Ostinato • Comments

• Molyneux adds option to re-grow Curiosity cube

• Ostinato 19/04/2013

  WTF? Why would they let people add cubes? And why do people actually pay to add cubes?? The whole purpose of the 'game' is to find the secret, right? Why? Add?? Cubes???? Reply +53

• StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm review

• Ostinato 19/03/2013

  What do you mean the units don't level up? In online games there are 3-tier armor upgrades and damage upgrades for different unit classes (e.g. bio units, air units & vehicles for Terran), which you all have to research separately.
  
  Edit: not to mention the extra skills/attacks you can research for many units. Reply +1

• The Art of the Swarm

• Ostinato 14/03/2013

  Grubby beat Stephano? Wow.
  
  Grubby is a very nice guy indeed. One of the very few married pro-gamers afaik. But the whole SC2 scene seems to consist of nice guys, With a few excepetions of course (Idra, anyone?). For those who want to try out SC2, you can buy the original Wings of Liberty for a few quid now. If you're only the least bit interested in RTS, you should. Reply 0

• Hitman HD Trilogy review

• Ostinato 01/02/2013

  Bad tagline is bad. Reply -16

• Ubisoft: "Prince of Persia is being paused"

• Ostinato 30/01/2013

  Sands of Time had the best game opening ever. First the prince running through the night, telling about the nature of time. Then the beautiful nightblue opening screen with the palm trees and the castle in the background. Press start for a new game, the camera zooms in on a balcony of the palace, and there's our prince, standing on the balcony. The curtains at the door (to the bedroom of the princess?) are moving in the wind. Step through the curtain to start your adventure.
  
  SoT had its flaws (combat!) but I hope Ubi makes another PoP-game with the same atmosphere - which they never did. Oh and while we're at it, please get to work on Beyond Good & Evil 2 (and make sure it has the same dreamy atmosphere as SoT and BG&E 1). Reply +2

• Dark Souls 2 artwork

• Ostinato 22/12/2012

  Very disturbing, very nice, very Dark Souls.
  
  Now can we get a release date please? Reply 0

• The Last of Us multiplayer mode teased by Naughty Dog

• Ostinato 10/12/2012

  Saw the trailer, loved the game quality. But I am getting a little desperate. Why are all these games so ultra-violent? Far Cry 3, Tombraider, The Last of Us, all have crazy production values, and all are extremely violent and painfully realistic.
  
  I love games, but I hate realistic violence, especially if the game protagonist is the one doing the violence.
  
  Where are the AAA titles without ultra-violence? Reply +2

• Chivalry: Medieval Warfare review

• Ostinato 28/11/2012

  This game's bookish title

  Surely a pun on Modern Warfare? Reply +7

• Elite: Dangerous dev diary shows multiplayer gameplay as Kickstarter pushes past Ł500k mark

• Ostinato 26/11/2012

  It sounds kind of fun, but how am I going to tell my friends and family I'm playing a game called Elite: Dangerous?
  
  Battle: Heavy
  War: Gruesome
  Blood: Plenty
  Troopers: Invasion
  Soldier: Fight
  Hello Kitty: Mew
  
  Meh. Reply -1

• Lego The Lord of the Rings review

• Ostinato 20/11/2012

  Damn. I wanted to dismiss this out of hand. The LEGO franchise should have been milked dry after Batman 2, but they had to go and make an even better game, didn't they? And it's LotR! Oh well, off to the store. Reply +1

• The cult of TotalBiscuit

• Ostinato 14/11/2012

  @Whatascoop You're the man himself, aren't you? Admit it, you're TotalBiscuit! Reply +1

• Beyond Good & Evil 2 development delayed by Rayman

• Ostinato 14/11/2012

  They should just kickstart this. Be done with it. I'd be happy to pay for it in advance.

  QFT Reply +4

• Ostinato 14/11/2012

  Groan. At least give us a picture of Jade's face. Oh those beautiful green eyes...
  
  Anyway, I'm a bit disappointed that they changed the colorful, cartoony style to nitty-gritty realism, doesn't fit the IP at all. It actually looks more like Prince of Persia to me, all the climbing and jumping.
  
  But it would be a day-1 purchase for me, no doubt at all. Even if I would have to buy a new console for it. Reply +3

• Nintendo uncages limited edition Pikachu 3DS XL release date

• Ostinato 12/11/2012

  @Gambit1977 I wouldn't know, I've never played Pokémon :) But I think it's really much cooler than this new one. Reply +1

• Ostinato 12/11/2012

  My son has this Pokémon edition of the DS Lite. Mucho cooler.
  
  Reply +5

• Frontier releases first images of Elite: Dangerous

• Ostinato 09/11/2012

  Elite: Dangerous? Worst. Name. Ever.
  
  The game looks interesting though. Reply +13

• Molyneux's Curiosity app launches, Ł50,000 DLC not yet available

• Ostinato 06/11/2012

  Pfff 10 tries before connection to server. Reply +3

• Rewriting Tomb Raider

• Ostinato 02/11/2012

  @intpleeus That is a very eloquent post, sir. However, I think there is a much simpler explanation for the media row.
  
  The media want to sell papers, links, content. Sell more. Right now.
  
  So the TR trailer comes out. So someone, somewhere on the internet uses the word "Rape". What is easier for the media than copying and exaggerating this? It's on the net, so it's true, right? So they copy it, and then they copy each other, again and again, each one putting another exclamation mark after it.
  
  Voilá, a media row. No, wait, it's a moral outrage!
  
  Edit: if you want to be really cynical, you might even suspect that Rosenberg intentionally tried to create the row. Even bad publicity is good publicity. Reply +3

• Lego Lord of the Rings out next month

• Ostinato 30/10/2012

  Ehm let's see... Gandalf Bilbo Frodo Sam Merrin Pippin Boromir Aragorn Walker Gimli Saruman Elrond Galadriel Rivendel Lothlorien Anduin Mordor Minas Tirith Minas Morgul Shelob Gollem Smeagol The One Ring Sauron Saruman Theoden Rohan Faramir Gondor Shire Prancing Pony Took Mount Doom...
  
  Damn there's no Lego-pun to be made here! None at all!
  
  Anyway how do you make an indestructable ring out of Lego? Reply +1

• Ostinato 30/10/2012

  @Cjail: you posted while I was thinking. My pun was:
  
  One brick to build them all Reply +3

• Sony reckons Kevin Butler was in tyre ad, Bridgestone reckons he wasn't

• Ostinato 09/10/2012

  Reply +4

• Guardians of Middle-Earth release dates clarified

• Ostinato 08/10/2012

  For one blissful moment, I thought that The Last Guardian had a release date...
  
  /goes back to corner to sulk Reply +2

• Starcraft 2's new multiplayer beta blows HotS and cold

• Ostinato 28/09/2012

  The problem is of course that WoL is pretty well balanced now (let the flames begin). So any new unit is a danger to that fine balance. I play Terran (only Silver tho), and I really hope that they will come up with an alternative to the Warhound.
  
  Let's not forget it's still in Beta. Blizzard might well be drawing the beta out over 6 or more months. Anything can happen yet (right? please?) Reply +5

• Saturday Soapbox: The Feelbad Factor

• Ostinato 27/08/2012

  The beach scene in Ico took me by surprise.
  
  But how about Doom 3 for scary and depressing? No light anywhere, just monsters, dead people, dying people. I had to stop playing it because I got genuinely depressed - and scared. Reply +1

• Ubisoft: "we have been penalised by the lack of new consoles"

• Ostinato 23/07/2012

  GIEF Beyond Good & Evil 2 already. Dang! Reply +1