Meet the Reader: Kevatron400

I think I’ve heard that suggestion once or twice. Well, now that thingy’s been sacked as director, it’s wide open again. Heading back to Mass Effect 2, do you feel that you want to play it through again? See how the other side lives, and make different choices?

In some ways yes, but I think if I was playing as the anti-hero, bullying my way to the top, I’d just end up feeling a little bit bad about myself.

I’m definitely keen to finish all the little side missions and the like, just to keep me ticking over until ME3 arrives.

So, sticking to your guns and then carry on the story. Good man! Aside from Uncharted 3 and next year’s Mass Effect 3, are there any other games ending in 3 that you’re looking forward to?

I don’t know about other tri-quels, but I’m pretty excited about Journey next year, which is sort of the third in a series.

Ah, yes. That got delayed just the other day. I was looking forward to that! I always feel that the third game should replace ‘e’ with ‘3’. Unchart3d, Mass 3ffect, Battl3field, Modern Warfar3… I really shouldn’t go on.

You’ll have been pleased with Wip3out then.

That one must have been planned well in advance, since the first game was WipEout, with a capial ‘e’. I like to ask people if there’s any games in their past that they’re particularly embarrassed or ashamed to have played. Perhaps a guilty pleasure or two?

Haha, I did own the Robot Wars game on the PS2, and have also been the owner of Harry Potter: Quidditch World cup. I have no excuses.

Those sound impressively bad.

They are both truly awful. I would recommend anyone considering purchasing either to rethink their life-choices.

Good advice, we’re more than happy to stage interventions here at TSA. How did you first come across TSA, and what made you sign up?

Well an old housemate of mine, Davs (who you might know as Djhsecondnature) had started visiting the site a few weeks earlier, and I was all like “Ooh hey what’s that? Shiny.” After that, the sheer welcoming loveliness of the community quickly sucked me in, with Photoshop Tennis being a particular draw at the time, as I recall.

Yeah, you’ve been involved since the dawn of time, I’m sure many people think. You’ve got that Avatar guide, to your credit too.

Haha yes that’s true. Award-winning avatar guide at that.

Did it win an award? I mean it’s good, but…

2009’s most helpful forum-member. Thank you very much.

Fancy that! Since you have been around forever, you’ve also seen all the features and blogs and articles on the front page. Which has been your favourite?

Lewis’s “Abridged Too Far” series was brilliant, and I loved the time-travelling microwave too. I think that the WeView series going on at the moment is a really nice way to get the community involved too.

WeView is always so positive, though! We need something that people can really hate on, one week.

Robot Wars for the PS2?

Sounds like a good candidate. Obviously, you were at EGX a fortnight ago and got to meet lots of TSA regulars, though they may not have known it. Is there anyone left that you didn’t meet but would still like to?

Well obviously our own liaison was only too brief, so maybe we could have a couple of beers next time. It was a shame Dan Lee and CC_star couldn’t make it down, it would have been nice to meet some more of the TSA family.

Did you hear that Adam and I are going to adopt Dan Lee?

I did not hear that. Congratulations on your new boy.

Mainly for his children. Twitter is a very strange place at times.

Haha, I won’t ask…

I’m not entirely sure myself. At EGX, you slightly famously proclaimed all TSA members to be TSAsians. However, I’ve heard what, to my ear, is a more pleasing alternative: TSAgents. As the final arbiter on this sort of thing (it would seem), would you be prepared to reconsider your previous decision?

TSAgents is much less nationality specific. I’m prepared to concede that’s a far better term for us all. TSAsians simply came from me misreading TSAians once.

I always that that made it sound like everyone was called Ian. Here’s a tricky question: who would you Snog, have a Civil Partnership with and smother out of Peter, Lewis and Kris? Obviously, you’ve met all three for real now, which probably makes it tougher.

Haha that’s true.

Ok, I’d snog Peter, have a civil partnership with Lewis, and sorry Kris, but that only leaves you for the smothering.

Is there a particular logic behind your choices? As much as logic can be applied to this?

Haha, well I think Kris’s insane amount of hard work would leave little time for a civil partnership, and I’ve known him outside of TSA for too long to go snogging him now, so that only leaves the smothering. I’m not sure why smothering is the only possible alternative in this situation.

I think I was going for the sibilant half-alliteration of the three options. It’s more than a week ago, so I can’t remember, to be honest. When you’re not gaming and also away from TSA, what else fills your time?

I record a fair amount of music, I’m currently taking singing lessons, and learning to drive (not simultaneously – that’d be dangerous). I’ve also started to design my own video game with the aim of creating it somewhere down the line.

Oh, that sounds very cool. What kind of a game is it?

Well I won’t reveal too much, but it’s going to be a platformer based on the theme of light versus dark.

I look forward to seeing more of it down the line. On the lines of music, Monday’s OMM Podcast was actually edited by yourself. How did it go?

Well it’s going quite well so far. At the time of writing I’m still only about half way through the edit, and I know Kris is a little on edge about letting go of the responsibility, so there are some big editing shoes to fill, and I intend on filling them to the brim. By the time you, the reader, are reading this though, you will hopefully have listened to the ‘cast and made your own judgements. I hope I did it justice!

Oh, way to shatter the illusion I was interviewing you live!

Yes the podcast editing went very well. The response I got from all the listeners was very positive.

Much better. We have, unfortunately, come to the end of the interview. Do either of your personas have anything to say to adoring fans?

I actually was in your room the whole time. Third sock from the left.

I felt a bit uncomfortable later on, as I wore that sock, and was rather conscious I might be doing some damage to Kev’s… Sock drawer. Thanks for a lovely interview Kev. Next week, we go to town with another audio interview! Yes, that is a hint.