1 post tagged “violet berlin”
The last year has been an oddly game free zone. Under the perpetual threat of trans-pondian deployment I resisted buying anything new - all my old consoles would be packed up to come with me but I'd sell off my 360 and the modest stack of "Review copy - not for resale" white labels so there was no point buying anything new let alone tracking down a Wii (let us not go into the sordid subject of Sony consoles).
All told not exactly a bad year to miss out though. I'm not that bothered by missing Bioshock to be honest. Portal I do want to play but I've made do with the Flash version. Rock Band we get to play in the office which is far more fun to do than playing it alone (even if my 'singing' does tend to set the SixADogs off). I do want to finish Halo 3 however, even if 2 pissed me off no end.
Next year however - aww man. I've already squeed over Patapon (although it's at odds with my "have never bought a Sony console, will never" philosophy of life) and there's a new CES trailer
and, best of all, Rez HD
Awww yeah.
It's kind of hard to explain just how good Rez is. In fact some people hate it which is fair enough except that those people are wrong and killed my beloved Dreamcast and probably only ever buy endless yearly updates of FIFA and Pro Evo and Madden and Tony Hawks. They should, to paraphrase Warren Ellis "suck bear cocks in hell".
Suffice to say that it's beautiful and enthralling and mesmerising and chilled and frantic and fun. I gave a talk on it when it first came out, standing in a freezing east end warehouse projecting it through a VGA adaptor onto a wall. A friend, squatting on the ground, played through the first level as I talked. I turned round to point something out and paused momentarily to watch it. And then realised that I hadn't said anything for 5 minutes but that the audience hadn't noticed either. Later I was interviewed by Violet Berlin for the TV program Gamepad. I used the word salivated not once but twice during the course of the interview. That pretty much sums up up my state of mind at the time.
ObJanePinckardReference: I have no idea if it will come with the Trance Vibrator attachment. I have now fulfilled the seemingly mandatory requirement to link to that post whenever Rez is mentioned anywhere on the Internets.
