A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: The Last of Us
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A quest about saving the world is no longer interesting to me.
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Games that spend so much time encouraging the player to do so little are always walking that fine line between boredom and rewarding. If you can imagine being the guy(s) and girl(s) in the team charged with designing the levels, their only brief being to “make the player stop and think”, you’ll appreciate just how…
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When we created our rundown of the best games of the generation a couple of months back, I took Sir Gaulian’s word for it that The Last of Us should come in at number two, having not played the game myself. Now that I’ve had some time to hang out with Joel and Ellie in…
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Another year with too many games to play. Not that having too much of a good thing is a bad thing in this case, but when it comes to putting some semblance of a list together at the end of the year it’s hard to see just how many great games I missed out on.…
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Well, 2013 has certainly been an eventful year for gaming. The Xbox One and PS4 arrived with chest-beating bombast but a fairly shoddy line-up of games, and instead the real action was to be had on those soon-to-be-relegated ‘legacy’ consoles. The PS3 received what many are saying is its best game with The Last of…
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It’s crazy to think that it’s been eight years since the dawn of this generation. Kicked off by the launch of the Xbox 360 in 2005 in North America (early 2006 in other territories) and slowly followed by the PlayStation 3 in early 2007, the current generation of hardware ushered in the HD generation and fuelled an…
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As the species at the top of the food chain, humans – particularly in the more affluent countries – don’t really know what it is to struggle to survive. We complain about the job we didn’t get, about the price of petrol and food, and about the girl or boy that got away. We even…
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 