Blue Sky Chapter 1: The Recall, a portal fanfic. A Counterfeit- a Plated Person-I would not be-Whatever strata of IniquityMy Nature underlie-Truth is good Health- and Safety, and the Sky.How meagre, what an Exile- is a Lie,And Vocal- when we die- -Emily Dickinson Somewhere deep within the vast vaults of Aperture Laboratories, two small robots charged down a long catwalk, the echoes of their footsteps clanking off the distant walls.
One- short, stocky, with one bright blue eye at the centre of its spherical body- squawked briefly at the other- taller, slimmer, its jointed torso housing a single orange eye- and took the lead, raising the strange gunlike piece of tech in its jointed hands and firing down the corridor at an angled panel at the far end. A blink-and-you'd-miss-it bolt of blue energy sizzled through the air ahead of the two robots, zipping down the catwalk and across a huge section of missing floor, a gaping unjumpable chasm where the metal looked as if it had simply been ripped away by a giant hand. Chell in the Rain - Portal 2 Mashup featuring The National's Exile Vilify. Leliana by Dafna.
Soundscapes – Why Mass Effect 3 might be the best sounding game of all time. Mass Effect 3 might just be the best sounding game of all time. This is quite an achievement for Bioware when you consider how the series started out. The audio in Mass Effect 1 was barely passable and in some cases even worked to destroy the drama rather than enhance it. Given that nobody pays any attention to sound in games apart from the music, they didn’t actually “need” to improve the sound. Nonetheless, I’m glad they did: there needs to be a benchmark for audio in games.