IGN Review: Pillars of Eternity

March 28, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 2 Comments

Hi everybody – I’m overdue for another post, both on the Farscape Rewatch and Michael Reads Percy Jackson front. Things have been busy preparing for the blog tour for the New Aeneid Cycle re-release, ECCC 2015 this weekend, and Norwescon the next.

I hope to have something new up soon, but in the meantime, take a look at this IGN video review of the just-released Pillars of Eternity. If you’re like me, you consider Baldur’s Gate 2 and Planescape: Torment some of the best PC RPG experiences ever, and the people behind PoE would seem to agree with us. As the IGN reviewer says, it “feels like Neil Gaiman is playing dungeon master.”

I haven’t had time to actually PLAY this yet, but I’m anxious to dive into it.

Free-to-Play Games: The Problem is Perception (IGN article)

July 31, 2013 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

There’s a great post over at IGN titled: “Why Core Gamers Hate Free-to-Play.”

A sample:

There’s a purity in playing a paid game that’s lost in most freemium alternatives. Video games are all about escapism. There’s a certain indecency to thoughts of real-world money intruding into the experience. I believe this is why many gamers prefer a $60 Borderlands 2 experience over a free alternative. Many of us will pay a higher up-front cost to protect the integrity of the play experience.

There really is something off-putting about elements of the real world economy leaking into a game world.