Tag Archives: mass effect 2

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)

Space Jihadists: Mass Effect 2′s DLC “Arrival” Just Keeps Digging Its Hole Deeper

04.11.11 – 9:01 pm

Reposted from PopMatters Moving Pixels. Note: This article contains spoilers for the “Arrival” DLC. No species save humanity seems exempt from being a “racial spokesman” in the Mass Effect franchise, a problem when each species tends to get painted with a broad brush and rarely permitted to overcome that characterization. The asari are defined by [...]

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

“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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