It’s amazing how much you forget over a decade. Balancing crosses and liberty bells, expanding and entrenching, galleons and glory. Even if this was a home brewed mod, Civ IV Colonization would be a contender for expansion of the year.
This Sounds Like Fun
September 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on This Sounds Like Fun · Uncategorized
Credit to Randall Munroe at xkcd.
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Grand Theft Peculiar Institution
September 25th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Design
Evan Narcisse has posted the skeleton of a design document over at Crispy Gamer. Though not fully fleshed out – he’s a writer, not a designer – it’s a provocative proposal for an open world action/RPG type game. As we talked, the high concept came into focus: You play as a slave escaping from a […]
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Hinterland Combat Videos
September 24th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Preview, Tilted Mill
Tilted Mill has uploaded a couple of battle movies from their upcoming fantasy city management/RPG Hinterland. Not much to see in them since the videos are both very short and very compressed. You see heroes beating on monsters and then picking up loot. Not a lot of information about the game in that. We do […]
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Spore Review
September 23rd, 2008 · 13 Comments · Electronic Arts, Gameshark, Maxis, Review
The review is up at Gameshark. It’s short, and a little low on original insight, mostly because so much has already been said. I do make a reference to a Broadway composer that most of my audience has no interest in, which I suppose makes me a swishier Kieron Gillen. The review may seem to […]
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The Media Loves Spore
September 22nd, 2008 · 8 Comments · Electronic Arts, Maxis, Media
I’ll have more to say once my review gets uploaded, but I wonder if Spore isn’t the biggest PC title ever released. It will certainly be dismissed by a lot of hardcore gamers, but it has been written about in all the major newspapers, many important newsblogs, and has been getting extended coverage in all […]
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