I've played my share of fantasy games, from The Hobbit, Pandemonium (PS1 ace game!) to Final Fantasy and in more recent times Warcraft, AION, even Borderlands has a dystopian fantasy setting. I've been dithering over whether or not to buy Dragon Age for PS3 and will likely grab it along with Darksiders some time this …
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Whatever happened to VR?
Sometime during the 90's (or thereabouts) there was a lot of discussion about Virtual Reality (VR). It was heralded as the next big thing for games, science, communication, space exploration, engineering, medicine, and so on. The uses were limitless, so we were told. I watched Tomorrows World on BBC1. The presenter wedged his nut inside a VR …
Head Shot – Silent. Deadly. Done.
Picture the scene: you've climbed the frozen ladder to the roof and wedged a claymore by the top rung in case anyone tries to sneak up behind you. Beside the roof vent you go prone, stretching out on a carpet of snow, but that's ok as you are dressed in arctic gear. You inch forward …
AION and on and on…
So I quit Warcraft, I'd had enough endless grind, endless raiding just to get epic gear to compete with all the other goons roaming the tired virtual wastelands of WoW. And it felt good to be free of the chains, I had finally rid myself of that nasty mmo monkey that had clung to my …
Dave Farmer 