In more ways than one.
The house hunting continues to go poorly. I still haven't found a new place - I'm looking at house shares now because all the decent solo-occupancy flats in Chester are annoyingly juuuuuust out of my price range - and I promised myself I wasn't going to pick up any writing projects until I got that sorted out. I don't work well when I'm ill at ease in my working space. I'm itching to get started though, so I feel like I'm stuck with the handbrake on, revving the engine. Self-imposed schedules are a right bitch.
In order to take my mind off how pissed off and frustrated I am, I think I may have slightly overspent on goodies this month. I've blown maybe more than I should have on books and video games; and definitely more than is healthy on takeaway food; so about a week out from payday I'm practically skint already. I have not been clever.
On the plus side, I've been distracting myself from living in Limbo by playing Limbo on XBLA, which is a beautiful little platform/puzzle game I can't recommend highly enough. In many ways it's quite similar to Braid but with an added pseudo J-Horror feel to it that makes it one of the most atmospheric games I've played in a while.
I'm also cheerfully chugging through Valkyria Chronicles, an old game plucked off the top of my Pile of Shame, although 'cheerfully' is probably the wrong word to use. It's a confusing game - by turns unremittingly bleak and cloyingly twee, it often seems that by playing it you're volunteering to take part in some experiment on the effects of severe mood whiplash. Either that or I'm suddenly bipolar.
Other than that, water is still wet, the sky is still blue, I'm still wide awake later than I wanted to be and it's too late at night to start doing anything new. As a result, I'm surrounded by things to do, and I'm bored witless.
That's how I spend most of my evenings at the moment, and it's more than a little depressing. God, I need to get into a new place as quickly as possible. I think I'm going slightly round the bend.
Darren Ellis writes, except when he doesn't.
When he doesn't he's more than likely doing something sedentary and fun, like playing video games or reading a book. Or procrastinating over what he's supposed to be writing.
Oh yes. He does that last one quite a bit.
Showing posts with label Gaming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaming. Show all posts
Friday, 1 April 2011
Monday, 27 September 2010
Gears, Colossi and Tickets
Been recently spending my time fully immersed in a bunch of imaginary worlds on my gaming break, making a not inconsiderable dent into my Pile of Shame. I finally played through Final Fantasy 13, which was a cracking experience, if a little unwieldy. Quite why they decided to tell a 45+ hour story in such a cinematic way I don't know - Anything that you have to play through in so many sessions needs to be delivered episodically to a certain degree, but not FF13. The story seemed to unfold like it assumed you would be getting through it all in one long play session, with no breaks. It got a little confusing, having to read through the codex periodically for refreshers in what the hell was going on. I'll put it down to Square Enix being massively pretentious.
Less pretentious was Gears of War, but that's due to it being quite possibly the stupidest game I've ever played. Four large men the shape of oblongs with the intelligence of pack animals kill nasty monsters with chainsaw machine guns. It was so incredibly braindead I could scarcely believe it wasn't a parody.
Currently I'm just finishing off Shadow of The Colossus, a sublime and beautiful game the likes of which I've never experienced and probably never will again. Anyone who has played it will know just how breathtaking this game is without having to read another word. Anyone who hasn't experienced it needs to, right now. One of the best I've ever played.
Outside of my gaming habits, I've splashed out a few quid on my ticket to BICS on the 16th October and booked a seat on the morning train to get there nice and early. I'm hoping that this website will be completely done by then - I'm going to be informing the general public of its existence, so it's got to be dead pretty and full of information and all that. Looking forward to getting over to Birmingham. I haven't attended a comics show since last year's, and I'm planning on attending more of them over the next 12 months than I ever have before, in a desperate attempt to get myself out there as much as possible.
I figure it's time to pull my finger out and start plugging myself like there's no tomorrow.
Less pretentious was Gears of War, but that's due to it being quite possibly the stupidest game I've ever played. Four large men the shape of oblongs with the intelligence of pack animals kill nasty monsters with chainsaw machine guns. It was so incredibly braindead I could scarcely believe it wasn't a parody.
Currently I'm just finishing off Shadow of The Colossus, a sublime and beautiful game the likes of which I've never experienced and probably never will again. Anyone who has played it will know just how breathtaking this game is without having to read another word. Anyone who hasn't experienced it needs to, right now. One of the best I've ever played.
Outside of my gaming habits, I've splashed out a few quid on my ticket to BICS on the 16th October and booked a seat on the morning train to get there nice and early. I'm hoping that this website will be completely done by then - I'm going to be informing the general public of its existence, so it's got to be dead pretty and full of information and all that. Looking forward to getting over to Birmingham. I haven't attended a comics show since last year's, and I'm planning on attending more of them over the next 12 months than I ever have before, in a desperate attempt to get myself out there as much as possible.
I figure it's time to pull my finger out and start plugging myself like there's no tomorrow.
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