Tag Archives: bioware

In Defense of Boring

04.11.12 – 12:20 pm

Poor Jacob Taylor. It boggles my mind when game critics whose opinions I otherwise find to be deep and insightful write off a character like Jacob as “boring.” It’s not that I don’t understand where they’re coming from. I’ve heard it explained to me: he is average, he is unremarkable, his backstory and his problems [...]

By Kris Ligman | Posted in Critique and Analysis, Gaming | Also tagged , , , | Comments (8)

In which Squaresoft wrote a Bioware game. (Spoilers.)

03.20.12 – 12:19 pm

“500 years later…” For years, this was basically all we had to go on for the ending to Final Fantasy VII. It frustrated and captivated my 11-year-old self in ways I can barely describe. What happened? Did they relocate? Did the Planet wipe out humanity in self-preservation, like Bugenhagen suggested? That is still my personal [...]

By Kris Ligman | Posted in Fandom and Misc, Gaming | Also tagged , , , | Comments (8)

‘Dragon Age: Origins’ and a Few Notes on Class

06.02.11 – 2:26 pm

Reposted from PopMatters Moving Pixels. My first attempt at Dragon Age: Origins fell short before I left the prologue. I was bothered about having rolled a dark-skinned city elf only for my family to all be visibly white, and I was further bothered by the city elves’ oppression compounded by the casual rape and murder [...]

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Okay, that took longer than expected.

04.03.11 – 2:44 am

Hey. You were all thinking it.

By Kris Ligman | Posted in Critique and Analysis, TOTAL DISASTER | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Take Your Damn Rivalry Points Like a Man: The Non-Dialectic of Dragon Age II

03.30.11 – 9:12 pm

Reposted from PopMatters Moving Pixels. So, in case you haven’t heard, they’re all bisexual. You may also have heard that the romantic subplots of Dragon Age II are somehow dominating the discourse surrounding the game, presumably directly after whether it’s any good or not. (To which the answer is no, and yes. See my review [...]

By Kris Ligman | Posted in Critique and Analysis, Gaming | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

“One Chance”: Playing with the Notion of Irreversible Consequences

03.27.11 – 6:31 pm

Reposted from PopMatters Moving Pixels. There is a wonderful xkcd strip where one of Randall Munroe’s famous stick figures, in the effort to console his friend, compares a bad break-up to a video game: “Remember when Aeris died in FFVII? It was sad. But you had to keep playing.“ “Actually,” the friend counters, “I downloaded [...]

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Dragon Age: Origins Lets Me Celebrate Girl Power (And Doesn’t Make Me Self-Conscious)

03.27.11 – 5:33 pm

Reposted from PopMatters Moving Pixels. As with about half of PopMatters’ Moving Pixels contributors, I’ve been replaying Dragon Age: Origins and its accompanying DLC and expansion recently in anticipation of the sequel’s release. Admittedly, this is as deeply as I’ve ever gotten into it and I was surprised at the extent to which the writing [...]

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