A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Category: Reviews
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last…
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last…
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last…
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last…
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds has quickly climbed to become one of my favourite Zelda games. It’s an odd beast really – set up as a sequel to A Link to the Past on the SNES, it’s clearly very traditional, and it marks a welcome return to the top-down Zeldas of old.…
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last 31…
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I bought Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for the Wii U when it was released back in March 2013, and a year and a half later I’m still playing it. In fact, I even bought the 3DS version as well, so I could play it on the move. And even after all this time, it’s still…
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last 31…
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last 31…
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last 31…
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last 31…
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last 31…
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last 31…
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last 31…
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It’s that time of year again and I find myself racing toward another birthday and to the ripe-old age of 31. In celebration I thought why the hell not have a racing themed countdown – so here we are, counting down 31 racing games that have defined my enjoyment of the genre over the last 31…
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I’m going to come right off the bat and say I don’t like DriveClub. I’d refrain from calling it a bad game, but it is a confused one that gets very little right. Everything from the handling to the tracks to driver AI feels slightly off kilter to the point where nothing in the game…
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I can’t help but feel that this autopsy culture and academisation of game design is detracting from what drew me into video games as a young lad in the 80’s and 90’s. The sense of wonderment that came with every new game, acceptance of flaws in service of appreciating the broader entertainment, and the ability…
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[Contains spoilers of Killzone 3] I approach every game in the Killzone series with almost unmatched optimism. The first game – while not perhaps the Halo-killer in terms of popularity and sales- remained the greatest shooter on that system; something that games on subsequent systems have managed to live up to for their respective consoles. With such a great track…
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The other day I took a quick peak at my playing stats on the 3DS, and I was surprised to discover that the StreetPass Mii Plaza was right up there in second place in terms of hours played. It turns out I’ve spent and inordinate amount of time gathering Miis via StreetPass and then *ahem*…
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After nearly 55 hours of shooting, exploring and chatting up aliens, I’ve finally finished Mass Effect 2. I could have finished it a lot quicker, but I was having so much damn fun that I dawdled to discover everything it had to offer. What a game. With a few rare exceptions, such as Minerva’s Den…
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Just hold R2. That’s how the instructions to Techland’s arcade offroad racer, Nail’d, should have read. Jumping over canyons, flying through wind turbines, and riding your ATV or MXB through ancient greek romans are all done at an exceptional, almost unmatched, speed. You’ll rely on almost inhuman reflexes to dodge incoming obstacles as the scenery…
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As the message comes up in the corner of the screen I can’t help but think to myself “I never do this”. But here I am, just over 30 hours later with a shiny new Platinum trophy in my virtual ‘trophy cabinet’. I can’t stress enough – I never do this. Lego Marvel Super Heroes…
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There is no series I have spent more time with over the years than Castlevania. Irrespective of whether I’m running through Wygol Village, Climbing Dracula’s castle, or the trudging through the contents of Portraits of Ruin’s paintings, Castlevania games have always had this unmatched ability to draw me in and keep me fixated on the (usually…
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As usual I’m a little late to the party, but isn’t The Walking Dead brilliant? Despite hearing nothing but good things about it, I’ve only just got around to playing Telltale’s 2012 games series over the past few weeks. I read the first couple of Walking Dead comic books several years ago, and although I…
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inFamous 2 is the best superhero game ever made. It’s the best anti-hero game ever made. And its one of the best open world games ever made. I played the first inFamous close to launch and loved it to bits but years later just couldn’t get the enthusiasm up to take the plunge and play…
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How many times do you think the average video game enthusiast says “this is the game I dreamt of playing when I was a kid”. I’d hazard a guess it is a hell of a lot. But regardless of how many times I’ve thought it or written it (I did a search of the blog…
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It took me five years to finish Prototype and while I don’t necessarily want to review it the game did provoke me to think about what games have become, where they’re going, and why Prototype is perhaps one of the more important games for me of last generation. I am almost certain that Prototype is the…
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I played Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut immediately after finishing The Last of Us, and I have to say the comparisons are unkind to the former. Then again, seeing as we voted The Last of Us as the second best game of this generation, anything that I played immediately afterwards was probably going…
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I really loved the Saints Row franchise. It may have followed (closely) in the footsteps of the Grand Theft Auto but the first Saints Row on the Xbox 360 was an admirable attempt at bringing that style of game into the next generation. Many people criticised it for that and for that reason it perhaps…
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Its sad that the end of Bizarre Creations happened the way it did. Once at the top of the pile leading both of Microsoft’s first two consoles out of the gate with the excellent Project Gotham Racing series, a shift to Activision in 2007 saw it release a number of games to little commercial success before…
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Another year with too many games to play. Not that having too much of a good thing is a bad thing in this case, but when it comes to putting some semblance of a list together at the end of the year it’s hard to see just how many great games I missed out on.…
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Well, 2013 has certainly been an eventful year for gaming. The Xbox One and PS4 arrived with chest-beating bombast but a fairly shoddy line-up of games, and instead the real action was to be had on those soon-to-be-relegated ‘legacy’ consoles. The PS3 received what many are saying is its best game with The Last of…
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 