I’m sure it’s happened to you: you’re playing a game and you come across a weapon, or ability, or game mechanic that you just love, and you wish you could use it all the time. Only you can’t, because the developer has placed restrictions on it in the name of balance. It’s understandable that you …
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Category Archives: Rogue Solutions
The Goggles, They Do Everything
29/04/2010 - 12:47
On the PC, Only the Maximum Settings Are Canon
07/12/2009 - 13:18
The eternal cycle that plagues us PC gamers is the constant need to upgrade our hardware, to keep up with the newest and shiniest games. It’s not just the fact that we need a rig that passes a new game’s minimum requirements and barely manages to run the game at all - we desire more …
Avataritis
16/10/2009 - 14:39
There’s a condition spreading rather like wildfire in the gaming medium – and no, it’s not a strain of the influenza. The latest game to fall prey to this affliction is Obsidian’s Alpha Protocol:
“Michael Thornton is you. He’s been specifically designed as a blank canvas; a host for your own personality and playing style.”1
This is …
Dark Forces, Rogue Leaders and Goodwill
29/09/2009 - 19:35
LucasArts recently re-released their long-running, beloved Jedi Knight series digitally on Steam to a rather ecstatic response to boot; only, a major wrench got thrown in the gears when the parties responsible failed to appropriately revise the games for the most current generation of operating systems. As a result, the three earliest releases - Dark …
Max’s Brazilian Wax
19/09/2009 - 18:24
Max Payne 3 so far: The main character’s identity removed. The location, look and feel changed. The gameplay mechanics altered. The original voice actor, James McCaffrey, replaced. Multiplayer added. Max Payne 3, Rockstar promises, has “…Max as we’ve never seen him before, a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever”1
Changed, changed, changed …