So while I doubt many people come to my actual website anymore, anyone who has done so in the last week or so will have noticed a… minor change to the site. That is to say that I’ve utterly changed everything. Basically I was getting bored of my old one, and to be honest I wasn’t happy with any part of the design of the old layout from the get go.
I made the last one basically because I have an impulse to change my layout roughly once every year (or two). I was suckered into the whole pop-out style that was going around at the time, and I wanted my piece of the action. As a side-effect, The site sort of fell on its ass when certain browsers hit it. I had already given up on the layout before I had even really finished it.
That’s always a good sign.
Borderlands is a strange one for me. I started off by, quite frankly, disliking it. I went off about how playing through the game in single-player would be a chore, and so the only time I would actually play it would be at my friends house. Preferably only after a decent amount of drinking. Nothing really struck me as truly amazing about it, and whined that the original version would have been so much cooler/more epic/a better RPG/whatever the hell else my mouth decided to spout.
This is pretty much how it played out until one day I woke up with a copy of Borderlands in my hand, and a dead horse in my bed. I’m still trying to figure out where that copy of Borderlands came from.
Oh look, another Professor Layton. I don’t think I need to outline once again how every Professor Layton game holds me firmly in its thrall. I’ve lost sleep with each game. Basically as long as Level 5 keep coming out with these games, they will keep taking the money I throw at them.
That said, the new Professor Layton came with a veritable feast of new mini-games, new puzzles, and one of the best story-lines in a game I’ve played in the last while. As a result, the newest addition to the series (Professor Layton and the Unwound Future) ends up being the best of the series (thus far).
So how was everyones Christmas? Good, I hope. Unless yours was anything like ours wherein the hot water and heating died on Christmas Day. We had to heat the place up with the stove tops. It was rustic.
Putting aside my moment of Little Tim, Theresa got me a present I’d have never thought to get myself. Hell, it was a gift I would have never guessed, as I’ve never exhibited that much outward desire for it. Now unless you’re not paying attention or you’re simple remedial, I am talking about the
Amazon Kindle.
Let us pretend for the sake of this review that it’s 2007; people are getting shot at Virginia Tech, Bob Barker airs his last episode of The Price is Right, some intense earthquakes happen, and countries are revoting against their respective leaders. I’d list them here, but seriously, there were a lot of revolts that year. You could say it was…. insane? Hah, you totally though I was going to say ‘revolting’ but I didn’t and I totally got you. You should see the look on your face.
Anyways.
On top of all of this, Bioshock hits the market and ends up getting a whole slew of reviews and press. No solid reviews have come out beyond the wank-fests of the big game rags, and he Internet waits for the independent reviews to start coming in.
That’s where this review comes in. For those that don’t want to play along, yes this is a review for a game that I only just got around to playing about 3 years later. I was a busy man, probably.
To the review-mobile!
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Yup. So yeah I’ll admit that it’s been a while since I’ve updated (roughly two months for those sharpening their pitchforks) and I could say that I was super busy what with my end of year projects totally consumed my life, or that I was a tad busy moving countries, or that I haven’t had [...]