What's Up? - December Edition

Hey dudes and dudettes!
Brace yourselves for another long-ish post, and..!


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A new banner! Well, sort of new anyways. Featuring a pixel representation of yours truly! Sans my messy beard. Enough babble, let's move on!


What's Up is a quick and simple segment where I discuss current games I'm playing and up and coming games that have caught my interest/I probably will buy.


Right Now:
The current constants in my life game-wise this cold December month are; Fallout: New Vegas, Minecraft, Super Meat Boy and Poker Night at the Inventory, all of which are great and fun games.

I'm a bit slow, since I'm still on my first playthrough of New Vegas. That's just the way I roll though, nice and easy is the key. I'm also playing on Hard difficulty, with Hardcore enabled (meaning you have to eat, drink and sleep regularly to avoid a slow and painful death in the wastes.)
It's a great game, I love it and I think it might just snatch the position just above Fallout 3 among my list of favourties (which currently only exists in my head and isn't properly sorted out to be posted yet.)
The only thing bringing the game down is its weird bugs and crashes. Currently I'm having issues with my beloved robot companion, ED-E, whom had accompanied me as a valuable combat buddy for so long. That was, until I upgraded him. For some reason, it seemed to glitch him out, as he will rarely move or attack anymore. It's a sad thing to see him so lifeless, the robot that once was happily playing his pompous war jingles is now just a floating metal ball. Clean and with upgraded armor, but completely lifeless. I miss my old, dirty and rusty ED-E.
Other than that though, it's well worth the money, and every move you make has an impact on what different factions and towns think of you.

Minecraft. Ah yes, the addictive, pixellated blockbuster (oh, the witty pun!) game from the now multi-millionare swede Markus Persson, also known as Notch. It's still in its alpha state, but there's so much fun to be had despite no concrete objective. It's the ultimate sandbox game currently in existence, and I recommend anyone to buy it for its low price of 10€ while it's still in alpha state.


Super Meat Boy is masochistic, to say the very least, but that doesn't stop you from enjoying every minute of it. That is, enjoying it in a very special, tormented manner. It's a trial-and-error, fast-paced, wall-jumping, multi-character, multi-platform platformer like no other. It might leave you frustrated at first, ripping your hair out your head and exclaiming profanity constantly, but the feeling of having completed a really hard world, or a really hard level even, is satisfying as hell.


Poker Night at the Inventory is a poker game from Telltale, the brains behind games such as the Sam & Max-series, Tales of Monkey Island and Puzzle Agent, to name a few. It stars internet/video game celebrities Max from Sam & Max, the Heavy from Team Fortress 2, Strong Bad and Tycho from the Penny-Arcade comic. Even if you're not a skilled poker player, the game is more than enjoyable for just listening to all the amusing dialogue the characters share. It's a great crossover game with plenty of visual unlocks such as new card decks and poker tables, and even unlocks for items that you'll get in Team Fortress 2! Ain't that a pretty sweet deal for a five dollar poker game? I'd say!


That's all for this month. No Coming Up-section for this post, as I haven't locked on my sights on any interesting, upcoming releases surfacing this month. If I don't post again this year (I'll try to, no promises though), then I'd like to wish you readers happy holidays and a goddamn fine new year!


Peace and video games!
/ Marcus out.