Think the colder darker nights will also usher in the return of the Friday night poker game.
While getting out during the lighter nights is preferable, I still miss the Friday night cards.

On another note, it’s also a chance to get back into my gaming.
Both playing and creating.
I have PS3 with a vaslty under played game reservoir and I must have 10-15 titles on steam that I grabbed during the sales that really need thrashed.

On the game creation front, I have compiled a list of maybes.
Myself and a mate want to team up on a retro remake so it’s just a matter of settling on one.
I’ll also probably start a solo project.
For some perverse reason, I fancy remaking one of my own remakes to make it a bit better.
Thinking perhaps Finders Keepers or Hunchback.
Who konws……..

Normally I get a game, fire it on for a few shots, get mildly entertained and then bin it.
Oblivion fell into that catagory, Mass Effect lasted a little longer but ultimately fell by the wayside too.
I’ll come back to Mass Effect but that’s a different post.

I reckon the reason this one gripped me is that it does the free form thing quite well but not to the point of leaving you standing in a field off the beaten path in the middle of nowhere scratching your head.
That’s not to say you can’t wander off and get lost, that can happen but it tends to nudge you in the right direction more than Oblivion did and this next point is all about personal taste but the gun element is very entertaining and blowing off a ghoul’s head from a few hundred yards is more satisfying than the sword and sorcery thing.

I know, I’ve taken the easy way out and went the “compare to Oblivion” route.

The post apocalyptic scenario is a nice change from the usual fantasy kingdom route most games go.
Even though it is part of an established series and the theme is already set, you can play this one on it’s own merits as I have done with my previous experience being a fleeting game of Fallout 2 back in the day.

Also a nice mechanic of the game is the morality system.
While this is tried and tested and doesn’t affect the game as much as it likes to think it does, it often leads to amusing dialogue choices and does give it some replay value if you want to play it through first as a good guy for example and do things the long way, then play it through as a total bastard shooting and stealing your way through the game.

Well, I’m rambling now and this aint meant to be a review, just a babble for my blog.
Before I go over the edge of famboyism, I’ll rap it up.

Closing thoughts, I’m getting right into this and I recommend it.

An oldie but a goodie!

Anyway, the upside is that “summertime” is here.

Most people would be happy with that but good old Scottish summer doesn’t fail to disappoint.
Torrential rain on the first official day of summer with no sign of letting up all week.

Stop girning tho Scottige, silver lining.

While golf is off the table, there’s plenty enforced caprivity to allow catchin up on recorded telly and tinker with my game making pass time.
Oh and also have time to post pointless random pish like this!

Hey, it’s a blog after all!

As it’s still in it’s infancy it will no doubt change a lot.
The main change I’ve made today is added a mod to auto filter the posts into categories.
The post will still appear on the main page but will also be listed chronologically in the catagory pages for easy browsing if someone is interested in browsing specific categories without having to go through every post.

The forum has also been reinstalled and hopefully anti spammed.
Last one was up a couple of days and the spammers got passed the protection.
Double locked it down and hopefully made it very difficult for spammers to get by now.

Almost got it to a place where I like it so hopefully start posting some other things rather than updates on how I’ve updated the site!

Well, I’ve been working on my sites for the last few nights so I reckon I’ve earned a couple of episodes of……….

Also you can get it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( nearly, Creamola Foam substitute )
Go get some!

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