The Opinionated Gamer

Friday, January 22, 2010

Closure in gaming.

My journey into Dragon Age: Origins as a Dalish Rogue is now ended. It has been a couple of weeks since I completed my first playthrough and I am quite satisfied with the way the game wraps things up after one has defeated the last boss. I have also started the origins of every other character type combination I hadn't hitherto and am very pleased with those. Every origin is very well thought out, so far my favorite, however is that of the Dwarven Noble.

One thing Bioware does well is endings. For every game since Baldur's Gate to DA:O, the closing scenes and accompanying narrative have been handled with great care, making sure the player gets the most out of the decisions he/she made earlier in the game. I wonder what sort of surprises the Awakening expansion will hit us with...

Finishing off Xenosaga 2 from my pile of backlogged games. The gameplay is scant and the game seems to have been shortened greatly by way of montages, especially at the end of disc 1 and starting disc 2. This way of presenting the story reminded me of the way Xenogears' second disc was handled, i.e. narration by one or two of the main characters with little to no involvement from the player. Can't say it's a bad game, but if does feel like much was left out for the sake of releasing it on schedule.

The original Persona on PSOne is trickling slowly. I've taken it for a spin only once this year and a short spin at that. Once Xenosaga 2 is out of the way I'll be hitting this baby as my DA:O alternative and making sure I keep up with my resolution to play through all Persona's before the year is through.

On a sad not, Crispy Gamer is no more. I will miss this site dearly as I only discovered it 3 months ago and have personally found that most gaming journalism sites and magazines are sorely lacking in editorial content. The Escapist Magazine is the only other such publication of that kind. Let's see what sort of thing comes out of the refuse there...

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