Tag: RPG
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Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines review
Live out your darkest fantasies in this cult vampire RPG from Troika Games
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Texts vs. Games – Fan Archives and the Elder Scrolls Narrative Universe
How do fan-made archives of a game series’ texts relate to the official titles? Dennis Jansen’s article explains that deciding on canonicality in a fictional universe is no simple task.
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A Change in the Conventions? Video Game Narratives and Non-Monogamy
Non-monogamy in various forms is becoming increasingly visible in the society and media of today, but what is non-monogamy representation like in video games?
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Choices and Consequences and the lure of Dark Souls
What draws players to Dark Souls?
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The Tingleverse: The Official Chuck Tingle Role-Playing Game review
A by the numbers dungeon crawl disguised in a silly outfit
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Stroll Down Memory Lane or a Whole New Experience – Divinity: Original Sin 2 review
A few short words about one of my all time favorite games, Divinity: Original Sin 2. Might be quite a bias review but I am sure it is bound to convince at least some of you to try the game out! If so, my job here is done.
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One Triple Triad to Go, Please! – A Final Fantasy VIII Remastered Review
FinalFantasyVIIIRemastered offers wonderful tools to better optimize your grinding needs!
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Unpopular opinion: Why I think Fallout 76 is actually a pretty decent game
Fallout76 has been criticized as a historically bad Fallout game. I don’t agree with that and here’s why.
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Empires & Puzzles: RPG Quest
Empires & Puzzles: RPG Quest on koukuttava ja monipuolinen roolipelielementein höystetty pulmapeli mobiililaitteille.
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The Library of the Unmourned
RPG tie-in novels are an underappreciated genre.
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When a Role-Playing Game Looks at Itself
In the best tradition of brecht, a RPG can comment itself. In his paper ”The Self-Reflexive Tabletop Role-Playing Game”, Evan Torner studies three different tabletop role-playing games and the ways they reflect upon themselves as games, highlighting the mechanisms of a role-playing game through the mechanisms of play. Self-reflexivity is the quality of an artwork…
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Delta Green: A New Way to Be Uncomfortable with H.P. Lovecraft
Is there a need for cosmic horror when Trump is the President?
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The Hegemonic Masculinity of Rules Lawyering
Rules lawyering as an expression of masculinity.
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The Rolls-Royce Was the Least of It: Fairweather Manor, 1917
Larping upstairs and downstairs in an English manor.
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Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn) review
Status symbol or a genuinely underappreciated classic? Review of Panzer Dragoon Saga.
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Final Fantasy XV
A Final Fantasy for fans and first-timers. Another epic adventure from Square Enix
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Fallout (PC) review
War, war never changes – Fallout Review
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Planescape: Torment (PC) review
Esoteric journey to the center of the multiverse #planescape #torment #review
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Mass Effect: Andromeda
A bit of a mess, Andromeda over-reaches but manages to offer an enjoyable #space #opera #rpg nonetheless.
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Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin and remixing video games
Dark Souls 2: Scholar Of The First Sin presents a new way to remix a game’s play experience.