At least no punter likes 3D. Seriously, does anyone like 3D? Does anyone know anyone who’s a 3D enthusiast? Who craves the experience of the latest 3D movie releases or is an early adopter of 3D TV? A friend went to see the latest Underworld movie, 2012′s Awakening, and a Facebook thread afterwards boiled down [...]
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No one likes 3D
January 23rd, 2012 · 3 Comments · Gaming, tech & stuff, Main thread
Tags:3d cinema·3d films·3d movies·avatar·cinema·james camera·movies on demand·peter jackson·red epic·the hobbit
Thoughts on Skyrim pt5: Falmer & farmers
January 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Digressions on fiction and whatnot, Gaming, tech & stuff, Main thread
Delving deep into the ruins of the Dwemer – The Elder Scrolls’ long-dead “dwarves” – reminds me of some of the time I spent exploring Moria in MMORPG The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO, 2007; Moria pack 2008). I was inspired to play LOTRO by my love of the LOTR feature films, created by [...]
Tags:agriculture·cheese·dwarves·dwemer·farming·lord of the rings film·moria·skyrim·smallholdings·the lord of the rings online
Thoughts on Skyrim pt 4: Giving voice
January 10th, 2012 · No Comments · Digressions on fiction and whatnot, Gaming, tech & stuff, Main thread
Skyrim is at the forefront of the evolution of the (single player) role-playing game (RPG), that much is evident. Though in many ways it’s both stifled by its adherence to RPG conventions and by its own ambition. Arguably, today’s technology cannot cope with the demands of a game this complex, notably in “temporal” terms, with [...]
Tags:max von sydow·repitition·riverwood trader·skyrim·voice acting
Thoughts on Skyrim, pt 3: Plan it, or organic?
January 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Digressions on fiction and whatnot, Gaming, tech & stuff, Main thread
Here be spoilers. And dragons. Deciding who to side with in the Skyrim civil war isn’t the only difficult decision you have to make in the game. At one point, you’re also put in a position where you have to choose whether to kill a major character. It’s a character who has helped [...]
Tags:civil war·ethics·game morality·games vs films·in character·morality·out of character·skyrim·wikis
Thoughts on Skyrim pt 2, or Twitchy gaming
January 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Digressions on fiction and whatnot, Gaming, tech & stuff, Main thread
Like all games developed by Bethesda, Skyrim is buggy as all heck. Some of which is comical initially, but it does start to get a bit annoying when you’re going about your business in town and there’s a dragon, half buried in the ground, twitching. In Fallout: New Vegas, the main quest chain – [...]
Tags:bethesda·bugs·complexity·glitches·markarth·politics·racism·skyrim
Thoughts on Skyrim pt 1, or Running with Mr Foxy
January 9th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Digressions on fiction and whatnot, Gaming, tech & stuff, Main thread
Finally had a chance to cane The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim over Christmas. I’m a big fan of these games from Bethesda Softworks, and the past few years spent many an hour in the grim of adventure in the elaborate fantasy world of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006), or the retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic environs [...]
Tags:dongas·fox·natural world·nature·plague pits·skyrim·spiral tribe·st catherine's hill
Boss battle fatigue
March 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Gaming, tech & stuff
Boss battle fatigue So I’ve finally got round to playing Resident Evil 5. I was always a fan of the series, even though I’ve experienced its frustrations – for example, I gave up with Code: Veronica (2000) as, with the save point I had, I didn’t have enough ammo to take out a boss. Resident [...]
Tags:boss·boss battle·capcom·conventions·resident evil·resident evil 5
Modern Warfare 2: party chat support in multiplayer
December 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Gaming, tech & stuff
With Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox 360, Party Chat has been disabled for the majority of the multiplayer game modes, much to the irritation of players like me who prefer to just party up with a few real friends and chat, you know, like normal people who don’t want to be audio spammed by [...]
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The Great Gates of Moria
November 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Gaming, tech & stuff
When I saw The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and the scenes involving Moria, one thing that struck me was – if Moria was such a major kingdom for the dwarves, how come the door was so small? I’ve read The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and the Silmarillion, but [...]
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Videogaming meets cake-making
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Gaming, tech & stuff
Two of my main hobbies indulgences seem to have a fairly lively culture of convergence out there, as recorded on t’internet. Dr J Russell sent me this link to a blog entry entitle Console Cakes!, where the blogger has rounded up a load of pictures of cakes shaped and iced – with varying degrees of [...]