[Originally posted on PopMatters] Last month, Bioware officially announced that they will be releasing Dragon Age 3: Inquisition. The mix of life-like feudal politics with high fantasy tropes seems to have created the series that keeps on giving, which Bioware no doubt intends to keep up with. Dragon Age is one of the better narrative experiences in … Continue reading Reflections on Dragon Age
[Originally posted on PopMatters] Marvel vs. Capcom Origins is the re-release of the classic arcade fighters, Marvel Super Heroes and Marvel vs. Capcom. Both games come from a time when every corner had an arcade, busy with players taking on challengers for the right to keep playing. But since this is no longer a time when … Continue reading Review: Marvel vs. Capcom Origins
I haven’t been very diligent about this blog lately, have I? So I’ll give an update: I reviewed Tryst (Review of Tryst. PopMatters. Oct 5 2012) and then I wrote about it (“The Value of the Soldier.” PopMatters. Oct 9 2012). To summarize: Tryst is okay but it loses itself in its goals. Essentially, it … Continue reading Where Tryst Fails at Being StarCraft
[Originally posted on PopMatters] More than most game genres, the RTS has developed its own lexicon over the years. To “one-A” in an RTS is to clump all the player’s units into a single control group, to press the “A” key and click on the map roughly at the enemy base location. This tells all the … Continue reading The Value of a Soldier in Tryst
[Originally posted on PopMatters] Tryst is the second release from developer BlueGiant Interactive, a small-ish company based out of India. Tryst is an RTS that focuses more on smaller, more intimate, “micro-intensive” battles than it does on longer, drawn out matches with complicated economies akin to the Age of Empires series. Although the lack of … Continue reading Review: Tryst
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