Oh the Horror

Hey guys, got something interesting to talk about today.

I recently bought myself a new game for the xbox 360, it happened to be Dead Space.

Now something that I like to do when I get a game that has been reviewed by Zero Punctuation is watch the episode while I play the game, please don't ask why.

After listening to Yahtzee's opinion I have to say that I mostly disagree with his opinions.

Although it is predictable in places i.e. every single brightly lit room is going to eventually malfunction and go all dark, but I think that the game is quite scary, just not on a psychological level which is a shame.

That said there haven't really been that many psychological games that are that good in recent years. so unless you are easily scared, and if you are why would you enjoy playing horror games, then you aren't going to get a kick out of most of the latest horror games.

New Video and FF on iPhone :O

OhMaGod!!

Hey guys another day another blog and I've got a doosey for you guys today.

Firstly over on my personal youtube channel I've just finished filming a short music video for a competition check it out

So yeah hope you enjoy it.

Secondly last night I was downloading some new iPhone apps, including the fighting fantasy books :P that was a shock I can tell you. After some browsing I cam across the one and only Final Fantasy, THE FIRST ONE, on the iPhone. It's been updated with amazing graphics and a new touch interface control scheme :O:O:O

Seriously if you're a fan download them from the appstore while they are there, I think that they're on sale for a short amount of time as well so make haste mine friends.

NES Unit Table

Hey guys,

Just letting everyone know about the project that I'm involved with.

A lot of people who read this, (I know that there are at least three of you xD) know about Nearly Retro the show that I play Arkiel in. Most of you will also know that since the live show has started there has been a lot of delaying with new episodes.

Part of the shows set is a table that is modelled like a NES controller, just like Kyle Downes. Except instead of being a table that works like a controller, it is going to be an actual working NES.

It will be capable of playing all NES games and will be a front loaded one. It's gonna work as long as I can get my hands on the NES insides soon.

It might not be working fully for the show but eventually it will be awesome.

I will update with pictures of the origonal table and at different stages of modding as soon as we begin.

Red Dead RAGE!!!

Okay I have been playing Red Dead Redemption this morning, even though I am supposed to be working on all my assignments from last year.

I noticed that a quite annoying feature that was present in both GTA and Red Dead is the stupid time delay on the missions.

If you arrive at the wrong time you have to wait around all day just for the mission to start. This meant that instead of spending ten freaking minutes playing a single mission so I could get back to my work I ended up playing for nearly an hour waiting for the stupid mission to start.

I don't know why they thought this was a good idea, other than artificially padding the game out.

Also I still haven't finished FFXIII, seriously the game is so dull that it kills me, however I have invested about 20 more hours in FFX since it's my fave Final Fantasy Game. I even managed to complete Dissidia by playing as Tidus.

Playing As You!

I have recently been playing Mass Effect 2, and after watching an episode of Extra Credits on the escapist I noticed something.

If I play the game answering questions not in the mechanical way that I usually do to get paragon or renegade points the game play changes significantly.

I.e. at one point I come up against a military leader and a renegade action lets me shoot and kill him before the fight starts wich allows for a much easier fight against his squad.

Instead of thinking and acting like the paragon I was I just shot and killed the guy. Mainly because I knew that it could get really hairy in fights.

This got me to thinking, what would happen if i tried to answer each question and complete every quest as me, will, the person who sits here writing this blog? I found out that it can actually make the storyline a lot more interesting.

a good example is were I have the option to toast something when drinking brandy with the ships doctor (btw I am attempting to keep this as spoiler free as possible) I can either toast the allience, technically the faction that has turned it's back on me, or I can toast my fallen comraides. Of course the Allience was set at the nuetral middle position and the fallen were set at the lower renegade option. I usually always pick nuetral or paragon, but this time I found myself toasting the dead. It just seemed right.

So this is an interesting questions that I put to you: When was the last time that you actually played as you in a video game?
It's games that challenge who we are as people that makes gaming as a media so interesting. People on the outside may see it is nothing but escapismn, but I think that if we truely want to show people that games can be something more, we need to stop buying games that are pure spectical like God of War III and start buying games that can help us realize our value as human beings.

Thanks For Reading

DFTBA

Games Taking Up All My Time

Hey Guys it's Will Again

I have recentlly realized that games are taking up most of my time!

Not a big revolation you may say but when time spent on games is too the exlusion of everything else I think there is a problem there.

I have started to neglect my work so I can play these games, and no matter how much I say to myself that I should really try to do some work insted I can never tear myself away from the TV screen long enough to do assignments. Even at college my mind is occupied by other things.

I really should focus on my studies more but I can't help it. I have decided to try and get around this as soon as possible. Maybe I can find away to beat gaming as an addiction. Not that it's like a drug or anything, that's a rediculus statment and however believes it deserves a boot up the arse.

I have a lot of work due soon so I guess I should get on with it, but I think that after the promise of a practically based second year being told how much written work I have to do is such a blow :(

New Blog Yay!

Hey guys this is a new blog that I have started for several reasons.

1 to start doing reviews of games
2 to start talking about all my game related projects like creating games, my video game show etc
and 3 to just talk about games in general like stuff that interests me or that occurs to me while playing games and stuff

That really it for my first post I guess. I'll post more later :)