A Quiet Night in

As the wind and rain whistled around our flat, I took in a couple of hours of bioshock (Halfway through first mission, on the way through the medical pavilion) and a fair few games of ticket to ride.

The atmosphere of Bioshock is really something, the times when all you can hear are some inane gibberings of a splicer are quite disturbing, and the times where they’ve attacked each other before they’ve seen me is a really nice touch. The way the back-story is handled with the tapes is particularly appealing due to the hoarding mentality it rewards. Hacking seems a bit hit and miss. On a few occasions it seems that you are destined to fail, blocking off so many squares it became impossible to make a chain. Although the penalty is so small it really doesn’t make too much difference i suppose.

As for ticket to ride, i screwed myself over in a big game because all of a sudden you can use some routes twice. Not knowing this, i made a mad dash out of my way to get a track i desperately needed, which resulted in two people blocking off my only ways to get there. Would have been handy to explain that in the stupid tutorial I suppose. I am glad to see that TTR is still being played on the America map, I was quite concerned that everyone would migrate to the Europe map.