A Viewpoint

    With the launch of it's very first teaser trailer, Grand Theft Auto 6 instantly became the new internet sensation which almost guarantees that it's destined to be the biggest game of all time, when it finally releases in 2025. And there's no doubt that Rockstar's latest entry in the longstanding and genre-defining series of Open World titles will once again raise the bar of everything that we've come to expect from a Videogame and more----from groundbreaking gameplay innovations to dazzling technical wonders, from nuanced character driven, branched storytelling to never-before-seen elements in it's Open World design that'll make it seem far more lived-in than we've ever seen in a game till date. I'd even go as far as to say that GTA 6 could very well turn out to be a huge leap of evolution in the medium that completely blows us all away and then some.    But personally I'm not too concerned about the ambitions of Rockstar's upcoming video

    Mass Effect Andromeda has long been known as a Black Sheep in the legendary (and rightly so) Mass Effect series of games--centered around a design philosophy that's far removed from most of what made the original trilogy so memorable and endearing, with a lot more focus on exploration and combat than story and characters, Andromeda literally took the series in a direction that no one had expected or even wanted to. And the result is the game being almost unequivocally touted as a massive disappointment among gamers and critics alike, even accused as the sole reason for the series to be put "on ice" by EA.     But after having my fair share of time with Andromeda, I realized that the game is a lot more misunderstood than otherwise, and part of the reason is that it's viewed almost exclusively through the tenets of the original trilogy. Sure it doesn't really have the memorable beats and the emotional hooks of the past 3 titles and all of their hallmarks, but be