Very recently I fixed a small injustice in my life, by spending what most would class as an extortionate amount of money on a small figure my five year old self was denied, not because my parents didn’t buy it for me, but because it simply didn’t exist. It’s Dr….
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February 25, 2013 at 12:17 am | Articles, Video Games, Villains | 3 comments
Tags: boss fights, Dr. Eggman, Dr. Robotnik, impractical death machines, Sonic the Hedgehog
Disclaimer: this blog post assumes you have a modicum of knowledge about the Hitman series of games. If not, there’s not much point in reading further! I’ve also tried to keep this as spoiler-free as possible. I’m well aware that it’s all too easy to use the internet to bitch…
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January 2, 2013 at 4:40 am | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Agent 47, bitching about video games, Hitman, Hitman: Absolution, Square-Enix
So I’ve lambasted Apple and stuck my nose up at the smuggery of the self-satisfied lifestyle that they promote, but I feel like maybe I’ve been unfair. Perhaps I’ve been overly biased, because very recently I saw something that made my blood boil and caused me to reach an epiphany….
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June 4, 2012 at 9:08 pm | Opinion Pieces, Technology, Video Games | 4 comments
Tags: Apple, Battlefield Heroes, digital download vs physical copy, DRM sucks, elitism, GAME, next gen, PC elitists, PC vs console, trolls
Were scavenger hunts ever fun in games? Is there nothing more tedious than scouring a digital landscape for small digital tokens? Look, I get it: it took sodding ages to create these digital worlds and one way to make sure that the player appreciates every corner of the map (and…
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May 16, 2012 at 12:19 am | Articles, Trophy Hunter's Club, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, Assassin's Creed, Batman, Bethesda, bitching about video games, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Final Fantasy, Grand Theft Auto, inFamous, L.A. Noire, Minecraft, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar Games, scavenger hunts, Square-Enix, trophies, True Crime: Streets of L.A., [PROTOTYPE]
This article contains potential spoilers for Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. You have been warned! To aid those not familiar with Fallout or the next-gen games in the series, I’ve linked to related wiki articles where possible. That said, I’m not promising that this will make this any easier…
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April 26, 2012 at 11:27 pm | Articles, Video Games, Villains | 2 comments
Tags: Bethesda, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Max Valerion, RPG
Note: This was originally an application piece written for a job as an amateur game reviewer. To no one’s surprise, there were about 30 applicants and I didn’t get the job. I don’t hold any trophies for sport or physical achievement. It’s not like I didn’t try, my brain would…
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January 11, 2010 at 9:54 pm | Articles, Trophy Hunter's Club, Video Games | No comment
Tags: achievements, PS3, trophies
At the time of writing this, Metal Gear Solid 4 is just around the corner on the releases list. To commemorate the occasion and remind myself of the story, I thought that I would push my PS3 to its limits by playing an outdated game created back when high definition…
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April 22, 2008 at 10:55 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: game review, Metal Gear Solid, MGS, Solid Snake, The Twin Snakes
This game always struck me as a very odd concept. It appears that the creative company behind the hit Prince of Persia trilogy (Ubisoft) sat down one day and decided to create a Grand Theft Auto clone with PoP’s sensibilities and the political soapbox cyberpunk intrigue of the Metal Gear…
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January 9, 2008 at 10:49 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Altair, Assassin's Creed, game review
WARNING – This article features potential spoilers and discusses plot points from FF7 liberally. Recently we have seen a slew of games and films celebrating Final Fantasy 7’s ten year anniversary – Before Crisis, Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core, Advent Children and Last Order – and with them the internet…
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December 1, 2007 at 9:49 pm | Articles, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Advent Children, Emo Cloud can sod right off, FFVII, Final Fantasy, RPG, sequels, Square-Enix
Right. FFX. *Rolls up sleeves* It’s been at least half a year since I touched it, and the next time I will shall probably be in about two years time when I forget why I had got bored of it. Final Fantasy 10 is a fantastic game, a deeply moving…
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April 14, 2006 at 11:06 pm | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: bitching about video games, Brian Blessed, FFX, Final Fantasy, game review, RPG, Square-Enix
