Halo 4: Enemies

Halo 4: Enemies

I've played through the Campaign mode three times now, once with Jane on Normal (she doesn't like dying!), once on Heroic with Lewis, and once by myself, on Legendary, which was a slog! Those Promethean Knights sure have strong shields. This is what I thought of the Halo 4 bestiarum vocabulum. Caution: There will be spoilers! When Halo 4 was…

Halo 4: My thoughts

It's been out a while now, I feel I've played it long enough to be able to write about it with knowledge and understanding. Over the next few days I'll be posting my thoughts on a variety of aspects of the game, all linked here for your convenience. Enemies Ordnance Campaign War Games Conclusion
Been playing…

Been playing…

The Darkness. The lovely melatonin bought me this several years ago as a Secret Santa gift. I played it for a couple of hours, got bored, and stopped. Many years later I played Syndicate, a game by the same team that made The Darkness. Having loved Syndicate, I decided to revisit The Darkness to see if I was a little…

Halo 4 is here!

Well, for most people. I ordered the Limited Edition from Amazon hoping to get it today, a day early, rather than tomorrow lunchtime, when the postman will most probably drop it through the letterbox. It's been so long since I've been this pumped for a game, it really has. Still, I'm playing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron to pass the time,…

Windows 8

So, I'm about to upgrade my OS to Windows 8 Pro. I'm never usually this eager to take up new technology, I mean, I never started using Firefox until Chrome was generally perceived as "the best". Funny, just writing out the tag for Chrome made me realise I've never mentioned Chromehounds on here before - it is one of my…

Nice couple of days

Seeing as Jane and I were going out for a meal with her work-mates in Southampton last night, I thought I'd go over earlier in the day and see my family. Met David and Otis at the Mayflower, then went on to the hospital and had lunch with Mum, gave her some belated birthday presents and just generally had a…

The Darkness

I'm giving this another go. I played it for an afternoon, like, four years ago. There are reasons for this: I'd like to think I've become a more tolerant man in the past four years. Sometimes I don't like the start of games that turn out to be great - I put Bioshock off for years and that was awesome…

NiGHTS

Re: http://iaindstewart.net/blog/2012/10/04/reminiscence/ So, I downloaded NiGHTS and had a little go (trial version only), and I'm kinda wishing I hadn't. It's never as good the second time around, is it? While the new visuals are very pretty, I was reminded that it wasn't all beautiful soaring with clean paraloops, I clattered into numerous hills and the calibration of stick movement…
Reminiscence

Reminiscence

I’ve had a funny old day today.

I’ve spent it mostly on here doing ArtRage paintings, on YouTube looking at old videogames, and in my head, thinking about stuff. I learned that NiGHTS into Dreams is coming to the Xbox Live Arcade on Friday, and that got me thinking about the old Sega Saturn – and what an amazing console it was. I’ve owned two in my time, one was packed off to make way for an N64 (such a bad move looking back now), and the second one was sold because I felt I never played it enough to warrant keeping it. Oh, and because we were moving into The Big House and we’d have nowhere near enough room to even think about having all my consoles set up. Jane bought me the second one for Valentines Day one year, she is so awesome. It’s weird thinking back about all those old consoles, I’d love to still own them, but they, along with all their games, take up so much space. I know I could download emulators and ROMs and play all these old games again, but there’s something special, some intangible feeling, about playing a physical copy on an actual console, something that digital copies can’t emulate.

I’ll leave talking about NiGHTS until I’ve played it again, but here are some of my favourite games for the Sega Saturn.