A Viewpoint

      The Mass Effect Trilogy is rightly hailed as one of gaming’s greatest accomplishments that represents pretty much everything that’s phenomenal about Videogames as a medium—fully interactive storytelling that shapes itself based on the choices the player makes, a sprawling and interconnected narrative full of characters you genuinely care about and tops it all off with an all-around satisfying set of rich action-RPG gameplay experience. All of these elements have cemented the trilogy as one of the most memorable and emotionally engaging experience to ever come out of gaming. And while Mass Effect Andromeda didn’t quite reach the astronomical (literally) standards that was the hallmark of the original trilogy, it did improve or should I say, evolved some of the core gameplay elements from the original trilogy like a revamped movement system and increased maneuverability that made combat feel far more fluid and dynamic than anything we'd seen before. While Mass E...

    Spoiler Warning: This article contains huge spoilers for the Mass Effect trilogy, so if you haven't experienced these games yet, I strongly recommend you to skip this. All true forms of Art are essentially imitations of Life, in their own uniquely creative ways. And this applies to Videogames too, or at least to those rare, few ones that truly transcend the limitations of it’s medium to deliver an experience that’s as deeply memorable and evokes enough emotionally affecting responses to be called as indeed something of an Art form. But like all forms of Art that’s ever been crafted, they all have the same thing in common—they all imitate one or multiple facets of Life itself, in ways that are unique, memorable and worth revisiting multiple times. And for videogames that focus on specific aspects of Life such as character developments or character driven storytelling, in all of my years of Gaming, I have never found an experience that’s nearly as memorable and engagi...

    Inside the core of all great videogames ever made, there are multiple inventive gameplay mechanics working their magic. And this article is about celebrating the most groundbreaking and influential gameplay mechanics that have, by virtue of their sheer ingenuity, also made way to an incredibly wide range of videogames. Ever since their debut, these 4 gameplay features have been adapted and implemented in so many different titles throughout the years that they’ve slowly carved their own footprints in videogame history, to the point that right now it's difficult to even imagine videogames without them.     4. Dynamic Cover: Before Gears of War introduced it’s Dynamic Cover system that allowed players to seamlessly move and position themselves in firefights without getting hit , there wasn’t much in terms of cover mechanism in both the first and third person shooter genres. They relied mostly on the good ol’ run-n-gun shooting and any element of cover w...