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Moral Conflict, Character Development and Consequences: A Dragon Age Origins Review

Will Ooi — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:15:34 +0000

RPGs tend to always intimidate me before I start one: upon estimating the hours I'm going to need to commit towards understanding the equipment system, not to mention navigating all those menus and grasping the fictional history as well as figuring out the combat tactics, it worries me ever so greatly and yet, strangely, I am never sufficiently put off enough to avoid the genre altogether. The worry stems from a selfishness: a concern borne out of a fear of what will happen to me if I actually like the game. Or rather more specifically, what will happen to me if I actually, sincerely, love the game.

Modern Warfare 2: A Post-Completion Discussion

Will Ooi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:49:09 +0000

(Spoilers of course.) It was all over far too soon. With barely a moment to rest or let your guard down to admire the amazing environments and graphical details of the year’s biggest release, the campaign mode of Modern Warfare 2 – whilst inarguably exhilarating from start to finish – wasn’t quite what I was hoping it [...]

A Fallout 3 Investment Property of a Lifetime

Will Ooi — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Selfish housemates getting on your nerves? Time to move out? Well ahoy there!! I, Landlord Lucantile of Alexandria Arms, am extremely pleased to offer you – YES YOU! – the investment property opportunity of a lifetime! An absolutely stunning three storey complex. Of course, only one of those floors is operable and there isn’t much [...]

GTA IV: The Lost and Damned: Sydney

Will Ooi — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Art imitating life imitating art. No sooner has The Lost and Damned DLC been released that GTA IV has come to Australia; and this time I’m not talking about game release dates. Witnesses have up to this point neither confirmed or denied rumours that Niko Bellic and/or Johnny Klebitz were at the scene According to [...]

You Know You’ve Played Too Much Fallout 3…

Will Ooi — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:00:00 +0000

… when such an historic, worldly significant day like this …just makes you think, immediately, of this… …and this Photo credits: 1, 2

A Fallout 3 Review/Confession

Will Ooi — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000

Originally posted here ~ [I will probably get in trouble if certain people read this blog. But here it is anyway] A bit of context, just to get it out of the way early on: I tend to take my gaming addictions a bit far sometimes, and I absolutely love open world games. GTA III [...]

Candid Confessions From a 360 Achievement Points Chaser

Will Ooi — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Back in the day before Xbox 360 Achievements (and now PS3 Trophies), completing certain tasks in gaming were only done to attain a level of accomplisment and pride that existed at the very core of video games. After all, why else would we even bother playing anything in the first place if there was no [...]

Saints ROWned? Why Saints Row 2 Might Well Be A GTA IV Killer

Will Ooi — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:00:00 +0000

“Pompous” comments regardless, there’s a reason why Volition, the developers of Saints Row, are feeling so confident even if they delayed the release of the upcoming Saints Row 2 to steer clear of the GTA IV effect. Having played through Rockstar’s epic twice and enjoyed every minute of it, I needed another sandbox hit of [...]

Console Superheroes!

Will Ooi — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:00:00 +0000

The video game battle has raged on for over 20 years with more and more casualties announced each generation. This time round, who will win the fight? 360 Man In his former incarnation as just plain old ‘XBox Man’, 360 Man took his time and used his big weapon: connection infrastructures, to plan the perfect [...]