DoFuss

Busy Finding Things To Do (or not to do, depending on the day)

Alex Beech — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:18:29 +0000

When I do find time to add something more substantial (and I will at some point), it will be original and with any luck entertaining. For now however, here is some of the work I have been doing elsewhere. Hope you enjoy.

Resident Evil 6; Worse Than I Hoped (but about what I feared)

Alex Beech — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:54:21 +0000

Why do you do this to me Capcom? I want to love Resident Evil 6, but it has reached the stage that I am starting to doubt myself; perhaps I have been suffering from Stockholm syndrome for the last ten years. As the series has transitioned from survival horror, to action horror, to action game I have done my best to always find the core of what I enjoyed about the first game.

I Laughed, I Cried… Emotional Games

Alex Beech — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:26:17 +0000

Games have come a long way in the past decade. Characters’ ability to emote thanks to the power of the current systems, and developers’ willingness to control the pace of stories, displays a new maturity for the industry.

Finding Balance

Alex Beech — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:40:56 +0000

Why is game journalism not close to a 50:50 split? Numbers show as many women are enjoying games as men, and every woman I have met in the industry is as good, if not better, than their male colleagues. What is telling is that there seems to be a far closer parity with video journalists than writers (to be clear I do not mean presenters, I mean video journalists).

Gimme and S. Gimme a T… Fuck it. Stereotypes! Wow!

Alex Beech — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:19:52 +0000

Resident Evil is an incredible series. While recent incarnations may have shed much of what I loved of the original’s slow paced B-movie horror styling, they have continued to enthrall me. But Resident Evil 6’s three-pronged campaign has solidified a niggling trend in the series.

Read Only Memory

Alex Beech — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:19:56 +0000

Read Only Memory (ROM) is a new kind of book publishing company. Focusing on gaming they mix carefully curated content from icons of the games industry with a beautiful design philosophy, these are books that promise to be the definitive record of their subject matter. The first volume is to be Sensible Software 1986-1999, and will offer a look behind the scenes of one of the UK’s most influential software houses.

Cultural Confusion and a Little About Games

Alex Beech — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:26:54 +0000

I could talk about games, I could regale you with stories from the show floor or describe the tingling sensation I got saying ‘Hi’ to Keiji Inafune. But if you want to know about the games you can check out my previews at Play Devil (links below), instead I am going to tell you two tales from my journey home.

Rougelikes

Guest — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:22:32 +0000

We love the genre all the same, and whether you're playing the original Rogue title that spawned the genre, or digging into a little Spelunky before it sends you back to Mario or the PartyPoker site, tears in your eyes, the desire for a reasonable difficulty level strong within you, it's arguably made us all value the "lives" concept in videogames.

Online Chivalry

Alex Beech — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:11:14 +0000

On occasion I let myself replay a game, but with the ‘grind’ of reviews this has become an increasingly guilty pleasure. With that in mind nothing prepared me for Dark Souls and how its tag line ‘prepare to die’ was not talking about anything in-game, but my social life.

Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer’s Edition

Alex Beech — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:06:10 +0000

I find the failings of Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer’s Edition far harder to reconcile. Facts are amazing fun, and while books like the Guinness World Records are basically trivial tat they can none-the-less be deeply entertaining.

Mass Effect Relationships (possible minor spoilers).

Alex Beech — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:33:10 +0000

With the furore about Mass Effect 3’s ending (which for the record I quite liked) people seem to have brushed over the relationship system. Unbelievable characterisations mixed with sallow interactions manage to crate some of the emptiest sentimental claptrap I have seen outside of a Lucas movie.

Future DoFuss.

Alex Beech — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:53:11 +0000

Future Videos Intern (I guess) would have been my official title over the past three months and in ways it was more than I could have dreamt of… while at the same time being exactly what I was dreaming of.

DoFuss’s “Now So Cheap It Should Be Criminal” Games of 2011.

Alex Beech — Mon, 21 May 2012 23:04:27 +0000

These are the games that had their price dropped unfairly quickly, those games that should have done better but never got what they deserved.

DoFuss’s Titles Without the Budget or Deserved Attention in 2011.

Alex Beech — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:50:36 +0000

These are the games that seemed to get less love, either in ‘game of the year’ lists I read on other sites or from general sales figures. This is my small attempt to redress the balance.

DoFuss’s Big Budget Games of 2011 (yes, I know its May).

Alex Beech — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:27:54 +0000

This is a list of the biggies. Games with the advertising muscle to make an impact, with or without the medias' approval. Don’t hold that against them though, seek them out if they passed you by.

Max Payne 3.

Alex Beech — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:59:49 +0000

It’s strange to think that it is now eleven years since I first played Max Payne. There was something special about the Remedy developed title, a noir story met an irreverent sense of humour that could only be achieved from an outsiders’ perspective (in this case Finnish).

I Am Alive (I mean me, not the game).

Alex Beech — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:29:43 +0000

My intentions were to stop these, but I have spent so much time writing for other sites that sometimes I just like to put them up to prove I am alive.

PS Vita; My Hopes and Fears.

Alex Beech — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:54:16 +0000

Sony’s new handheld, the PS Vita, is set to continue the company’s trend of making the most technically impressive hardware possible with a price tag to match.

(The Final Late) Gamescom Catch Up – Getting Down To It.

Alex Beech — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:16:43 +0000

It is nice to have a business area. Having a space to sit and write, take notes or just having people with enough time to answer your questions, is not vital to providing prompt coverage but it certainly helps.

(A Really Late) Gamescom Catch Up – Hands Off

Alex Beech — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:41:13 +0000

Coming from the comparatively down and dirty TGS, Gamescom’s attitude to press had a great many advantages. There was one disadvantage however, which was that a great many games I DIDN’T get to play, that I was only allowed to watch. Of course Tokyo had its own fair share of ‘game theatres’ for upcoming games still early in development but with no appointments I rarely saw them.