points for using obscure German folklore based on sleep paralysis. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Aidan Kearney (@kearnishmas) The answer is 'Man' because humans are the real monsters. *tips fedora* No, but seriously I'm a sucker for a creature that is challenging but super fun to fight. Bayonetta's Grace and Glory start off as some of the hardest enemies in the game, but after a few encounters, they quickly become the most fun enemies to fight. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jake Doolin (@clingtoascheme) Gengar is a monster who's gotten a bad rep. Sure, his Pokédex reading states that Gengar "is happy when it scares people" but that doesn't mean it can't come from a place of love. Something about his big round shape and wicked smile melts my heart even though I know he's probably planning on spooking me. Maybe that's why I've made him a mainstay in every Pokémon team I've ever made, it's safer having him on my side.
by Features Staff Morgan Wysong Scariest moment I had with playing a game was when I was watching a friend play Until Dawn and during the finale they made a decision that brought a Wendigo right over to the characters' face and it looked right at them and screamed. I have never jumped so hard and I almost made my friend die. Courtney Tuchman I used to play video games with my older brother a lot. One of the games we played together was Eternal Darkness, a psychological horror game that came out for the GameCube. There were plenty of things in that game that scared me, but it was the swinging axes from the ceiling that really did it. I mean, I was only five! Watching my brother clumsily try to avoid getting the character’s head chopped off was slightly terrifying. I got so scared that I couldn’t even sleep at night. Not only did my brother get in trouble for showing me such a violent game, but my mom also told me I wasn’t allowed to play video games anymore. Obviously, that lasted. To this day though, I still remember trembling on the floor of my brother’s room, secretly hoping he would switch the game to something like Super Monkey Ball. Lucas Schmidt (@schmidtyfro) The summer after Dead Space was released I was spending a few weeks at a friend's house out-of-state. I picked up the game the day after we watched Aliens for my first time. My mind couldn't stop thinking about intergalactic monsters and why in the hell anyone would get on a spaceship with anything less than a small army. That first night of playing Dead Space my friend fell asleep pretty early. So I sat there in his room, staring at a little 16" TV for what must have been at least five hours. All the while I was trying not to lose my cool and wake up my friend by kicking something in his room out of sheer terror. Two things terrified me the most that night: Whenever the monsters of Dead Space made noises, and whenever my friend snored in his sleep. When you're 16 years old and playing a game as frightening as Dead Space, it's hard to tell which sounds are coming from the game, which are coming from someone who is sleeping, and which ones you're just hearing in your head. @ByteBSU Donkey Kong 64 as a child. Those giant bouncing killer tomatoes, man... — Viewtiful Joe Knoop (@JosephKnoop) October 3, 2015 Kelsey Hayes Before I continue, promise you won’t laugh, because I know it’s really lame. To pretext this, I’m terrified of most insects. I was playing the fire ant mission on Fallout: New Vegas, and before I saw any of the ants, I heard the noise that their legs made. It sounded a little too real for me, and I jumped every time I heard one of the ants coming. The fact that they spit fire at me didn’t scare me; it was their walking noises. I’ve since gotten used to it, and am no longer scared of the fire ant walking noises. And that kids, is the time that I was most scared while playing a video game. Carmen Elizebeth Schwierking The scariest moment I had playing a video game does not involve a horror game. My scariest moment happened when I was trying to get all of the achievements in Bioshock. Four achievements needed to pop when I beat the game. Seeing the other three come up and not "Brass Balls" was terrifying because I was worried I would have to do another hard, no Vita-Chamber run of the whole game. Luckily it popped a minute later. That minute of waiting was terrifying. Jake Doolin (@clingtoascheme) I tend to not scare very easily. Part of that comes from the distance I keep from media meant to spook me. If I know something is made specifically to put fear into me, I go the other direction. So for anything to really get under my skin it’s got to come from a place that my scare radar can’t pick up on. Kentucky Route Zero is such a game to me, because I didn’t go into it expecting to be afraid. But during the games masterful first episode there is a trip down a mineshaft that makes for one of the tensest sections I’ve played in a game. And in the final moments of that section, the fear that the atmosphere creates is replaced with all in compassing sadness that still gets me to this day.
BYTEing Questions is a short segment we'll be doing every once in a while that will hopefully let you get to know the staff of BYTE just a bit better. Each time, staff members will answer a different question ranging from "Who's your favorite character of all time?" to "What do you think is a major failure in the game industry that you would change if you could?"This edition's question is: What is your fondest gaming-related holiday memory?Chase @GalledGiatric In 2008, my parents gave a Wii to my brothers and I as a gift on Christmas Eve. We were up until about 3 in the morning customizing our miis, making silly miis, and just playing Wii Sports. It was really nice to have something to do with my brothers that was just so much simple fun, and even today my parents mention how happy it made them that they could hear us laughing together well into the night. Every year that my brothers can make it home (we’re scattered all over the country now) we still play those games together.Jake @ClingtoaschemeOne of my favorite gaming memories, just so happens to fall on a Christmas in 1998. My parents had picked my up a PS1 from one of their friends who had modded the system to take burned discs. So, whenever I wanted to play a game, I had to take a guess which one of the white discs that came bundled with it was the one I was looking for. What I remember most about getting the PS1 was seeing my dad reach into the box of unmarked discs and asking if he could have the first turn. We hooked up the console and put the disc he chose in, and got to experience the first hour or so of Silent Hill before my dad shut off the machine and broke the disc in half. Savannah @svnnhsmthIt was Christmas 1999 and I had asked for a Playstation 1. Sure enough, my parents had gotten me one and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. Man, the memories. I remember I unwrapped it and all my other gifts, forgot everything else, rushed into the other room to hook it up, and played it for hours. The graphics were terrible and the controls were really basic, but I attribute my love for that game as to why I love gaming as much as I do today. I played Spyro, Spiderman and Crash Team Racing on that thing until it couldn’t read discs anymore. Meghan @smalls2233Back in 2006 when the Wii first came out my mom had been telling me about how she couldn’t get a Wii and how hard it was to find one. Come Christmas day, little 10 year-old me opens up a present and in there is a Wii! Along with it was Red Steel and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I was so excited when I saw it I exclaimed “Santa is real!” My family still makes fun of me for it today. Twilight Princess still ranks up on one of my favorite games of all time and the Wii holds so many great memories for me.Nick Dowell @ncdowellMy best Christmas-based video game memory comes in the year 2000. I’d played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to death. I had like five N64 games but OoT was all that mattered.Then, Majora’s Mask fell into my lap.Well, it was placed there by my mom, but still.I know that Majora’s Mask is a depressing game to associate with Christmas, but for years that game consumed my life.Fourteen years later, Majora’s Mask is still one of my favorite games of all time. The story, the characters, the gameplay mechanics, everything just got ingrained into my seven-year-old mind. I still pick up my controller from time to time, especially around the holidays. What better way to celebrate Christmas than to play one of the saddest games of all time?Krissy Thomas @bsu_KristinaMy fondest gaming memory was during Christmas 2008. I should preface this with the fact that at that time, things weren’t going so well. My father had recently been laid off and was having a really hard time finding a job. I was a freshmen in high school at the time, and I knew that there wasn’t going to be a Christmas. My mom tried her hardest to be kind about it. She sat me down, and told me that there just wasn’t money to be had for Christmas this year, since we could hardly afford food. So Christmas came around and for the first time, I didn’t plan on getting up at 6 a.m. like I had in past years. Still, my older brother came in and woke me up. I grumbled and got up, heading downstairs. I had a few presents, but they were all small things, like a pair of socks or a notebook. I said thanks and acted like it was exactly what I wanted. My mom had tried her hardest.That’s when my mom pulled out a surprise gift. She had borrowed some money, and my brother had helped. It was a limited edition Pokemon Nintendo DS lite. My brother, who is only 5 years older than me, had also bought me a Pokemon Case and Pokemon Diamond.I can’t remember crying so hard. I put 700 hours into that game alone. It really made me realize how lucky I was to have the family I had. Lucas MillerOne of my fondest gaming-related holiday memories is from Christmas 2012. We were visiting family and had Christmas at their house that year. I hadn’t asked for anything in particular that year, so I had no idea what I was in for. Among the gifts under the tree, I saw a large rectangular box. I didn’t know what it was, made a random guess that it was a game system, and was actually right. It was a brand new PS3. I was completely shocked because I had not asked for anything like that, it was an awesome surprise. I was up until 4 a.m. playing Assassin’s Creed III. It was a lot of fun, and the best part is, it had come completely out of nowhere. Carmen @apple_sandersonEvery event that I got presents, it involved some kind of video game. The best part is that my brother usually got a matching one (even on my birthday!).Whenever we had a console game my parents made sure there was at least one multiplayer game so my brother (or brothers) and I could play together. My fondest memories are playing multiplayer with my brother. Whether crushing him in Fusion Frenzy, struggling against impossible mini-game A.I. in Pokémon Stadium, or co-op journeys across Halo and every other universe, we always had a great time.Kelsey Hayes @15khayeskmMy fondest gaming memory is from all the way back in 2011 when the original Rocksmith came out. That was the one game I really wanted for Christmas because I had an electric guitar. I used to take lessons, but had to quit because we didn’t have enough money to continue them, and when I heard about Rocksmith, I figured it was the perfect way for me to learn. Well, I also saw that GameStop had it on sale for Black Friday for 50% off. My dad and my youngest brother went to GameStop to get it for me for Christmas. When they got there, the employee told them that they had sold out, but that he would go look in the back, just to make sure. Sure enough they were able to score me the absolute last copy of that game. That was hands down the best Christmas ever. Wimberly WilsonOne of my fondest gaming memories was when I got Kingdom Hearts for the Playstation 2. Now, I had the game before. It was the first game that I bought with my very own money after growing up with my parent’s SNES. But, since it was the first game I’ve played outside of classic Mario or Donkey Kong, Kingdom Hearts was very hard for me to get used to. I had no idea how the mechanics worked and ended up getting so frustrated that I sold the game after two years. It wasn’t until I got older when I realised this was a huge mistake, but by that time no game stores had it anymore and it was extremely expensive online. I had almost given up on being able to play the game ever again until two years ago when my parents surprised me one Christmas. Not only were they able to find one copy at Gamestop, but they somehow found a brand new copy that has never been opened! After nearly crying from excitement, I played the game properly and ever since then the series grew to be one of my favorite franchises of all time! Thanks Mom and Dad!Lucas Schmidt @schmidtyfroFor my ninth birthday, I wanted a PlayStation 2 because I still didn’t have a game console. But my persistently cheap parents got me the recently released Xbox instead because they were able to get it for a lower price.As the ungrateful child that I was, disappointment was my first reaction.“What the crud is an Xbox and why isn’t Goldeneye on it?” I kept asking myself.After quickly becoming bored of Project Gotham Racing my attention span craved for something more exhilarating than driving cars in circles for kudos. Then I discovered Halo: Combat Evolved.As if my childhood prayer had been answered by Bill Gates himself I suddenly found new meaning in my Xbox. No longer was I the weird kid at school who didn’t have Jak and Daxter or Super Smash Bros. Overnight I became the awesome kid who had the ultra violent shooter, filled with purple alien blood and grenades that stuck to peoples’ faces.The original Halo may have saved the Xbox, but more importantly it saved my elementary school reputation.
