Recent content by IpcressFiles

Speaking as a 28 year old, becoming an adult at 18 is not a discrete event, it is a continual process. I can honestly say I only starting feeling like an adult at about 27, when I was better able to deal with people and my own emotions. It is also gradually realising that living your life as...

Another for Half - Life 2 here. I can appreciate the structure of the game and its gameplay, but it does not have that 'just 5 more minutes' quality that my favourite games have. That, and I thought the friendly NPCs were too touchy-feely, whatever they were gabbing on about was dull to...

22 hours straight on WoW. No wonder my life fell apart round about that time . . . The worst thing was that I wanted to keep playing, but my eyes conked out on me, so for the last hour I couldn't see anything. Truly, truly sad. . .

I think one of the most refreshing parts of Charlie Brooker's work is he is not afraid to say he likes or dislikes something, but also justifies it in an intelligent way. I do feel his criticism benefits from not patronising the viewer, talking about programmes rather than explaining them in a...

A third for Manhunt here. My opinion is that violence on screen is only as unsettling as the atmosphere the game creates. So for example Manhunt and Condemned give the player a real sense of peril and danger through the lighting, sound effects and level design. In this way the violence has...

Wire fan right here, saw the first two over the last couple of days. I have in the past watched them all in one go, but was so impatient I'm going to have to stop-start over the next 9 weeks or so. On a related note, i'd be interested to hear if there are people who watch the show who don't...

My experience on Xbox Live has been mostly crap: I've found my ego can no longer take being ground into the dust on Halo by mal-adjusted 13 year olds with Tourettes. Not to get all wishy-washy, but I have to say I was kind of shocked by the levels of racist abuse on games like Gears of War as...