ReCore is my current video game addiction. It's a cute little third-person shooter, with a young woman named Joule and her robot puppy Mack going on all kinds of adventures. The world is a planet where the terraforming has gone bonkers. So have the local machines, which attack Joule at every turn. Those are the… Continue reading “ReCore”: The Good, the Bad, and the Dusty
I already posted about death in video games being unrealistic, because you can reload anytime. This was never more evident than when I recently played Dishonored, because when stealth missions failed, I went berserk, hacked at guards until I died, and then reloaded to retry the stealth approach as if nothing happened. On the other hand, XCOM:… Continue reading Death in Video Games… Again: Thoughts on “Borderlands 2”
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