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 :)
September 2, 2009
This past weekend started with a large amoutn of gaming, wich to be honest has left me a bit burned out for the remaider fo the week. I Played through the first half of the Vegas 2 Campaign with Sprigan on Realistic on saturday, whcih was really entertaining. I Can see it being much more difficult single player, but the co-op hits a nice balance.
Sunday & Monday were mostly spend mooching around on Skate 2, which still has me very much enthralled. The death races are particularly entertaining in my opinion, they seem a bit more lively than the last games ones. Probably helped by the mountain no doubt. Anniedele also very much enjoys watching the Hall of Meat challenges, which has led to many hours of her egging me on to try and cause myself further injuries. A particularly frustrating photo Op that left me being constantly knocked over by some idiot doing the same thing as me resulted in one pad throw and a cool down shower, after wich it was promptly crushed like every other challenge put before me! Ha!
Tuesday saw another day off from work, and a meeting with the sole purpose of defeating a map on Expert mode in left 4 dead. 4 1/2 hours later, we had got to the last mission, but the tank and stupid A.I. players were our undoing time and again. I definately feel i’ve improved, especially as the Director really ramps up the size of the hordes on Expert with 3 people playing compared to 2 (Unless this has been changed slightly post patch..) I will do this, one day.
An evening on Halo 3 finished the day off nicely, but since then i haven’t managed to do anything bar pick up New York Times Crosswords, which is good if a little tricky for my english mind. The Way their crosswords work is quite different to what i’m used to, which added to the americanisms on offer has made some words just… odd!
March 5, 2009
Future Bjoyhoy: I Can’t help but notice you haven’t bothered to blog much recently… and it all started so well didn’t it, with all that new blog gusto.
Present Bjoyhoy: Well if you’re from the future, you’ll know that i’ve spent way too much time catching up with actual work and wacting countless hours playing videogames i didn’t have a chance to play over christmas.
Past Bjoyhoy: Saw it coming
OK, so it’s not the most regular of postings, but determined to keep things going for a bit longer, i’ve got a list as long as your arm of games i’ve picked up because
a) I Had to – Take a bow Left 4 Dead
b) They were so cheap i couldn’t not buy them. The Under 18 lineup for December / Early january included: Beautiful Katamari(12), FIFA 09(18), Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles (10), Boom Blox (15), Mirrors Edge (18)
Now thats alot of money to spend around the christmas period, but I don’t think i could’ve picked them up cheaper, even in the january sales. Of course, this has only added to my bloated and unwieldly Pile of shame. This has been remedied somewhat by playing through some gears of war, promoting that off to the bottom. Frobags, a good friend of mine has recently picked up a 360, and so we’ve been playing through the game. Up to chapter 3 so far, and it’s been very much enjoyable.
Impressions:
Katamari is everything i expected, although more difficult. I don’t seem to get anything other than abject failure score wise, managed to complete a few levels, but nothing to make the king say WOW! Bjoyhoy your Katamari is excellent… This makes me sad.
L4D is something i was particularly keen to play, although i was waiting untill some of the locals owned it to play co-op with them. It’s been worth the wait, and hopefully tomorrow night should see the first 4 player LAN run through of the campaigns. Me and Sprigan were running advanced mode last night, but 2 players leaves too much leway for the CPU characters to do stupid things that seriously hurt the survivors chances.
February 1, 2009
