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Tag: story

story
PAX Prime 2015

Stories – The Path of Destinies Preview – Choose Your Own Adventure

Stories: The Path of Destinies from Spearhead Games is more or less an interactive choose-your-own-adventure audiobook, and it has some stories to tell ...
By Joshua Vanderwall Legacy AuthorSeptember 5, 2015
Extra Punctuation

Playing Favorites in Wolfenstein‘s Semi-Branching Story

You may recall my XP column that went up after my Wolfenstein review was about E3, since it was E3 that week. So ...
By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJune 24, 2014
Experienced Points

Cutscenes Stole My Thief Game

Last week Justin Clouse reviewed the new Thief Game. The consensus on this game is decidedly mixed. I think I liked the game ...
By Shamus Young Legacy AuthorMarch 4, 2014
Extra Punctuation

Complacency in Storytelling

One of the problems with triple-A games I’ve noticed lately is that they seem to be making an awful lot of assumptions about ...
By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorNovember 26, 2013
Extra Consideration

The Rest of the Story

Welcome back to Extra Consideration, where we allow our contributors room to tackle the industry’s big issues. Last week, Yahtzee, Shamus Young and ...
By Extra Consideration Legacy AuthorMarch 28, 2011
Extra Consideration

The Story

Welcome to Extra Consideration, where we allow our contributors room to tackle the industry’s big issues. While MovieBob and James Portnow were PAXing ...
By Extra Consideration Legacy AuthorMarch 21, 2011
Everyday Gamer

Playing for the Story

Dragon Age: Origins both was and wasn’t my kind of game. The RPG parts of it were great – BioWare doing what it ...
By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 18, 2010
Reviews

Age of Conan: WarCry’s Official Review

A couple of weeks ago I gave readers an exclusive preview of Age of Conan, and now I have the absolute pleasure to ...
By Stephen Spiteri Legacy AuthorMay 30, 2008
Interviews

Exclusive Interview with Jess Lebow: History and Inspiration

Jess Lebow is the Content Director of Pirates of the Burning Sea, but in this latest edition of our Q&A series, we talk ...
By Dana Massey Legacy AuthorDecember 4, 2007
Pirates of the Burning Sea: Bi-Weekly Q&A Series

Pirates of the Burning Sea: Interview #4

Jess Lebow is the Content Director of Pirates of the Burning Sea, but in this latest edition of our Q&A series, we talk ...
By Dana Massey Legacy AuthorDecember 4, 2007
Op-Ed

The Medium Problem

Removing a story from its natural medium, in many cases, is a waste of a perfectly good story. Though there are a few ...
By Michael Zenke Legacy AuthorJuly 17, 2007
Op-Ed

When Story Gets in the Way

While reading through the June issue of Edge, I ran into the write up on LucasArts’ new title, Fracture. They’re approaching gameplay and ...
By Michael Zenke Legacy AuthorJuly 3, 2007
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