Oskar Roux's Rambles in Shambles

As far as single-player games go, I had fallen out of love with the idea of them. Sure, not everyone’s tastes are the same and most people love the idea of playing through a game by one’s self, but that’s not always my idea of fun. I do prefer the social gaming aspect of playing with friends and just causing mischief, but this game may have reignited that love for the single-player RPG for me.  I used to play through a single-player like the world didn’t exist, then I started playing some online multiplayer games with friends and hadn’t really looked back. Even though there were massive title releases they just still didn’t really appeal to me, until this one. Outer worlds seems to be an amazing RPG that combines the best of my top three games. Bioshock, Borderlands, and Fallout. Bioshock for its art, design, lighting, character movement and creepy story. Borderlands for its humour and brilliant art style that seems to replicate the key elements of a comic, another gr...

Please note there are spoilers in the paragraph titled “the Joker”. Throughout their comics, DC has always portrayed the grittier, darker and realistic side of being a superhero, masked vigilante or even the villain. In their movie adaptations though, they have always seemed to be lacking the darker punch that they so desperately craved, in order to be any competition. Sure some people will say that DC is the more “old-school” publishing house, but that also means that they draw on a time that was depressing in nature.  The origin of comic books as a genre that we know, stems from war and the post-war era. Unlike Marvel, DC seemed to embrace the dark nature of the time from which they arose and the characters of DC deal with their new positions bestowed upon them in a more real and almost agonising way. Now by real and agonising, I mean that their powers and rite of passage come from events of misfortune in their life that demand them to be the heroes and villains they b...