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Knights of the Old Republic #TBT

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Knights of the Old Republic #TBT Game I'm going all the way back to 2003 for this one. The woman on woman content is...limited, but it was a step in gaming and an important one. The first, and most of the attempts afterward, toward LGBT representations in Triple A gaming was made by Bioware. They jumped in fully with Jade Empire and then decided same sex relationships were worth regular inclusion in the Dragon Age and Mass Effect franchises. The fact that there are way more LGBT characters in Star Wars video games than in the movies is irritating. How many more? Infinity percent more since there are some in the games and none in the movies. But that's a rant for later. The gameplay is fun, not quite turn based strategy, although you can turn that feature on if you'd like, but it's also not a true real-time action game. In traditional RPG fashion, you kill monsters, complete quests, gain experience, upgrade stats, gain new skills, and improve gear. There...

Choices: Stories You Play

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  Choices: Stories You Play Tablet/Phone Game from Pixelberry Studios If you're Gen-X you'll probably remember the joy of Choose Your Own Adventure books. They were short, fun, and gave you a strange sense of license over reading, which is normally a passive experience. Sure, most of the choices led to grisly deaths, but that just meant I got to use TWO bookmarks like holding an old save game file back in case of emergency. I've always loved collecting and using bookmarks. Total win-win. Choices is one of roughly a billion apps trying to recreate the experience of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. There are Episodes and Chapters and Experiences and...I'm really not going to play and review all of them, mostly because that would take time out of playing Choices. Emily, coming in hot! Let's talk gameplay! ...yeah, there isn't much, but who cares? It's a reading game. There are a few timed thingies, memory tests, and matching, but these ...