Reality: Invited Into The UTS Bunker

If ThreeSpeech was a car..

despite it's looks it can hit 200mph on the Top Gear 1 mile drag strip in 24.8 seconds

Update From Mobiletone

Papergirl has got an art gallery for the show at the end of March for a week, and getting radio time to promote the thing. y'know, despite the attraction of this project i hit 250hrs in Skyrim this weekend. My laptop also nuked itself yesterday too so i lost all pics/writing/music/contacts etc etc from the last year. balls.

From The Digital to the Analogue

http://papergirl-norwich.blogspot.com/

Because a change is as good as a rest? Helping with new Art Project.

Why Are We Here

Due to lack of interest and hardly any feedback/comments from visitors the Unofficial Threespeech site is being mothballed, not teabagged.

Thanks to all who did come and participate in this little project, it was fun, but it's time to move on.

Mess Effect 2 before Mass Effort 3

Thanks Mittens for the Mass Effect 2 lend. Dead Space 2 is next..

I've spent 45 hours with ME2 and just completed it. Top game, really enjoyed maybe 30 of those 45. The rest of the time I was:

(a) Scanning planets to fill these 4 green bars. That let me upgrade my stuff. Wow, eh?

(b) Selecting conversation options, to get Paragon (goody goody points) or Renegade (baddie juice). This juice 'opened more options in the same conversations'. Er, great. It probably effected, er, other events.

NOW THEN: this game is all about the story, and it is a belter. I like the way you can go deck to deck on your very cool spaceship, interact with your very cool tech and crew, fly the fucker where you like in the galaxy with cool mass effect jumps between systems - rocking out the cool sandbox style missions as you go, adding to the fully realised 'universe' backstory. Go to interesting places, meet new aliens and robots, then kill some of them.

The third person shooter engine is OK, it's no Uncharted, but it's functional and the guns, ammo, biotic power options etc. are good fun. Buggy and weird in places, but it all works.

TROUBLE IS: For all those hours, some of your choices have permanent effects, which in the closing mission assures the pointless deaths of some of your team. As far as I can tell, due to a single decision much earlier on (siding with Jack when her and Miranda had a fight) I lost my three favourite team members - those two and Legion, the coolest robot dude ever. What makes it worse is the choice ensured I couldn't cop off with Miranda and I played good guy with Jack when I could have had rocking meaningless sex. Great, an almost totally naked, fully tattooed highly fit rock hard psychopath was one selection away, and I held out to gain a few goody points - dick. Or rather, no dick. [YouTube shows the romance scenes if you care]

AND: these decisions carry into Mass Effect 3! I may just nuke my savepoint for all that effort - I want my full squad back. But I think I will be picking up ME3 on a rainy preowned day late 2012.

Due you like my clever post title? Do I win £5?

And Yet..

Home Console Gaming is 40 This Year

From Pong and memories of playing on some mad Binatone system around my uncles as a kid, the BattleZone cabinets, Jungler, Defender and PacMans that ate up 10p's in my local cafe. The xmas i unboxed that ZX Spectrum and played my first 'pirate' game (JetPac - Ultimate: play teh game!), to the insane £££s worth of gaming rigs that now live in my front room... I suppose it is slightly less expensive than having a crack habit :D

Happy Birthday Home Gaming!

Ben Heck goes a mod too far...

Skip to 13:10 to see this bad boy in action!

The Last of Us

this has just popped on my radar, colour me interested.