Tag Archives: RPG

In Search of Transformative Encounters

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Erik Bigras

Over the course of the last couple of years, I’ve slowly drifted away from video games in favour of table-top RPGs. That trend probably started a few years ago when Gaines and I played TTRPGs weekly with a group of … Continue reading →

Posted in Criticism, Erik Bigras | Tagged Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dungeons and Dragons, Game design, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing, RPG, Sandbox, Twilight: 2000, Video Game Writing | 2 Comments

Arguing for the Adoption of Persistent Time in Video Games: Part 2 Building a House, Making a Home

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Jason Coley

In the first of this two-part article, I outlined my thoughts on how persistent time can provide a new paradigm for permadeath in video games. In games like DayZ Standalone (Bohemia Interactive, 2013) and Rust (Facepunch Studios, 2013), hazardous environments … Continue reading →

Posted in Criticism, Jason Coley | Tagged altruism, apprenticeship, Banished, building a house, colonies, colony, construction, control multiple characters, crafting, Dayz, DayZ Standalone, death, Don't Starve, environment, Everquest Next, family, game, games, gene pool, Grand Theft Auto V, grow old and die, GTA 5, habitat, hazardous environment, history of player interaction, kinship, making a home, maslow’s hierarchy of needs, massively multiple online, Minecraft, mmo, Open World, perk, permadeath, permanent, persistent time, possess, progeny, rally around the family, Role-Playing, RPG, Rust, scavenging, shelter, skill, Skyrim, State of Decay, The Sims, time, Video game, Video games, Yi-Fu Tuan | 2 Comments

A JRPG I Can Get Behind!

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Erik Bigras

So a few weeks ago, I wrote about how I first grew up, then fell out of love, with JRPGs. However, I just found out about Turn Based Battle over at Armor Games. It’s a fun little parody that, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Erik Bigras | Tagged Armor Games, Breath of Death VII, Japanese, JRPG, Parody, Role-Playing, RPG, Video games, Zeboyd Games | Comments Off

360 No Scope Corny Shoot: The 7th Generation of Games

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Gaines Hubbell

By Gaines So, Critical-distance.com does a segment called Blogs of the Round Table (BoRT), which I like because it often pulls the occasionally disparate communities of video games bloggers together around a single topic, building the community, and it has … Continue reading →

Posted in Criticism, Gaines Hubbell | Tagged 7th Generation, Blogs of the Round Table, BoRT, Dubstep, Gaines Hubbell, Indie games, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 3, Nintendo DS, No love, PS 3, PSP, RPG, Video Game History, Video games, Wii, Xbox 360 | 6 Comments

BoRT: Why Starflight Changed the Way I Game

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Erik Bigras

One of the things that I was alluding to last week was that I “grew up” playing role-playing games (RPGs). I was still a young kid in the 1980s, so I missed out on the Ultima and Wizardry franchises. Back … Continue reading →

Posted in Criticism, Erik Bigras | Tagged Choice, D&D, Dungeons and Dragons, Morality, Open World, Phantasy Star, Phantasy Star 4, Phantasy Star IV, Role-Playing, RPG, Sandbox, Space Exploration, Space Simulation, Spacesim, Starflight, Story, Video games | 6 Comments

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Tag Archives: RPG

In Search of Transformative Encounters

Arguing for the Adoption of Persistent Time in Video Games: Part 2 Building a House, Making a Home

A JRPG I Can Get Behind!

360 No Scope Corny Shoot: The 7th Generation of Games

BoRT: Why Starflight Changed the Way I Game

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