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CAGcast #662: An Especially Special Thanksgiving Special

The kids join us for this especially special Thanksgiving Special. We talk Fortnite Crew, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Xbox Series X impressions and so much more! Watch us live on Twitch, Wednesdays at 9pm ET.

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At last, too much of a good thing? Thoughts on Assassins Creed Odyssey

Posted by warreni, in game review 19 August 2020 - - - - - - · 0 views
ubi, action-adventure and 4 more...
Assassins Creed Odyssey (or Assassin's Creed: Odyssey ?) is the latest in Ubisoft's long line of Assassins Creed titles. The 2018 title followed hard upon the release of 2017's Assassins Creed Origins , which did, at least, actually provide a kind of origin story for the order of Assassins. Odyssey uses the same engine and reuses many of the earlier tit...

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Enjoy your lockdown inside The Complex

Posted by warreni, in game review 04 April 2020 - - - - - - · 0 views
fmv, adventure and 1 more...
You've probably heard of or played Late Shift . It's been in the Game Pass for XBONE and it's been out for a few years now. It's the story of an ordinary bloke (I have to pull out my Briticisms for this review, so my fellow colonists will have to pardon me) who gets caught up in a botched jewelry heist at an auction. It's also one of the breakout games fr...

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance keeps tripping over its own feet

Posted by warreni, in game review 23 March 2020 - - - - - - · 0 views
RPG, buggy, Bohemian and 3 more...
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a game that I really wanted to like, even though I had my doubts about it from the beginning. The skeleton of a really good game is in here, and the game has interesting characters, a well-crafted story (from what I can tell), and a levelling system that shows meaningful growth of the protagonist. However, it's just constantl...

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Sony's Spider-Man (PS4) is the best Spider-Man movie you've never seen

Posted by warreni, in game review 29 January 2020 - - - - - - · 1402 views
spider-man, web-slinging and 6 more...
Spider-Man is great. I mean, the Sony Spider-Man game released in 2018, not Spider-Man 3 or The Amazing Spider-Man or Spider-Man: Homecoming. Those things were terrible and best relegated to the dustbin of history. Nothing in Insomniac's track record (which includes odds and ends like the reputable shooter series Resistance for PS3 and the hipster-do...

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The Outer Worlds is a brief, entertaining ride

Posted by warreni, in game review 08 December 2019 - * * * * - · 2644 views
obsidian, silent-protagonist and 5 more...
I finished The Outer Worlds last night after investing what I'm guesstimating was around 25 hours into it. I'm guesstimating because with Game Pass games there's no real way to track your time, unless you use a third-party utility like Gameplay Time Tracker. Weirdly this is not something that exists in the current iteration of the Xbox WIndows 10 app. In...

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Assassins Creed Origins is an Assassins Creed game

Posted by warreni, in game review 29 November 2019 - * * * * * · 2366 views
action-adventureancient-egypt and 6 more...
So. . . Assassins Creed Origins . There is some truth to the idea that if you've played one AC game, you've played all of them. This also extends to a certain degree to many other Ubisoft-published titles. They are vast open worlds with a plethora of mission content and objectives. You have a protagonist on a personal quest for revenge for some injustice...

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Planet Zoo beta impressions

Posted by warreni, in game musings 08 October 2019 - - - - - - · 2389 views
beta, kinda-sorta-review, sim
I've pretty much finished my time (about 2.5 hours) with the Planet Zoo beta. This seemed like an opportune moment to share my thoughts on what seems to work and what doesn't. Frontier has a long history with this sort of thing, which may surprise you if you only know them as the folks who made Elite: Dangerous and Planet Coaster . Frontier didn't reall...

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Moral ambiguity in a world of assassins

Posted by warreni, in game musings 10 August 2019 - * * * * - · 3543 views
assassinscreed, bayek, hyena and 1 more...
I've been playing a lot of Assassins Creed: Origins lately, and I've run across something interesting. I haven't played an Assassins Creed game since ACII (and I only got about 75% of the way through that one). My recollection is that these are not games with lots of grey areas. The protagonist is the player-identification figure and it's largely assume...

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Tyranny is good but it could be better

Posted by warreni, in game review 13 July 2019 - - - - - - · 3483 views
Obsidian, RPG, isometric
I finished my first and probably only playthrough of Tyranny today. It's a different kind of Obsidian RPG, and not just because of its premise that you're playing an enforcer for the bad guy who's enslaved most of a civilized world. It's different because it's oddly linear. The game starts with an opening sequence where you make decisions about how recen...

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With Pillars II, Obsidian knocked another one out of the park

Posted by warreni, in game review 23 March 2019 - - - - - - · 6719 views
RPG, isometric, pirates, gods and 2 more...
Yes, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire IS trying to kill you. Scratch that. It already did. Hm. . . spoiler alert? In the first few seconds of PoE II , you die. But. . . you get better (that was a fairly unsubtle Princess Bride reference, for anyone who's counting). This is Obsidian's novel way of allowing you to rejigger your character while still havi...

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More random, not-at-all-deep thoughts

Posted by warreni, in game musings, general musings 04 December 2018 - - - - - - · 3747 views
Xbone, PC, games, thoughts
I got tired of futzing around with other things so I jumped back into Pillars of Eternity II this week. I continue to be impressed with it--the game has improved on the systems from the original, including multiclassing and character advancement as well as the characters themselves. Even the crew members of your ship are distinct personalities.  
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The Mirror Lied, well, it's a headscratcher

Posted by warreni, in game review 12 November 2018 - - - - - - · 3607 views
adventure, bizarre
Back in 2008, Kan Gao made a short prototype game called The Mirror Lied . You may have run across some of the music before. It's in the same visual style as his later and more well-known adventure, To The Moon . On its 10th anniversary, he released it on Steam, probably mostly just to screw with people.  
This is a very short (I finished in in 28 mi...

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Jurassic Park game tells an interesting story in an annoying way

Posted by warreni, in game review 10 November 2018 - - - - - - · 4656 views
Telltale, adventure
Telltale Games's solitary venture into Jurassic Park territory in 2011 is a bit of a departure from its older and newer games. It is a mixture of QTEs and mostly-trivial puzzle elements laden over a skeletal structure of an action narrative. The distinctions between this other Telltale games are twofold: the prevalence of QTEs in general as well as QTEs t...

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Doctor Who game turns out to be rather crappy

Posted by warreni, in game review 04 November 2018 - - - - - - · 3002 views
match-3, puzzle, Doctor Who
I wanted to like this game, and I tried to like it. I wasted a lot of time and enjoyed playing Tiny Rebel's previous Doctor Who -themed game, Legacy , which is a fairly-conventional match-3 puzzle game with simple stories, a wide array of characters from the show, and a variety of mechanics that keep the boards interesting. This was the company's first ef...

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Bad week to be an arachnophobe

Posted by warreni, in general musings 28 October 2018 - - - - - - · 2922 views
games, TV
I've gotten back into tinkering with characters in Injustice 2 again. I had more-or-less abandoned it after the Legendary update, mostly because I was annoyed that my efforts to boost characters up to level 20 weren't terribly meaningful in the face of the new mechanics and increased level cap. I noticed today that, if you play the Halloween-themed multi...

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Pillars of Eternity provides a real old-school isometric RPG experience

Posted by warreni, in game review 15 October 2018 - - - - - - · 2599 views
Baldurs Gate, RPG, isometric and 1 more...
I will provide this caveat up-front: Pillars of Eternity is not a game that welcomes you in with open arms. What I mean by that is, it's actually a fairly easy game to stop playing. It doesn't suck you in right away, and this is in part to things seeming vaguely familiar and simultaneously wholly unfamiliar. Who is Eothas? What is Waidwen's Legacy? Who...

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First impressions: The Desolation of Mordor

Posted by warreni, in game musings 11 May 2018 - - - - - - · 6374 views
Shadow of War, LOTR and 6 more...
The last story DLC for Shadow of War , The Desolation of Mordor, was just released, and I spent a little time with it last night. In it, you play as Baranor the Gondorian captain, last seen near the end of the main game's campaign as he is rescued by brooding ranger Talion and love interest Idril. For some inexplicable reason, Baranor is now on his own, s...

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Franchise-killer Andromeda suffers from being a merely-okay Mass Effect game

Posted by warreni, in game review 07 May 2018 - * - - - - · 6122 views
action RPG, Mass Effect, BioWare and 3 more...
Mass Effect: Andromeda had a very challenging remit from its inception: wipe away the lingering bad taste left in the mouths of many gamers after the disappointing (to many) ending of Shepard's saga and ignite gamers' passions for a new series of adventures with a new protagonist and a new crew in a new part of the universe. It was a Herculean task, and...

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Batman: The Enemy Within is a fascinating Joker origin story

Posted by warreni, in game review 23 April 2018 - - - - - - · 4485 views
adventure, Telltale, Batman and 2 more...
I recently finished Telltale's second take on the Batman mythos on the Xbox One because a) I got it cheap, and b) there's no practical difference between playing a Telltale game on a PC or a console--they're both a string of QTEs and dialog-choices, so button-presses of variable complexity and celerity, at the end of the day. I haven't played one of Tellt...

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Shadow of War is 3/4 of a good game, but it may be getting better?

Posted by warreni, in game review 03 April 2018 - - - - - - · 6722 views
Shadow of War, Tolkien and 5 more...
I've played 83% of Talion's story in Shadow of War , and it's better than you've read and also pretty much exactly the same. The first 3/4 of the game resembles Shadow of Mordor , and that's largely a good thing. The last Act is called the Shadow Wars; I won't get too spoiler-y here, other than to say it involves a series of twenty fortress defenses of in...

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