I’ve bellyached for quite some time now about my need for a game with a strong story that wasn’t repetitive and managed to hold my interest for longer than an hour.
Looks like I just might find that in Dragon Age: Origins.
Even though I am a diehard PS3 fan [fangirl?] this is one game that I’m probably going to get for PC based on the awesome Tool Set. See below.
The character creation reminds me a bit of Oblivion and I’m not complaining. Being able to micromanage the character traits added realism to the game and made me feel more connected with …read more

I was really first bitten by the “gaming bug” when I was in high school.
My first love [insert flying doves and shit here] was a huge gaming nerd who was in love with me but whose first love was Lunar: Silver Star Story on the Sega-CD.
Up to that point in my rather dismal gaming life, I had only played the occasional game of Mario Brothers or Duck Hunt and played WAY too much Lion King on the Sega Genesis [DON'T JUDGE ME!].
Since I wanted to keep boyfriend interested in me and I liked spending hours at a stretch in front …read more

The official page for Risen went live on Wednesday which means that a MASSIVE online RPG is available for your gaming enjoyment.
The game hits September 30th of this year and promises to be a big hit with online players across the globe. Until then, check out these bad ass screenshots. Nothing less than awesome.
Images|Deep Silver

Raven Squad is a FPS [first person shooter] meets RTS [real time strategy] meets badass mercenaries.
The game promises “dominantly story driven objectives”. So, from what I’ve read, they’re promising a FPS, RTS and RPG [role-playing game] all rolled into one game? That should be a hoot-if they can pull it off. Oh, and there’s multi-player.
From the release:

Set in the Amazon in the year 2011, players will experience lush jungle visuals, haunting ambient sounds, changes in the weather, and an enemy in their home element
Featuring the best of both worlds, Raven Squad has core FPS and RTS gameplay combined, for …read more

Mars looks like one of those games that could be amazingly cool or an epic fail.
I’m attracted to it because it’s an RPG and I LOVE a good story. Also, the screenshots that I’ve found look pretty good and the gameplay [at the bottom] looks solid.
You can play the game as Seth, “an elite soldier with a dark past” or as Pandora, “an ambitious technomancer”.
From the press release:
In the destroyed world of Mars, two destinies mingle together. Two beings searching for their identity travel across a broken planet, constantly facing bloody political conflicts which tear the old colonies apart. Often …read more

Game Trailers has reviewed yet ANOTHER Sega game and who am I to deny you the review, especially since they tell us so dang much about a game before we actually shell out the $50 to $60 buying it. This time Game Trailers has a 5 minute review of the new RPG about a little fir ball with razor sharp hair, Sonic Unleashed. And if you go to that site, watch out for the crazy introduction. Maybe I’m getting too old for that crazy rock n’ roll stuff?
Oh, and let’s not forget his variety of friends, including Tails, Doctor …read more

There is a new RPG/Strategy game out for the PS3 and it almost makes me want to go out and blow $400 on a system that I would probably never play again after playing this particular game. That game, Valkyria Chronicles by Sega takes all the things I like about RPGs and all the things I like about strategy games and combines them into one epic adventure filled with tanks, guns, heroes and leveling!
That’s all sorts of awesome right there.
The story also sound pretty interesting, making it a game I might actually play to the end:

In 1930s Europa, tensions …read more

Square-Enix must be filled with a bunch of people who never eat or sleep. And they definitely don’t have lives. This company turns games out faster than a lizard can grow a new tail and the new/old game Chrono Trigger has been added to their arsenal of Nintendo DS games and has been shipped to retailers throughout the United States.
Now, I say new/old game, because this isn’t exactly a new game. Chrono Trigger was originally created for the Super Nintendo and that’s where it sat for 13 years, collecting dust, because who has a Super Nintendo that actually works anymore?
Okay, …read more

If you’re a fan of RPGs and if you’re a friend of our old school friend, Sonic The Hedgehog, then there may be a game coming out for the DS that you might want to take a look at. The game, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, not only has a very mysterious name, but will also be filled with fun and excitement of epic proportions. The game, which is being developed by Bioware, takes Sonic and a bunch of his buddies into a world that will be much more colorful and lovely than that boring side scroller crap …read more

After Ron Gilbert’s self imposed hiatus from blogging, the man with the Monkey Island plan has come back to instill in us all the heart and soul of grumpy gaming over at Grumpy Gamer. I was quite surprised to see that my RSS feed from the Grumpy Gamer website actually started lighting up almost every day about a week ago. Now, I like Mr. Gilbert, for he brought us the greatness of Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, the SCUMM engine, Humongous Games, and Putt-Putt, which might look like a little kid’s game, but believe you me… It’s FUN. …read more