This week I am mostly playing Metal Gear Solid. I’ve never played it before, despite its reputation among game-players as the holiest of holies.

Yep, me too, ‘cept it’s Civ II for me. Subsequent Civs look wrong to my eyes.

Well on the subject of point-and-clicks, I finished The Secret of Monkey Island(TM) Special Edition. Which was good fun, though I’ll be honest I relied pretty heavily on in-game hints to get through it.

Something of an irony that Brexit has split the Labour party, whereas it’s the Tory party membership who are moving to deselect insufficiently ideological MPs. 

Left. Though neither ending exactly allows you to stay, and both let you continue playing afterwards as though the ending didn’t happen. 

Well... alright. 

It’s a twenty-two year old game.

It even lets you play in original mode. (Which I haven’t done yet, but maybe sometime).

Having finished Far Cry 3 (see above) I’ve moved on to something completely different: The Secret of Monkey Island(TM): Special Edition.

I’ve finished Far Cry 3! It was mostly pretty fun, but with a really stupid story line capped off with a bizarrely one-sided morality choice. And it lost its best character three-quarters of the way through.

Well yeah. The point with all the infrastructure stuff for the Olympics is that there’s supposed to be at least some use for it afterwards.

This show is as British as hot dogs and baseball. 

Closing in on the end of Far Cry 3. It’s been fine, but I’m getting a bit bored of it now. I haven’t really had the time available to enjoy exploring it as an open world game, and with Vaas dead it’s lost its best character by far. (Though I do really like Sam, the CIA “man on the inside” who found it really easy to…

I’m sure I’ve put several hundred hours into Civ II over the last twenty years. And that may make Gladwell right, because although I’m pretty good at Civ II, I’m nowhere near the level of the true experts.

I... may... just possibly... have confused it with Pillars of Eternity.

Slow-paced point and click RPG you say? As someone who’s played Dragon Age Origins a really silly number of times, this sort of thing is my bag, baby.

I’m maybe a third of the way through Far Cry 3 now, and its charms are growing on me. Mainly because of the fortuitous nature of its random events. Last night I was scoping out an enemy outpost when a passing tiger attacked and killed all the enemies there; delivering me not only the outpost itself, but the XP bonus…

I think making them unsympathetic was to some degree deliberate (they’re introduced as a bunch of rich, over-privileged, party boys/gals doing shots and going “wooooo!”), which is kind of an interesting choice. But I’m not sure that listening to Jason was supposed to be such a chore.

Happy New Year, Gameologicaroos!

Hugo Weaving is ok until he’s buried under all the latex. In the early part of the film, like where he disintegrates the Nazi officers who’ve come to take him back to Berlin, I think he channels Brosnan’s Bond pretty well. The point where he becomes Red Skull though is pretty much the film’s turning point into…