A Fucking Bear…
This one is dedicated to Harry, who’s in Canada on his honeymoon. I told him to look out for fucking bears.
In other news, I finished a bunch of games on that list – Trine, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Juarez. I also bought Throne of Bhaal, so I can get stuck in Baldur’s Gate 2 again and am in the middle of Prince of Persia (the new one). Also, I’m going on holiday and I’m really looking forward to it.
Out, Joe
Things to Remember…
Man, right now I’m collecting a fairly long list of games that I really need/want to go back to in the near future and, because of stag-party-wedding-work-hannah-being-ill I’ve not really had a chance to get back to. I thought I may as well use this blog for something and right the things I want to get back to on here, as some of them are bound to get lost in the near future.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – haven’t played this in ages and really want to give the multiplayer a proper bash.
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 – Ubisoft never sent me a copy of this when it came out, so I want to give it a fiddle now that I have a copy at home, even though I’ve heard it’s fairly dross.
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood – halfway through this at home and really want to finish it with both characters.
Prince of Persia - Didn’t manage to finish this before and haven’t played it on PC so, seeing as I’m a huge Mechner nut, I want to get stuck into this.
The Last Express – Another Mechner game and one I really want to play some more of, even though I’m finding it really hard going. Idle Thumbs didn’t mention how clueless and lost you feel playing it…
Baldur’s Gate II – I want to grab Throne of Bhaal at some point and actually finish this trilogy, but that’s a wholly unrealisitic goal considering how long this game takes.
Trine - Trine is a game that I missed the boat on review-wise, but I’ve heard a lot about. Good things. Want to give this a bash and THIS is why.
Star Wars: Republic Commando – Alec Meer gave a brief, but compelling endorsement of this and it’s cheap on Steam right now…
Star Wars: Battlefront II – Like above, but without the endorsement. I’ve just always been interested in it.
Man, I’m probably never going to make a dent in half those games, I know. Still, after Juarez I’m going to go ahead and buy Trine off Steam, then we’ll see about the others I suppose. What the hell happened to all my free time though? Moving to Reading was supposed to give me more time for this kind of stuff.
Out, Joe
Tales of Monkey Island Review…
I reviewed Tales of Monkey Island yesterday and today I decided to stop italicising game and place names on this blog, so all in all it’s been a busy week for me.
Reviewing a new Monkey Island for me was difficult, as I’ve often wondered how the games might hold up to the critic side of my brain. This was a Monkey Island game that runs close to the first games in quality and, sitting down to play it, I loved it and had absolutely no problems with anything in it. When it came to reviewing it though, I found myself poo-pooing the graphics and controls a little, even though the Monkey Island fan in me knew that the game was amazing regardless. Communicating that is difficult, because I think it’s important people know as much about the game as possible, but at the same time drawing yourself into these little inconsequentialities brings you further and further away from your true feelings about the game – that it’s awesome and people should play it.
In other news, we had Harry’s Stag Night the other day. I’m best man, so I organised it. We did paintball, then a meal and drinking and we dressed Harry up as a pirate and made him speak in pirate lingo and drink ‘grog’ all night. It was great, even though I didn’t drink. Harry got very drunk, started preaching about Company of Heroes on the way home, threw up everywhere and then had to sleep in the car because I’d locked us out of my flat. We ended up staying awake until 4AM, then grabbing two or three hours sleep in a building site before getting the first train to meet Hannah and get the other key at 8AM. Fun times.
Interview with Chet Faliszek about Left 4 Dead 2
Games I Own: SiN and Sin: Episodes
Above, that’s some other work I’ve done lately. I didn’t really have a way to segway into it correctly, but there it is. Other things going on in my life include listening to a lot of Idle Thumbs and A Life Well Wasted, which offer two totally opposite but equally brilliant styles of podcast. I want to do more podcasts, but at CPC they have a style which is very firm and set. If I was going to do one I’d be inclined to make it more casual, with plenty of swearing and so on. That’s not really an option at Dennis I think.
There was some other stuff too, but now I’m running late for work.
Joe, out.
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