A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: Far Cry 4
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The following contains spoilers of Far Cry 4’s plot. Amidst the civil war raging in Kyrat is a more subtle but just as important war, one where tradition is being pitted against progress. On the surface it is a war of ideals. The people of Kyrat’s resistance, the Golden Path, isn’t just at war with…
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The following may contain mild spoilers of Far Cry 4’s plot. For the hypersensitive, consider yourself warned. I grew up in a very unreligious household. There was no anti-religious sentiment – after all I was only a generation removed from the anglo-christian upbringing of my grandparents in Europe – but there was certainly a dearth…
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On Burnout Paradise – how Criterion Games’ opus perfected the art of letting players pissfart around
With the way people talk about open world ‘sandbox’ games, you’d think the designers had taken the afternoon off and forgotten to design half the game, under the guise of creating an ‘unguided experience’. They’re written about as if players were left to their own devices, free to do whatever they want without constraint, free…
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When I was a kid I was fascinated by Monkey Magic (commonly known as Monkey). I would watch reruns on Saturday mornings, staring at the screen in sheer wonderment, admiring just how different it was from the world I lived in. The design of the costumes, the demons, the world, not to mention the stark…
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