Spam Spam Spam Humbug 146 – Outward Aurora Dreams
“Outward” – is it everything “Shroud of the Avatar” should have been? And can we all agree that “Commander Keen” was great?
Tagged: Dragon Age: Origins
Spam Spam Spam Humbug 106 – Abstraction
There are some things that are better experienced in a…simplified form.
Spam Spam Spam Humbug 80 – The Three Ultimas on Every Top 100 List
In which we examine — and sass — IGN’s Top 100 RPGs of All Time list.
Spam Spam Spam Humbug 17 – How Necessary Is Combat In RPGs?
How much prominence does combat need to have in an RPG? How necessary should combat be to progressing through — or passing — the game? And is there something “lesser” about including an “easy” difficulty setting?
Spam Spam Spam Humbug 2 – Don’t Knock the Fun
In which WtF Dragon comments on Warren Spector’s SXSW lecture on “the dangers of thinking of games as fun” and raises some objections thereto. Because the real danger is the idea that fun is necessarily the same as escapism.