Skip to main content

random bits

Well I'm still riding a giddy high after watching the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special so there won't be much coherence here today either. Utterly barmy and bonkers but the crazyness was kept to the usual high standard so that's alright by me. But wait where's the videogame content in this blog entry?

Ah here it is. Restarted my adventures in XCOM last night but I'm half-heartedly multi-tasking between that and Assassin's Creed 3 for the time being. Yes Assassin's Creed, those beautifully fluid free running murder simulators that are almost but never quite undone by the utter bollocks that is its ongoing ephemeral dream-like trek through history slash genetic memory slash whatever.

Highly expect this series will collapse under its own nonsense eventually but as far as its third (fifth?) go-around is concerned it works. Still, can't shift the feeling it's going through the motions, a death by franchise if you will. Really I'm storming through it on my way to the gaming nirvana that is XCOM. Should be playing it right now but I'm rewatching Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, where men shoot guns at guns. Why? Because reasons that's why.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

foreverware

Once upon a time in the dark ages, in the long ago, in the age before the iPhone and reliable high speed broadband there was the humble video game. You would play it, it would last for a finite length of time and then it would end. You'd move on and play another game, maybe read a book, watch a film, join a ukulele band. You'd cast that game into the realm of memories past, enriched by the experience in some way but no longer actively partaking of it. Now that time never ended as such, those games are still very much around but in the here and now they have been eclipsed somewhat by something else altogether.
Post a Comment
more>>>

anime hair and the end of days

I've just completed a game that, in normal circumstances at least, wouldn't generally be my cup of tea. A game remastered and released in 2021 but which originally arrived in 2010 in a somewhat 'adjusted' manner shall we say?. A game I meant to get around to back then but never did and now that I have finally gotten around to both playing and completing it, I'm not entirely sure if I liked it or not. That game is Nier Replicant or to give it it's full re-released title:  Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139... because clearly the game alone wasn't baffling enough....
Post a Comment
more>>>

blood, magic and seawater...

Haven't done a book review for the blog in a while, not since the dark days of 2022 and that William Gibson trilogy I endured. Instead here's some assorted thoughts on a book I just finished, 1987's On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. Expanded and revised from the review I posted recently on Amazon and Goodreads, all ill-judged opinions are my own. The short version: It's a rollicking yarn full of pirates, ghouls, dark magic and bloodshed, I really enjoyed it, thanks for coming! Oh you want the longer one do you?
Post a Comment
more>>>