Borderlands 2 and I shouldn’t have gotten along. It’s an first-person shooter, and a fairly aggressive one at that. It strongly suggests the addition of teammates. It’s tiredly open-world. It contains only limited role-playing elements. There are no difficulty options. Its story seemed to require prerequisite knowledge from the first game. Well, what’s that they…
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Top 5: Favorite Open-World Games
As much as I enjoyed my first trek through Mass Effect: Andromeda, the game left me a bit soured with regard to open-world games. Surely the feeling is only temporary, but as I search for something to take its place that’s not Borderlands 2 (so fun!), I find myself avoiding anything that resembles an open-world…
YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #14
Have you found yourself wondering, “What videos are currently up on Virtual Bastion’s YouTube Channel?” Wonder no longer, for help has arrived in the form of this very post! Yes, it that’s time of the week where we share a few recent video highlights. And then you click, love, subscribe, and share them across the…
77 Hours Later, and Mass Effect: Andromeda is in the Bag
Actually, 77 and one-half to be precise, but who’s counting? Me, that’s who, because I really can’t believe that I spent anywhere near that time in the world of Mass Effect: Andromeda. But there it is, and now it’s time to talk about it. Where to even begin?! There’s so much to unpack here, but…
YouTube Highlights: Weekly Edition #13
Whoever decided that the number “13” was unlucky didn’t know our very exciting YouTube channel. Because here we are, back with our very lucky 13th installment of our weekly YouTube highlights! And we’re very glad you’ve joined us on this lovely Friday for gaming sights and sounds galore. If you like what you see here, we’d…
Red Dead Redemption 2 delayed…and that’s okay
Early last week, Rockstar Games broke the news that this year’s darling Western drama, Red Dead Redemption 2, will be next year’s darling Western drama. Yes, the game has been delayed until Spring 2018. This, in my mind, leads me to think of a possible release in March, but that’s purely a guess. About the…
YouTube Highlights: Weekly Edition #12
Welcome to Friday everyone! We’re sure that you’re as glad as we are the weekend is fast approaching, especially if you happen to have an extra day off in the States thanks to Memorial Day. (Any excuse to squeeze in more gaming is fine with us…along with spending time with good food, friends, and family,…
What is an RPG without the “R” and the “P”? [Part 2 of 2]
[I recently sped my way through Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 in anticipation of Andromeda’s release, and in this two-part series, I’m recapping what it was like to play through only the main stories in both games. Click here to read Part 1 and see my self-imposed rules that would govern my…
YouTube Highlights: Weekly Edition #11
To Internet inhabitants everywhere, welcome to our weekly wrap-up of Virtual Bastion on YouTube! If you’re just joining us, each Friday, we take a look back some of the highlights from the Let’s Plays and playthroughs that we posted during the week. You can click below on the individual videos, or simply head over to our…
What is an RPG without the “R” and the “P”? [Part 1 of 2]
When I decided at the beginning of March that yes, okay, I’d invest in Mass Effect: Andromeda, I thought that it might be fun to play through what I could of the original trilogy before Andromeda was released. But with my gaming time being limited, and with upwards of a several dozen hours, if not…
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