Tyler Colp

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, Review | Life Is Strange: Episode 5 – Polarized 4 years, 1 month ago

The final episode of Life Is Strange, Polarized, feels more like two separate episodes. There’s the first half, where Maxine Caulfield escapes from Mark Jefferson’s disturbing basement. And the second half: Max […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, Metal Gear Solid V is this year’s Far Cry 4 years, 2 months ago

Metal Gear Solid V is basically Far Cry, specifically Far Cry 3 and 4. It’s got the open world, the variety of weapons, the sneaking options, the firefight options, and the base capturing. Heck, it’s even got […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, 2 World of Warcraft: Legion features that new and returning players need to pay attention to 4 years, 3 months ago

If you’re someone who played World of Warcraft a long time ago or someone who has managed to avoid it all these years, it’s hard to get interested in new expansions. It’s a bunch of features and tweaks to existing […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, 2 revealing Dark Souls 3 theories from the new Gamescom trailer 4 years, 3 months ago

The Dark Souls 3 trailer is stuffed with several shots from the game, but there’s still so little context and information to go on. It’s hard to tell who is who and what is what. But there’s a couple things that […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, 3 fantastic Life Is Strange Ep. 4 moments that are as good as The Walking Dead Season 1 4 years, 3 months ago

One of the many reasons Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 1 worked was its careful attention to characters. The series built up its cast of survivors just to put them into incredibly tense situations to make […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, If you play a lot of games, then you need to play this one 4 years, 3 months ago

If you, like me, play a lot of video games, are familiar with their intricacies, the people who make them, and the culture surrounding them, then you need to give The Magic Circle a shot. Not only does this […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, Review | Game of Thrones: Episode 5 – A Nest of Vipers 4 years, 4 months ago

The big, final decision in A Nest of Vipers, the penultimate episode in Telltale’s Game of Thrones series, demonstrates the strength of the developer’s player-choice-based storyline. It’s the peak of two […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, These were Satoru Iwata’s biggest moments in Nintendo history 4 years, 4 months ago

Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata passed away at the age of 55. The cheerful creator had been at the head of the company for 13 years and leaves behind some of the company’s biggest moments.

1. The 2005 Wii […]

David Poole replied 4 years, 4 months ago

Such a creative and positive influence on this industry. Nintendo won’t be the same without him and the industry owes a great debt to Iwata. May he rest in peace.

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, Dark Souls 3 fans should be looking forward to at least one of these 4 years, 4 months ago

The number of days between us and Dark Souls 3 are dropping. All we have to do is get through the holiday season and it’ll feel like it’s right around the corner, as long as it doesn’t get delayed, that is.

Dark […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, This is what a Batman: Arkham-style Superman game could look like 4 years, 4 months ago

The leaked image of a Batman: Arkham-looking Superman game might be fake (or not), but we can still speculate on what a Warner Bros. Superman game could look like. And with games like Shadow of Mordor, a […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, Nobody likes Batman: Arkham Knight’s Batmobile, here’s why 4 years, 4 months ago

Batman: Arkham Knight has a lot of things going for it. The combat is as good as ever, the gliding is still intuitive and satisfying, and the story is a solid conclusion to Rocksteady’s trilogy. But there’s one […]

Jeffrey Harris replied 4 years, 4 months ago

I would say Tyler is hardly in the minority. The Batmobile has been one of the major complaints against the game.

Most of his points are pretty valid.

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, The one game we’re probably never going to see at E3 again 4 years, 5 months ago

Next month marks the eighth anniversary of Sony announcing that Rockstar Games was working on a PlayStation exclusive game, which we later learned was Agent, in 2007. It was officially announced at E3 2009 and […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, This is what makes good video game characters 4 years, 5 months ago

Good characters are made of a lot of things, but only two of them drive everything they do: wants and needs.

The video examines The Last of Us’ Joel and how his wants and needs conflict to make a good story. […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, The Witcher 3 and South Park follow the same story structure 4 years, 5 months ago

The Witcher 3 uses the same basic storytelling structure as South Park, and it’s why even the game’s sidequests are so compelling.

We’ll call it Therefore/But […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, Rise of the Tomb Raider fans should hope for these features 4 years, 5 months ago

We don’t know a lot about Rise of the Tomb Raider.

We know it will continue Lara Croft’s journey from where the 2013 game left off. We know it’ll have a crafting system and stealth combat. And we know it’s only […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, The one developer that nailed video game storytelling this week 4 years, 5 months ago

The last Game of Thrones episode from Telltale, Sons of Winter, is very good. Like, very, very good.

It used each of its four main characters to construct tough decisions, made even harder with the developer’s […]

Tyler Colp replied 4 years, 5 months ago

You’re right! The post has been fixed!

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, Review | Game of Thrones: Episode 4 – Sons of Winter 4 years, 5 months ago

To call a Game of Thrones episode, be it the HBO series or Telltale’s series, satisfying for its characters, is to introduce a thick layer of dread on what comes next. George R.R. Martin’s apprentices learned […]

Mihai Cosmin Nae replied 4 years, 5 months ago

I think Sons of Winter is the best episode in Telltale’s Game of Thrones series so far. It was intense, it had a lot of tension and a great narrative line.

However, with each episode frustration grows in me as I see the game is full of issues. On Xbox 360 (and maybe on other platforms too) the sound begins before the image, sometimes I can hear only a couple of words from a character’s lines. And in this episode the chapter 1 achievement hasn’t not popped up when it should.

I am very dissapointed because these endless issues… But Telltale Games are lucky that I am a big fan of GoT and I will continue to play the game no matter how buggy it is.

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, Xbox One price drop, redesign and other big E3 2015 predictions 4 years, 6 months ago

The big day is coming. And that means the big announcements are coming.

There will always be some that we completely didn’t expect, but there’s always even more that we can pretty accurately predict. So, let’s […]

Tyler Colp wrote a new post, What games could still learn from Gone Home 4 years, 6 months ago

I keep thinking about how important Gone Home is to games as a storytelling medium.

It’s difficult to put in words because the way the game handles it is very […]

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