Dave's Gaming Blog

Website updates and streaming

I've finally got around to cleaning up the website, took a little bit of work and I've perhaps used Chat GPT to cut some corners....here's what I've done though; Gear section fixed and populated Blog section cleaned and paginated Schedule replaced with dynamic integration Twitter replaced with Bluesky Quotes cleaned, search implemented Random quote implemented I'm not currently streaming as much as I'd like, hopefully I'll get more used to investing more time in games and streaming. The only thing left for the site it to make it responsive - alas my motivation for that is minimal but we'll see how I get on. Read More

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider

After finishing up with Dishonored 2 I moved onto Death of the Outsider, sold as a separate game this one is the last in the installments for the Dishonored series (currently). Going in, I had relatively high expectations that the developers really had a reason to sell this as a separate installment and not just DLC. The sort of things I was looking out for were better powers (specifically non-lethal options) and new mechanics that would separate the game aside from its previous installment, Dishonored 2. Sadly to say, it didn't really deliver. In the Death of the Outsider you play as Billie Lurk, which wasn't much of a spoiler given that the cover art featured her so if you'd kept up on the story you'd realise that Billie was Daud's right hand and seemingly going to be a continuation of the Knife of Dunwall. Sighing deeply thinking this because literally after coming off Dishonored 2 I thought the same thing, maybe the developers or the audience really enjoyed the Knife of Dunwall, and they were just doing more in case the money was there? who knows. The story didn't really deliver either, the connection between Billie and the Outsider... Read More

Resident Evil 4 (2023)

Couldn't help myself, after watching the trailer I wasn't too excited about the remake and equally had only just played the original game. However, just had to pick this one up given how much I enjoyed playing the original version and a lack of games in this sort of category. The remakes of the second and third game left me with such high expectations for this one, this being said after playing the original I couldn't really wrap my head around how they could improve or why they'd even want to remake it. The trailer had a certain amount of comedy in it that gave me concerns that where the original got it's comedic value unintentionally the remake was trying to force it the way so many newer games do. However this was far from the case, the game is so faithful to the original and playing through the game allowed me to remember each section and even prepare for what was ahead given how similar it was. There are changes that you'd expect however, new puzzles and different enemies at different sections which lead to the game feeling nostalgic but also fresh at the same time. Negatives are hard... Read More