Rock Band: Beatles

Well i’ve managed to get a few hours in on quickplay now, and i have to say it’s been a blast. I’m not the biggest beatles fan, but the nature of the music really lends itself to having fun and enjoying yourself. Only bad thing so far is the lack of a mic stand meaning neither of us can guitar / drum and sing at the same time. It definitely seems easier, even the very hard tracks we were getting through on expert first time, whereas on rockband we’re still on the High hard End in most cases, but i don’t think thats a bad thing really. It’s nice to be playing on the hardest setting and getting somewhere.

Favorite tracks so far: Hard days night, Hey Bulldog & Here comes the sun.

Anniedele is a away this weekend, so the intention is to play lots of games she doesn’t like, although i might end up doing a quick stint on Beatles: Rock band…. I really did enjoy it and want to try and get better. Playing the drums, i always imagine it really had to concentrate when all the banging i’m doing is all off beat and crappy, so i want to be good when i’m doing it!

Oh, i also finally got round to catching up with the re-launch of My Take Radio – the host rich is just a really charismatic and entertaining Guy, i really enjoy his no bullshit style. It’s mainly talking about movies, games and MMA / Wrestling, and it’s well worth an hour of anyones time who likes that sort of stuff.

Phrases of the week:

Eurogamer: Sweating like a LAN Party

MrB (In Relation to Watchmen): Big blue nob on blu ray…the only thing about the film I’m not looking forward to. There’s far to much of Dr Manhattan’s sausage.

No Apologies here

Well left 4 dead seems to have finally come into its own these last few weeks. Most of my regular gaming friends have it at this point in time, leaving me playing it on a very regular basis in Vs mode. I’m not the best, but its damn good fun, we’ve had some close battles and some absolute walkovers, but generally met some decent enough folks who are talky and competent when playing. You can usually tell if someone is gonna be any use to you on L4D quite quickly – I’ve yet to meet anyone who I’ve enjoyed playing with who hasn’t been on a headset.

Outside of this, I’ve been attending weddings and buying many XBLA Games to play, it’s been a bit thin Retail wise, although that’s soon to change with the impending arrival of rockband Beatles and ODST.

Oh, and I’ve got a serious case of warhammer relapse, and am now In the process of avoiding painting a rather large Bretonnian army. It’s amazing how useful having no money when I was 16 must have been, as buying everything new meant I could only typically get a couple of squads every few months, leaving me with plenty of time to paint. Now, I can splurge 50 quid on eBay and have a pretty decent sized army, problem is now overcoming that plastic mountain in the corner of my room. I’ve also picked up a blood bowl team of Lizardmen, which are mostly painted up and awaiting basing, although I’ve only played a game and a half with them thus far, it’s been excellent fun, although it’s really quite tough getting my head around everything.

I’m hoping to have a big painting push throughout September so I’ll have something to game with come the end of the month, I’d like to get actually playing as early as possible to keep interest going. I’m also on the verge of getting LLcoolJo over to play some more resident evil with me, he’s finally got some Saturdays off now :)