A lot of us have been mentally checked out on Star Citizen for awhile. A title with its breadth of scope takes an enormous amount of time to put together, and Star Citizen is definitely doing its best to live up to that characterization. Without getting too bogged down in the game’s modular details, the alpha for Star Citizen‘s persistent…
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It’s a funny title to write. The game isn’t really officially dead, after all. Hell, I’m not even sure that it could ever really have been considered alive, but here we are, entering into 2016, and it seems that all hope has been truly abandoned. Most notable among those…
A few months ago I briefly touched on the troubling and frustrating trend of gaming consumers becoming increasingly accepting of pay-to-win systems in MMORPGs following my reading of a terrific op-ed on the subject at MassivelyOP. The most ubiquitous pay-to-win defenses trotted out by its apologists center on whittling away at the scope of its definition with the introduction of…
With the Lunar New Year Steam Sale going on, I decided to share my Elite: Dangerous Steam review in case anyone was considering picking it up. Due to Steam forcing a binary choice on me, I had to go with not recommending this title, but my actual opinion is much more nuanced than that. I definitely got…
I’ve been trying to make sense of Revival for the better part of a year now, largely because so many of the people invested in it tend to like the same games as me. The more I read about the features, the more Revival sounds like something I should cover in my Hobo Gamer series, and I keep trying to do…
It’s a funny title to write. The game isn’t really officially dead, after all. Hell, I’m not even sure that it could ever really have been considered alive, but here we are, entering into 2016, and it seems that all hope has been truly abandoned. Most notable among those who have abandoned all hope are…
It was a strange turn of events that lead to my return to Star Wars: The Old Republic. Sure, a large part of it was the unmitigated Star Wars euphoria that came following my viewing of The Force Awakens in all its derivative, nostalgia-enriched glory, but it’s more than that. While waiting on the development of games like Crowfall and Star Citizen…
