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Revisiting Azeroth

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Azeroth, of course, being the mythical land that World of WarCraft is set.
From a purely technical standpoint, they’ve streamlined a lot of things.  I’ve played a Warlock to the mid teens and was surprised at how much they’ve removed from the experience.  Just as an example, they’ve removed demon trainers from the game entirely.  Previously, [...]

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Persistent Growth

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Persistence. I’m going to call it a feature. Three really excellent titles feature persistence this year:

The World Ends With You, by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS
City of Heroes, by NCSoft, for the PC (and MAC!)
Fable 2, by Lionhead studios for the xbox 360

The World Ends With You had a great system of [...]

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BioShock

Monday, August 27, 2007

BioShock is the best anti objectivist essay I have ever played through.
Ultimately, that’s not a good one sentence review.
Let me try again.
“BioShock is one of the few games in my collection that has compelled me to its completion.”
In fact, I’m playing through it again, and that should tell you something else.  I’m doing it for [...]

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