Category: Gaming

  • Mass Effect, The Veilguard, and Player Choice

    There’s a profound sense of home inside the Normandy, your starship throughout the Mass Effect trilogy. A similar feeling is found in Dark Souls II’s Majula, your campsite in Dragon Age: Origins, or, hell, the entire province of Skyrim from The Elder Scrolls V. There’s something special about a player home or hub that makes…

  • Playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

    I just finished playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for the first time, and all I can say is: wow. I’ve been gaming a lot in the past year, but I’d never played this massively popular title before. Needless to say, all of the praise it receives is deserved. It’s been ten years since the…

  • The Importance of the GOG Preservation Program

    As someone who has been spending a lot of their spare time studying, playing, and buying older games, I’m experiencing the challenges of accessing certain titles first-hand. In most cases, I can purchase the games in my wishlist without having to jump through any hoops. Steam has an impressive amount of titles and Microsoft’s continued…

  • Pillars of Eternity: A CRPG Masterclass

    In 2012, video game studio Obsidian Entertainment underwent financial difficulties following the abrupt cancellation of their then-current development project. The studio that launched successes such as Fallout: New Vegas and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords had hit an unexpected run of bad luck, and hesitantly turned to Kickstarter to…

  • Thoughts on Shadow of the Erdtree

    There is an unrivaled beauty to Gravesite Plain, the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC’s beginning location. The sprawling hills form a sea of lush, orange grass and ghostly graves. We’ve essentially washed up on the outskirts of the underworld, and yet you can’t help but feel enchanted by its golden landscape. The intimidating mountainside that…

  • Starfield: The Vulture

    I was pretty late to playing Skyrim’s Creation Club content. Honestly, I never really gave it a shot when it was released. It wasn’t until years later when the Anniversary Edition – containing all of Bethesda’s official “Creations” bundled in a single package – became available that I decided to go for it. Maybe I…