DaveC

That's a cool idea. I just had a vision of a hypothetic post-credits Deus Ex scene, where the player can go back to Hell's Kitchen and visit the Underworld bar for one last chat and a drink. What you say about building farming etc/ seems applicable to games like Morrowind. I remember thinking to myself, after finishing the main quest, that building a house and ''settling down'' would be the most appropriate thing to do next... and of course filling it with the loot i'd gathered from my travels. I think that game did have some mods to do that actually.

Yeah, I really want to get back into DX:HR. That game, while flawed, was a real gem for me. It did almost everything right. This, I don't know. I don't like what I've seen of it so far and all of the lukewarm reviews are really putting me off. It doesn't excite me in the way that the original Thief games did. Shame.

''Hold meyon Tawwm Clashy'sh Hawwww...''

Yup. I find myself checking who wrote a post on that site now before I read anything.

Yep. Fond memories of all three Donkey Kong Country games. Totally agree about 2's soundtrack.. it's stayed with me since. I replayed a bunch of them a few years ago and they seemed to hold up. I remember, as a kid, being completely fascinated be the idea of the Lost World. That, to me, made all the collectibles worth it. It really was rock hard to get to, felt like a true accomplishment. Bioshock, for me, is mostly a thing I've bounced off of also. I just about finished the first one and never bothered with any of the sequels. It just felt crammed with combat that wasn't all that interesting to me.

I still carry the emotional scars of expecting Yoshi's Story to be Yoshi's Island 2. Ugh.

Hah, this occurred to me yesterday when I watched this; The way she says ''stealth assassin''. Total nerd.

That's cool, I hadn't properly thought about the lore aspect of it. In my head, at the time, I think I looked at it as a sort of tragedy. I didn't know what would happen when I killed Gwyn, and I was interested to find out, but instead it was like my character was doomed to live in this nightmarish purgatory forever, never fulfilling his destiny. As you say, that's very Dark Souls-y. I think I'd rather not finish it completely now, not with that character anyway.

Haha. The slightly irritating thing is... we didn't really beat the game, did we? Not technically. I might just kick his arse one night just to call it done for good.

This is something I saw linked on Nick Breckon's twitter account recently (I can't quite remember by who). It's not fiction, it's a real thing, but I thought I'd link it anyway because I found it creepy in a similar fashion to how I find real horror fiction creepy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterkaifeck Specifically that paragraph ''The Crime''. I couldn't seem to stop thinking about it after I read it.

I have a weird Dark Souls quittin' tale, and I'm not even sure it counts. I fucking love Dark Souls. It's an all-time favorite for me. I'd been playing it for about 3 months or so, masochistically enjoying it as you do. I got all the way to Lord Gwyn, the final boss, and... just sort of stopped. I never beat him. Not because it was too hard, Im sure I could have taken him down after a few more tries. I reflected on it for a while and I think it's because, in my head, I'd already finished the 'real' game. In the end Dark Souls for me, was more about the journey. I'd already proved myself just by getting there, and standing opposite this boss. I didn't need to actually take him down. I never went back since. Nah, it probably doesn't count as 'quitting' but anyway. It's a sort of similar experience I guess?

I'm really trying to caution myself against getting so damn excited about Guardians of the Galaxy. The trailer is a piece of marketing, nothing more. We shouldn't get our hopes up. But, oh god. It's... a good movie poster?

Hmmm. The guy apologized. Twice.

I'll just drop that in here. So good. Also, Art of the Title have some nice background on it. http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/ I love the font that was created especially for it. Aesthetically perfect.

Whooaa. Thanks for that.

Yeah, I guess bigger ships with more mass would take more thrust to get moving. Haha, I just remembered how in Freespace, when you hit the ''afterburner'' button you get a short burst of speed, then after a few seconds you return to your original speed. Playing Kerbal Space Program really makes you think about space differently. Not that any of this stuff bothers me in the slightest. I'm happy for any space game to basically say ''Yeah, it's pretty much earth dogfighting, but with lasers and asteroids''. I really need to fire up Freespace 2 again.

The Freespace universe contains so many memorable designs for me. You just have to look at a ship and you know, instinctively, how it'll fly; I love the look of the slow, fat, payload- heavy bombers relative to the sleek, aerodynamic looking interceptors. It just strikes me now that none of these designs make sense in space. There's no air. There's no anything. But they look cool!

''Dead'' is a good way to put it. I didn't feel excited to jump back into the game's world. I didn't mean to go off on one about the fact that it's a console game and I don't like consoles anymore. If the game was more compelling to me I would have stuck with it I'm sure. Agreed about the parody stuff. That Facebook mission... ugh.

I recently quit GTA V. I feel really bad about it. It's one of those games that I just sort of... assumed I wanted? I'm a PC guy and haven't used a console in years. I bugged some friends and got a loan of a 360, bought the game (70 quid!!!!) and gave it a few evening's worth. I think I got to just after the heist where you have all three characters. It involved a helicopter, and sniping, and ... something. I don't really remember much except the nagging feeling that I wasn't really controlling anything that was happening. That was about two months ago and I haven't really thought about it since. The idea of plugging a separate box into a television that I barely use is something I can't bring myself to do anymore. When I'm at my PC I can game for a bit, alt-tab, check something on the internet, quit, start an adobe program or gamemaker, tinker with something. I prefer that. This isn't really particular to GTA V I guess. But I'm pretty sure I would have quit at the same point if it were a PC version anyway. Sorry for the ramble!

What did people make of The Lego Movie? The internet seems to have gotten rather in a tizzy over this thing. Currently 95% positive on Rotten Tomatoes. For me, it kinda missed the mark. The editing and timing of the jokes felt completely off to me, edited and delivered so frantically that any comedic timing got lost. It was just so relentless, and this seemed to have a bad effect on the kids in the audience. They started talking to each other and getting agitated. My girlfriend dozed off. Nobody seemed to be laughing all that much. I liked the story, though. And the few times that the move just slowed the fuck down a bit were really charming. The Lego nostalgia was nice. But I wanted to like it more.

I didn't even know this game existed (for shame) until I listened to the latest Tone Control. Now I'm sad I missed out on it. 90's me would have loved it (the music especially!). Edit: Also! does anybody get major Deus Ex vibes from this? I totally did, so much so that I looked up the composer. Turns out he is indeed a Deus Ex composer. Sweet!

Please help! I recently remembered this game I used to play in the 90s / early 2000s, but I can't remember the name of it. I MUST KNOW, for some reason! It's making my brain crazy. STUFF I REMEMBER ABOUT IT: Top down RPG type game. Graphical style was 2D sprites, almost claymation-y. Your character is a druid-type dude with a green shirt and bald head whose main ability was summoning various magical creatures. The campaign was a series of arena-like encounters with enemy dudes who had similar abilities as your druid dude. Your druid dude starts every map standing on a mana stone. It looked like a celtic stone circle (the whole game had a celtic fee, now that I remember). This mana stone regenerated your supply of mana, which you could use to summon creatures (unicorns, goat-men etc.) The game usually involved you moving from mana stone to mana stone, trying to take more of them than your enemy summoner, usually leaving a garrison of summoned creatures at stone circles while you moved to take over more stone circles and dominate the map. OTHER STUFF I REMEMBER: I think throughout the campaign there was an arch-nemesis called ''Panopticon', or ''Pendragon'' or something. I know what I'm describing here sounds like the most generic RPG ever but the game sticks in my mind still. It's just been so long ago that I cannot remember for the life of me what it's called. It's kind of unsearchable too because of the generic themes. Anybody?

YES!! THANK YOU! Ahem. Yes, that's the one. I was convinced its name was ''Might & Magic'', which makes no sense. Interesting that it's a Julian Gollop game. I'm off to watch a playthrough. Twig, that's remarkably similar to the character I had in my head! I hope the game is as deep as I remember. Cheers again.

God, that's shitty. I love it. I'm feeling awfully oppressed by this thread! (I'm Irish).

A guy is walking down the road with an apple. He sees a friend, who says, ''Can I have a bite of your orange?'' The guy replies, ''It's not a pear, it's a plum''.