I dunno, I still have mad love for Sonic Adventure. Though that might be due to nostalgia, and its amazing soundtrack. And the levels were pretty great. Also E102 Gamma(I think...) heartbreaking story.

But yeah, Sonic Generations is so much fun, they should have made DLC for it if they haven't already.

Sonic Generations was great up until the final boss. Fuck that thing in the arse a million times.

I liked Shadow the Hedgehog, how bad of a person am I on a scale of 1 to 10?

I thought Mirror's Edge was very bland.

There's such a thing as contrast, buddy.

Tonight on Albie's Hip 'n' Happening Art Game Whatchamacallit, Thirty Flights of Loving.

Ever wanted a game equivalent of Twelve Monkeys? To be handed a menagerie of settings and characters and left to make the connections yourself? Here it is. Blendo's forte is communicating with the player as a (good) film would a viewer, explaining everything while saying nothing, through environmental cues.

It's about three people, and their lives together. More than that is THPOILERTH THPOILERTH. It is only twenty minutes long, max, though that comes up to maybe forty if you haven't played the (included) prequel, Gravity Bone. Which I also posted about. Not that anyone remembers.

Next week: You and your neckbeard

And there's a lot more to a game than colors and contrast. I thought the level design was very goold in Generations.

Negative 2

Rep-wise?

Gee whizz, how insightful. Good thing you were here to point that out.

It's hardly the only thing I judge a game on. But a striking visual style means just as much to me as a good story.

I just said that because it seemed like that was all you were really judging it on, no need to be a cock about it.

I was talking about it because we just had a conversation about it. I hardly brought it up out of the blue.

Yep, it's that time again.

I think we should take that as a red-light.

Too bad Mirror’s Edge has none.

Tra-la-la...

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*Skips away*

WHAT’S THAT CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER ALL THIS BLOOOOM

Y' call that bloom?

http://blogs.loughboroughecho.net/go...e%20dundee.jpg

Now THIS is BLOOM!

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/...592C587DBC058/

God yes.

Mirror's Edge tried to hard to be innovative.

I wouldn't go that far. I don't think you can try too hard to be innovative.

What you can do is fail at being polished.

Oh we're back to Mirror's Edge again?

LEAVE THE GAME ALONE!

So, has anyone gotten their hands on a Wii U yet? I've heard some great things about it.

My mom warned me not to touch my wii

ZombiU and Nintendo Land have been getting good reviews in the past few days, I'm really keen to buy a Wii U soon.

Nintendo Land sounds kind of interesting, though I don't really know what it is. Is it just a collection of minigames?

and yeah I've heard ZombiU is great, and is actually quite scary and mature for a Nintendo launch title. People have been citing it as a "return to form" for the survival horror genre, which is pretty neat.

Yeah there minigames that are set in many Nintendo franchises like Mario, Animal Crossing, Zelda ect. Apparently most of them been put together very well and is great first experience with the Wii U. The time I play it at Eurogamer was very fun indeed :)

ZombiU is pretty dull from what I played of it, only one melee weapon too.

I'm pretty sure it's not based around combat though, it's more built around surviving than fighting zombies. Like your classic survival horror.

I could be totally wrong though. Haven't actually played it.

I started Fallout 3 GOTY at long last. I bought it weeks ago but computer issues stopped my playing it until the other day.

I'm about 3 hours in and I'm on level 3. I've gone for a perception and endurance heavy built, favouring small guns as my weapon of choice and putting lots of points in medicine and repair. I feel like I'm going to need to start pumping lockpicking and sneak soon, too. Running around the subway picking of ghouls one by one with my silenced 10mm is definitely much more fun than the run and gun approach I had last time I played. Between that pistol, my hunting rifle and the leather armour I looted from a dead merc I think I'm all set for the next 5 levels at least.

Also, I have 600 caps already. Did this game get easier in the last 2 years or something?

If you're gonna be a small guns/sneaky character, make yourself the dart gun. It's an essential assassination weapon.

It's definitely on my list of things to do. Bare in mind I don't even have a house yet. Next level I'm pumping explosives so that I can get the place at Megaton.

My stat roll has made me quite high in unarmed, too, so I'm tempted to invest points there and play around with the Deathclaw gauntlet. I'm a bit worried that unless I start building energy weapons up soon I might disadvantage myself in the endgame, seeing as the most readily available endgame weapon is the plasma rifle.

I got a Playstation Vita. It's a really nice piece of work and has pretty much all the functionality of a smartphone but without the phone part. I've been playing Rayman Origins, just unlocked the 2nd half of the game I guess. It's a really great game and definitely shines as a portable experience. I can play it in the kitchen, the yard, the bedroom and even upstairs. I've also been playing Frobisher Says, which is a free game that plays like a very English WarioWare. It's lots of fun and I suggest you get it. If you own something Sony-ish.
The Vita is a strange creature, it's got some amazing hardware in its flat electric guts but much of the library is composed of PS2 JRPG games in their 2nd or 3rd cycle of remake repoisoning your mind with bizarre electric pouty protagonist patterns. I'd like to see someone get Skyrim to function on these things. Currently the PS2 library is only downloadable on the PS3, but I'd like to see those titles become useable on the Vita without having to buy some coarse, violent HD remake.

You're totally wrong. It's a combat-oriented game with very very very repetitive melee fighting. If you like the atmosphere, go for it, but get used to killing zombies with a cricket bat and tapping the screen everytime you want to open a manhole cover.

I definitely people shouldn't jump into this and think it's just like Walking Dead (if you're after an isometric version of that try Project Zomboid instead). But from what I hear, it's got mixed reviews.

The PS Vita sounds okay, but so far it's had two terrible versions of Resistance and Call of Duty (maybe FPS games dont work on a handheld?) and a version of Assassins Creed III without proper multiplayer. But hopefully they will improve it in future.

Things about Primordia:

The main character is the guy from Bastion.
Everyone is a robot.
Extinct humans are the new God. "Praise Man", "Man alone knows" etc.
BSOD is a swearword. "They took our power core! B'sod!"
It looks really pretty.
It's more fun than Gemini Rue.

I always link BSODs with swearing, so that's correct

Playing Abe's Oddysee again.

Bats are cunts. I almost forgot. They are simply the most infuriating, obnoxious, selfish pricks ever to claim the skies in a 2D platformer.

I hate them.

Got my self a boxed copy of Zelda: A Link To The Past and I've been playing every so often. I only played it before on a emulator and playing on it's original console is much, much better.

I've got up to the third medallion to get the Master Sword and so far it's been pretty easy, I've been trying to find all the heart pieces and items before I venture any further cause once you get to the dark world, that's when things get tough.

Without a doubt, It's got to be my favourite Super Nintendo game and one of the best Zelda games.

I died over six hundred times in Link to the Past, and 103 times in the Ice Palace alone.

Now that was fun.

Dungeon Keeper. As good today as it always was. Especially now I've got a widescreen mod.

"We have developed this area. It now serves as a breeding ground for our leigons of Beetles and Flies. To think it was once pointless farmland."

"The citizens here enjoyed each others' company so much, that we've decided to let them stay together forever. We've thrown them all into a big pit, and piled thousands of rocks on top of them."

"We've made an enormous magic carpet out of the thousands of verminous bunnies that flocked to the area."

Just started playing VVVVVV. I quite like the gameplay, but my fingers are far too fat and slow for this game. I hate games where the timing must be absolutely perfect.

Still going to keep playing though.

VVVVVV is great because there are so many checkpoints that it doesn't matter. The timetrials still let you push yourself to be hardcore if you really want, too.

Good luck clearing the Veni, Vidi, Vici run at any rate. It took me a good few weeks of practice until I could finally do it.