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For some reason I'd confused The Fifty Year Sword with the Whalestoe Letters and assumed it was just more cuts from House of Leaves. A real physical book no less! I suspect my e-reader atrophied arms...

I really hope The Familiar is good. Only Revolutions was much more of a slog to get through than House of Leaves and I can't help but be suspicious of a 27 volume book - please be good, please be...

Dishonoured Dunwall City Trials

Nice idea, lacking in execution. I didn't like the combat stuff too much but I was enjoying the stealth based missions a whole lot, right until I worked out that...

It won't bring you around if you dislike the basics of low interaction and high optimisation. If you're just tired of the mechanic from over-familiarity then the cogs add something but you're still...

The lack of quest journal organisation in BG1 made the side quests near impossible if I didn't make my own notes. Wait, where was that guy I was meant to find and who am I handing his sword in to?...

I've loved everything I've tried by The Kernel so far. I think my favourites at the moment are their Export Stout and Imperial Brown but it's a close call. Sadly, I can't find it on tap anywhere...

1920x1200. Those loot icons sure are small but I find the highlight works well enough. It's a little fiddly at times, especially when items are closely stacked and something is trying to stand on...

I'm nearing the end of BG2 in a run through with Trilogy and that looks about right. I didn't install the extra content mods (some unfinished mods for old games introduce content that really deserved...

There's a lot of business sense in allowing your console to be ported to easily. There aren't many big games that are exclusive now and if the version that comes to your hardware is terrible because...

A new off-licence opened dangerously nearby in Manchester, which has led to a collection of new beers. They lack a proper website but it's the Beermoth in the city centre. The two guys running it...

The first edition is long, long and long. If you want to play it you'll need to set aside most of the day and be ready to do a whole lot of looking up rules. The FAQs and errata are also sizable. The...

In the PS3 menus, go to Settings > Sound and you can choose how audio is output. You can have video on HDMI and the sound out on either the optical or scart connections simultaneously. I don't know...

I don't know how current gen these might be considered, but to varying degrees of racing:

Dirt 3
Modnation Racers
Sonic & Sega Allstars Racing

Dirt is definitely in the realms of arcade, the...

The two deck packs are also extra decks, though they're probably of questionable value if you're not done with the main game's decks yet. The rest of the DLC is focused on either unlocking cards you...

Yes, they'll get you through. The AI is pretty harmless at low levels so you can experiment some, though you'll need to be prepared to work some stuff out for yourself. The game explains the basics...

Time it better! It needs to be just as they make contact and it should happen automatically. Some attacks can't be parried but they're fairly obvious to guess most of the time. You also can't parry...

Wow, I hadn't realised how little 2012 music I'd listened to. At least decisions were much easier than expected.

For My Parents by Mono was probably the highlight of the year, though that may be...

Dominion has more than Thunderstone but it's still at the very low end. The most you get in the basic sets are cards like "All opponents discard a card" or giving them curses (negative points),...

From earlier posts, Red November and Citadels are both good games. Red November is cooperative, Citadels can fall flat with some people but when it works it's definitely worthwhile.

Discworld Ankh...

And unrelated to the original question, my Christmas gifts for me are:

Trajan
A game by Stefan Feld (Castles of Burgundy, Macao, In the Year of the Dragon) with another action system that makes...

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It depends how much they like competition and how even the skill levels might be. Skipping the obvious games like Carcassonne and Settlers, cooperatives like Pandemic and Flash Point are...

I finished the game on hard first time and I've now reverted to normal to explore the levels more and complete some challenges. I find it far more fun on normal than hard and I'd probably recommend...

I'm about 20 hours in and crafting is entirely optional. There's a bit of forced crafting at the beginning to show you that the option is there but I've not gone back to it since. It doesn't help...

It has absolutely no text ingame, everything is based on symbols. You can print the rules online in English then use a German copy just fine. All you'll need is the reference of what each special and...

I'm about halfway through A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge. I'm enjoying the book plenty but I don't particularly like the core concept of the zones. I like the characters, the writing and most...