Onimusha PS2 - 30/11 I played this game at launch in 2001, one of the first games I remember picking up after exhausting the ps2 launch line up and remember enjoying it a great deal but being a little disappointed in it's brief run time. In 2019 I think the game mostly holds up wonderfully. Visually...

I played this game on the PlayStation and had forgotten it even existed until your post. I remember having fun with it though I'm not sure I ever made it to the end, to my memory it was incredibly difficult. Had no idea at the time it was a port of a 1992 Neo Geo game and this version sure looks int...

If I had to nitpick I'd say some of the secrets and upgrades are obscure to the point of almost certainly being impossible to find without the use of a guide or swapping playground tips with friends, but if I was playing this back in the day I'd have been pleased I was getting my monies worth... Fu...

God of war 2- PS2 20/11 Solid sequel which adds very little to the formula established by the original game but is more consistent overall. Combat is almost identical to the original, with attempts to add weapon and moveset variety falling mostly flat. Enemy variety and encounter design is improved ...

Ha, yeah, I got mine in 2014 from a dude at White City who worked at Sky/BBC and “acquired” few of these when they went all digital 😄. It's all about who you know! This guy is also still in contact with people who used to service these things too so if I run into any problems I can't fix I've got a...

It's a Cromatech CM151 monitor, little known brand that made professional broadcast equipment in the 80s/90s. It's roughly equivalent in specs to a high end Sony PVM or BVM from the same era. I've a friend who works for the BBC that pulled it out if one of their editing suites for me. I'll be using ...

https://i.postimg.cc/PfWGFK0t/IMG-20191116-112103-01.jpg Just picked up my first pro crt monitor. It's a 20 inch 90's grade 1 broadcast reference monitor, seems like it's in great condition too. Excited to hook it up to my old consoles and see what all the fuss is about. I'll post some pics when I'...

The text size is apparently being addressed in the next patch. Apparently one of the directors is colour blind and has said that the art style and colour choices are such that it doesn’t need a colour blind mode, be interested in knowing if that’s really true from people that are though. That's rea...

11-11 - God of War (PS2) The boy KSubzero1000 came through all the way from Deutschland last weekend and aside from the other stuff we played, he was happy to participate in a controller passing session on the last third of this game. I remember the hype very well when this originally came out and ...

You could probably say early Elder Scrolls games have some immersive sim DNA in them. You could draw a thread starting with Ultima Underworld inspiring the ES series. But as the series went on they became far less focused on systems interacting with each other. I've not played The Outer Worlds, sin...

With the Outer Worlds my opinion of it lessened the further I got with it. It starts out feeling a lot like a typical Obsidian game, but in the end: - the writing isn’t as good as their usual standard - the companion characters are mostly unlikeable - there isn’t enough enemy and item variety - the...

Started Outer Worlds this week, played up to the end of the first planet and I think that's me done. Having enjoyed pretty much all of Obsidian's output over the last 15 or so years and also being a fan of Bethesda's RPGs from which this game takes so many cues, I'm a little surprised I'm not seein...

Started Outer Worlds this week, played up to the end of the first planet and I think that's me done. Having enjoyed pretty much all of Obsidian's output over the last 15 or so years and also being a fan of Bethesda's RPGs from which this game takes so many cues, I'm a little surprised I'm not seeing...

I enjoyed it a lot. It's not a perfect game by any means, controls are a little unintuitive and it lacks a little overall polish. The world and level design however are brilliant. It's structured very similarly to a souls game, expansive, very solid feeling 3d environments with lots of verticality w...

Fascinating to me that From (and Myazaki) received so much praise for bucking current game design trends with demon's souls in 2009 when actually it was very much in line with their previous work. Well, to be fair, we'd had three years of Wii mania at that point, and the big game of 2009 was Unchar...

Just last night completed King's Field and the Ancient City on PS2. Haven't played earlier entries but it's amazing how much of the souls DNA was already there in 2002, even without Myazaki's involvement. Fascinating to me that From (and Myazaki) received so much praise for bucking current game desi...

This game was planted firmly on my radar after it's spectacular introduction at Microsoft's 2014 e3 presentation. The game's rich, studio Ghibli esque aesthetic and luscious animation stood out even amongst a string of other higher profile announcements that year. The critical reception at launch se...