“Linear – the devil word. Scourge of freedom, the antithesis of PC gaming, the ancient enemy of anyone who’s ever roamed the Zone or steered a Dragonborn across the mountains. Or so the purist spirit often believes. Is, the question hangs so very heavily, Dishonored a linear game?”
The mighty men at Rock Paper Shotgun compile a list of amazing proportions. If all those come out in 2012 (unlikely) it’ll be a very busy year of gaming for me.
“Gameworlds have become ever-more lavish, but has there been a dark price paid for this? Craig Lager believes so. Production values are up but these worlds don’t seem to react to players’ actions as fulsomely as they once did, he worries – are we allowing games’ strange logic to take us for granted? But there is yet hope.”
It’s not a review of sorts, more of a collection of stuff Alec has and hasn’t done in Skyrim so far. He’s only played 30 hours so far, so it’s not enough to do a full blown review. It also confirms WEREWOLVES are actually in the game, so that’s pretty cool eh?
A Rock Paper Shotgun article on exploration in Rage and how it failed.
Why was The Witcher such a great game? Rock Paper Shotgun remincse about how awesome it was to make choices, be they big or small. I loved the original game and can’t wait to play the sequel on may 17th.
Theres going to be DLC for Dragon Age II a week before release. John Walker of Rock Paper Shotgun is furious. Read on for what he has to say. I’ve gotta agree with him there to be honest.
Over at RockPaperShogun they’ve done an article showing us some concept art and leaked footage of the cancelled Alien RPG Obsidian were going to make. I was more interested in this than Alpha Protocol, which they favoured in developing instead of this. Alpha Protocol? Hmm I wasn’t a fan.
So there are plenty of folks on Tumblr who like the Dawn of War series which is great to know. This expansion is sounding a lot better than I had hoped.
Here is a huge array of screenshots also from Rock Paper Shotgun.
