EA sucks really big balls

Couldn't get onto bloody skate multiplayer last which was bloody annoying to say the least. Wouldn't pit me up with anyone on a quick ranked match and messed up when i tried to do a custom match.

Then i didn't have anything else to play, so i sat staring at my list of games, couldn't see a single thing that popped out to me so watched Bionic Woman instead.

Addiction just means you're not getting enough of something

In my case, i can't get enough of skate. I've already completed the game and now i'm trying to get all the achievements. That's ALL the achievements. I've just got to hide myself away in a no skate zone for another hour and i've got the milestones achievement so that would mean i've got everything for single player.

Then it's onto multiplayer. Oh jeebus, not looking forward to looking like the runt of the litter again and people sniggering at me coz i can't get any points and fall over doing a basic kickflip.

Happiness is a warm thumb

Skate fucking rocks. Loving that game now. It's getting slowly addictive. If you can manage to tear yourself away from Halo 3 for a few hours i would highly recommend Skate.

It's a shame that it's come out in the same week as the biggest game ever for the 360 as it probably won't get the recognition it deserves but i reckon it's definitely going to be a sleeper hit and pick up pace when people get bored of Halo (yeah, yeah, i know, you'll NEVER get bored of Halo and blah, blah, blah).

But i would strongly urge you get your mitts on skate, if even it's just a rental. It's well worth it coz it's proper bostin' (as the kids in the midlands say).

Aaaand, breathe out...

Played Skate last night finally. While everyone and their dog is on Halo 3 i break away from the norm and play the better game.

Oh, it's good. Damn good, but damn hard. Not frustratingly hard though i may add. It's not something that makes you throw your controller at the screen, you just gotta line up those sweet grinds and plan your moves beforehand. It's nothing like Tony Hawks where you glue yourself to the rail and mash the buttons while your balance holds out. You have to land the rail perfectly then grind for a small amount then plan where you're going to go next.

I do like it but i think it's a game where you need to play with someone else so you can pass the controller every now and then, my right thumb is rather raw today from flicking the stick all over the shop.

Suppose i should get halo 3 now seeing as everyone in the fucking world has got it. Maybe as well see what everyone is bitching on about.

This week i have mostly playing...

NBA Street Homecourt.

This is a bastarding shitter of a hard game. The annoying this is, it's really good too. It's cool doing all the tricks and psyches to your opponent then scoring an uber dunk in the oop. Basketball is certainly the original smack-talking game and Homecourt captures that perfectly.

Always hated basketball games before now but i must admit, Homecourt is really good. It's just so frigging difficult.

Completed Bioshock again for the second time last night. Got the good ending this time, which was nice, but not brilliant, i must admit.

But the other reason i did it:

86% achievements! Check it bitches!

Missed 3 coz i didn't know an important part of the game. Apparently you're supposed to let Sander Cohen live after you do the pics for him (i wasted him as he walked down the stairs!), then go to his apartment where the couple are waltzing and kick his arse there. Then you can get into his personal room (10 points), get a 'Power to the People' machine so you can get them all (Got all but that one, was SOOOO fucked off about it). There's probably a diary in there so you can get all the diaries, and then take a photo of him when you've smacked him down (secret achievement). Apart from those, not inventing 100 items and not completing it on hard (fuck that), i got everything else.

Also i completed the entire game without dying once. That's how ridiculously easy easy is.

Just got 4 days to wait for Skate so there must be something out this week to amuse me until Friday, can't think of anything offhand though...

Where the buggery bollocks is Skate?!!

It came out yesterday in America. Well, supposedly anyway coz there isn't hide nor hair of it anywhere.

Don't know if it's multi-region either, which it probably won't be. But it's not on any of the usual haunts. And the ones that are on, are just knackered rars uploaded by some ar-tard who gets sadistic pleasure from uploading shit and watching everyone climb over themselves to get it. Rot in hell you fucks.

Looks like i may have to wait with all the norms and get the bastard when it comes out next friday.

Want to play it now. Haven't been so excited about a game since General Custer on the Commodore 64.


God it looks good, IGN gave it 9.0 and reckons it's so good you'll want to spunk all over the face of the person who sells it you; their words not mine. (disclaimer: may not be their exact words)

well i lasted half an hour

And i thought that was good for me. Stranglehold is a good fun game but i still stand by my original thoughts that it's very similar to Max Payne but without the film noir storyline.

Sod it, we can still do the stoned review for the skate demo, who knows, the main game might be out by the 14th, but if it's not the demo is really good fun, I would urge you to download it if you haven't done so already, breathes a new life into the skating game and it doesn't seem as goddamn hard as tony hawks.

must... resist... temptation

Got stranglehold last night, it's completely region free so that's fun times to be had by all.

Although i've promised a mate i wouldn't play it until he comes down next weekend, then we can do one of our legendary stoned reviews of it (We get mashed and talk shit about the game, it's entertaining at the time). So it looks like i'm stuck playing Resident Evil 4 on the Wii for the time being.

Tell you the truth Res Evil 4 is most enjoyable, a lot better with a pointer to aim but it does make your right wrist ache after a while. But i guess that's the price you pay for doing something enjoyable...

Want Skate, need Skate, better than Tony Hawks. Not coming out until the 14th.

Rapture - It was a nice a place to live

Completed Bioshock last night, most enjoyable but DAMN it's hard near the end. End boss is a piece of piss though. In case you don't know, there's 2 endings and i got the bad one. God knows why though, I thought i did everything right but then i guess not.

Still only got 58% of the achievements, bollocks if i can be arsed to play through all that again just to get the rest of them. Maybe later on down the line...

Uploaded a video on Skate as well as that's what you're supposed to do, couldn't bloody find it anywhere. I know they sit at skate.share.ea.com but couldn't find mine. It was a hell of a lot better than half the videos there too. Stupid shitty ea website.

Woo, going to the races today, got a private box and as much food and drink as i can shake a stick at. Makes up for not going to Reading Festival this year. Really missed it yesterday but it got to half 11 and i was very happy to be in bed rather than 4 layers of clothing in a paper thin sleeping bag and fucking kids screaming their head off all night shouting 'Bollocks' coz oops, it's a rude word and it sounds funny if you shout it. Christ, i'm getting old.

First Impressions of Skate Demo

Well, it's, um, different. It's nothing like tony hawks and it feels like learning to walk again. You instinctively want to press A to jump, then Y to grind, only it's not like that any more.

The flickit controls are very intuitive and do pretty much what you tell it to do. I like the grinding but jeebus christ, it's hard. No more popping onto the grind if you're in it's vicinity, you have to get this bang on to land on the grind. But it does feel a lot more satisfactory when you land it.

I think the key is to get used to the controls. Once you are, i think it's gonna feel very natural.

Remember back to when you played the first tony hawks game, it was good but incredibly hard. But the first time you actually landed a tricky move felt damn good. It's exactly the same with Skate.

Whether you were good at tony hawks or not, it doesn't matter any more, everything starts again with Skate

I would certainly recommend getting the demo, there's enough there to see the game properly and it gets pretty addictive pretty quickly.

The movie after the demo is great, i love the trick where the character jumps over the rail but the board goes under it.