Gaming Week - 1.

At the end of every week, or Saturday as today would have it, I sit down with a good old beer (substituted for a bottle of Strongbow this time around) and talk about the gaming events of the week. I also take a look at what games have been throwing my social life out the window and attempt to inject some sort of humor into the proceedings. Enjoy.

Let's begin this first edition with a quick announcement. I haven't given up on this blog, and I never will. Regular readers (what? you have READERS?) will notice that I only really update when something interests me and I think it's worth my time talking about it. I also like to post long posts like this so you're actually getting something original from this blog and not just a copy of what all the other gaming blogs are posting with a few boring-ass comments tacked 0n. I update this blog when I feel like it - don't get me wrong - I love my readers but if I feel it's not going to be worth posting then I don't bother. The last thing I want to do is bore readers with the same posts' they've seen a thousand times around the wondeful, yet very similiar, blogosphere.

Now that's out of the way here's my attempt to, um, bore you?


Return to Castle Warcraft.

I realise that half of you have probably closed your browser tab - or, if you're using one of the inferior browsers, browser window - at the mere mention of the dreaded Warcraft infection, and I don't blame you to be honest. So why am I talking about it? Well, I'm stupid that's why.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have returned to the game that breaks up marriages and kills people, World of Warcraft. Well, that's a lie, I've reactivated my account but have yet to actually jump back into the game after updating it with all the patches that have come out since I gave up on it. I honestly don't know why I've gone back. I hate the community of 14 year olds and despise the same boring quests and click, damage, click, damage, heal, click, damage, run that send me half to sleep. I just figured that it's only £8.99 and I may as well give it a try since I'm terribly bored at the moment.

Who knows, maybe I might start to enjoy it again. Besides, my level 30 Night Elf Rogue needs some loving....

...or maybe I've just wasted another £8.99.

Gordon Freeman is a social retard.

I've finally got around to completing Half-Life 2. I was ready to throw my sock at Valve for the ending but I soon calmed down and ordered Episode 1 through Amazon (I so hope it has Obi-Wan in it...ok...bad joke. Just as long as I can kill Jar Jar Binks).

Other than the abrupt ending I really enjoyed it, especially the assault on City 17. There's just so much glee in watching the rag doll physics throw a combine soldier down the shaft of the citadel, bouncing off the scenery as he falls, and then doing it all again?

Story? Oh yeah, um, I suppose that's ok...

Stabbing cute animals.

Animal Crossing: Wild World has been in my DS Lite constantly. The strange thing about this game is that it's addictive and it really shouldn't be. It get's to the point where I'm checking my watch to see if Tom Nook's has closed yet while writing actual letters to the animals that they never understand anyway.

Stiches finally pissed me off so I hit him around the head with my trusty spade (about the only thing it's good for) and buried his body next to Pudge (everyone thought he moved out of town). The 'cuteness' and the way they talk to you is just, so, sickening - it really makes me cringe. So, why do I play it? No idea, maybe I just like collecting shells on a fake beach when I'm supposed to be doing work.

Now my brothers joined in I can have fun leaving abusive messages to him on the message board though. Which is always good to put extra time in taking the mick out of him, which brothers love doing.

PS3 delayed in Europe.


I wasn't that shocked about this news to be honest and, lo and behold, I didn't give much of a shit either. People should know by now that Sony never keep their promises and to expect a worldwide release date was like expecting a peadophile to be allowed to host a children's party.

In the end I think it translates into a good thing for us Euro's. Xbox360, and many previous console's, were plauged by problems with the console when it first launched, especially when a console was rushed out like the 360 was. There's been a notion that the US and Japan are actually 'beta testhing' the console's for Europeans. By March 2007, the month it's been delayed to, most of these problems should have been sorted out (except the price tag damn them!) so we'll have a much smoother ride. Not only that but they'll be more games and hardware available for the console, so we win in the end. Yet I can't help feeling by then the 360 may have had a price cut and the Wii will also be out. I know what I'm going for and it defintally aint Sony, sorry guys.

That's pretty much all I have time for at the moment. I was going to do all this thing about how people who own both a PSP and DS (like me) can enjoy them equally but I'm going to leave that to a seperate post. I have plenty more to say but I fear this will turn into somewhat of an essay so I'll leave them all for other posts.

Thanks for sticking with me, and stop by sometime in the future - I'll give you a free hug!