A couple weeks ago, BioWare released a video highlighting the various means of progression in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Into focus came skill progression, item progression, and companion progression, which sounds like…a lot. However, watching the video, the general tone of progression is in step with what BioWare’s done before, particularly in the Mass Effect…
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In Defense of Security Breach
If you’ve been following the Five Nights at Freddy’s fandom in recent years, you’ll be more than familiar with a rather divisive entry in the series called Security Breach. Developed by Steel Wool Studios, this game suffered from multiple delays before its eventual release in December of 2021. And even then, it was definitely not…
Starfield: Bounce Back
I left Starfield late last year feeling quite sour about the game. I started playing at release, and I threw in the towel less than two months later. I believe the word I used to describe how I felt at the time was disenchanted. My high hopes for the game simply didn’t materialize. The experience…
You Know What? The Console Wars are Pretty Dumb
Isn’t it kind of silly that this is still going on? Heck, it was silly all the way back in the 90’s when many of us were still just dumb kids. Yet, somehow it’s endured and it still inspires feelings strong enough to manifest outside of the internet. I actually had a brush with it…
My Street Fighter 6 Glamour Endgame
Capcom recently completed its first year of character releases for Street Fighter 6, which ended with the unleashing of Ed, a powerful psycho-boxer, and Akuma, a classic combatant. With that all said and done, I’ve returned to the game myself…well, the World Tour, anyway, in order to play through their stories and max out their…
I’m Glad to See Demos Making a Comeback
With games getting ever more expensive and often in new and “exciting” ways, having the chance to try before you buy is extremely valuable. I needn’t list off the merits to you, as there’s really only one that matters: getting to see if the game is actually for you or not. Some games sound great…
Dropping the ‘To-Do’ List
Last week, I talked about Helldivers 2 and how much of a blast it’s been. Well, here we are another week later and it’s still all I wanna play. It’s sort of a problem in that there are other games I’m “supposed” to be playing and making progress on; games like Alone in the Dark…
Looking Forward: What do we hope comes of the next ten years in gaming?
We’ve spent the last roughly two months talking about how gaming has evolved over the last decade and how we, as gamers, have changed, as well. A lot has happened in these past ten years, some good, some bad, but one thing is for certain. Gaming is going stronger than it ever has before, reaching…
How I’ve Changed as a Gamer Since 2013
For this last week of personal posts for Virtual Bastion’s tenth (ish) anniversary, we decided it’d be a good opportunity to take a look back at our gaming lives and see how we’ve changed as gamers. We already discussed views and such last week, so this time I think the focus will be on taste…
Then and Now: The ‘Triple A’ Fun Factor
As our tenth anniversary continues, we decided it’d be a good chance to take a look back at the first few months of Virtual Bastion and compare some of our thoughts then with those we hold now. Have we changed over these past few years, or have our opinions solidified? To answer that question in…
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