Easily my favourite part of the game. Some of the stories have been truly moving and I find them really enjoyable to read. Learning what Kaim has been through and developing his back story has been fantastic. Can I just ask - and I'm by no means trying to be controversial or hostile when I say this...

Interesting that you mention the funeral scene, I found the cutscene where she dies (assuming we're talking about the one on the first disc?) quite moving. However, the collect ten of these and then ten of those-type bollocks, followed by the swinging of the flaming stick shenanigans after it was n...

I found this game to be abhorrent. I never finished this game, which under any normal circumstances would leave me poorly qualified to pass judgement...however in this case it proves to me that it was poor, too poor to devote time to. I played it in 2008. The marketing showed that it was from the ma...

I've got a 2 month old son, my gaming aim is to try and get through one game a month.....

...what have I become? I used to be cool!

I hate the license tests in Gran Turismo too. They're completely unnecessary and require much more skill than it takes to actually win races, yet they lock out events if you don't complete them! No idea how they ever thought that was a good idea. Mmmmm, the licences themselves, while a little tedio...

Thought about another part I would happily erase from a game: Any of the many Laguna Seca - Dodge Viper - Corkscrew licenses from several gran turismo games. Arguably there doesn't exist a less appropriate car for that challenge. If you've done it, you'll understand why, you know it'll be in there s...

Listening to the podcast discussion on the forklift gameplay in shenmue, it's clear that for some this element could have been omitted or in some way adjusted to make the game better. It reminds me of something that I often consider when playing games, could this game have taken out certain elements...

ratsoalbion wrote:Custer's Revenge

...truly A seminal game...

Seminal Adjective
1) (of a work, event, moment, or figure) Strongly influencing later developments.
2) Of, relating to, or denoting semen.

Bastion is available on the iOS for the kingly sum of 69p. Never played it on the psn/arcade, is it worth picking up on the iOS? I imagine the controls and the Ui being a problem. I refuse to buy it if playing it for 20 minutes leaves me with rigor mortis hands and Swiss-army-fingers as some other ...

Bastion is available on the iOS for the kingly sum of 69p. Never played it on the psn/arcade, is it worth picking up on the iOS? I imagine the controls and the Ui being a problem. I refuse to buy it if playing it for 20 minutes leaves me with rigor mortis hands and Swiss-army-fingers as some other p...

Journey is on PSN for £8 for the next two hours.

Admittedly, some games that are universally garbage really seem to appeal to me, and I love nothing more than trying to justify to folk how in some cases, poor execution, derivative gameplay and storyline, careless continuity etc etc sometimes make a game hilarious or just ridiculous to the point yo...

Sad day for the industry with THQ filing for bankruptcy today. I can't say I ever obsessed over any of the titles, the bundle too didn't enthuse me much either as none of the games felt like much of a tour de force first time playing them. But for sure the industry in general is going to be hamstrun...

Have you any plans for a show on the oft-referenced ninja gaiden series, with particular reference to ninja gaiden black being the best of them?

This game...I know I should love it. -The games visuals are quite honestly, pieces of art. -The world, the characters, the mise-en-scène feel palpable and 'right'. - The gameplay is solid. BUT. I have ruined the game for myself. I played it for 2 hours or so once every fortnight because of work and ...

The person who thought of this scene....fast forward to 3:33.....chilling!

http://youtu.be/cv8U1Dn6zc8

Lost winds 2: winter of the melodies as it is free on the iOS store for now. Who knows how long it'll be free for so snap it up ASAP.

I really want to care about this app but its kinda boiling my piss, the premise is really cool but the latency problems and the fucking unacheievable cost of the tools make it make it a bit overwhelming and vapid. I did laugh when I checked it out tonight and the sides of the cube were pictures of p...

For me, I'm interested to see to what extent Santa Monica and other studios are "contributing" to this game. News is scant, and normally I'm not a complete rhetoric nazi however there's something worrying about 'contributing' to a team ico game. Especially as this will be Ueda's final ende...

Tips hat. Hi. Finally got around to signing up for the forum. Loving the podcast and the articles/forums are full of informed and reasoned discussion. I'm a banker, so you can imagine most of my working/procrastinating day comes from playing countless hours of point & click games ported to iOS. ...