I’ve been surprisingly busy over the last few weeks, and for
this reason I haven’t managed to get a blog out in a while. Today’s post covers
roughly three weeks.
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| Feyblades. That Ettin had better watch out! |
I had a go on the Xbox 360 with a game I hadn’t played for a
long time: Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning. This is a Role Playing Game set
in a somewhat typical fantasy setting, where your player character has died.
They are brought back to life, and they now have to discover the mystery of how
that happened and the extent of their power – to interfere with people’s fates.
It is a good game with a strong combat system, with some bugs and uninspired
enemy design, and I enjoy coming back to it every now and then. There’s a lot
to do, though, and like many RPGs I wonder if I will ever see it through to the
end!
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| This is a fun costume to unlock! |
I’ve also played Spiderman on the PlayStation 4. This was a
fairly recent purchase for me, bought with some saved-up Nectar Points from
Sainsburys, and will probably be the most up-to-date game I buy for a long
while! Now, I have fond memories of Spiderman 2 on the PS2, and from what I
understand, no Spiderman game has surpassed it yet. However, this iteration of
the game has done a pretty good job so far, with an improved combat system and
voice acting. It includes a lot of features included in modern open world
games, such as skill progression trees and side activities to do alongside the
main campaign. Where Spiderman trumps almost all other open world games is that
getting around is an absolute joy. Swinging through New York is a crucial element
to any Spiderman game, and once you get used to how it is implemented in this
version, you can cover vast distances and pull all sorts of tricks and stunts
to keep the movement flowing and rapid. Almost all of the missions involve
doing this to a certain extent, but because it is so much fun to swing around
New York, it rarely feels like pointless busy work. I’m a little over 60% of
the way through it so far, and this is one of the very few games I feel I have
a hope of 100% completing, so I’m going for that.
You’ll remember last month I made some remarks about doing
some videos for Youtube. I’m now putting those plans into fruition, since
XSplit Gamecaster seems to be a lot friendlier on the file size when recording
these videos! At the moment I’m capable of recording some raw footage with
microphone commentary. Due to work and family commitments and lack of video
editing software I wouldn’t suggest expecting anything substantial yet, but I’m
working on a few scripts and concepts that I’m hoping to bring to life in the
short-term future.
Also last weekend I went to the UK Games Expo. Some of you
may remember from last year that this is very much a highlight of my year, and
this year was the best one yet. I played loads of games, made some new friends
and generally had a great time. It is my intention to write about what I got up
to there but I’m going to divide my coverage of it into three categories:
Tournaments and
Tribulations: A brief return for the series I intended to start last year,
where I talk about the games I played as part of tournaments and how I got on.
First Impressions: My
friend Tom and I participated in several demo games across the Expo, so I’ll
write about what we thought of each one. Some of these are still in the final
stages of development and have not been released yet.
Games We Played: On
the Saturday Night we met up with some folks I’d never met before and played a
whole load of games I’d not had the chance to play for a long time, if ever.
This will be similar in format to the first impressions with the added fact
that these games have already been published and released.
That’s a lot of writing to do, I hope I have time!
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