Chatterbox Wednesday

I'm on the same page. It looks like it's basically going to be exactly the same as Mad Max, which I really enjoyed.

The criticism of it seems harsh though, mostly around it not being original and the story being a bit bland.

I bought Days Gone.

I have played it a bit. 
Mostly pretty good.
I don't like the aggressive tutorial bits. Get in to fight. Game immediately pauses to tell me R2 is trigger.
I found it completely unnecessary and immersion breaking. I've ever been keen on games dong this.
Let the player play the game and fuck off with your really crap tutorials.

Also it had a couple of scenes that I should have been able to play, but were cut scenes. 
I wanted the choice of killing someone/leaving them to bleed out.
Having that agency taken away from we was annoying.

The third thing is load times. It seems pretty slow to load.

Apart from that i like it.

Four stars

Your face is wrong.

Your face is your face. Pretty damning, I think you’ll agree.

A mixture of work chat and poetry?

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six-foot-four and full of muscles
I said, "do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said....

Now that's some proper poetry right there.

Now we're talking. Much better name than Days Gone too. I should be in marketing.

You want a manual to tell you why Horace goes skiing before you start to play? Surely part of the joy of playing was the slow reveal of plot, character and motivation? Those elements of the game were allowed to develop throughout the gameplay, gaining power and emotional intensity through well-paced progression. I would describe playing it as akin to listening to Shostakovich's 7th Symphony being played by a full orchestra in an acoustically spectacular concert hall, listening to Mariella Frostrup read T S Eliot's The Four Quartets to me whilst we lie naked in a Spring meadow, or a really good curry where the flavours have been allowed to develop served with a pint of Cobra at the Eastern Eye in Lichfield. You want a manual to tell you that the music has some loud bits, the poetry has some meaningful bits, and the curry is on the hot side, instead of actually living the joyous bounties of experience? You fool, you pitiful philistine fool.

(Of those four things -- Horace Goes Skiing, Shostakovich's 7th, Marielle reading The Four Quartets naked, and a curry at the Eastern Eye -- I have actually done three. Pretty good going, eh?)

Mariella playing Horace goes Skiing naked, or you haven;t lived.

And now the post you've all been waiting for...

Lunch: lemon and basil grilled chicken, with roasted peppers and lemon pasta.

And one massive helping of anticlimax.

Shenguin takes his genitals out again