Tauriq Column, Tauriq Moosa

Stop making me kill animals

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is one of my favourite games but after slaughtering my 6,000th boar, I realised it was playing into an aspect of open world games I wish would end: killing animals. Ubisoft, in particular, is a great offender with its Far Cry franchise requiring characters to hunt down innocent creatures for their “pelts”, … Continue reading Stop making me kill animals

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We need more cosmic horror in games

“As here­to­fore noted, consciousness may have as­sisted our species’ sur­vival in the hard times of prehistory, but as it became ever more intense it evolved the potential to ruin everything if not securely muzzled. This is the problem: We must either out­smart consciousness or be thrown into its vortex of doleful factuality and suffer, as … Continue reading We need more cosmic horror in games

Tauriq 2019, E3, Tauriq Moosa

Some E3 2019 thoughts

Here are my hot takes on unreleased games, judged on marketing videos, that caught my attention because I finished my law exams. So now you have to deal with my bad opinions. Watch Dogs Legion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg7xVsiBelk This is a sequel I did not expect. Oh, I expected a sequel to Watch Dogs 2, but I … Continue reading Some E3 2019 thoughts