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Tag: kotor

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Editor's Note

Full Spectrum Gamer

What kind of gamer are you? Are you a PC gamer? A console gamer? Hardcore? Casual? Do you like shooters or strategy games? ...
By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorJune 1, 2010
Experienced Points

But, I LIKE this Cliché!

Last week I mistakenly left everyone with the impression that I was unhappy with the way BioWare re-visits ideas and does a certain ...
By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorDecember 11, 2009
Experienced Points

The Writers of BioWare

Most RPGs end up jammed into one of two broad categories: 1) Open-ended sandbox games which are usually a little thin on story ...
By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorDecember 4, 2009
The Hard Problem

Good vs. Evil

Welcome to The Hard Problem, a new column where I’ll tackle a hard problem in game design and then solve it before your ...
By John Scott Tynes Legacy AuthorMay 14, 2009
Editor's Choice

Hard Times

The Pickford brothers were completely bewildered. What Rare had asked was unprecedented, strange and curious. They’d never heard anything like it. Who’d make ...
By Kieron Gillen Legacy AuthorMay 6, 2008
Good to be Bad, Again

The Good, the Bad and the Sadistic

What do people get out of playing a sadistic character in a videogame? Some videogame protagonists are little more than amoral killers, and ...
By Alexander Karls Legacy AuthorAugust 28, 2007
Rated M for Mature

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me

I remember playing Planescape: Torment, the cult classic roleplaying game from Black Isle, a few years back. The game matches you with a ...
By Chris Dahlen Legacy AuthorMay 2, 2006
Method Gamers

A Roleplayer in Azeroth

CRPGs aren’t RPGs. I’m a snob about this, always have been. To me, Knights of the Old Republic was a complex adventure game ...
By Will Hindmarch Legacy AuthorJanuary 31, 2006
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