I love a good character creator. Hair? Yes. Faces? Yes. Body options, makeup, tattoos, scars, colours, voices? Yes. Let me rotate the character properly and see what I’m doing while we’re at it. My considered position on character customization is essentially: yes....
An RPG can give you an enormous map, hundreds of NPCs, several cities and enough map markers to make the local cartographer quietly resign. None of that necessarily makes its world feel alive. We’ve all seen game worlds that are technically full of things but somehow...
I have unfinished games, and then I have unfinished games. Sometimes I start something, discover that I’m not particularly enjoying myself, and stop. No tragedy occurs. The game and I simply acknowledge that this relationship has run its course and go our separate...
