Archive for the ‘RPG’ Category

Review: DeathSpank

Disclaimer: this review does not feature any screenshots. The Premise DeathSpank is a game about a cartoon hero named DeathSpank (most creative parents of the year award) and his quest to find an artifact called “The Artifact” (least creative name of the year). His path is paved in blood, and steel, and bacon. You play [...]

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Game in/under/on Review Yakuza 2 (the first one is also pretty cool)

So there’s this one series I like that most other people I question have never heard of.  It has gone through localization drama between its fan base and the Sonic humping SEGA again and again ever since its first instalment tanked like a freighter anywhere outside its own setting.  It was misconceived to be a [...]

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Torchlight

Torchlight is an Action-RPG/dungeon crawler/spiritual successor to Diablo – made by Runic Games, a company consisting of many of the team that worked on Mythos, Hellgate: London, and a few people from Diablo II. Torchlight Runic’s first game, and a free-to-play Torchlight MMORPG sequel-o-matic is in the works. Torchlight is probably the best game to [...]

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Review: Titan Quest

Titan Quest is an RPG, a genre that stands for “role-playing game” and thus tells you absolutely nothing of any importance. This is because you “play” a “role” in something like every single game ever made, give or take exactly zero. The conventional definition of an RPG is actually a game in which your character [...]

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