AC is not bound to be historically accurate. “the game will ‘desyncronize’ you (meaning produce a game over) if your character kills civilians, including if, while raiding a monastery, you kill the monks. You are a viking (one thing they… Read More »Collections: Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications
Love this game series. “A real fight–it’s short and it’s brutal. Over in a minute. Nobody goes around trading blows and crap like that. Usually the first guy to punch wins.” https://boingboing.net/2010/08/10/yakuza-3-review.html
“Rarely does one get a battle scene in which all of the decisions of import were made at a council of war in the early, pre-dawn hours with the battle then left to simply play out according to plan and… Read More »Collections: Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies, Part I: Reports
But in the hard simple way. “Games are machines built around uncertainty. Almost all games end by turning an uncertain outcome into a certain one. There’s a problem facing you, and you don’t know if you can overcome it to… Read More »Game design is simple, actually
“Poor communication was later identified as a major source of production issues, and it also allowed me to be largely in the dark on the state of the project during development. By my reckoning there were two main ways that… Read More »Recommended Read: Total War: ROME II and Creative Assembly — My Statement Ten Years On
For some time I like to find various top charts of movies, music, books and others and just consume the top stuff. The best way is to start with best rated (e.g. IMDB). Next is follow curated lists (best books… Read More »Finding the great stuff
Beecarbonize is a free single-player game for Android, trying to explain to the players nuances of climate change mitigation. You can play four types of cards – industry, environment, people, and science. The cards usually increase the production of coins… Read More »Recommended Play: Beecarbonize (Android) (9/10)
Human Revolution je nielen dôstojným nástupcom prvých dvoch Deus Ex hier, ale prináša aj pár veľmi zaujímavých noviniek. Navyše implementuje dnes bežne využívané prvky v podobných hrách takmer bez chýb. Začnem pri tom, čo podľa mňa robí Deus Ex Deus… Read More »Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Prví Rytieri zo Starej Republiky sa mi naozaj páčili a tak som sa, síce po dosť dlhom čase od prejdenia prvého dielu, ale predsa len, vrhol do pokračovania The Sith Lords. Pokiaľ sa vám páčil prvý diel, pri druhom rozhodne… Read More »Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Napriek svojmu veku cez 11 rokov je táto hra stále veľmi dobrá, a to samé o sebe svedčí o tom, že nejde o ďalšiu nepodarenú hernú adaptáciu podľa filmu/seriálu, ktorých sa nájdu tony a dennodenne pribúdajú. Treba upozorniť na to,… Read More »Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force