Tag Archives: Role Playing

Blizzard is spectacular at treating its games as a service. That’s a rather dry way of saying that it keeps on giving, adding, tweaking and balancing – and the fact that it does this for free (for the most part) is staggering. The company has constantly maintained that it will …

If you’ve been playing Pokémon since the 1990s, or have at least heard of it, you’ll know it’s a bit strange. As much as we’ve grown to love (nay obsess) over the little Pocket Monsters, the more you think about it, the weirder the  idea of pitting two animals against …

I am not a brave man. Horror movies leave me quaking in fear. The witching hour fills me with profound dread. And every night I insist on sleeping with the lights on, swaddled in blankets and propped up in an armchair facing my front door. And though I may slumber, …

In 2002, it would’ve taken some nerve for a game like Morrowind (opens in new tab) to show its ash-covered, grubby face on home consoles. All this high-fantasy business was yet to become the norm it is today, and RPGs were still a PC or even tabletop phenomenon. Ask a …

Everyone deserves a second chance, and there’s no game more worthy of another go in the court of public opinion than Final Fantasy 12. The late PS2 game found itself caught between two audiences: one that embraced the wild departures in combat and storytelling, and the other that couldn’t stand …

Final Fantasy 15 (opens in new tab) is… strange. While the series has dabbled in online gaming with its two MMOs (most notably Final Fantasy 14, aka the greatest redemption story ever told (opens in new tab)), its single-player adventures have been decidedly offline affairs – up until now. In …

Andromeda should have been a smart new chapter for the Mass Effect series. As far as the story goes, it is. 634 years since setting off into deep space, a colony of ships from the Milky Way – representing most of the major species from our galaxy – arrives in …

Andromeda should have been a smart new chapter for the Mass Effect series. As far as the story goes, it is. 634 years since setting off into deep space, a colony of ships from the Milky Way – representing most of the major species from our galaxy – arrives in …

Andromeda should have been a smart new chapter for the Mass Effect series. As far as the story goes, it is. 634 years since setting off into deep space, a colony of ships from the Milky Way – representing most of the major species from our galaxy – arrives in …

Video games are stuffed to bursting with fake brands. Most are forgettable, throw-away plot devices – Evil Corp, Joe’s Italian Restaurant, Richard’s Prophylactics – but some are so believable and well-loved that they’ve entered our consciousness. They’re more than window-dressing. We buy into what they’re selling, and almost feel surprised …