One has to wonder what exactly anyone was thinking while Fallout 4 was in development at Bethesda. The reason why is because this is a bizarre game simultaneously fixes many of the franchises longest flaws, while also ruining so many of the best things about it. With this game, the franchise suddenly flipped and became... Continue Reading →
Fallout New Vegas Review: The Overrated One
After the success of Fallout 3, Bethesda commissioned Obsidian entertainment to produce a spinoff Fallout game to keep fans busy until their next big game release. The team were given a tiny amount of time to produce a game equal in scale to Fallout 3 but, perhaps due to the fact the team was comprised... Continue Reading →
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Review
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 was a game created by masochists for masochists; A game made by people who thought that adding a skill that gives you a 15% chance to learn a spell by watching someone else cast it would be valuable to anyone, and played by people who travel around with one... Continue Reading →
Fallout 3 Review: The Cursed Fallout Game
Fallout 3 is the joke answer to the question "what is the best Fallout game", given its complete inability to do anything better than any other game in the franchise, be they the older classic games or even the newer ones: Creating an atmosphere of dread and loneliness? Fallout 1 did it better. Discovering communities... Continue Reading →
Fallout 2 Review: The Same… But Different?
After trying to figure out how to best describe Fallout 2 to you, the one word that I kept returning to was 'bizarre'. The reason being that it's so strange that a sequel to very popular game can paradoxically be so similar to it, while also being a great departure from what made the original... Continue Reading →
Red Dead Redemption 2: A Modern Gaming Classic
Whenever a new open world game comes out, or even one that's simply story driven, I firmly believe that Red Dead Redemption 2 will be the game everyone draws comparisons to, simply because of how high it set the bar for both open world exploration, and narrative writing. In Red Dead 2, you play as... Continue Reading →
Fallout (1997) Review
In 1997, a now dead company called Interplay developed and released the game that spawned a franchise which would go on to cement itself as one of the kings of the RPG genre: Fallout. Initially brain-stormed as a time-travel story about ninja cults, electricity-conducting underpants and human zoo's run by dinosaurs, Fallout was eventually shaped... Continue Reading →
The Darkest Dungeon: Existence is Adversity
If you want a game that simultaneously has very little writing, but a lot of room for character growth, attachment to NPC's and room for potential bonds to be made between you and the characters you control then Darkest Dungeon is the game for you. It does all of those things and more, including making... Continue Reading →
The Stellaris Experience
Have you ever wanted to displace and entire civilisation? Have you ever wanted to declare those who have wronged you as "degenerates"? Has the urge to genetically modify your enemies to be objectively poor at everything they need to do to survive ever overcome you? And finally, have you ever considered the notion of melting... Continue Reading →