Now that E3 is two weeks in the rear-view mirror, I thought I'd follow in the footsteps of the Bombcast crew and put together some of my own Hot YouTube Content talking about my favourite games from the show. I went less with "these are the ten games I want most that were at E3" and more "these games had showings that specifically made me more excited than I already was." Here's the content of...
Hi All! I finally found the time to put together my Game of the Year awards for 2015. I have been writing these up for the past few years, with categories much in the vein of (okay, basically ripped whole-cloth from) the GB awards. But I decided to do them in video form this year, as I wanted to work on my writing, narration, and editing skills all in one fell swoop! I thought I'd share them he...
Ken Allsop finds a heart-pounding survival horror... lurking deep within the biggest, brashest First-Person Shooter on the market. Starved of ammo, I take a chance and dart the short distance down the deserted street into the nearest building. Scurrying upstairs, making sure not to be spotted through the windows, I lie as flat and still as I can among the furniture. I take this opportunity to c...
PLEASE NOTE: Potential spoilers. Nothing big here (I'll avoid any direct quest naming or big plot points), but it doesn't hurt to point out that I may mention something you'd rather find out for yourself. - Finally travelled to Riften (avoiding a double dragon fight along the way). - Convinced a loanshark to cancel a debt. My speech must be coming along well as this was far easier than anticipa...
Carried on with Rogue Warrior today - encountered a crash at exactly the same place (about five minutes in). Decided to not let it put me off, and continued regardless. That game is pretty much still the same as it was yesterday, it's competent enough but playing on hard makes it more a case of trying to exploit the fairly basic AI because getting into a straight gunfight will end with you on t...
Today I decided it would be appropriate to pick up Rogue Warrior from the two missions in I'd reached earlier in the week and play through it. I'm on the hardest difficulty, which seems to consist of fairly stupid AI which hits you incredibly hard and incredibly quickly, meaning that you can only stay out of cover for about a second at most before you need a good five-second rest to get over al...
So since Gears 3 came out, I've pretty much been playing Gears 3. But I'm finally starting to burn out a little on it, and I'm getting back into other games again. More specifically, I've picked up my beloved DualShock 3 once again. I've been absent from PS3 Land for a couple of weeks now, but what with all the new releases nigh-on here over the next two months or so, I'm going to be spending a...
Sooo... I think I may have just bought StarCraft II. I'm not really sure what happened. But I'll start by saying that yesterday I walked into town and when I went into GAME I saw Wings of Liberty by the entrance and said to myself "Oh yeah, StarCraft comes out today". And I very briefly contemplated buying it simply because it's been ten years in the making, waiting and anticipation. And any ga...
Well, amongst the revision, Tom and I got a fair bit of BlazBlue in this morning. Really getting to like Tager now, he's quite good fun once you start calculating workarounds to his near total immobility. This was followed later by some fine Street Fighter IV action, which only served to make me want the new version more. However, I remain insistent that I can wait for just 2 more weeks till my...
Back in Exeter, and I introduced Tom to the wonderous world of BlazBlue . He seemed to really enjoy it and we had a lot of fun, however our character switching playstyles meant that we felt the shortage of players hurt the variety slightly when compared to something like Street Fighter . The characters are all so different that I guess it works out okay. He is leaning heavily towards Arakune as...
Hey everyone, this will be really really short as I played no games yesterday. Was going to use the DS in the car but instead listened to a couple of old-ass Bombcasts (the Giancarlo Varanini one and the "Flycast" episode after it. Am now back in Exeter though, so maybe I'll hit up some Dante's Inferno soonish. Anyways, I've got things to do. Ken out.
So in an attempt to keep this up, I think I'll get another short blog entry in, for a total of 2 days running so far. Played some more Master League this morning, starting to get to a point where I can bring in players more easily, still no big names though and, crucially, no luck with Zarate. Still, it's only halfway through my first season in the Premier League, eh? After lunch I debated both...
Sooo... It's been a while. But maybe I should start blogging again. Quests eh? They're pretty cool. Been playing a lot of Master League today, and listening to episodes of TalkRadar UK and the Bombcast. Short and sweet, but there'll be more tomorrow. Hopefully. Maybe. If I can remember to get it done. I'mma go play some more Street Fighter IV in preparation for the new version. That's out soon,...
So, the Bomb has finally exploded. Hi everyone, my name's Ken Allsop, hopefully I'll be blogging some video game goodness in the following weeks and months etc. In the meantime, enjoy this fantastic site, and thanks to the guys at Giant Bomb for providing us all with this fantastic web-based treasure trove of goodness. Ken out.