It will probably never live up to that pre-rendered video, but man is it tempting to get the LEGO Universe MMO when it comes out. The Ars review certainly makes it appealing.
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Bayonetta
Bayonetta has made a bit of a splash amongst the gaming blogerati. Like it or love it, a game that centres around a woman whose clothes are made out of her living hair, which is also used in her weaponry is going to get some people up in arms.
Whatever your take on the gender politics, you have to admit that any press is good press. Certainly, that worked on me, so I downloaded and played through the demo. I was going to review it, because even though it was pretty brief, I was thoroughly entranced. And then I watched Ryan’s review over at Giantbomb:
I don’t think anything more can be said. If you like this sort of thing, then you’ll be getting it. If not, I don’t care – I’ll have a librarian-dominatrix game to play with.
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Moving on from Dragon Age
With MacquarieCon out of the way (more on that soon, I promise), I knuckled down and finished Dragon Age. I know there are a number of different endings, and there’s a particularly interesting one that I would like to take, but now that I’m done with my first play-through, I’m not sure that I can be assed doing it again straight away. I deliberately avoided a bunch of sidequests so there would be some surprises, but I know it won’t be enough to keep me interested.
A recent article in the Daily Telegraph shows us that in Australia (and presumably the rest of the world), most parents don’t understand how to control the video games their children play.
This really is not a good thing; as we have seen over the last twenty years, video games are depicting increasingly realistic violence and sexuality. I personally do not have an issue with this trend. As an open-minded adult, I have no problems with blood or boobs, but I do understand that parents want to control how much access their children have to this sort of thing… and to be honest, I think that I wouldn’t want my kids accessing some of that stuff until they reached a particular age.
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Dragon Age: Origins
My silence lately is actually because I’m absorbed in Dragon Age: Origins. I haven’t quite finished my first playthrough, but I’m getting pretty close so I figured I might as well put some thoughts out there.
Naturally, when Bioware makes an RPG, expectations run pretty high. With Baldur’s Gate, Jade Empire, Neverwinter Nights, and Mass Effect in their pedigree, it’s hard not to get excited about their latest title. Even adjusting for that, though, I do wonder if it’s living up to the hype.