guess it's real enough

One of my favourite games which in actual fact doesn't have much 'gaming' to it. Buried in all of the platformers which I was poor at, my brothers trick for finding rare games was uncanny. At the time FMV was still a big thing for CD based games and hearing the characters actually talk with real voices rather than R2D2 bleeps. But that wasn't the moment that stuck in my head, as part of the introduction to the game you are chasing after a colleague who has requested back up, you hear an off screen scream. When you find your colleague his head has been twisted off and is sitting in his lap. I owe Kojima San for scarring a kid of only 10 years of age, but I suppose that's where my sick fascination of horror comes from.

This game is Snatcher, part comic book, part film, mostly detective game, a complete steal of the Terminator and Bladerunner. However, I will save the explanation of what the actual game is about, wiki can do that.



The truth is I wanted to share it with everyone who hasn't touched it, especially my friends of the hardcore gaming fraternity, we always talk about games as art, but if we don't study the past you can't appreciate the present or invent the future. Kojima-San I await the next instalment, or even the Policenauts Aigo translation.

I fall over and laugh at myself, I dust off the snow on my coat and hair and pick up my glasses. It feels a million years since I was clutching at my copy of Norwegian Wood and beating myself up for my love of that girl. I feel like passing out and I lean backwards until my legs snap and I'm laying in the snow. The cold eats me up and spits me back out with nothing inside.

It snows some more, no one can find me underneath it all, I've never felt so content.

musik

• Powder Blue- Elbow
• Don't Mix Your Drinks- Elbow
• Rebellions (lies)- The Arcade Fire
• Take It Easy (Love Nothing)- Bright Eyes

videospiele

• GTA IV

schwarzweissfernsehen

• Germany's Next Model

vershieden

• the random Chinese girl teaching me mandarin for her to slam the table when she said success, very good,
• Niko- nobody fucks with my family,
• amazon.co.uk for making me spend money
• Heidi Klum when she walks in, not when she opens her mouth and German comes out,
• not realising I couldn't speak German when talking to the technicians in one of the operations rooms,
• seeing a square bathtub,
• spending 2 hours shutting down the server room,
• the girl walking while reading down SendlingStr, very hot but walking into everyone,