I will show you something you have never seen before
I ate some sweets and now I feel full, but I haven't had any real dinner yet. I'm gonna do me a chicken and pasta bake, I think. Then I'm going to play Dragon Age until I fall asleep. I'm going through again as a Mage character, trying to be a bit more evil than my Rogue character was, but it seems I don't like being a dick in games and I've made a few of the same choices. Sometimes accidently. Like I was going to kill all the mages in the tower and get the paladins on my side. I went so far as to kill Wynne when she questioned my plans, but then in the final conversation of the quest I told the Templar commander it was his decision to make and he wimped out on me.
And my character hates the Chantry again. While it's more approriate to this character - I'm planning on going apostate - I think it's just another little bit of me shining through. I've never been able to play religious characters.
Dragon Age 2 has been announced now, along with some details of it. It's centered around a single character, Hawke, and his development over a ten year period after fleeing the Blight. Gameplay is going to be a little more Mass Effect-like in style. Combat will be simpler. This is certainly different and maybe I'd want Dragon Age 2 to simply be Dragon Age Again but BioWare have never, ever, not even a little bit, let me down. They are not perfect and they are not everyone but they are good and they are for me. I have faith.
Christopher Nolan is my favourite director. There's a lot I really like and it's difficult to choose a favourite. David Fincher, for example. Gave us Se7en, Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, with The Social Network and (urgh) an American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on their way. Or maybe Sam Mendes, director of Road To Perdition, Away We Go and one of my all time favourites, American Beauty.
And there's Ridley Scott. He spans the genres in a way Mendes, Fincher and Nolan can't. From claustrophobic sci-fi's like Alien and Blade Runner, through huge epics like Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven, alongside Thelma & Louise, Black Hawk Down and Body of Lies. There's no denying Ridley Scott is one of the finest directors alive.
How about Guy Ritchie or Pierre Morel? Neither of them try to break out of their chosen genre's - cockney gangsters and french action thrillers respectively - but they've both mastered them.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet has his own very unique style and is - alongside Luc Besson - one of the few french directors to have broken out to the international market, with Delicatessen, City of Lost Children and the overwhelmingly great Amelie. Strange, considering how rich the history of french cinema is, and how well respected the role of director has always been there.
And there's new talent to watch. So far Rian Johnson has only given us Brick and The Brother's Bloom but even if they had failed technically (they didn't) they'd still show off how great a writer he is. Some of the best dialogue found in film. And speaking of dialogue, how can I not mention Quentin Tarantino. His films might not all hang together as well as Pulp Fiction, Reservior Dogs and Inglourious Basterds do, but the man can construct a scene better than anyone else.
But Christopher Nolan is my favourite. So I had the highest of hopes for his latest mind twisting thriller Inception. I left my monday game early to go watch it. My monday game is really awesome. It's full of smells and colours and we all play actual characters, rather than just Healer, Tank, Rogue etc. There's very few things I'd leave the game early for, but a chance to watch the new Nolan film in a private screening is one of them.
It has been massively hyped. Everyone has given it good reviews. The trailers, the posters all of the promotion for it - none of it gives anything away. We've been teased for so long and that's a risky approach. Or would be, for anyone except Christopher Nolan. You see, Inception is everything I hoped it would be and more. It's so refreshing to see a big budget special effects laden blockbuster that does something new. A really original idea, and so well thought out. It's a long film at two and a half hours but the pacing is good. Given the cerebral nature I can see a lot of parents taking younger children to watch it and the children getting bored, but that's because children are stupid. The film is something wonderful. I will never be able to craft stories that well, but it feels good enough just to recognise genius when I see it.
Now I'm going to have that food I promised myself half an hour ago.
And my character hates the Chantry again. While it's more approriate to this character - I'm planning on going apostate - I think it's just another little bit of me shining through. I've never been able to play religious characters.
Dragon Age 2 has been announced now, along with some details of it. It's centered around a single character, Hawke, and his development over a ten year period after fleeing the Blight. Gameplay is going to be a little more Mass Effect-like in style. Combat will be simpler. This is certainly different and maybe I'd want Dragon Age 2 to simply be Dragon Age Again but BioWare have never, ever, not even a little bit, let me down. They are not perfect and they are not everyone but they are good and they are for me. I have faith.
Christopher Nolan is my favourite director. There's a lot I really like and it's difficult to choose a favourite. David Fincher, for example. Gave us Se7en, Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, with The Social Network and (urgh) an American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on their way. Or maybe Sam Mendes, director of Road To Perdition, Away We Go and one of my all time favourites, American Beauty.
And there's Ridley Scott. He spans the genres in a way Mendes, Fincher and Nolan can't. From claustrophobic sci-fi's like Alien and Blade Runner, through huge epics like Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven, alongside Thelma & Louise, Black Hawk Down and Body of Lies. There's no denying Ridley Scott is one of the finest directors alive.
How about Guy Ritchie or Pierre Morel? Neither of them try to break out of their chosen genre's - cockney gangsters and french action thrillers respectively - but they've both mastered them.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet has his own very unique style and is - alongside Luc Besson - one of the few french directors to have broken out to the international market, with Delicatessen, City of Lost Children and the overwhelmingly great Amelie. Strange, considering how rich the history of french cinema is, and how well respected the role of director has always been there.
And there's new talent to watch. So far Rian Johnson has only given us Brick and The Brother's Bloom but even if they had failed technically (they didn't) they'd still show off how great a writer he is. Some of the best dialogue found in film. And speaking of dialogue, how can I not mention Quentin Tarantino. His films might not all hang together as well as Pulp Fiction, Reservior Dogs and Inglourious Basterds do, but the man can construct a scene better than anyone else.
But Christopher Nolan is my favourite. So I had the highest of hopes for his latest mind twisting thriller Inception. I left my monday game early to go watch it. My monday game is really awesome. It's full of smells and colours and we all play actual characters, rather than just Healer, Tank, Rogue etc. There's very few things I'd leave the game early for, but a chance to watch the new Nolan film in a private screening is one of them.
It has been massively hyped. Everyone has given it good reviews. The trailers, the posters all of the promotion for it - none of it gives anything away. We've been teased for so long and that's a risky approach. Or would be, for anyone except Christopher Nolan. You see, Inception is everything I hoped it would be and more. It's so refreshing to see a big budget special effects laden blockbuster that does something new. A really original idea, and so well thought out. It's a long film at two and a half hours but the pacing is good. Given the cerebral nature I can see a lot of parents taking younger children to watch it and the children getting bored, but that's because children are stupid. The film is something wonderful. I will never be able to craft stories that well, but it feels good enough just to recognise genius when I see it.
Now I'm going to have that food I promised myself half an hour ago.