Everyone has a fighting chance
Dragon Age is this generation’s Baldur’s Gate. It is a series built for the ten-year recollection, just like Mass Effect before it, where we sit and recall just how good the old games were and how new games should take the hint. It’s not the battles, not the bloody encounters with fade demons or dark spawn that burn these games into our memory. It’s the choices. The relationships. The story we forge for ourselves. In a nutshell, it’s everything we love about Dragon Age: Inquisition.
The video games industry is relatively porous, and it’s no secret that its subgenres have been borrowing from one another for quite some time. First-person behemoths like Call of Duty have been iteratively employing RPG-like mechanics to bolster their replayability, while MMORPGs such as TERA have taken cues from third-person action games to improve upon traditional MMO combat.
The PlayStation blog has been updated with tons of new screens to show off Bloodborne’s locations and environments. The game will wander from traditional fantasy to more modern gothic settings, all of which eerily evoke a sense of horror as is fitting for a game made by the creators of Dark Souls.
World of Tanks fans will want to check out the live World of Tanks Gold League action as Season 5 kicks off tonight at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. E.S.T. Promotional material indicates that this season brings new challenges to participants due to recent changes to the game that alter key systems.
A new, free DLC is being offered to Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor players that allows them to play as a female character. The character’s name is Lithariel, the Warrior and she is the leader of the Resistance.
Sony Online Entertainment and the Planetside 2 team are celebrating two years of live service. The team has put together a great list of all the updates that the game has undergone in the past two years. In addition, the PS2 team will be hosting a special second anniversary live stream.
MOBA-RPG-CCG Heroes Charge from uPlay has been spruced up for Thanksgiving fun. CorgiKing has joined the fray and is ready to spread holiday cheer through a series of events.
En Masse Entertainment has announced that the TERA: Rising expansion, Fate of Arun, will launch on December 16th. The expansion is free to all players and will see a level cap increase, new skills and a new continent to explore.
After the kerfuffle earlier in the week regarding the removal of offline play for Elite: Dangerous, Dave Braben has come back with a quick Q&A in the latest newsletter. In it, it is revealed that refunds for those disaffected by the decision are possible but only if the game was ordered through the Elite: Dangerous site and if the purchaser has not participated in any alpha or beta events thusfar.
As I made meandered through Draenor in order to level from 94 to 100 this week, I was astonished at the way that all systems seem to feed into one another. Each quest seems to stack upon the next in this at times overwhelming chain of adventure designed to gradually see characters grow to max level and see them geared at least moderately well by the time they hit 100. That’s not to say, of course, that the journey is over at 100, but it is the focus of this week’s article.