I’ve never been big on RPG games. Part of the problem, I think, is that I got born into a world where RPG games meant very strict min-maxing. If I go back and think about my time with the gold box games, it boiled down to you having to roll
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The Dig Review: In Another Galaxy Far, Far Away…
Every once in a while, an experience comes along that’s so completely sublime that it totally subverts everything around it. And it only happens once every generation or so. Gaming generations are pretty short, so the game before this that did anything remotely like it was Ultima 4, a game
Continue readingRise Of The Dragon Review: T-i-i-me’s Not On My Side.
I’m not going to lie. I played this entire game through from end-to-end consulting a walk through every step of the way. That’s not typically the way I’d play one of these things, because that sort of defeats the purpose of “solving” an adventure game, but the problem with Rise
Continue readingKing’s Quest One: Quest for the Crown Review: Type “Greywolfe” backward three times
Playing King’s Quest 1 in the modern age is supremely weird. The game presents in 160×200, a resolution that would seem crazy in this day and age, but which was revolutionary at the time. It sports sixteen colours, moving sprites, PC speaker music and a fairly non-linear quest. For an
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