In my recent lowbie adventures through Middle-earth in LOTRO, I’ve had some time to think about the early game vs. late game a lot. One of the topics I’m forever chewing on is why these zones — particularly the Shire — are so incredibly beloved ...
In a relatively rare bit of Skyrim criticism, Chris Sims talks about how the open-ended nature of Skyrim, combined with the mutability of its many choices, led him to lose interest in the game. I think this is a good critique of many of the things I say ...
The following is a guest post by Kris Ligman. Kris Ligman is a white, panromantic asexual cislady from a working class background. She’s the lead curator for This Week in Video Game Blogging at Critical-Distance.com and she occasionally writes her own ...
MMORPGs are fun. Even if we sometimes complain about this or that, overall we end up spending hundreds or even thousands of hours with these games, which we presumably wouldn't do if there wasn't any fun to be had. But just like any relationship, there ...
I think it’s time for a catch-you-all-up blog post. I’ve been bouncing around the past few days playing a little of this and that, and also researching games and awaiting a few on the horizon. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Reckoning launches for me ...
I have played a bit of Agricola recently. It drives home the appeal of virtual worlds and persistent online games in that it very much is neither. You do not always want that persistence, but Agricola is an economic game that ends potentially ...
Sejauni, a woman rockin' some serious boar and flail action, likely about to bring about some serious death. Unless someone were to stab her, oh, anywhere on her body, of course. On balance it's not as terrible as it could be, at least she's ...
Forget tribbles, I want a dog to be sitting by me on the bridge in Star Trek Online. Preferably something huge and hulking like a Mastiff that would wear a cute little red doggy security shirt and guard me from all those nasty Klingons. This past ...
A Tale in the Desert was the first game I played that used multiple chat tabs. It worked differently than most games: non-customizable, and each saved recent message history so that it effectively included the game’s whisper and mail systems. A Tale ...
Over the weekend the enthusiasm of me and the other players in my pen & paper roleplaying group for changing to Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition grew, and as a result we are starting to play tonight. The adventure is written, the battle maps are ...