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hmmm… maybe that’s the reason i haven’t been posting… i really don’t see anything exciting this holiday around. I mean it occured to me that it should be the round of thanks giving and christmas and i remember in other years i used to be drowning in super awesome games this time of the year… and sure, there is the financiar reasons too holding me back but … i still say it’s the games. I mean i COULD be playing on my quite capable pc at this time (needed it for work, no gaming reason), i even got a handy dandy xbox controller… but … why bother? for war shooters, multiplayer games and best case scenario strategy oriented multi character management rpgs? why bother. your’s truly, games nut. void

Hasn’t really captured my imagination or artwork awe quite yet (unlike Prince of Persia: Two Thrones, but that’s a tale for another time) … but it does seem it is high enough budget that it might be interesting and with some luck it should provide some unique imagery (and a testimony to where games have gotten these days) … but the real reason i’m posting this is the brilliant comment of somebody to the trailer pointing out the irony if say some developer made a game based on this movie… which is based on a game :)

Some concepts that struck me: a purer form of enjoyment when you don’t understand the language? (did i mention that’s how i initially learned two languages i know that became second nature, or fist even, like this one) The other concept that hit me: the mystical nature of animals. Generally i like his point of view… content above framerate, not super praising the ps3 hardware but accepting the constraints and always wanting more from hardware in order to express more. I must say though that my personal opinion is somewhat different in that while I love his poitn of view, and i love the idea of communicating beyond the barriers of languages, I msut say my deepest game experiences did happen to be with games which had a couple of novels’ worth of words… they take you to a deeper level, a more complex experience… so yes, i do believe words are important… but yes, I also do wish we had one universal language so you could reach everybody.