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      Games to Look Forward to in 2014

      January 30, 2014 /

      2013 was definitely a magnificent year for the gamers of the world. Next level games such as Battlefield 4, Grand Theft Auto V, The Last of Us and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, to name a few, had all the different types of gamers jumping up and down in pure ecstasy. With a year that had so much to offer, one might fear that 2014 might struggle to keep the hype and excitement alive. At the start of each new year, gamers come together, looking around nervously, wondering just what next generation game they will be able to sink their teeth into. It’s always a gamble, like on some https://www.jackgold.com/p/mobile-slots website, as to whether a game will live up to the hype, but luckily, it seems that the future looks promising. Here are three games I’m looking most forward to for 2014.

      The Elder Scrolls: Online

      Release date: 4 April (June for consoles)

      If you’ve played any of the Elder Scrolls games, there is no need for me to remind you why this is one of the most anticipated games of 2014. Set in the same world as the previous instalments, but a thousand years before the adventures of Skyrim, this open world game moves away from the single player mode and into the thrilling territories of online. This brings about a whole new dimension in the form of PvP combat, granted you don’t take an arrow to the knee.

      South Park: The Stick of Truth

      Release date: 4 March

      As an avid fan of South Park, and anything Trey Parker and Matt Stone are involved in writing, you can imagine my excitement when I discovered that the hilarious duo would actually be writing the game too. My excitement reached a whole new level when I realised Obsidian Entertainment (creators of Fallout: New Vegas) would take the developer’s seat. Get ready for some fun shenanigans, South Park style!

      Tom Clancy’s The Division

      Release date: End of 2014

      As a complete sucker for both third-person tactical shooter games as well as mass multiplayer role-playing games, when I read about The Division, which combines both formats, I could hardly contain my excitement. When a deadly pandemic hits, leaving the world battered and chaotic, it is up to the Strategic Homeland Division to pick up the pieces and save whatever remains, no matter the cost. This epic MMORPG will see players come face-to-face with AI, friends and other players.

      By Jason Swindon

      Editorial, Gaming, Video

      How’s Skyrim treating you?

      November 12, 2011 /

      Skyrim

      It’s 11/11/11, which for many of us means a day full of dragon-slaying and tomb-robbing. I thought it might be nice to take a break from all the MOBA talk and see how some RPGs are treating you these days.

      I really thought I was going to take a pass on Skyrim. I do love me some dragons, but the gameplay looked essentially the same as Oblivion, and frankly, graphical improvements to a game do little to impress me. In the end, though, the dragons were enough, so I’m playing alongside all of you.

      What do you think so far? Personally, I’m feeling a bit ambivalent. Parts of the game are certainly fun. There’s nothing quite like launching a bandit across the room with a well-placed arrow. I still find sneaking to be fairly thrilling, if a little too rewarding. But there are things about the game that I simply wish were more engaging, most notably the combat. Combat has always left a bit to be desired in The Elder Scrolls series, but I thought by number five we’d see some improvement. My biggest problem is that the combat system is pretty much just a spam of clicks or a one-shot sneak attack. Very rarely have I found myself in any sort of mortal danger (although my efforts to kill the friendly Nord who helped me out of Helgen proved futile).

      With the shift to console-centric development there has been a noticeable decline in control and menu quality. It’s not that I can’t adapt to these things – I absolutely can – but more that the game takes no advantage of a PC’s particular strengths. Why can I only see a scrolling list of my items or my spells at a time, particularly when they expand from opposite sides of the screen? Why do we not have a better method for displaying some kind of summary of the things we should know about our character?

      I do find the open world playstyle very appealing – it’s nice to not have to follow any one quest should I get bored or interested elsewhere. At the same time, it’s still difficult to ignore the ways the open-ended world hamstrings the story behind the game. [ Extremely Minor Spoiler Ahead ] In an early quest, I was tasked with looking for a dragon that had been spotted just outside the town I was in. I was to find it nearby and kill it – an epic task for an early quest, indeed. But I could have postponed the dragon’s demise indefinitely. I could have run off and tried to become a vampire and spent 400 days trying to infect the rest of Skyrim but on day 401 I could still return to my original quest and the dragon would still be there.

      The end result of this sort of “pausing” of quest lines is that questing has no real urgency. Nothing is at stake. If I don’t feel ready for the task at hand, either because I’m not strong enough or not interested enough or just want to do some other things, I can spend all the time I need to get ready for the quest. It really trashes my immersion with the game to have that sort of external power of the story.

      Nonetheless, I’m enjoying Skyrim. How are you finding it?

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