Part three of my list includes games seven, eight, and nine in my list of the thirty-something games I’ve played in 2011.         The first of these is Bioshock 2. I waited a long time after the game’s release to play it because, honestly, I just wasn’t that excited. In the end, […]

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Although you may be aware that I found the original Bioshock to be an overrated game, I played through and enjoyed it enough. Now, Irrational games has released the original design documents for the game. Very very cool. Check it out.

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Most game settings are just fluff. Even some of the games I really like have dreadfully generic settings. When you read about Borderlands, the description of Pandora sounds really interesting. In the game, it’s beautiful to look at, but doesn’t have much character. The world in Dungeon Siege is huge, but kind of boring. Even […]

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I’m going to piss off a lot of people now by talking about how I think some of the best-loved games in the past few years weren’t actually that good. Much of this might have to do with my personal opinion of Bioware’s game engines, since two of my three example games here are from […]

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So it looks like there’s a new teaser site up for Bioshock 2.  I’m sure they’ll do something clever soon like add hidden links in the flash after everyone’s exhausted themselves on a fruitless pixel hunt. I wasn’t as big a fan of Bioshock as everyone else seemed to be, but it was entertaining. Anyway, […]

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