Raz Review: "I have been waiting, no, praying for a KOTOR/Mass Effect-style RPG from Bioware to hit the PS3...and here it is! In fact - here is quite a lot of it. This thing is bloody massive.
I'm not talking about the world of Ferelden, which actually looks deceivingly small - I've visited about 3 major towns and it's taken me almost a month to get that far. As ONE character, I haven't even looked at the other origin stories yet. My dear sweet lord; there is a lot of conversation in this game. You might almost say that conversation is the game, spiced up with battles and loot and magic and upgrades and missions and a storyline. If you're the sort to forge ahead, just skipping all the encounters with liberal use of the square button, then it's unlikely you're the sort of person who'll get much out of this game unless you're into real-time group management combat.
People like me, however, LOVE this kinda stuff. It's called 'building character', and no, I don't mean in the traditional leveling up way (though there's certainly plenty of that, Final Fantasy style w/tactics, powers, potion-making, trap-making and dungeon crawling). I mean in the way that one of those old 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books would allow you to begin with something generic and end up with a nuanced person as the end product of your choices and interactions. And of course, you've a camp full of women (and men!) who just might be a little sweet on you; so there are romantic options to explore as well (thank you, Bioware, for remaining true to that added dimension. Now when are we going to get a proper, uncensored love scene? Even softcore nudity would be nice..).
It's KOTOR, Mass Effect and Final Fantasy in a medieval setting. How can you go wrong? Complain about eye-candy if you want (water effects, framerates), I don't care. Because the people who enjoy this game will enjoy it for the story, the characters, the dialogue, the detailed RPG elements and the voluminous depth of interactivity - the very best RPGs will always get these right, and actually make you care what happens enough to go back and reload an old save so you can take a different path."
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Rated: 9/10
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
