The damsel in distress thing doesn't work on the whole in games as we usually play the hero
Some gamers could empty a swimming pool filled with cola in less than half an hour
There were no real surprises and no delicious lemons; it was just so massively meh-inducing.
I was sitting down to dinner the other night and mum said “You seen that Gaming Lives your brother writes for?”. “Err yeah”, I replied while thinking “Where the hell has she got that from?”… “I read all of the one where he talked about that duck game you had, it was ever so good. I read all his other ones too. does he get paid for that?” I chuckled…
I first became aware of BlazBlue from the Xbox 360 ‘Inside Xbox’ dashboard blade, nearly a year ago. An enthused and obviously better informed arcade fighter fan than I wanted to know when we could expect to see it here in the UK and Europe, when it had already been released in Japan and America to not inconsiderable praise from genre devotees and games critics. Normally this wouldn’t concern me…
For many years I have been playing games and it’s always been the same way. Play a game, beat it and move onto the next one. There have been times when I have gone back and played the same game again but it was always after a significant amount of time had passed. The reason for playing the same games was always down to not having the money to buy…
For those of us without a conscience, blazing through a game and laying waste to anything and everything in our way – along with those exceptional annoyances that we’re all perfectly happy to hop a few fences for in order to get some satisfaction- without ever stopping to give a care to the road of corpses we leave lying in our wake is a perfectly normal (albeit worrying) way of…
Somewhere, somehow, I fell out of love and I don’t remember when. From an early age I championed Nintendo’s ugly grey boxes over the shinier, more exciting looking Segas, and onwards, shunning Playstation for the N64 and Gamecube…and it kind of stopped there. I suddenly realised that my Nintendos and I don’t actually spend as much time together as I promised myself we would. I practically bought a Wii on…
