A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Category: Opinions
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My lovely girlfriend bought me a shiny new Nintendo 3DS for Christmas and has hardly regretted it at all, despite the fact that I now tend to ignore her in favour of Princess Zelda whenever we’re on a train journey. Poor girl. Anyway, it’s been exactly a month since I unwrapped Nintendo’s latest little wonder,…
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Huge apologies for the lack of posts this week: lavish helpings of mince pies and Heston’s Christmas pud have sent me into a Yuletide food coma that I’ve yet to quite shake off. I shall attempt to jot something down over the next couple of days… if I can…
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A lot happens during a horse race. It may look like its just a race down a couple of stretches around an oval but believe me when I say there’s a level of depth there that isn’t rivaled in a lot of other ‘sports’. At least that’s what I’m lead to believe from playing video…
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[written in complaint by Sir Gaulian] From what I understand, necromancers are vile, vile creatures. If you thought that those kids you see in malls all across Australia (and no doubt other parts of the world) wearing black from head to toe were bad, wait ’til you meet a necromancer. They are so obsessed with…
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WARNING: Inevitably, being an article all about the endings of games, this article contains some spoilers. If there’s a game you don’t want to know the ending for, I’ll let you know when to look away. Video game endings are notoriously bad, I reckon. In quite a lot of the games I’ve played, there’s a…
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[penned by Sir Gaulian] I am not an avid reader but Bret Easton Ellis is one of my favourite authors. His writing is unique, interesting and often confronting in a way that books, let alone television or film, often aren’t. He gets me reading when its the last thing I feel like doing when I…
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The original Warioware, Inc: Mega Microgame$! is unequivocally one of my favourite games of all time. Everything about it was new, unique and awesome when it was released back in 2003 for the Game boy Advance, and it was the foundation on which the amazing sequels that followed were built. At the time I was…
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Despite the huge amount of progress that has been made in terms of women’s rights over the last century, they still get a bum deal in contemporary media. A quick look at the 2011 list of the top 40 highest paid stars in Hollywood reveals that only six are women, illustrating an inequality that’s so…
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I can see the fun in almost any game. Sure, I am not the biggest fan of many sports games, real time strategy games or anything requiring me to get online and duke it out with faceless men*, but I usually at least give any game or its respective genre the look it deserves before coming…
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At only 27 years of age I already hate teenagers. I really can’t help it – they wear stupid shoes, stupid hats, stupid pants and have stupid hair. Worst of all they speak entirely in vowels and the word ‘like’ features far too prominently in their conversations. Perhaps not an apt analogy for how I…
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“In Which The Concept Of The Manor Is Explained and we indulge our creativity. Just go with it” As you approach the imposing red brick facade of The Manor, the front door glides effortlessly open to reveal the gaunt, hunched figure of Snodgrass the Self-Reflexive Butler. He peers at you myopically over his enormous beak…
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 