I’m now most of the way through Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Subsistence. Just got my way through the section where Snake gets captured and am currently making my escape. I believe I am to face The Sorrow next.

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I genuinely don’t know. It’s whatever the PS3 version available via PSN is. I’ll check later. 

I’m sure I’ll get used to it, but it all looks a bit complicated.

I have just started Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. And I do mean “just” - I’ve watched some cinematic cut-scenes, I’ve jumped out of an aeroplane and now I need to find my backpack.

Yeah, they’re good. Unlike, say, The Paradise Syndrome, which I watched last night. Oy, and indeed, vey. 

While you’re here Zack; I’m currently watching, for the first time, the original series of Star Trek and I’m greatly enjoying your write-ups as I go along.

Hans? Are we the baddies?

Now about half way through Brutal Legend. Three Stage Battles completed, onto the second half of the map, and General Lionwhyte (Rob Halford, camping it up) defeated.

Well on the basis of the two or three hours I’ve played so far, I’d definitely recommend it. 

Was that the blog post your computer decided it needed to update and reboot in the middle of?

Hey Gameologiroos! Hope you’ve all been good. It’s been months since I last posted here. Bunch of reasons, mostly work-related, including my boss deciding, unconscionably, he wasn’t going to work from home on Fridays for a while.

I mentioned below - or maybe above? Kinja so who knows? - that this week I finished Metal Gear Solid. Which got better as it went on.

I’ve already played MGS2 (it’s the first one to have an upgraded PS3 version). So now things like a guy called Revolver Ocelot who has a possessed right hand which talks with an off-putting “English” accent make more... urm... “sense”.

I have finished Metal Gear Solid. It grew on me as it went on (or maybe as I got less incompetent) and I ended up rather enjoying it, even if it’s very silly and basically makes no sense whatsoever.

Does SW:TOR still have much of the MM part of MMORPG going on about it? Or, putting it another way, would I be able to play it without having to interact much with other people?

I’m still on Metal Gear Solid, and honestly I’m finding it quite frustrating. I don’t know whether it’s because I’m playing a PS game on a PS3 and the controller just doesn’t quite translate correctly, but the controls are really janky. Aiming is nigh impossible, especially with the assault rifle, and even crawling…

As I’ve never been all that particularly keen on multiplayer games, I really don’t have a problem with that.

Is there still a significant online community playing Elite Dangerous, or is it now pretty much any player alone in the depths of space?

As well as the “just one more turn oh shit it’s half two already” aspect of it, my other problem is that after playing it in the evening I go to bed with my mind buzzing and any sleep is plagued by weird dreams about tile improvements.