I feel like starting these blogs with "Hey guys, it's been a while" might become a little redundant as I only seem to write here in 12-18 month intervals; but it's that time of year when we're all compelled to write lists and retrospectives and there's been something on my mind toward the end of 2012 that I want to get down - this is probably more personal than the title may imply, so I underst...
SUP GIANT BOMB. I've been off the blogging scene for a few weeks (work piling up, Playstation breaking). So I thought I'd just do a blog of what's been going on, because, you know, I'm an egotistical twenty-something. 1. GAME THINGS New PS3 - I spent a while this week weighing up my options after the terrible YLOD incident . This afternoon I bought a new 160gb model from Amazon UK. £196 for the...
But with a small yellow light. Today I came here to write a blog. A blog about my dislike of moral choices, and my distain at inFamous 2's use of these choices. But then, my beloved Playstation 3 of 3 years, 3 fun-filled just-out-of-warranty-dammit-Sony years, ONLY WENT AND DIED ON ME I am not in the right mind to compose my thoughts and write a witty ode to my favourite mechanical box, but I n...
It's been a couple of weeks since I last put something up on t'Bomb. I put this down to unexplainable EXHAUSTION and this freakin' raising-questions-about-my-sexuality-though-not-really Robot ; Omgee that's siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick Over the Christmas break I began Persona 4 with a friend but didn't bring it back to uni with me (kinda a co-op thing, yeh?), and I've honestly never craved a game s...
Today marked the beginning of the post-Christmas playthrough festival. Opening line up; The Godfather Part 2 Demon's Souls Silent Hill Ghost Recon 2 Fight Night Round 3 This blog will look at, perhaps the most disputed of those titles, The Godfather Part 2, and I'll turn to the others tomorrow and the day after, and so on and so forth. I bloody love The Godfather Part 2. (I don't bloody love ha...
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Heavy Rain's still relevant, yeh? And quick time events, yeh? ... Anyway, despite the considerable praise it gained in early press releases, I could never get excited about Heavy Rain when it was first shown. I was (/kinda still am) one of those anti- quick time events gamers. Hopefully not because it was a bandwagon that was fun to jump on, but because I had worthwhile reasons for it. On the v...
I'm off to Uni again today for the (close-to) final straight of my undergraduate degree, BOOM. That probably means less retrospective blogs and more "So I found this game for £5, here are my first impressions as I'm unlikely to finish it.". Christmas games I got/bought and intend to play in the coming weeks; Lego Harry Potter Ghost Recon 2 Fight Night Round 3 Demon's Souls World At War/Modern W...
First and foremost, as with all my blogs, new games take a back seat in favour of financial stability, or something there abouts. This is a list of the top games I played this year that may/may not be 2010 releases. I'll keep the descriptions short, it's not like you guys have read enough of these lists yet or anything. LETS GO; 12. Bioshock 2 I wanted to make this a list of 10 games, I really...
I'm sitting here, like most of the users on this site I'd presume, with an unavoidable urge to write some kind of Game of the Year blog. I am afraid that if I did the same I would just be telling you all that Red Dead Redemption is awesome, Super Meat Boy is nails, and Minecraft destroys free time. So to avoid this boring mess I've decided to write about how I've personally changed as a gamer t...
( WHUT) Ok bad jokes over. Today Persona 4 arrived. But before I discuss that, other things I've been playing: Minecraft Beyond Good and Evil Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon . MIN-craft I really don't know what I can say here that hasn't been said a million times on a million blogs by a million guys who play Minecraft. I bloody love it. So to avoid boring repetition I'll leave you with this;...
It's been snowing. I didn't really want to make a blog post about SNOW and all but today; My pipes have frozen. Refrain from your innuendo dear readers, for today, we have no water, and thus no showers, and no toilets, and all the rest of it. It seems the whole building has gone so it's probably not gonna be fixed for a while! I was supposed to be going home-home tomorrow, to a warm house, work...
As I've mentioned before, I rarely play new games. This is mainly due to financial/work related constraints. As such, I've decided this blog shall be a healthy mix of gaming and non-gaming related things. Ok so let's do this. GAMEZ Ninja Gaiden Sigma can fuck right off. I tried. I really tried. I'm at about 5 hours in, chapter 5. A little early to be giving up, I hear you yell? Well I'm pretty...
I definitely have blisters on my fingers /bad joke. First impressions It's good.
Is this, STRUCTURE? Happy Weekend everyone. Alongside my newly rediscovered blogging determination is a quest for interesting subject matter, something I don't feel I've ever managed to conquer before. This is down to one limiting factor; I have no money. Because of this small hurdle my current gaming life is what your gaming lives were approximately one year ago. But surely some of you enjoy r...
It's late. I'm very tired. But I'm determined to get back on this blogging business, so here are my current thoughts; I want to eat Pac-man Championship Edition DX Hunting without goals is still more fun than zombie-related mutliplayer on Red Dead. I need to spend less time on my dissertation and more time on The Secret of Monkey Island. I wish my internet wasn't awful so I could see what the S...
So it's been well over a year now since I posted a blog on this site, even though I visit the old Giant Bomb about 30 times a day whilst putting off uni work. I hope everyone is doing awesome. Soul Calibur 2 I've never been as into fighting games as most people on this site seem to be. I grew up on Tekken 1-3 and a bit of Soulblade but never really dabbled with the "serious stuff" like SF2 unti...
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Hey everyone, just thought I'd get some stuff down quickly. Firstly, i've been having a gaming FESTIVAL recently. I've picked up; Final Fantasy 7 Bully Max Payne 2 Fallout 3 The Orange Box Prince of Persia: Sands of Time The Warriors (Over the course of a few weeks, not in one big binge) Also just won a MegaDrive on eBay so that should be awesome. Also started writing for a game blog here . So...
Hey guys, how's it all going? I've been really, really shit about keeping up to date on here recently, even though I still visit many times a day, read blogs, and all that. So I went and splashed out £40 for Resi 5 a few days after its release (because it was my birthday, and sod it). As someone who wasn't HUGE on Resi 4, i was a bit concerned as to how much I would enjoy 5, but the demo had im...
So this is me! I play a lot of music and all that shiz, so I've decided to start editing things and putting it on youtube. And yeh, I'd really appreciate it if you guys took a look! /selfpromotion (And cheers Claude for pointing out that i can just embed stuff!)
So recently I've been going through the application to take my third year of uni at the University of Toronto. And I just found out I've been accepted onto the program! :D Of course Toronto can still reject me but I'm into the final stages :D So yeh, If there are any Canadian GiantBombers who read this, I'MA COMING! (In other news, I fully intend on now going out and getting Stranglehold and Co...
So i was just in Zavvi, and it's closing down and all that so they've got the 25% off all marked prices. Now this means they've just put the prices of everything up, (Unreal Tournament 3 is £50 for example) as they don't really understand the meaning of "clearout sale" But i came across this bargain bucket thing, which contained; Resistance 2 For; £3.74 Becuase it had no cover sleeve..............
So i've been ignoring my Giant Bomb Blogging recently, not that i really have a regular fanbase or anything! Bought Valkyria Chronicles last week, didn't seem like my kinda game but after all the stellar reviews and out of a want to support some under-appreciated ps3 exclusives i bought it. And it's amazing. Great style, story, gameplay, everything. I'm suprised at just how fun it all is, being...
As everyone's doing a GOTY related list i thought I would do a similar one, only do it as my gaming moments rather than games themselves. This also means a few are from old games, but the moments occurred last year. So let's begin! Getting the PS3 This one kinda goes without saying. I bought it for my birthday back in March after painfully waiting till i had the funds/the time was right to buy....
*these prices may have changed by now* I've found myself scanning the depths of the internet (albeit the extremely shallow, obvious depths) for games after recieving a little money for Christmas. Thought i might as well compile a list of them here for everyone's benefit! Sorry for the ps3 weighting of the list (they're basically all ps3), but it's the console i own and therefore the one i searc...
Yeh, MERRY CHRISTMAS! Just thought I'd post a TINY blog becuase it's kinda game related. Basically i can now join the long list of people who have a sackboy which their girlfriend made them :) Hope everyone had/is having a good day!
Just been doing the rounds on the old gaming sites, and ign had a link to this; http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/mgst/?ref=kjp_eng What do you guys reckon? It certainly looks a lot like the 360 power button, which might imply some kind of confirmation of a MGS4 port. Only thing is the way it says "next" seems to say it's a new game? And the way it's a Metal Gear and not a Metal Gear Solid? Or am...
I don't have Mirror's Edge, i played the demo of it and enjoyed it a fair amount, but really didn't think it would be worth buying. This trailer hasn't convinced me either, but i think it's looking reaaaaally quite cool. It has that Kula World vibe to it, and seems to me like it could be a much better use f the game engine than free running the bland streets Any thoughts? (and sorry about how w...
So tonight i was taking a train back to Uni from home, with my young persons railcared ticket. ONLY PROBLEM WAS, i forgot said railcard. So the ticket inspector said i would have to pay full fare, and as it was so last minute, that would have been around £60 at best. The inspector left with my tickets and didn't return for a long long time, and in this space of time, i decided to bail off the t...
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http://www.geekologie.com/2008/11/good_idea_man_submits_drawing.php Maybe i'll put an actual gaming blog up soon.
So i'm thinking of trading in Soul Calibur 4 when i buy Dead Space, just cos £40 is a little too much to be spending at the moment (student-ness, and replacing my lost Creative Zen). Does anyone know where the best place in the UK is to trade it in, and how much i'd get for it? I get the feeling it's a popular game to be traded in so i'm thinking £15 would be a good price maybe. Gamestation, Ga...
So recently i bid on an N64 on eBay, well about 5, and i lost all of them. It was that annoying thing where i was out for when the bidding ended so someone always beat me by about 50p. So instead of buying it i just downloaded Project 64, the emulator. I never had an N64 so i'm using it to catch up on all the games i never properly played as a kid, and those that i did. I've played through Gold...
So after the rush of realising that i'd actually managed to get and download the Beta of the game, i thought i'd get stuck into it. There are 4 levels of the story mode to play through, well, 3 and a level that's nothing more than jumping over a skipping rope basically. They were all really fun! Nothing too taxing as it's so early on, and i'd seen most of the levels before, but it was still so...
Well i thik that was quite a clever title. I JUST GOT A LITTLE BIG PLANET BETA KEY! So i'm incredibly excited, limited numbers for EU people now on IGN, i didn't even have to verify my email address so i'm hoping i won't get a bunch of spam from registering. But yes it's downloading now, so i'll post some impressions in a while :D:D:D:D:D:D:D
I'm really interested in what everyone's thinking about this game. I really can't decide if it looks like it'll be worth shelling out £40 on. On the one hand it looks like a really intense survival horror-y game, but then it's starting to give me the impression that it's a little repetetive and dull. All the enemies seem to fall into one homogenous blob of "fleshy gooey stringy things with many...
So i FINALLY have the internet set up again. This means lots more online gaming, so maybe Soul Calibur might ahve a little life left in it. And also, more pointless blogs!
So i'm back at Uni for my second year. Just moved into a new flat which is in an awesome old building and i have a MASSIVE room, i'll upload some pictures later on. Only problem is i don't have an internet connection, i'm currently leaching off someone elses in the building (yus!) but i get the feeling that's gonna get stopped pretty soon, and i kinda need a faster one. SO this could be the las...
If you live in the UK, otherwise ignore this. I was in Morrison's doing the weekly shop today and it seems they have seriously mispriced their games. PS3 and 360 games are £25 new, so picked up Soul Calibur4 just cos it was so cheap! They had MGS, GTA, Bad Company, and a couple of others i can't remember, but you can't go wrong with a new game for 25 smackers
So i'm in a band/I write and play my own songs and all that jazz, but on a much more important note, me and a friend have decided to do a bunch of hip hop covers, not 100% seroius at all, but if you wanna check them out: http://www.myspace.com/freshspitsofbantairmusic cheers!
Hello everyone! So yeah, it's been ages since i did one of these, and the last couple were pretty poor, and this one isn't much better, just thought i'd update my situation. Basically i've been in Paris and Barcelona with the girlfriend for a bit, so i haven't exactly gamed. However when i was in those places i thought i'd check out game prices to see how they compare to here in England, and ho...
Haven't posted a blog in a while, so i thought i'd just update my current gaming situation and maybe throw some other ideas around. What i'm playing now: Ratched and Clank Future TOD; so i went and bought it after reccomendation from Rezzolution and a couple of other guys, and it was £15 new, so that's cool. I'm really enjoying it. It's taken me about 3 hours to really "get it" but now i'm lovi...
Recently i've been playing through my old ps1 games; lots of Croc and Crash 2, becuase they're AMAZING. Crash Bandicoot 2 is verging on painfull frustrating due to the phyics in it not being what they are today. I'm finding it trick just getting back into the control scheme so that i can actually make the jumps i'm trying to make. Croc is just as good as i imagined. I was too young to know if t...
Well, i finished Skate today which i have mixed feelings about. As you may have read previously, i didn't enjoy the challenges much, at all, they were too frustrating. However i did manage to get them all done, or a sufficient amount to "finish" the game. Only now i've finished, the game feels a bit empty. Skating around is losing its fun, and online is just an unclimbable mountain. I must admi...
I just got all 160 gold bricks on lego star wars the complete saga after about a month and a half of on and off playing. Feels awesome, although i can't help but think the reward for getting all 160 is a bit poo. For those of you who don't have the game/haven't go all 160 bricks, it gves you a statue in the cantina that constantly throws out studs, and which also unlocks all the extras for you....
Today i came to the realisation that, for the first time since i got into gaming, i'm completely happy/comfortable with my current games. I mean, i'm not just killing time before the next release anymore. I was one of those people that didn't get a ps3 until a couple of months ago, but i spent the year prior just OD-ing on info and videos on the net. So ever since getting the ps3 i've just been...
So apparently yes, a blog that in someway relates to gaming should be a glog marioncobretti :) However, this is the ultimate in blogs as it will contain not only games, but films too, a glogflog if you will. And don't worry i'll stop here before i get carried away. Today i finally got a slice of Portal, a game that i've been wanting to see for ages and ages but i'm not paying £40 and i'm shit w...
Well i've decided to coin a lame word; Flog. I seem to be writing a lot about films rather than games in this blog, so i'm gonna put the word "flog" in each of the titles, so those interested can read, and those who aren't can ignore, simple as that. Shame i couldn't think of a better word...(ideas welcome) So tonight Flightplan was on TV, started to watch it with the girlfriend, then had to le...
So Liar Liar was on tv today and it got me thinking, what happened to kid friendly family films that don't involve CGI, fantasy things, or literary based stories? I'm talking about Kindegarten Cop, Twins, Short Circuit, Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Dunston Checks In, (all those christmas films too), etc But yeh, meaningless blog but hey, i felt like writing about it. I did have some amazing pictures...
Ok so firstly I have 2 apologies to make, the first is for actual writing about this film as EVERYONE ELSE IN TEH WORLD EVAR is doing so. And secondly it was not shite at all, that's just the closest i can get to a witty headline. So after months of waiting eagerly for the UK release of The Dark Knight, i've seen it, and the day before release thanks to my local Cineworld; i must admit, i loved...
So, after playing through the demo for countless hours i thought i would finally go ahead and buy EA's Skate. After looking round town and seeing that it was still £50 new i headed for eBay and got it for £12, in perfect working order. At first it was an amazing experience becuase i was playing the game i kinda knew and loved, only as my own character and in a much larger area. I would have wri...
So like about 80% of the peolpe who bought GTA on it's release, i powered through it in a couple of days to finish the story. Once that was done i tried the multiplayer, which failed drastically being a PS3 owner, and the offline game rolled on for a few more days before i got bored. This was the first time i'd gotten bored of a GTA game in under 8 or 9 months, or in the case of GTA3, 7 years....