Tag: side quests

  • My Open World Blues Playing “Dragon Age: Inquisition”

    My Open World Blues Playing “Dragon Age: Inquisition”

    The past few weeks, I’ve sunk about 35 hours into Dragon Age: Inquisition. I played the game before but never got even halfway. For Christmas, my boyfriend bought me a strategy guide for it, and it’s really helping me feel like I have a handle on the wide, wild world that is Inquisition.

  • 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…