I’ve made no secret of the fact that Dragon Age: Origins is the best game I’ve played in years, due primarily to the writing. The storyline and the characters are absolutely stellar. But as good a job as Bioware did with the game, I can’t claim to have loved everything they’ve done. Let’s take a [...]

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I’m going to piss off a lot of people now by talking about how I think some of the best-loved games in the past few years weren’t actually that good. Much of this might have to do with my personal opinion of Bioware’s game engines, since two of my three example games here are from [...]

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Now that the end is in sight in terms of 2009’s video games, I thought I’d look back at all the games I played this year. I’ll definitely be playing Scribblenauts, Dragon Age: Origins, and Borderlands before the year’s over, and I may also be playing Uncharted 2 or Brutal Legend. But they’re all games that I’ll [...]

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