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Game Story Modes

I just finished Final Fantasy VII Tuesday. Despite being no less than ten years old, retaining the console controls and relying on a system that doesn’t suit my playing style (I’m mainly talking about materia), I found it really enjoyable. The things I didn’t like made me not focus too much on character development and […]

Developers Killing PC Gaming

Such things really piss me off! Yeah, try to figure out ways to make all games playable well on consoles and then focus on that market because you have better sales, then blame the low sales for the PC market on piracy. Let’s get some things straight: Firstly, you can also pirate on (most) consoles. […]

The Future of Selling Computer Games

I saw an interesting idea in an interview about Spore and the future of gaming (link goes directly to the page that answer is on). This seems to take my idea of paying only for the right to use software even further and I’m surprised that it’s coming from such a person. Of course, it’s […]

What Happened to Good RPGs?

Remember all those PC RPGs made during the late ’80s and early ’90s? (Ok, I can’t say I remember those from the late ’80s since I didn’t have a computer back then, and I’d have been too young to understand much anyway, but I know they existed.) It seemed like everybody and their cousin was […]

Why I Hate World of Warcraft

Noticed that I have been talking quite a bit about World of Warcraft lately, so I thought I’d write this post about it as well. As you can see from the title, I can’t stand it and the reasons hardly have anything to do with game mechanics. It’d be quite hard to say bad things […]