enigmatic eggmatic villain Solas

The thing about Dragon Age 2 is that, yes, the game was rushed and it felt rushed for many critical elements of the game. That being said, I thought the stuff it did well, it did very well. The way the story was structured, with Varric telling a story happening over multiple years, was exactly the kind of experiment…

Maybe I’m in the minority, but my issue with DA2 wasn’t the scope. Following the story of how one person becomes this sort of legend mostly by being semi-capable and being in the right/wrong places at the right/wrong times was great. It’s just that the short dev time meant I was doing everything in the same 5 room…

Caught wind of some early rumors on the story. Apparently, it takes place thousands of days after the events of Dragon Age Inquisition. You’re part of a band of folks placed on boats and shipped off to unknown lands to preserve mankind in case the rift stuff goes south. You’re the son/daughter of a Roadseeker, and you…

So one of the reasons I became a fan of Bioware to begin with was my fondness for single player RPGs with choice and consequence and well written NPCs. I simply do not see how that sort of thing is compatible with a “live services” approach.

This is awesome to read about—I love love love hearing about game production, even when the game in question doesn’t have a strong place in my heart. I’d always found it fascinating how you can see the origins of Mass Effect in KOTOR in many ways. I’d love to see a new Star Wars game in the vein of KOTOR, albeit with…

There’s actually a whole section on this in Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel (not the Black Panther castration part). Temperament played a huge role in which animals have historically been selected for domestication. Temperament is the reason why no one’s riding zebras.

This.  We can create an old persons club where we don’t see each other at all because we’re playing single player games alone, as the universe intended.  Glad to be a part of this movement. 

“The Jaguar doesn’t know its from the Americas and not Africa?”

I bet Jan Micheal Vincent will be the real killer.

All I want is a next-gen sequel to KoToR.

Another reason why I buy physical media when I can. 

+1 listening to the fans.  

This is almost as good a ‘fuck you’ as Blizzard’s t-shirt response to whiny nerds crying about the lighting in Diablo 3 being too bright.

No one, senior or junior, is ever forced to work hard.

Best news all day. Week. Month. Year. Look, it’s been rough since 2016, okay?

I was really hoping the release date was going to be “next Sunday.”

You've got to know where your towel is. 

Dude, seriously? Thank goodness Twitch showed some fucking decency and took it down, even though your click-bait link is still live.

I agree that magic tends to overwhelm games, but I’m always more appreciative of it when it has consequences. I liked Dragon Age: Origin’s approach to magic: it was feared by many, it actually was extremely dangerous to use, you had to be born to use it, and mages, while powerful, still couldn’t do too much on their…