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Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Jan 31, 2011 5:00am PSTHello again, The Internet. I was away on Friday at the London indie games conference A Winter World of Love, which was quite lovely. If you eat your vegetables, do all your chores and behave with the utmost politeness, perhaps I'll tell you a little more about it.
I was tempted to join a post-conference game jam over the weekend but felt a little worse for wear so I ended up reading and writing instead. I ploughed through Heart of Darkness (some curious prequel novelisation of Far Cry 2), got well into the astonishingly astonishing BLDGBLOG Book and was delighted to discover that the stories of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' crime comics series Criminal tie into each other in small ways. Many things are enjoyable, aren't they? Oh, and I think I played a little Jade Empire but I'm not quite sure because there seemed to be bad shmup sections and that seems unlikely in a BioWare RPG--it's possible I was delirious.
Speaking of indie games, voting has opened for the 2011 Independent Games Festival Audience Award. As a member of the audience, you can vote for one of the IGF finalists to receive a special shiny prize. Hop to it, then.
I am gonna have to go with the last hour of Crysis. I think the actual level is called Reckoning. Nomad flys the VTOL to the carrier in the midst of an epic downpour at dusk. You do your business on the ship and watch them prepare a nuclear strike against the alien base on the island against the will of Rosenthal, Prophet and others. Prophet says fuck it and peace outs. The strike launches, the base grows exponentially bigger in a huge explosion and the ship is under attack in the middle of the ocean, full siege. You finally make it back up to the desk to horrified screams of "HELP US! FUCKING HELP US!!!!" as you look up to see droves of aliens swarming the desk from all angles in what I consider to be the most epic FPS moment ever.
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