While games are good primarily due to good gameplay, good characters are a large part of what makes a game fun and memorable. Getting to know them is often as interesting as the overarching story itself, and I dare say many of us have thought about who we’d like to hang out with IRL were…
Tag: Mass Effect
Listmas 2024 – Friendship Goals in Games
For us players, having fun and interesting characters to pal around with is something that can easily enhance any game. However, it’s just as fun to watch best friends do their thing completely independent of us too. There’s just something about knowing that our virtual companions have lives of their own too, you know? So,…
Listmas 2024: Gaming’s Best Buddies
At last the Christmas season has come again, and so has Listmas, one of our longest- running traditions here at Virtual Bastion! As Cary explained earlier this week, this year we’re looking at the best gifts in gaming: all the friends, allies and companions we’ve gotten to journey with over the years. As fun as…
Listmas 2023: Gaming Goodies for BioWare Buffs
It goes without saying that I enjoy BioWare’s games. True that I’ve not played each and every game the studio has offered since its inception, but I can say that I love their brand of gaming. Deeply narrative, infused with choice, and set in imaginative worlds, BioWare has hit some lasting homeruns with the likes…
Scariest Environment: The Great, Wide Open
You know the feeling. That feeling of entering a big, open space after traversing an obstacle-filled landscape and knowing that a battle against a formidable foe is about to take place. Yeah, that feeling. I can think of no greater moment of dread than that one, especially the first time you encounter such in any…
Scariest enemy: The bigger they are, the faster I run!
When I look back at my past in gaming, I don’t know if I can pinpoint the origin of this particular fear. My first encounter with a thresher maw in Mass Effect comes readily to mind. If there was anything before that, it might have been one of many of the massive demons in Doom…
Characters Good Enough to Love…and Hate
As I mentioned last week, I’ve recently picked up Baldur’s Gate 3, and it’s sort of been my obsession ever since. A big part of it is the tactical gameplay and how you can stumble across interesting quests in the weirdest places, but it’s also due to the writing.
Only One “First”
This past week, my game of choice has been Dredge. It’s a fishing game with eldritch horror elements, and I’ve found myself really enjoying the progression of both the atmosphere and fishing gameplay. I’ve also rather enjoyed learning more about this mysterious world I’m playing in and pulling back the layers of its core mystery….
New Thoughts on Old DLC in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (Part 2 of 2)
Thanks for coming back for part two of my thoughts on the Mass Effect Legendary Edition‘s DLC. You can check out part one, but, in sum: I recently completed my first playthrough of the remaster, which while awesome, was made totally awesome thanks to its DLC, all of which was new to me. While the…
New Thoughts on Old DLC in Mass Effect Legendary Edition (Part 1 of 2)
I recently completed what will surely be the first of many playthoughs of Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and let me just say, I am impressed. Granted, while its upgrades are notable (mostly within the first game), this remaster isn’t far flung from the original Mass Effect trilogy. Players still get to navigate their own Commander…
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