Category Archive: Video games

May 25 2005

KOTOR2 getting an ending?

A couple months ago, I complained about the ending to several games, including Knights of the Old Republic 2. I happened upon this site on my travels thru the net today. These people are making a comprehensive mod to reinsert the endings, dialog, cutscenes, and even playable sections back into KOTOR2. Damn, this game might …

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May 21 2005

The adventure game genre festers

sigh...2 more lousy adventure games. The Moment of Silence Where to begin with this shitfest? The game is set in about 100 years in the future (I think...they barely talk about the world they inhabit), and you play a generation-Y ad executive who witnesses his neighbor being taken away by the SWAT team. Since the …

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Feb 19 2005

3 Fantastic Games with Crappy Endings

Intriguing people isn't easy. One has to come up with something original, opaque, but tantalizing. Philip K. Dick was good at this, coming up with mysterious/compelling scenarios that drew in a reader. But following through on these proves to be even more difficult. Once you've wound up so much intrigue, it's nearly impossible to come …

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Jul 10 2004

Finally someone made a worse game than the 11th Hour

Last night I threw a game away without finishing it. Out of the cd drive and into the trash can. Here's why: Flash back to the infancy of computer games. From roughly '93-'95 typical personal computers were capable of displaying video. Think of the possibilities! We can now make multimedia entertainment featuring...video! The only problem …

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