Tag: Gameplay
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What We’re Playing This Week – Groundhog’s Day Edition
Terry Randolph – Overwatch (Playstation 4), Dishonored 2 (Xbox One), Final Fantasy XV (Playstation 4) Keeping true to playing the games I already have, I’m still keeping myself occupied with Overwatch as my main game. As it stands, Overwatch has an insane amount of depth that I feel I’ve barely caught onto, and has me…
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A Tale of Two Drakes: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Review
Release Date: May 10, 2016 Developer: Naughty Dog Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Genre: Third Person Shooter, Platformer, Action-Adventure System: Playstation 4 Completion Time: 15 hrs, 45 minutes (not including collectible hunting) Ludonarrative Dissonance, a heavy word to describe the contrast experienced between gameplay design and narrative structure. It’s a concept I’ve found a problem in…
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What We’re Playing This Week – Post Apocalypse!
Marshall: Oh boy, have I got a frustrating predicament with my latest fix…or should I say, would-be fix. Here’s what’s what: My great friend and LTG colleague Ben Fitzgerald was super kind to give me his Steam key for the 2013 survival horror hit Outlast, the timing of which was insanely perfect as I’ve been…
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All Aboard the Hype Train! The vicious cycle of marketing
The last few years feel like the slow transition of video game publishers focusing on marketing more than game development has changed gears. Whereas the build-up was slow, creative and methodical, most of it feels like a checklist of certain criteria to hit. Tell them about the game revolutionizing the industry for years to come?…
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Borderlands: Halo – Destiny Beta Impressions
by Terry Randolph and Ryan Goddard Bungie will always have a problem whenever it releases a game; Halo. Every game the studio makes will always draw comparisons to it; from the way guns handle to art style and everything in-between. With Destiny, Bungie is hoping to create something “revolutionary” and “nothing we’ve seen before” (aka…
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The Easy Way Out: Has Modern Gaming become easy?
I despised the Lion King game for one reason only; the second level. Everyone knows the second level, right? The one with the tree platforming (which took me hours to do) that transitioned into riding on the ostrich’s back while dodging the various roots and branches in yourw way to race to the end? That…
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Like a Bull in a China Shop
Can games based on movies be good? What could be done to improve them? By Christopher Medrano & Terry Randolph Recently, Chris has had the pleasure of playing a string of horrible games; Fast and the Furious and RIPD (which you can read here). Not surprisingly, these two games are based off of movies recently in…