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People Can Fly Outriders height of consumption high fun no substance, garners media attention regardless

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Outriders Is the Height of Consumption

By Elijah BeahmApril 14, 2022

Dead Space 2 Visceral Games evolves traditional horror and fear with fluid action gameplay and emotional dread with Nicole

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Dead Space 2 Understands There’s More to Horror Than the Bogeyman

By Elijah BeahmMarch 31, 2022

Nier: Automata from PlatinumGames is louder, more melodramatic, less subtle than Yoko Taro Nier

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How Nier: Automata Pulls Players into Yoko Taro’s Weirdness

By Elijah BeahmMarch 17, 2022

modern Star Wars TV movies games media still does not live up to KOTOR 2 Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords at Obsidian Entertainment

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Modern Star Wars Still Hasn’t Done Better Than KOTOR 2

By Elijah BeahmMarch 3, 2022

Biomutant is an unfocused failure that tries to be every genre at Experiment 101, an evolutionary dead end.

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Biomutant Is an Evolutionary Dead End

By Elijah BeahmFebruary 17, 2022

Dying Light: The Following is final story narrative ending end to Dying Light 1

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Dying Light: The Following Ends the Dying Light Story for Good

By Elijah BeahmFebruary 3, 2022

A Plague Tale: Innocence tries, fails to be prestige and survival horror at Focus Entertainment Asobo Studio, maybe Requiem can improve

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A Plague Tale: Innocence Can’t Decide If It’s Prestige or Horror

By Elijah BeahmJanuary 20, 2022

Aliens: Fireteam Elite dead game no updates weak player base limited variety repetition Cold Iron Studios

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Is Aliens: Fireteam Elite a Dead Game Walking?

By Elijah BeahmJanuary 6, 2022

Fast & Furious Crossroads Second Look Slightly Mad Studios colossal mess but bad in a fun good way

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Fast & Furious Crossroads Is a Colossal Mess That You Just Might Love

By Elijah BeahmSeptember 2, 2021

second look quake id software remaster excellent classic eternal thanks to brilliant design and long-term official mod support, Trenchbroom

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The Brilliance of Quake Is Eternal

By Elijah BeahmAugust 26, 2021

Mass Effect 1 aged worse than Mass Effect: Andromeda BioWare ambition skills evolve

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Mass Effect 1 Has Aged Worse Than Andromeda

By Elijah BeahmAugust 19, 2021

BioWare Mass Effect 2 lack of choice in series editor not writer of Shepard, choice in tone, feeling, character attitudes, not core story outcome

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In Mass Effect 2, You’re the Editor, Not the Writer of Your Own Story

By Elijah BeahmAugust 12, 2021

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