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All reviewsThe Last Guardian2016
5 out of 5 starsBoy, it's been a while since I've written one of these. Put this on. Let's just get it out of the way: The Last Guardian is the most emotionally affecting game I've ever played. I love it with all my heart, in spite of its (mostly technical) flaws. It's my game of the year, game of the generation, and almost certainly in my shortlist of greatest games of all time. There's a tendency in game reviews to talk about…
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag2013
5 out of 5 starsIt’s funny how it goes, sometimes. I’ve been pretty down on the state of AAA games for a while. Aside from a handful of great titles earlier in the year, the release schedule has been pretty bleak lately, filled with the kinds of games that make me embarrassed for the state of the medium, and sometimes its critics, too. Ironic, then, that it is an entry in a major, annualized franchise that has made me genuinely…
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag2013
5 out of 5 starsIt’s funny how it goes, sometimes. I’ve been pretty down on the state of AAA games for a while. Aside from a handful of great titles earlier in the year, the release schedule has been pretty bleak lately, filled with the kinds of games that make me embarrassed for the state of the medium, and sometimes its critics, too. Ironic, then, that it is an entry in a major, annualized franchise that has made me genuinely…
BioShock Infinite2013
5 out of 5 starsThe original Bioshock was a story that ultimately revolved around one twist that was meant to pull the rug out from underneath you. Initially, Bioshock Infinite seems so thematically similar, right down to the story beats, that it seems like a palette swap: replace Rapture with Columbia, Big Daddies for Songbird, Plasmids for Vigors, call it a day. Fortunately, there is a lot more to Infinite's floating city of…
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Mar 15, 2013
I've been playing a lot of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive lately on the pc. Having not touched any CS in many years, it's very refreshing to come back to a multiplayer FPS game that's so barebones, for lack of a better term. What I mean by that is that there's no XP, weapon unlocks, loadouts, kill streaks or anything crazy. It's just you and your gun. I played a lot of old CS back in the day,...
RIP Vigil Games
Jan 27, 2013
While the curtain hasn't fallen with certainty yet for Vigil Games , it seems unlikely that they will be bought if no one at the auction was willing to bite. Vigil isn't the first studio to fall, and it certainly won't be the last, given the increasingly oppressive climate of AAA development. Budgets are ever-increasing, development teams get bigger, and publishers are only investing in sure-fi...
Shuffling along: Looking back on Telltale's Walking Dead
Nov 23, 2012
Spoiler warning! This is going to be something of a story analysis for The Walking Dead, so if you haven't finished the season yet, stop reading. Videogames and traditional storytelling seldom make for a good pairing. The best game stories are often the ones player created themselves by playing with the systems. The Walking Dead is more of an interactive story than a game in this sense, as play...
Revisiting Diablo 3
Oct 23, 2012
Like many of you, I bought Diablo 3 on day one and loved it, right until I reached Inferno difficulty. Getting frustrated by the game's difficulty, I swiftly put the game, and my level 60 Barbarian, down. I dabbled a bit with the other classes (got a Monk about midway through Nightmare on hardcore before dying unceremoniously) and stopped playing the game entirely for several months, along with...
How the press is missing the point: Entitlement, ME3 and you
Mar 22, 2012
Note: I will avoid Mass Effect 3 spoilers in this article, but I will link to them, so click at your own risk. If the Mass Effect 3 ending controversy has underlined one thing with a neon marker, it is the fact that there is a huge divide between the people writing about videogames and the people reading about them. This is something that's been on my mind for a while, but hasn't been so starkl...
Star Wars the Old Republic: Tales from the beta
Nov 27, 2011
Figured I'd share some of my experience playing the TOR beta today. If you want the short version: Much, much better than I expected. First off, and maybe this is redundant, but don't expect this game to reinvent the wheel. It's an MMO as we've come to know them post-WoW, meaning it's a lot like WoW. There's classes, hotkeys, mount vendors, reputation vendors, quest givers, auction houses, all...
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