Ramblings of a thirty something cephalopod
Hello again!
Here’s just another sneak peak of some art.
The episode, which will be up tomorrow on Corrosive Truths and YouTube, this week features a good friend of the Corrosive Truths cast, Bob, as a guest. We discuss the idea of casual games and causal difficulties, as well as discussing game difficulty in the video games industry in general before finishing with our thoughts on game sequels.
Now with 100% more Bob!
So, the awesome team that is myself, Peter from Peter Reviews and Bren from Knights of the Black Banner have completed – a little while ago now – a podcast show where we discuss something near and dear to us, videogames!
So! Here it is on Corrosive Truths – Episode one. And here it is on YouTube. Our second episode has been recorded as of this post, and shall be edited and uploaded as and when.
And as an extra aside, here’s another peek at a banner I’ve done for the second show.
Now with 100% more cat head!
…for an up and coming podcast…
Strangely patriotic for a uk based podcast...
I did another photo session today, a tea photo session! (prompted by my ever growing tea and tea paraphernalia – which is an awesome word – collection, and a super cute twining tea van miniature I got for free with some tea.) SO those photos will be up at some point and linked to.
The most recent thing I’ve started to do tea wise is make all sorts of iced tea. I bought a heat proof plastic serving jug thing from Wilkinson’s that holds about 3 generous glasses or 5 – 6 mugs of iced tea, it has a lid so I can store it in the fridge with ease.
So far I’ve made Ice Liquorice and Peppermint Tea, which was ooookay, Ice chai tea (which I made a bunch of times) which is yummy. I made iced rose petal tea earlier today, so when it’s nice and cold I shall try it out!
Other than that everything is dandy.
Warning! This post contains spoilers about Alice: Madness Returns.
So, I pre-ordered Alice: Madness Returns for the PS3 a little while ago, and was really looking forward to it. I had played the original American Mcgee’s Alice, and while I only have vague recollections of it, I at least remember enjoying it. So, the game has been out a little while now, I finished the whole thing and it’s finally time I got around to writing down my thoughts on it.
The first part of the game is a big one and quite a disappointment to be honest. Starting up the game I go for Story Mode straight away, it seems to me at least that’s where you’d start. Unfortunately Story Mode is just not the best representation of the game. The difficulty quickly moves from doable to ‘oh god, my fingers’ and it just isn’t fun. Now, hardcore fighting game fans (and some of them are probably morons) probably like this, it makes it hard enough for them. But plenty of people aren’t these kind of fans. Read More
It always terrifies me that (I’m going to be mean and say supposed) ‘supposed’ (in scare quotes and everything!) highly regarded review websites write reviews with such obvious bias. ‘But…’ I hear you say ‘the bias can’t be that bad, can it?’
Well, for example when you put two long running game series together – in this case we’ll say Dynasty Warriors and Pokemon. A lot of big review websites describe these games in pretty much the same way – that they haven’t changed at all (despite the fact that they have, but we’ll get to that). But apparently because most of them watched Pokemon when they were kids this makes it okay and it get a high scores. Dynasty Warriors on the other hand is slated for not ‘innovating’ (again, in scare quotes! I’ll explain why in a bit too). Read More
So, we bought Dynasty Warriors 7 a couple of days after release after seeing a friend’s (this friend) copy. We bought it from Amazon for about 35 pounds, instead of the ridiculous 45 pound price in Game.
So how is it?
Here is a list of games that are coming out soon, that I will probably mention/review as they are released:
Dynasty Warriors 7 (which should be fun)
Portal 2 (which I am both excited for and wary about)
Mortal Kombat (I’m very nearly going to buy this…)
Infamous 2 (could very easily have been ruined given current game’s sequels)
Alice: Madness returns (which so far at least looks very nice)
Portal 2 I don’t feel the need to review – there are already lots of reviews and it isn’t even out yet. More than likely I’ll mention the rest and review Alice. So, games to look forward to!
So, Peter just got a rather swish Nikon D90 DSLR camera.
This means I’ve been gifted with his older camera, the Sony DCS H50. It’s still a pretty swish bridge camera (what this means is that it has a large very capable lens stuck to it, but it’s not interchangable). I’ve been told he’ll still want to borrow it, as the Sony has some lovely features his new camera currently can’t do. The Sony manages to do close up and macro pretty well with the one lens – whereas Peter will need to buy a macro lens or macro filter. It also has a pretty nifty night mode, for taking in the dark photos.
So, while it’s a little old – it’s pretty good. We already have a little studio set-up with really bright studio lights, sheeting, tripod etc. – so I’m good for some experimentation. Now I just need to figure out how to take photos. And get a steadier hand….