In Progress: Dragon Age: Origins

Holy cow.

Holy cow.

No, wait. I can get this.

Holy cow!

I have never been a huge fan of the pause-and-command games of the tactical, top-down, RPG variety: Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, etc. I know this seems strange, since I absolutely adore a well-made turn-based, top-down strategy RPG (Final Fantasy Tactics being my gold standard), and I do love games that let me pause to issue menu and battle commands while stopped.

For whatever reason, those two interests never quite intersected for me. That is, until I started playing Dragon Age: Origins.

In the interest of keeping this review on-target, I will be ranting about Bioware, and talking about the episodic 2D Flash-based game, Dragon Age: Journeys, in their respective posts.

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In Progress: The Last Remnant

This is the name I will use when I want to get down to brass tacks regarding a game that I plan on finishing, but am not far enough in to warrant a full review. For this example, I have chosen The Last Remnant, which is something a little difficult to be critical about because I am presently not very far in, though I have put in over a dozen hours already.

I should say that, for the record, I chose to wait for the PC version to come to Steam because I had heard of some of the terrible framerate issues plaguing the 360 version. For this reason, I will also try to record some of the scenes that I am talking about, so that it gives a clearer picture of the game.

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