19:34:31 UTC - Sunday, August 22, 2010 in
Games Finished Lara Croft: Guardian of Light this afternoon (it’s savage). While I don’t really have the time or patience to go through all the levels getting all the extra items and completing all the challenges, it’s quite fun to run through the odd one with my end-game, ridiculously powerful, Lara.
Case in point was one of the earliest levels (4), where you’ve to kill a T-Rex in a make-him-run-on-to-platforms-then-trigger-the-spikes fashion.
Hmm, wonder how fast I can run through this level…wonder if this stupidly powerful weapon will kill him…holy shit!
So my first run through put me around 150 on the global time leaderboard (of ~17000).
Woah, how far can I push this?
47th
Hmm.
13th
Top 10 and I’ll be happy.
6th
One totally clean run and I’ll be happy.
3rd
SOLD!
I assume it won’t last long, but I’ve got my ten seconds (7.243s!).
Should really do a post on Limbo and Guardian of Light… Maybe.
August 22nd, 2010 in
Games
20:42:36 UTC - Wednesday, June 16, 2010 in
Games The Awesome
Showing a shitload of “core” games (not bothered by most, but respect for them after last year’s disaster)
3DS reveal (regardless of it actually being good, it’s a nice bit of new hardware)
No Cammie
Very little casual shit
JUST DANCE 2 HOLY FUCK (UNREEEEEEEAL)
The Good
New Zelda (I got a distinctly casual feel from it)
Strong third party support for 3DS (Konami, Capcom, etc)
Kirby Epic Yarn (love the art style)
Warren Spector
The meh
All of the core games apart from those mentioned above
Goldeneye (woo, cash-in!)
The Bad
New Zelda’s controls (so bad to be embarrassing – one section simply didn’t work)
Reggie lying by implication (combatted rumours of slowing Wii sales by stating Wii had one month of excellent sales; rumours of people not buying Wii software by saying it had the largest software sales of any console, but didn’t mention attach rate)
A- (while most of the stuff mightn’t really appeal to me, respect to Nintendo for giving core gamers something to be happy about)
21:22:20 UTC - Tuesday, June 15, 2010 in
Games The Good
Jack Tretton (he’s great!)
Kevin Butler (LEGEND)
Move dated (EU before NA? Yay!)
Gran Turismo 5 dated (would’ve been hell to pay if it wasn’t)
Tiger Woods 11 w/Move (wouldn’t mind playing me some of that!)
Sorcery (I’m intrigued)
LBP2 (I like)
The Meh
Killzone 3 (it does look nice, but it’s hard to get excited about)
PSN+ (not bothered)
PS3 exclusive content (not enough to make me switch from 360!)
3D tech (nice, but I’m not paying for a 3DTV!)
Third party stuff (seen all this already…)
The Annoying
Announcing games through trailer montages (Singstar Dance, Patapon 3)
The Bad
FUCKING HEAP OF SHIT INTERNET CUT OUT IN GABE’S BIT
No Last Guardian
No Agent
No Team Ico HD Collection
Alex Evans (Media Molecule) not swearing
B+ (no megatons)
19:27:51 UTC - Monday, June 14, 2010 in
Games As my internet is the biggest heap of shit ever (meant to be a 2mb line, I’m happy to get anything over 50k/sec), I was resigned to watching this in jerky 4:3 lowres on Ustream. But it did work, so not too bad.
The Awesome
Xbox 360 Slim shipping today?! For same price?! One for everyone in audience?!
The Good
Gears of War 3 (I was skeptical, but the demo looked great)
Fable III – October 26
360 voice control/Kinect control
The Curious
Metal Gear Rising (Red Steel 2?)
Crytek exclusive IP (“Kingdoms”)
YourShape (fuck off casual, but I was intrigued)
Dance Central (likewise, but it probably wouldn’t have the right CHOONZ)
No Kinect pricing
Forza Kinect (I’m thinking it’ll be a bunch of minigames)
The Meh
Halo: Reach (space combat? Hmm)
All the Microsoft-developed Kinect games
The Bad
Scripted banter (“LOOK HOW MUCH FUN WE’RE HAVING AND WE DON’T NORMALLY PLAY GAMES!”)
The guy presenting Kinect (“I AM VERY LOUD. I MUST WEAR SUNGLASSES INDOORS TO CONTAIN MY AWESOMENESS. DID I MENTION I WAS LOUD?”)
Not one hardcore game announcement (but in fairness, it was all Kinect/casual focus, and all the big devs have got launches coming up)
The Star Wars Kinect game (looks like an on-rails Wii game, and I’m not a Star Wars nerd or anything, but what’re late-model stormtroopers, tanks and droids from the Separatists AND Darth Vader all doing on Naboo? Hmmm)
B- (saved, without doubt, by the shipping-today 360 Slim)
19:08:23 UTC - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 in
Games I’d a HR induction day today – general crap like “Who we are!” “What we do!” “I know this is common sense, but I’ll give you a 30 min presentation on it anyway”. Long, boring, tiring.
While I work in one building, my company is split over three, and I’d to walk to the main one for the induction. Getting to the revolving doors that spin just a little too fast, and an asian guy come out, fiddling with his cigarette packet.
It was Kazunori Yamauchi. I’m fucking serious.
I thought about shaking his hand (but then thought what if that’s not something they do in Japan?! maybe I’d cause an international incident and Polyphony would decide not to release in Europe?!), or asking him a question (“Hey Kazunori, why’s there no damage in Gran Turismo?” or “When’re you going to release the fucking thing?”, I bet he loves those), but not wanting to jeopardise a european release of Gran Turismo, and keep my face the way it is, I was just like “HOOOOOLLLLLLYYYYY FUUUUUCCCKKKK”.
Even working in the games industry, some of my co-workers are completely clueless – “I just saw the fucking producer of Gran Turismo outside!!!” – *blank look* – “…do you know what Gran Turismo is?” – “No” – *motions to fuck-off cardboard cutout of Gran Turismo PSP behind us” – “Oh”.
Highlight of work so far, easily.
January 26th, 2010 in
Games
