Tag: Dragon Age

  • Playing with Magic in Video Games

    Playing with Magic in Video Games

    Any time a video game lets me play with magic, I take it. When given character class options, I almost always go with mage… or the sci-fi equivalent.

  • What Comes First: The Story or the Open World?

    What Comes First: The Story or the Open World?

    Video games seem a little infatuated with open world design these days. You get a great open world game like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and suddenly everybody wants to show off how engines can now produce gorgeous, sweeping, detailed landscapes with no (or very few) loading screens. It’s like an epidemic. I mean, I’m…

  • What I’ve Been Playing Lately

    Halo 3 and 4 It’s official: I’ve now completed two Halo games in my life. I played some co-op with a friend a long, long time ago, but just once — and I was terrible. Then I played some Reach a while back. But the motivation to actually finish a Halo game came from playing co-op. Legendary difficulty is really…