A desperate bid to rediscover creativity
Bioware released a new trailer for the ever forthcoming Dragon Age 4 (Article from The Verge) and all I can think after watching it is, "Please don't be just a multiplayer game. Please give me the deep, single player game I'm hoping for." There's something in the wording of the voiceover by Varic that just… Continue reading Dragon Age 4 trailer
This past Saturday, November 7, was a good one for a lot of people, including fans of the Mass Effect video game. It featured a cast reunion, complete with some line readings. https://youtu.be/BjzXCLpgBXE Bioware also announced a remastered edition of the Mass Effect trilogy for this spring (hopefully), which we can play on next gen… Continue reading Mass Effect remastered
Over the winter, I played a succession of three video games that involved characters in a parenting or protective role: Fallout 4; The Last of Us; and The Walking Dead. And if parenting in today's world is hard, it's even worse once the world goes to hell. Today I'm writing about my parenting experience with… Continue reading Parenting in the Post Apocalypse: The Walking Dead
Over the winter, I played a succession of three video games that involved characters in a parenting or protective role: Fallout 4; The Last of Us; and The Walking Dead. And if parenting in today's world is hard, it's even worse once the world goes to hell. Today I'm writing about my parenting experience with… Continue reading Parenting in the Post Apocalypse: The Last of Us
It's a challenge being a good parent. It's even harder after the world's gone to hell.
There's a mod for Fallout 4 PC version that makes children in the game killable, in case you want to, you know, kill kids. By default they're not mortal. Once of the reasons this exists, according to an article on Kotaku is to increase the immersive factor in the game. Immersiveness. That's a weird hill… Continue reading A weird stand on immersiveness in Fallout 4
What a pleasant surprise to find out that an old, favourite Star Trek game is coming back through gog.com. It's funny to realize that almost as much time has passed between this game's release and now as the 25 years between Star Trek's premiere and the game's release in 1992. I played the hell out of Star Trek:… Continue reading Star Trek: 25th Anniversary revisited
After just emerging from my self-induced Mass Effect trilogy fugue state (in which I played through all three again), I'm now in the middle of installing Dragon Age: Inquisition on the trusty old PS3. Actually now I'm done the prologue. Fantasy RPGs aren't my thing as much as SF-themed ones, but Bioware usually comes through… Continue reading Biowaring
In 2012 I supported Pillars of Eternity (Project Eternity then) on Kickstarter. It was pitched as a modernization on the old Baldur's Gate games from the late 1990s and early 2000s. I loved those games. I played the hell out of them for what was probably hundreds of hours. And I'm really looking forward to… Continue reading Science Fiction RPGs
Writing Need to do a proof pass to see if my novelette is as error free as I can make it. Plan to do some outlining to expand on my short story as my experiment in scriptwriting. Practicing writing through fan fiction; another 400 words the other night. Reading Finished An Astronaut's Guide to Life… Continue reading A quick update on writing and stuff
Dispatches from Obscurity 