A Gazillion Deaths

Demon's Souls

This is one fantastic looking game, featuring huge enemies and amazing graphics. At first I was on the fence about importing this game, but I am so glad that I took the chance and decided to spend more money and get it now, rather than waiting another god knows how many months for it to arrive in the UK. Sure I have died on the game about a gazillion times but for every time I have died it has been my own fault. The only person to blame is me and my own stupidity for trying to rush ahead only to be flame grilled by a dragon resulting in me normally saying "For fucks sake" or "This is bullshit!" Yet I still return to the game for yet more deaths as I plod on with the game.

Borderlands

Not many games as of late have made me want to just keep playing and pushing forward just to get that little bit further in the game. I was really looking forward to Modern Warfare 2, and while I have spent a fair bit of time with it I just haven't really been drawn into the game as much as I thought I would have. Heck I have felt that way about quite a lot of games as of late, with only a few titles really managing to hold my interest for more than 20 minutes. Those ones have been Red Alert 3: Commanders Challenge, Astro Tripper, Borderlands and current favourite Demon's Souls.

Final Fantasy XIII

I did start to think that I had started to fall out of love with gaming as I struggled to find a reason to pick up the pad and play. Long gone are the days where I would get in from work at 2.30 in the afternoon and proceed to play games until I went to sleep. Gaming should be about fun and enjoyment, I just have to remember to make sure that I enjoy other things as well. At this moment in time I am enjoying a healthy balance of gaming and other things in my life. I guess I will always love gaming as long as there is something that I want to play, with games like The White Knight Chronicles, Final Fantasy XIII, God of War 3, Dante's Inferno and many more on the way I should be happy for quite a while.

Demon's Souls Hard? Ha Ha Ha

There are a lot of people saying that Demon's Souls is a hard game, well I have to say damn right it's hard. The bastard thing is a pain in the ass to play, but in a good way. Demon's Souls is kinda like a throw back to games of old as it punishes you for not learning how the game works. Take the enemies early on in the game for example, these bastards all attack in different ways and have there own strengths, weaknesses as well as patterns of attack. One of the Knights you meet pretty early on in the game he is extremely vulnerable just after he has tried attacking you, this seems really simple but until you actually sit back and think why the hell is this cunt killing me all the time as you try going toe to toe with him, that you actually realise where you have been going wrong. The game punishes ignorance and impatience, every enemy in the game can kill you given you half the chance.


Demon's Souls is an intelligent hack and slash RPG, yet it is so much more than you first see on the surface. This is a game I can see myself getting equally pissed off with and also enjoy playing. I can see a lot of people getting this game and putting it in their PS3 only to take it out 5 minutes later and throw it to one side.There is one thing every high scoring review of this game says and that is stick with it and you won't be sorry. Let's face it you will either hate the games difficulty and give up or stick with the game and try to complete what is being called the hardest RPG made to date, either way this is one game you should at leat try.

PS3 OCD

Well I decided to make a list of my PS3 games for some unknown reason in excel, while doing this my girlfriend repeatedly told me I was a bit mental and should get treatment for my OCD. Maybe I do have OCD to a certain extent my behavioural patterns do seem to support the theory, with me doing stuff like turning the light switch on and off four times in my old room at my dads before leaving the house. Then there is the need to arrange games and cd's into alphabetical order.

If I do have OCD though then at least I am putting it to good use making pretty little lists of things like my PS3 collection and other stuff. lol

Why games will never be an essential purchase..

This game can't arrive soon enough

.....According to your girlfriend that is! My girlfriend doesn't share the same passion for video games as me, don't get me wrong she does play games such as More Brain Training on the DS, random crappy Facebook games like Christmas Crunch and Bricks Breaking. My favourite game that she plays has to be guess what you have done wrong to piss me off this time. This is also one game I can also join in on as I try to guess what the hell I have done this time; this can range from not picking up socks, using 4 pans and 8 plates to make myself a sandwich, saying I will do something in a minute then not doing it for hours or as she sees it wasting money on video games when I already have so many.

You can try explaining to your girlfriend that not all games are the same, only you will occasionally hit the stumbling block when you end up getting a sequel to a game that looks exactly the same as the previous incarnation when seen through a girlfriends eyes. (Ratchet & Clank, Command & Conquer, Skate and the yearly sports updates spring to mind) OK she has a point with the yearly sport title updates to a degree, But how can the last Ratchet & Clank game look like the new one? It has different weapons in it and er.... OK yeah that looks the same to a certain extent. Still if I like the series and want the latest game in the series I will buy it as would any other gamer.

Huge Monsters!! Hell Yeah

The other day I bought Overlord II and Fuel as they were in a sale so only cost me around £15, really they cost me an extra £10 as I felt guilty about buying them, so I ended up giving my girlfriend £10 for petrol/gas for her car. (A car I should really be paying petrol towards since she drops me off at work and then picks me up in when I have finished) Am I really doing anything wrong though buying these games? The way I think about it is this is my hobby and I really don't spend as much on games as I could do, plus I have something to show for it afterwards. (Not just Trophies and Achievements but an actual physical object) Mind you the same can be said about many women and there obscene amounts of shoes, I guess games are the male equivalent of that.

Worth getting in trouble with the girlfriend for??

I don't think that she really minds me buying games though, If Nessa did she would be the first one to tell me in her own unique way of slamming her fist against my head and yelling (Only joking) She does however begrudge me buying them when we need some non-essential purchase like food or something. So just how do I tell her that I have just ordered Demon's Souls with the art book and cd for £50 from ebay?

That's an easy one, I am not going to tell her to save on getting in trouble. The only way she will find out is if she catches me sneaking it into the house after getting it sent to my dads house instead of ours. (Or reads this blog entry) That is unless my dad gives Nessa the games you are getting delivered to his house (Just like with Overlord II and Fuel) to give to you when you finish work. (Thanks dad) Hopefully it will be here by Monday as I can't wait to get my grubby mitts on it.

The review that never was...Beatles Rockband

And Oasis can piss off as well the cunts!

Now as some of you may know I write (when I have time, which lately I have had none) reviews for Console Heroes. Well I decided to review The Beatles Rockband after receiving it through the post, however my review was deemed unsuitable because I dislike The Beatles. My point is reviewers don't always get to play and review games that they like, if that was the case then there would be no point in reviewing anything as everything would get a great score, while the people that pay for the game end up getting pissed off that they bought or rented a game they won't like. So anyway on with what I consider a fair review for a game I am not a fan off. (6/10 is still a very good score though, its better than average after all)

The Beatles are one of the best selling artists of all time with a string of hits and a extensive back catalogue. So they seem like a perfect band to receive their own edition of Rockband. A fact that is seemingly backed up by the sales figures of the game and the rate that their Cd's are still selling at today.

It's Rockband with shit music

There is one problem with the Rockband series of games which I am sure you will agree with me about, and that is if you don't like the song that you are playing you won't enjoy it. This kinda leaves a problem with me and The Beatles, you see I am one of those people that dislike the band with a passion. Sure I can admit that they have had a major influence and deserve their place in music history, but I just don't like them.


I know what your thinking, there must be some Beatles songs that I like and there is probably only one song that I don't mind and that is "A Day In The Life" (A song that isn't actually included on the disc but will be released as DLC) So as you would expect the game pretty much sucked for me. Yes I even hated playing "Yellow Submarine", "Lucy In The Sky" and "Here Comes The Sun"

Fab Four? Doesn't look like R.A.T.M. to me

The games spans all of the career with most of the hits of The Beatles included in the game. The characters all look as you would expect them to look through out the various stages of their career and blah blah blah. Lets face it you know what Rockband is already and know what to expect from a game with the Rockband name in the title, and if you don't you have either been in outer space for the last few years or you have had your head stuck up your ass. There are also more Beatles tracks on the way for the game from now until the end of the year as DLC as EA and Harmonix try to squeeze every penny from your wallets.

So should you buy The Beatles Rockband? Well you need to ask yourself 2 questions, "Do you like the Beatles?" and"Do you want to play there songs in Rockband?" If the answer to both those questions is yes then this game is ideal for you, if like me however the answer is no to one of them, then avoid like the plague as you probably won't enjoy the game.


Audio – 2
Visuals – 8
Game play – 8
Lifespan – 5
Presentation – 8
Overall – 6