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Gaming Challenges for 2011
First, there’s that one achievement I’ve always meant to go back to but never quite managed to muster the enthusiasm to return to the game:
1. Win the Mile High Club Achievement in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Targets two and three are a little sadistic, I’ve played DMC4 on and off since release [...]
Final Fantasy XIII (Part 2)
So, I finally completed FFXII last week. Clocking in a mammoth 114 hours in the course of 21 days. I think my initial impressions comparing it to FFX turned out pretty accurate in the end. Although the story was interesting enough to keep me wanting more and the game world itself was truly beautiful, the characters were bland and uninteresting. There certainly wasn't anyone in the same class as the stand out characters from my favourite games in the series; Cloude (VII), Squall (XIII) & Vivi (IX).
Final Fantasy XIII (Part 1)
9 hours 54 minutes on the clock, thought I’d share some of my initial impressions:
Hope is possibly the most irritating character in any Final Fantasy game I have ever played, I truly hope the game ends with Lightning sodomizing the little prick with a gun-blade.
It took about 7 hours for the [...]
Upcoming Games
So, I’ve got another batch of games in on loan from Rich. Playing through Lost Odyssey has reminded me how much I enjoy traditional RPGs. As good as Fallout 3 & Mass Effect were, these “Action RPGs” just don’t hit the same buttons for me:
Final Fantasy XIII
The Last Remnant
Blue Dragon
Tomb [...]
Best Laid Plans
So, my Gold subscription expires on Sunday (21st November). I won’t be renewing it at the moment; not in protest at the recent price hike or anything like that. Simply because I just don’t see me making any use of the premium “features” of a Gold sub any time soon.
So, what will I be doing for the [...]
Gay Tony
Finally completed the Ballad of Gay Tony after much frustration in the Sexy Time mission, trying to aim and fly the Buzzard at the same time:(
TBOGT – Gold Star
I learned the trick to calling Henrique to deliver a fast car moments before using the phone to restart the mission a little too late to [...]
The Munsters
I really can’t believe that this isn’t photoshopped, Sammy Lee appears to be midway through transformation into a werewolf whereas Hodgson seems to be channelling Hermann Munster:)
On Prostitute Shaggers
Amazing quote from Assou-Ekotto, a rare case of a footballer showing some awareness of the world the rest of us live in.
The tendency in football at the moment is that as long as you’re not a prostitute shagger then it’s OK, it’s no big deal. Wayne’s not very well and it’s a dirty thing for his wife to know he had relations with a prostitute. He was seeing the same bird for seven months… We kick a ball around and we earn 100,000, 200,000 or even 300,000 euros a week. We don’t improve the world. It’s not like we invented hot water. We just kick a ball. But sometimes when these guys go out, you’d think they were rock stars.
I could understand that you wear dark glasses at night time when you do open-heart surgery and save lives, but not if you’re a footballer. I’m not in the same world as most of the people in football. I really don’t like this world. These people didn’t feed me, they didn’t bring me into the world and my life won’t improve by going to a nightclub and drinking loads of champagne.
– Benoit Assou-Ekotto.
Grinding of Gears
Been a while since I put a blog post up. Been enjoying RDR, Alan Wake and Borderlands since finishing Lost Odyssey. Prehaps feeling guilty at having too much fun I’ve decided to take on the grindfest that is Gears of War 2 again. I blitzed half a dozen achievements last night playing local [...]
JUnit – Running Standalone
nohup java -cp ./junit.jar:./mytest.jar org.junit.runner.JUnitCore testClassName 2>&1 >log.txt &