Monsieur Albert Camus provides me with the quote for this entry, I think it quite applies to my gaming mindframe of late. I have mainly been achievement hunting on Fallout 3 and dipping into Puzzle Quest along the way but on the whole i've been trying to level up characters/my GS profile.

I have also finally managed to overcome Braid, an experience that I feel has deepened my love (and expectations) of the art of the video game. The final 'chase' sequence was brilliant and although I'm sure that others will say that the twist was predictable, I on the other hand, was quite surprised. I appreciated how the game used standard and accepted forms to convey a series of vignettes that never quite reveal enough to lift a cloud of confusion (and because of this, a sense of reverence) about the game.

Since completing the game I have found that my thoughts have drifted back to a lot of what I experienced playing the game, there is very little that I can say about the game to sell it to you, dear reader, but if you are thinking of buying it then I wholeheartedly recommend doing so.

As I have already stated, I have been playing a bit of Fallout 3 lately, I am enjoying it as much as when I first played it and I am still astounded by how much of the game world that I have yet to explore. The game is like one huge DVD easter egg, like the backwards-backwards showing of Memento... Bethesda have managed to insert so many narratives into the world, and so many of them lead to nowhere, I can't begin to imagine the amount of effort that goes into crafting so many little tales, of which many will go undiscovered by the majority of gamers (myself included). This afternoon I explored the Dunwich Building (in search of a Bobble Head) and stumbled on a series of holotapes that detail a search, by a son, for a father, as you progress through the building you find more tapes and find out more about what has happened to the two men. The features of building strike just the right ethereal toneto freak you out and to intrigue you enough to make you continue. At one point, when entering a room, the view point changes to how theroomlooked before the nuclear wars, you see a man standing in the room... well, I'll leave the rest toyou to find out yourselves.

Fallout 3 is a very good game, it is still pretty flawed though, after returning to it after a move or so a lot of the bugs and glitches become very obvious and embarrassing, but saying that,it is still one of the best gaming worlds that I have ever experienced.