Thursday, 24 January 2013

Jamie Jabbers...

So, it’s Tuesday, early evening, and in all honesty I should be revising for a psychology exam that I have tomorrow afternoon.

Instead, I’m asked by long term heterosexual life partner Si Tye; if I would like to write something for him, anything….and I accept.

Obviously I accept because you are now reading the words of my labour, have nothing better to do, ay??

Anyways… ...You may be thinking, who is this guy??

Understandable; and I always make it a point to answer that question quickly and truthfully, especially when there is screaming involved and sharp objects aimed at points of extreme interest on my body.

My name is Jamie Forse (Yeah, that is my surname, and NO, I haven’t heard THAT joke before) and as I have already said, I’m good friends with Simon. And Rich. And George for that matter.

Now that the pleasantries have been dispensed I shall continue….So, asked to write something by the “Tyemonator” (What do you think? Just came up with that gem, it’s a keeper, right?!?) And I’m excited because it gives me an excuse to try out my new computer. Finally, something more fulfilling than looking at grumpy cats. And watching videos of people who try to lower their already piss poor IQ by thinking that jumping off a roof head first is a great thing to film. In all fairness, they are right. More interesting than this though is Dead Space 3.



If you don’t think that’s interesting though, I suggest you stop reading, and maybe drop yourself down a lift shaft. Or at least cry because everyone thinks you are fat, and you have bad breath. Your choice really.

But seriously, literally just finished playing the Dead Space 3 demo on the Xbox. And I enjoyed it. More of the same really, but I was a happy camper with the last two games so in my eyes it’s doing nothing wrong. I wasn’t able to try the co-op unfortunately so I can’t remark on that. The attention to detail is still bang on and the graphics look nice; the ice planet Tau Volantis looks stunning and some of the back drops are crazy cool. I also got to see some of the new necromorphs, which are pretty cool, and they are very much consistent with the earlier types which give it a nice feeling of continuity.



Although there were some things, that I shall not name or mention, that wouldn’t go amiss in lost planet. And there were other humans. Trying to shoot Isaac. He is the unluckiest bastard in computer game history, I swear. I didn’t like the sound of that at first, but the few battles they were involved in added some excitement once the necromorphs turned up. And of course, it ended just as my simple mind started to forget that it was a demo. But there is a weapon creator section where you can test out anything that your imagination can muster up to rip limps and blister flesh (there are limitations though, of course).



I am looking forward to more though, and I hope to have a friend who wants to play co-op as I have heard interesting things about playing it with someone else. Time to dig out Dead Space 2 I think…There we have it. That is literally all I have done today. I kid you not. It was fun but the sharp slap of reality straight after playing it brought me to my knees like a well swung size 10 to the gunt. And then I realised I’m starving and need to empty my bladder before piss starts squirting outta my ears, that’s how bad I needed to go. If you got this far, well done. You could have got away with just skimming, or ignoring it all together, but you didn’t. Thanks for reading. I salute you!!



Jamie 'Jabbers' Forse