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most first person shooters are designed to transplant gamers into other worlds, times or places of imagination. picking up new weapons, you take on the role of one-man army leading other non-playable characters to checkpoint after checkpoint until you reach the ending that will culminate in another sequel. and then, there’s left 4 dead . you still have checkpoints, or safe houses, that break up the sections of each…
when a game makes you think, “i might have liked it if i didn’t play fallout first,” it comes as a surprise that joystiq.com’s best of 2008 list(link) gave it the top recommendation. the first fable was hyped as the greatest rpg ever to be sold, a huge world built upon promises that ended up failing to deliver. i never got a chance to play the first, and i don’t have an opinion of it to write anything here. i did…
i loved it. that’s about as straightforward i can get. i can’t help but come clean as direct as possible after playing a game that judges every decision you make. from the opening lines sung by the inkblots , “i don’t want to set the world on fire,” to the last words voiced by ron perlman, “war never changes,” i felt an incredible level of immersion very rare in video games thanks in part to a development team…
