Tag: Red Dead Redemption
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AMT: Why Was 2013 a Terrible Year for Videogames? Part Two
Michael draws his conclusions.
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Games of the Generation – Part 4: The Sublime
In the age of the Romantic poets the idea of the sublime came to mean an overwhelming, almost religious feeling of awe in the face of nature; an intoxicating mixture of pleasure and fear. The Romantic poets and wealthy patrons flocked to the Alps in droves, and those snow capped wonders to them couldn’t have…
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We Play Games – Games of the Generation
With the new generation of consoles looming, Zoey asks some of the team which games were the highlights of this generation for them.
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The Future of Video Games – 1 of 2: Gamers Change, Games Don’t
Giles has been thinking about the strangely stubborn nature of the mainstream video games industry, and how it will soon change.
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Into the West
After nearly two years, Susan decides it’s time to return to Red Dead Redemption, a game which holds particular significance for her.
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Do ALL The Things!
How important is it for you to reach 100% completion on a game? I don’t just mean playing until the credits roll, I’m talking about RPGs and epic sandboxes that give you a nice little statistics page, where you can view how many of what you’ve completed/collected and a percentage of how much you’ve done.…
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The (Almost) Perfect Game
Before I go on I’m going to give you all a textual wave *wave* and a ‘hello’ for my inaugural blog on Ready Up! I’m excited, nervous and giddy about this position and the opportunities it’ll bring, and not because I’ve just eaten a whole tube of smarties in under a minute, either. If you’re…
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Travels from My Armchair
It’s an often acknowledged fact that since the creation of cinema, even more so than literature before it, people have been able to live richer lives and experience places and events they’d only ever be able to dream of. Whilst literature relied on the reader to use their imagination to summon up images of far…
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Run To The Hills
LA. Noire is no doubt one of the most anticipated games of 2011. There’s a very good reason for this – it’s because Rockstar are good at making faces, or something. I kid, the real reason is that they’ve managed to get their paws on some newfangled camera thing that tracks the movement and expressions…
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No More Mr. Nice Guy
You may have noticed that more and more games are including a morality system, where you can forge your own path making right and/or wrong along the way. The majority of games that feature this method of play are all role-playing games — most notably the Fallout series and the Fable trilogy. When I’d first…