WDeranged

I've been playing lots of Quake Live and Counter Strike Source, I'm pretty glad to find that the ten year break hasn't dulled my reactions *that* much, I got four railgun gibs in a row last night Maybe the modern hardware his helping a bit, last time I played these games my mouse had a ball in it and my screen was 14". I forgot how insanely simple these games are, there's no bull****, just precision and speed.

I played both of the Syberia games quite a while ago, there's a very odd style going on, I couldn't quite put my finger on why I kept playing but I'm glad I did, it's a nice but slightly daft tale.

Cute, it might be the first thing to earn money for the Commodore name in 20 years

Neon Genesis Evangelion

An interesting article on Boing Boing today, it's relevant and Stiglitz is someone I've listened to for years.

is pretty interesting, I always like it when guests go off message, especially how the newsbabes react.

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2011/04/01/t...ersary-special/ No Skyrim news but it's an interesting listen.

I really think it's an elf, I did ponder that it might be one of the Draugr undead but they have far more emaciated arms, you can see every sinew, whereas the guy in the picture has smooth looking skin.

To be honest that's the vibe I get, though I don't dislike Gamebryo, just Bethesda's crash happy, bugged out usage of it, I'll be seriously let down if Skyrim is as unreliable as Fallout 3, nothing spoils immersion more than being dumped back to your desktop every hour. All in all, I can live with some graphical roughness if they spend more time making the game good and stable.

That's the problem with Baldur's Gate, you wouldn't be able to ship it on the App Store, PSN or Xbox live, it's a shame because after ten years most people have access to production software and equipment that's way more sophisticated than what Bioware used back in the day. It could cost peanuts to make but the available market for it would be small, niche, still, I've never completed the Baldur's Gate games and I'd buy a decent expansion pack just because it'd be really cool.

I think this is a dark elf getting stealthily stabbed in the gut, there's muscle definition but he certainly looks lanky enough Here's the rest of the new screengrabs from the IGN article. I'm liking the heavy use of fog, that plus mountains should make the gameworld seem huge like Vvardenfell.

The thing is, I really like all that running around, reading notes and killing stuff, equally as much as I enjoy the quests I suppose, I think I'm in a minority in that I also love the metro tunnels, using Darns UI to remove the compass quest mark is a sure way of driving yourself mad...but I enjoy it With regards to New Vegas, I enjoyed almost all the quests and most of the time the quest structure let me do what I instinctively wanted to do, which is damn cool but I didn't feel as though I could dig into the world as much as Fallout 3, which was a shame, all the inaccessible buildings irked me, I like opening a door and finding myself four levels underground and in serious trouble. One thing that really stood out to me was how sensibly placed everything is in New Vegas, the world is more logical, a better sense of verisimilitude, the people in the Mojave Wasteland seem more real than in Washington.

I'm playing through Fallout 3 again right now, it's pretty striking how much Bethesda give you to do, sure, a lot of it feels like pointless derpery but they really know how to fill a world with time sinks. Tell you what I really miss in New Vegas, random encounters, Fallout 3 has a silly amount of random little events that can happen pretty much anywhere, like wastelanders fighting over water, guys trying to disarm landmines, inept highwaymen, raiders playing baseball or conducting a hazing ritual.

How's the mod looking? Chucksteel's DC Interiors mod is very well done but Fallout 3 doesn't *need* more locations, New Vegas on the other hand is dying to have those blank spots filled in

Unfortunately the British have sold arms to Libya, along with the French, Italians, Germans and lots of other nations to a smaller degree, I honestly don't know much about U.S. arms dealings but no round-up of dodgy handshake photos is complete without an American president somewhere.

The new trailer looks ok to me, I mentioned ages ago that the game looks a bit outdated, it's not a terrible thing, Deus Ex looked pretty ****ty compared to other games at the time, they can hopefully use the resources better by giving you more options in the plot and level design. I do have my fingers crossed for this one.

Duran Duran in concert, directed by David Lynch The recording sounds great but I think David Lynch has taken them for a bit of a ride with the video editing, Simon Le Bon invites him up on stage for the finale and he's nowhere in sight, Le Bon comments "I think he got away with it"

Ha, could be, I was too busy wondering if Sarkozy was standing on stepladders.

Hear, hear. One minute we're selling them weapons and buying their oil, handshakes and publicity photos of big manly hugs, the next we're bombing them, it's the duplicity and veneer of righteousness that rubs me the wrong way. It occurs to me that a handshake from these men is equivalent to a mafia kiss of death.

They're looking very nice, I'm enjoying the HD texture pack for Fallout 3 at the moment, glad to see New Vegas is getting the same treatment, all the big stuff should be done by the time I'm ready to play it again.

I'm seeing this as the UN trying to grow some teeth, not that I think it's a good thing when an unelected body (did you vote?) has the power to plunge us all into a suspicious war so quickly, if removing corrupt dictators who kill their own people is truly the goal we should be declaring war on the whole of the Middle East. The pro war bias of the British media in the last few days has been pretty sad too, I'm no pacifist but I like to think that we should be able to respect the people leading us down this road, we can't even rely on them to collect our rubbish and mind our finances, why do we so readily trust them to declare war? We are supposed to be in a financial crisis, where are we finding the money to go off on Middle East adventures? A lot of people think there's some kind of trickle down benefit from these wars, as if we're all in it together, I'll guarantee your fuel prices are not going to go down.

The angry lesbian coach is the only thing Glee has to offer, even so, better to just watch a youtube compilation and avoid all the soppy, slack minded cheese.

I got Shogun 2 the day it came out but I still haven't really tried it due to the game running like crap on all detail settings, gotta wait for a patch so I'm a bit miffed, I had all these righteous thoughts of supporting a quality PC exclusive title and this is what I get. It seems that these days in PC gaming you shouldn't buy games until a few months after release, it's a bit sad

As long as the game is a blast they can shove in as much crass filth as they want, it really has to be good though, they're going look like **** if they can't pull it off *fnar*

I'm really looking forward to playing it again, right now I'm running through Fallout 3 with a load of mods and texture packs, hopefully by the time I'm done all the DLC for New Vegas will be out and I can plough through it all again ready to jump into Skyrim. One thing I'll be installing is the New Vegas version of Fallout Wanderers Edition, the changes it makes to Fallout 3 are fantastic, every bit of junk counts and you're constantly scavenging just to get by.