Browsing all articles tagged with fantasy.
Shadowrun (SNES)
William Gibson-inspired cyberpunk roleplaying from the comfort of your own console. Play as Jake Armitage is a loose recreation of Shadowrun novel “Never Deal with a Dragon.”
Shining Force
Stoo from A Force For Good appears and delivers an RPG review for our neglected RPG archives. God bless him. And a fantasy title too! That man is a saint.
Heretic
Well, this ought to be an interesting matchup. I hate fantasy, and I love Doom. What happens when you mash them together? Heretic was Raven Software’s fourth game. It cemented a partnership with iD Software that began back with Shadowcaster – Raven’s first-person RPG based on a heavily-modified Wolf3D engine. A similar situation happened here, [...]
Quake
It’s 1996, and the hype machine is in full force. id’s next game is on the horizon. John Carmack has written a true 3D engine that runs just as fast as Doom with no extra hardware required. Gaming rags publish astounding in-game shots of spooky 3D castles and true rooms over rooms. The public-beta-of-sorts Qtest1 [...]
King’s Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
Let me just reiterate something. JGR, in general, is a learning experience. I’m past the point where I’m reviewing my beloved classics, and Static and I both are now spending more time in uncharted territory. I truly am playing the King’s Quest series for the first time, each in order, with little foreknowledge of what’s [...]
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
I’ve made it no secret that I’m not a fan of fantasy, but I try not to be a snob about it. After all, we’re really talking about the same basics here. Whatever your explanation, be it mental power, nanites, arcane mysticism, or the proper incantations from a scroll, the end result is the same [...]