Can’t we get past all this mage against templar business?  No?  Ok, well then let’s just blow the whole place to hell.

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Like every great band that evolves with age, we have DA2 that has morphed into a tighter DNA strain.  Except, some of the content squeezed out by the sequel is what left us in awe in Origins.  However, Bioware’s DA2 is clearly the best story so far this year, especially in the Fantasy-RPG genre.  Buy it, play it, and exploit it in later comparisons.  Think of the Dragon Age series as Martin Scorsese films: it might take a while to win Game of the Year, but each installment is going to be a blockbuster in its own right. Continue Reading

Prepare the blood splatters!  Seriously.  Kill a few darkspawn and apparently everybody looks like they stood shopside at a meat grinder.  But that’s ok – because that’s why we play Dragon Age.  It’s not all about the glory; sometimes it’s about the mass amount of blood flying through the air.  How it doesn’t annoy the characters is beyond me – I think I’d be continually wiping the blood out of my eyes.

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2010 was a great year in gaming.  For Americans, it showed that the video game industry can thrive even during tough economic times.  For story buffs, we were blessed with a breakout year from Bioware.  FPS loyalists saw more action from Bungie and Call of Duty.

What did we learn though?  We see the trends, hell we even play them, but what did the last 365 days actually teach us about the industry?  Click below to read what permeated the collective braintrust at Glitchoris.com.

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Glitchoris wants you to be happy with everybody in your life; especially those closest to you.  Significant others are just that: significant!  You should be happy and thrilled to see your girlfriend open the door to your apartment.  Cell phone ringing in the next room?  I bet you have a special ringtone saved just for her.

But…life is not always like this.  Sometimes the inaudible sighs say more than our actual words.  Then comes the epiphany.  “Am I actually better off without them?”  That sucks.  It does.  It just kinda sucks.

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For most video gamers, Final Fantasy recalls multiple times in our lives.  We biographically catalog specific years with which game we played.  For me, Final Fantasy VII marked the end of my senior year in high school (2000).  That was not when it was released, which was much earlier in 1997, but rather when I popped the old school black-back disc 1 into my gray squared PS1.  Final Fantasy X takes me back to my junior year of college after my back surgery.  I figured I liked FFVII and FFVIII a great deal (even though I fostered a love/hate relationship with FFIX).  Might as well give myself something to play while I lay on my side and let the stitches heal up.

But then FFXII released.  I was pumped.  I, like most overly-eager obsessives, pre-paid for the game and strategy guide.  I sectioned off a full week from work and duty, with fond memories popped the disc into my dusty PS2, and plopped my nicely healed back onto the couch.  It wasn’t until much later that I realized the game was…well…mostly fluff.

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