Category Archives: Videogames

A ploughin’ good time – The Witcher 2.

Posted on April 9, 2012 by ultrararespacehighfive

I’m at the climactic scene in Chapter 2 of The Witcher 2 and I’ve paused it to write this. This morning I picked up where I had left off, very intrigued, slightly disappointed, mid-May last year, with Witcher 2. The … Continue reading →

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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – 10 levels in

Posted on November 17, 2011 by ultrararespacehighfive

I’ve been playing Skyrim for a few hours now, have reached the somewhat arbitrary marker of ‘level 10’ and have plenty of opinion of this gaming behemoth that’s taking metacritic.com by storm with an average score of 96%. PC install … Continue reading →

Posted in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Metal Gear Solid, Uncategorized, Videogames | Tagged bethesda, elder scrolls, elder scrolls V: skyrim, game, gaming, level, level 10, oblivion, PC, preview, ps3, review, rpg, skyrim, xbox | Leave a comment

Deus Exodus

Posted on September 8, 2011 by ultrararespacehighfive

Sad times then, eh. And I think I knew it was coming all along. I’ve been playing Deus Ex for 10 hours or so and unless it suddenly gets MUCH better, I’m a disenfranchised chap. I knew I shouldn’t have … Continue reading →

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Red Dead Redeem my money and buy a better game

Posted on January 25, 2011 by ultrararespacehighfive

**I just found this and it’s in note form but I have little to ZERO interest in finishing Red Dead Redemption. I got 80% of the way through. It hurt. So I’m posting up my whinings in note form and … Continue reading →

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Vergismeinnicht – keeping secrets in a war

Posted on January 25, 2011 by ultrararespacehighfive

I remember in Upper School English classes, reading Birdsong, reading All Quiet on The Western Front, reading soldier poetry, and me seriously riling a group of girls. I found it extremely frustrating reading the female accounts of war. The ‘anguish’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Dreams, halo, TV, Videogames, War | Tagged band of brothers, bastogne, forget me not, germany, japan, keith douglas, musings, poetry, ramblings, secrets, somme, the pacific, tom hanks, trench, vergissmeinnicht, war, weapons, ww1, ww2, wwi, wwii, yrpes | Leave a comment

The CENTRE of ALL THE MEDIA!

Posted on November 11, 2010 by ultrararespacehighfive

Insomnia struck again and so I decided it was finally time I stopped getting less than half way toward my goal with my Media Center setup. I have been dabbling in the use of XBMC for some time and always … Continue reading →

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Old toy, New power

Posted on November 3, 2010 by ultrararespacehighfive

So. I fell out of love with computer games a few months ago. It’s all a bit weird really. I’ve gone from a gaming obsessive that wanted to make games a year ago, that raced home from work in time … Continue reading →

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