Tag: feature
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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…
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Playing Life Like a Video Game in “Life is Strange”
About two years ago, I played a video game by a new French developer called Dontnod. The game was called Remember Me. Set in a futuristic, dystopian Paris, it featured a protagonist named Nilin who was a memory hunter, meaning she was able to go into people’s memories and alter them. This allowed Nilin to change people’s…
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My Favorite “Witcher 3” Characters (Pt. 1)
One of the best things about The Witcher series is the strength of its characters. Sure, the lead Geralt is badass enough to carry the games (and books), but he’s also surrounded by friends and enemies who you love or love to hate. What I really enjoy is the ambiguity of the characters. Geralt isn’t always a…
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