Dragon Age II Demo: Sorry Guts, your sword is small.

So, last night I finally had a chance to sit down and play the PC demo of Dragon Age II.   Here are my thoughts on some of the changes in practice (as opposed to in theory): Users can still pause combat and switch characters but can’t stack commands. This is precisely as annoying as I [...]

You know…

…that movie there male/female lead is friends with another male/female but really in love with them? Then the lead goes and change how they look/act only to find out that their friend was already interested in them before but is now totally not interested at all? Well, I’m getting the feeling that Bioware’s new direction [...]

Dragon Age is Annoying*

*But I love it anyway. Things that annoy me about Dragon Age: Origins: -Random difficulty spikes. I’m looking at you Bandit side-quest in Denerim!  The chief signifier of these is the 5 second combat start to party-wipe. -No combat logs. Wait.  How did I die?  I have no idea, oh well. -Inability to queue actions. [...]

Foot in Mouth Syndrome or the Power of Acronyms

Maybe I spoke too soon? KOTOR + O = dorkgasm. Bioware, EA, and Lucasarts teaming up to make a Knights of the Old Republic Online game?  Yes, please. With a fair helping of trepidation though.  Bioware, though they excel at the single-player RPG are yet unproven at the MMO game and EA is, well, EA.  [...]

PC-RPGs….gasping for air or on the rise?

There are some interesting rumblings in world of PC RPGs and some uncomfortable silences as well. First off some older news in the place holder image over at Interplay.com.  Interplay, paired with Black Isle Studios and Bioware released perhaps the preatest Post-Gold Box Era computer RPGs ever.  Baldur’s Gate II sucked away months of life [...]