Was totally braindead last night so couldn't do any Uni work. Started Battletech instead. Early impressions seem pretty good, it's nice that it's got a bunch of stuff in it that's very Battletech, such as the way weapon loadouts are setup for mixed engagement ranges, and you can split your fire between targets in different ranges. I am interested to dig further.

I thought it was fairly evident from the gameplay trailer that it was jankily put together.

Plus eurogamer kind of raved about it iirc

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My Friend Pedro Looks fun, but utter garbage.

I tried it. Seems like it could be quite fun if the developer had bothered to properly play test it .

Fixed.

It seemed like one of those games they got to close too. Probably pulling off all sorts of cool shit after all those hours making it and wanking each other off with how cool it was and forgot/couldn’t afford proper q and a

Playing Wandersong now, it's fun

I virtually soloed all of it. Still awesome. is there anyone around?

Also, survival mode is AMAZING.

Well Nate was disappointed to find a hefty Fortnite update waiting for him when he got in from school today. After seeing how he's coming along with camera controls etc. in 3D games I thought I'd soften the blow by introducing him to Breath of the Wild.

The room is overspilling with utter joy and awe. It's magnificent. Fortnite is long forgotten, he's been having a great time just climbing stuff and diving in a pool. I'm just letting him at it, the odd direction I give him is swiftly ignored anyway. Delightful stuff.

Ah, I thought that was the couple where the lass posts impressions from watching her fella play. Yeah, I've seen one or two of their videos, great stuff. Very pertinent too, introducing controls to Nate has been the toughest so far. For some reason completely beyond my understanding, he has gone from knowing his left and rights at age 2 to switching them round when he's 6. Only when playing games though, I think it may be because of the inverted Y axis?

Anyway yeah, as old ass gamers playing since the inception of the medium, we've picked up a lot of "gaming language" as it were. Health bars, food to heal, all sorts. Tonight absolutely stunned me when I asked what the meter in the bottom right of BotW was for, it has a red side and a blue side, and at the moment were sat in the middle. He said it's for the blue and red lightsaber, meaning you're good or bad. Completely wrong of course, it's the temperature meter, but I was amazed that he got there despite never coming across a karma meter in any game he's played so far. Anyway, dunno where I'm going with this but yeah, introducing non-players to games is quite the eye opener.

Watching my 6yo play some BotW was amazing. He got stuck trying to get to one of the shrines (mountain on plateau) and wouldn’t listen to me, instead just chasing things and having fun.  So good. 

Want him to get back to it and I’ll coach him, but at the moment he is loving Mario Odyssey all over again. We kinda co-op’d it over a year ago when he was littler but now he is playing all by himself and doing ok.

FUCKING WATTAM FINALLY CAME OUT 2 DAYS AGO OMG.

5 year old is playing Tempo the badass elephants, it's bloody brilliant actually

(It's Tembo though, Tempo was the guy from a 32X game dunno why I'm typing this)

There’s a very good Lego game I’ve just come across on Apple Arcade which in itself is a very good, well curated, service.  So yeah, Builders Journey should be looked up for those with the means.

Been utterly ill over the past few days so missed staff night out last night and family lunch today, both of which I was looking forward to. Have put some of the money I would have spent into Disco Elysium and have been cackling away at some of the dialogue so far. I'm basically playing as the always after hedonism style cop who also gets existential advice.

Honestly, this might be the funniest game I've played in years. Even when I don't pick a dialogue option it's still hilarious to see it there. Late contender for the list this one is.

We were talking about PT at Londonstock last night. It’s easily the scariest and most terrifying gaming experience I’ve had.