After my review of Mass Effect II, you might wonder why I'm even playing Mass Effect III. And let me tell you, there were some times that I wondered the same thing. Usually whenever the main plot was occurring, or during a lot of the dialogue that had been stripped down to a But Thou Must of "[PARAGON] Yes" or "[RENEGADE] Yes." This...was not a ( Read more... )

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I first played Doom's shareware version pretty soon after it came out. I'm pretty sure I got it from a PC Gamer disc--though it's possible my father downloaded it for me through Gopher--loaded it up and started the game, and from the moment that first guitar riff that gamers nowadays know so well started playing, I was hooked:

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tl;dr: It should have been a point-and-click adventure game starring Elizabeth. Also, I now know why everyone was going on about ludonarrative dissonance last year.

So, I wasn't the biggest fan of Bioshock. It was...okay, but the whole time I was basically thinking, "This is like System Shock II but not as good." And that's basically the ( Read more... )

Half-Life is 15 Years Old TodayI missed out on the Half-Life bandwagon when it first came out. At that point, I think I was mostly playing Master of Magic or Diablo I or Civilization II as well as various Sierra adventure games, and I'm not even sure I knew about it until later. I had definitely heard about it before I went to university, but I had ( Read more... )

Well, as the title suggests, it's not a game as such, but a mod for a game. Deus Ex, to be specific. My thoughts below:

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Just beat Doom 3 around an hour ago so I figured, why not give my thoughts?

( Contains spoilers for Doom 3 and System Shock 2. Somewhat lengthy )