Firstly... The Witcher. Action/Adventure/RPG on the PC. I played this about a month or so ago and freaking loved it. I highly recommend the Enhanced Edition of it due to all the extra "adult" features in it. It's got a really dark and realistic medieval feel to it, but it is not without some awesome fantasy as well. The only complaint I have (and apparently others as well) is that my game crashed during some pretty significant cutscenes and boss fights. I had to remember to save often or risk throwing several hours of progress in the trash. Really good game, awesome graphics, great story. A+ for The Witcher.


Secondly... One of the main things I wanted for my birthday (which isn't for few weeks) was a PS3. Karl got me one early (<3!) and threw in Heavy Rain as my first game for it. Promptly after hooking up the console I started the game and played for about ten hours straight. It's more of an interactive movie. There is no "game over", but there are a ton of different endings depending on which of the main characters die and which ones live. In my first run through it, I seemed to screw up with the characters I cared most about and my ending was probably one of the worst possible in that more people died than I had hoped. I'm playing through it again and doing things differently and lots of the dialog is different but I read that I won't see the real fruit of my changes until close to the end. I don't mind that at all though because the story and the whole feel of the game is such that I could probably play it ten times over and still not get tired of it. I desperately hope Quantic Dream makes more games like this. By *this* I don't necessarily mean the real time mechanics, but the "no fail" take on a story. In theory, I could literally bomb every situation in the game by deliberately not hitting the buttons appropriately and I would not "fail" the game. I would simply get a different ending. I foresee many more hours of sheer experimentation with this game just to see the different endings. I love it bunches.


Updates on life will have to wait because I'm tired now.


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