31 March, 2012

Orb Is What?


Just a bit of doom-saying on my behalf. I can see some people getting veeeeeery annoyed with some of these 'features'.
It should go without saying that this is all rumours at this point, so don't take me seriously. That's probably a good approach in general actually.

28 March, 2012

Apparently There Are Limits


In the beginning Assassin's Creed blew me away with its free-running gameplay and mixed techno-medieval mythology. Then Ezio came along and the layered story really got its hooks into me; I can remember sitting dumbfounded at the end of AC II as the scope of Desmond's quest came into view. AC: Brotherhood was a welcome follow up. It introduced some fun new gameplay elements and once again I found myself with over 100 hours playtime as everyone's favourite Italian Assassin. I wonder how many other players turned away all the male citizens they saved in an attempt to create a badass all female 'Brotherhood'.

Then we got Revelations and I'll admit I was a little worried. It was the first in the series to glitch on me. Four immortal, yet indifferent, guards fell to my sword and rose from the dead only to watch undeterred as I repeated the process. The hook-blade came with it's own set of oddities. Holding the grab button while jumping toward a roof would sometimes teleport me downwards so that the proper hook-climb animation could play. While the story was interesting it didn't grab me in the way the earlier installations had, there were no great discoveries to be made, no truths revealed. The revelations were all on Old Ezio's part, not mine.
Mind you, I still played it. I still enjoyed it. I was just getting worried is all.

You can imagine my relief these last couple of weeks when AC III was first leaked and then announced. Three year production cycle as opposed to one? Yes please. Radical evolution of existing gameplay, such as free-running through trees? Don't mind if I do. A new setting to explore and another ancestor to puppeteer? Yuh huh! Plus no tower defence mini-games. Thank fucking god.

Needless to say I am looking forward to this a LOT. Anyone else hungry for a bit of Assassin action on the frontier?

14 March, 2012

If Only It Was That Easy

Wouldn't that be nice? A simple drag and drop replacing three afternoons of horribly sweaty manual labour. So the move is complete and my mountains of junk have either been sorted or reclaimed by mother nature. But I'm back in action as far as the comic drawing is concerned, look forward to some more Highscore Kid shenanigans, especially considering it's St. Patty's day this Saturday, as well as a return to the world of Daedalus. More on that in the coming weeks. It's good to be back.

10 March, 2012

Just Like That

So it turns out that in order to get a house all you have to do is become homeless! That's good news by the way, the Highscore Kid has a new home! Comics will be back on track this Wednesday.

03 March, 2012

Journey

A little tribute image to Journey, which I honestly can not wait to play. Sorry to everyone who shed tears over the lack of a drawing on Wednesday but things have not improved on the house hunt front. Ah well, we move on don't we.