The Witcher 3

Released in 2015, The Witcher 3 quickly advanced to become the new high standard of action role playing games - of all times. CD Project Red, a polish studio, created a masterpiece of a video game based on the characters of novels by polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. This game eats away at your time and is an amazing ending to the great Witcher Trilogy. Such high praise cannot be given to every game - although there are some out there. In fact, I’ve written about one of them in the past, Dragon Age Origins. But, despite all the praise, there are also some things wrong with this game and I’ll address them as well. Unfortunately, it was one of the core elements that didn’t really resonate with me at all, the combat. Let's get this out of the way so we can focus on the good parts and end on a high note, shall we?

Borderlands

The last post about games dates back a while as I’ve ramped up the “Metalhead” part of Typical Nerd. Having visited Gamescom this summer I’m currently very keen on playing (thanks to two weeks of vacation there was also plenty of time for that). This field report is about a shooter with some RPG elements, namely Borderlands. Shortly after Gamescom I finished the second version of this program in co-op, after playing through the first one a few months earlier. Read on to find out whether I liked it or not.

Well, I guess I spoiled that teaser by already admitting to having finished Borderlands 1 and 2. Anyway, here’s the story…