Sometimes when you’re trying to be creative you just need a little background music to put you in the right mood. While I still keep my writing secret for the most part, I can still share the stuff that gets the juices going.
I hereby present my fanmixes!
If you read my Top 10 games of 2012, you’ll know that Far Cry 3 was the top of the pile for me. And now, Ubisoft wants to take my top spot again with this mind-blowingly OTT 80s throwback camp sci-fi dinosaur-robots cyborg-armed epic shooter DLC Blood Dragon.
I hate DLCs with a passion. I think if it should be in the game, then it should’ve been in the game from the start. But this transcends the game. So I will allow it. And then I will explode into a billion little nano pieces of awesomeness.
My interest in Hannibal was most shallow – I wanted to stare at Hugh Dancy’s hot model face for a change, when usually I’d climb up walls in heat over strong female characters. I got that, and found that he was in fact, quite the thespian. And somewhere along the way, I was entranced by the effectively scary-yet-extremely personable Mads Mikkelsen, who very easily made me forget how iconic Anthony Hopkins really was in the same title role.
But you know what was the best surprise about Hannibal? I saw what it was like to kill someone, and was told about how it possibly felt – and I liked it.
This is a pretty funky looking game. I remembered reading about it way back, but it seemed to have fallen into obscurity, until now. The full game’s out.
The basic premise is that you control a small squad of spy folk tasked with various mission types, from assassinations, to infiltrations, to thievery, etc. and the interesting game mechanic is you control all three spies from a single screen in first person view. There’s also multiplayer coop which looks to be a hilariously good time, especially when you can see the shenanigans your friends are getting up to, and shout at them for doing things wrong. The graphics look positively kooky, which is great.
There’s an interesting discussion developing in the aftermath of Bioshock Infinite’s release, led primarily by Kirk Hamilton of Kotaku, who says in his comprehensive breakdown of the game that the “ridiculous violence stands out in such sharp relief when placed against the game’s thoughtful story and lovely world”. His article carried such a strong tone of incredulity that Ken Levine went so far with the violence, but I’m here to argue that that was exactly the point, and if anything, that’s the only part of Bioshock Infinite that worked best for me. Why? Continue reading
Never has a game troubled me so much as Bioshock Infinite did, after I finished it. And that’s not “troubling” in a good way either. Word of warning: this review is spoilers galore. Most of the time, the reviews I write are intended to convince people to play or not to play games, without ruining it for them, but because this one’s plot is inherent to the entertainment value of the game, it has to be discussed in full, even down to the major twist at the end. Continue reading
Today will be a lowdown of two episodes: Andrea finally wakes up from her Governor-hazed delusion after countless episodes of people trying to slap the reality into her. I hate Andrea, but y’know, it isn’t too bad. And once we’re out of the way with filler, onto the next ep that has got my boyfriend and I feeling horribly depressed by its end. It hurts, oh yes, it hurts.
