Recent content by Blinkmage

Excellent article. I agree completely with the idea that a story needs to 'earn' its apocalypse. Far too often we're thrown into doomsday scenarios in movies, video games, books, etc. without being given a reason why we should care. Bland characters having their lives messed up really doesn't...

My thoughts exactly. Even if it was twelve characters and they were all male because of the story, that would still be fine. And before anyone says 'well there's no possible reason a story should have all male characters', if you were writing a piece of historical fiction there are quite a few...

Personally the biggest thing I look for in 2-d platformers these days is the ability to jump back in quick after dying. I recently received a copy of both Rayman Legends and Origins and love the lack of a lives system and the decent amount of checkpoints. You die in that game and it simply drops...

Dragon Age Origins. I hit that last part where the game just throws a billion darkspawn at you and got so sick of fighting that I just turned it down to easy and fireballed everything to death. Didn't help I was running it on my toaster laptop and that many enemies brought it down to a crawl...