A couple of weeks ago we had another one of those releases from gog, some classics of PC gaming, that reminds us why we’re grateful they exist. I don’t mind that they’ve added indie games to the lineup, if it helps keep them in good financial health, but I’m glad to see the commitment to […]

Hello everyone and welcome to the third incarnation of A Force For Good. That is, the site where Rik and I write about old PC games. The previous version was based on a basic scratch-built CMS I wrote eight years ago, and was rather in need of modernising. Unfortunately, that was going to take a […]

Disney Closes Game Publisher LucasArts I’d have to admit I haven’t played a Lucasarts game in over a decade, and couldn’t really tell you anything about their current output. But this is still a sad moment for those of us who were PC gamers back in the 90s. Apart from Star Wars stuff, they were […]

Recently we had some great news in the world of retro gaming – System Shock 2 finally made its way onto gog.com. So after many years in the wilderness, you can once again buy a copy of the classic scifi-horror themed shooter-rpg hybrid. This did however inspire me to ponder, other games that are yet […]

Hello everyone. Many years ago Rik wrote about the classic artillery game Worms. I recently picked it up on GOG.com and, for once actually sat down to play rather than let it gather virtual dust on the virtual GOG bookshelf. So here are a few comments. I know I’ve not posted much lately, I’m sure […]

Hi and welcome to the latest in our ongoing series of game discussions. This time we thought we’d try ourselves against a big-name, relatively recent title. If (like us) you live under a rock and don’t keep up with modern gaming, Mass Effect is an action-RPG from the prolific Bioware. It uses third-person cover-shooter type […]

We’re Going back to Solstheim And it looks like there’s some Morrowind-style buildings. iirc some Dunmer fled there after Morrowind itself got trashed. Could be a good way of appealing to player nostalgia, without having to do a full-game-sized landmass. I’ve held off from expansions so far, after spending far too much time playing Skyrim […]

If you follow geek news, or movie news, or probably any news at all, you’ve probably heard that Disney has spent about a bajillion dollars buying Lucasfilm from George Lucas. The most important aspect of this is, of course, that they plan on making new Star Wars films. Which I’m cautiously optimistic about – after […]

So a while back I wrote about my disillusionment with action-rpgs. Well, lately I had another go at Torchlight and thoroughly enjoyed it. This is, frankly, a bit confusing. At its heart its exactly the same thing as Titan Quest or Diablo 2. Hours of dashing around click click clicking firing off the same 2 […]

Hello everyone. I finally caved in and bought Skyrim a few weeks back. And have of course been playing obsessively, running jobs for the Thieves Guild, slaying dragons and shouting bandits off clifftops. So not a lot of retro-gaming going on, alas. However I did make myself take a break long enough to play some […]