Recent content by Boucaner

While I enjoyed the read, it must be asked: When did The Escapist shift away from gaming? There have been a few articles here and there that were off-topic, and several that worked to include the gaming world in some manner, but they seemed to have abandoned their original premises as of late...

Anyone else remember the 'good ol days'? On the original Bard's Tale (C64), the manual told you to use your favorite copy program to copy your characters. If your party wiped in the game, they were dead. Your latest game save loaded up with a party or corpses. Now, you could revive them by...

In Shadow, there was a feeling of 'is it right to do this', but I will admit to being tainted by pre-release coverage of the game telling me that's how I was supposed to feel. Did anyone pick up this game without any previous exposure to it, and how did you feel about what was transpiring on...

The best way to make moral choices mean something is to create a game that can only be played through once. That way, even though the world is only virtual, you still have to live with the consequences of your actions. Just like real life.

The idea of a designer being able to create a morality is interesting, and one that I haven't found to have been explored very well yet. How fun would it be to set a KOTOR-style game on the Klingon homeworld, where following the 'light/right' path involves showing no mercy, and killing those...