Diablo III

So, Diablo III has just been announced.

Awesome!

I love the Diablo games. I lost entire days to those games in both the single-player and on battle.net (and that was back in the days of 56K dial-up connections with 2 hour cut-offs - when atm0 becomes an invaluable command to silence the screeching beast, lest you wake everyone else up at 3.00 in the morning with a reconnect).

The best action-rpg is coming back and it looks every bit as awesome as it always has.

This is one to watch.

Metal Gear Stolid?

So Metal Gear Solid 4 is out.

I don't own a PS3 - and probably never will, the PC, 360 and Wii have pretty much everything I want to play, that is unless the Ico/SotC guys make a game for the PS3 - but with all the hype around MGS4 I feel myself on occasion getting caught up and thinking about grabbing the console and the game.

This will never happen, however, as I know fine well I won't enjoy the MGS experience. I've tried some of the previous games and could never acclimatise myself with them. They always just felt awkward, unforgiving and almost uncontrollable.

From what I've played I wasn't really getting into the story behind Metal Gear and Solid Snake either, but whenever I read about this stuff online it seems so compelling; I'm guessing these are romanticised accounts from veteran Solid fans.

I don't think I can ever really say I hate the game or possibly even dislike it, I don't think I've ever given it that much of a chance, so I think I'll have to stick with indifferent.

This is one game I'll be passing on.