Recent content by LightlyFrosted

I have to say, this kind of sounds like Nostalgia goggles. While it's true that boss battles were more of a 'thing' in older games, most of them were alright at best... and there've definitely been some good boss fights in recent games. Arkham City, Mass Effect 2, heck even Starcraft 2 has a...

I think what it boils down to is 'was the game actually good'. Looking back through my games library, I have a lot of games that I don't mind playing through again, or which I enjoyed... and more than a couple of gimmicky games, or games that otherwise stand out as having been 'passable' or...

I confess to being somewhat of split opinion. For the sake of illustrating this, I'm going to largely refer to fantasy RPG's, but most RPG's will do. Here's the thing. I like side quests. They offer a certain amount of perspective about the world, they offer opportunities to collect...