I’m openly critical of video game developers apparent need to justify the existence of their latest title by making the “experience” “cinematic”. I often feel that developers tend to over really on what they deem as “cinematic” experiences or use cut-scenes far too often. Both of these issues are seemingly left overs from the PlayStation [...]
#oneaday Heavy expectations
Removing differing tastes and different styles of games, what makes us enjoy one game less than another? I read this Tumblr user’s musings this morning and it got me thinking about things that could hamper our enjoyment of games that are regarded as good. I’ve said quite recently I struggle to get into Bayonetta, shortly [...]
Another blog
No don’t worry that small, no tiny, portion of you who actually read this thing, I’m not abandoning my writings here, although my posting is incredibly sporadic I know. No, Charly and I have decided to set up a family focused blog here. So, first post of June, its less than a fortnight till I [...]
Experience this?
I have a question for you? What do games offer us? We’ve heard all the scientific stuff about motor reflexes, spatial awareness, problem solving. They’re all great but still a little boring? How about I propose to you that games, especially more modern games can offer the ability to experience an event. Movies and books [...]
Unpopular quality
Before I start with anything, its been absolutely freezing today, think the Weather forecasters have said it was 1 Centigrade but it felt much colder, even taking the wind and light rain into account it felt much colder than that. Also, our new router from Sky came today, doesn’t appear to have fixed the ridiculous [...]
Biostatic?
As promised then, my thoughts and feelings on Bioshock. You may be asking why it took me so long to finish it, well I have a habit of starting games and never really finishing them off, I’m aiming to target that this year by finishing a bunch of games in my 360 pile that I’ve [...]
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