Big Weekend, Little Week

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!

Can’t stop the rock

LLcooljo, Me & Anniedele – Could you have a finer three piece rock band who play only certain songs. Well yes, especially as ll is working on easy as we speak, and both myself and annie are not quite at the tipping point of medium is too easy to try hard on many of the songs as of yet.

The second guitar has worked out really well, we’re using the GH one as the bass, and the RB one as lead. I think i get on a bit better with the GH one, but i suppose until we hit hard mode you can’t really say for sure either way. I also got the drum pads to make things a little less loud. I wanted to get the Drumshhh felt pads, but unfortunately their shipping to the UK is more expensive than their pads ($15 for the pads, $24 for shipping…!). So I chumped up and got the official ones, which are more like mouse mats, and they really do work. They also have an added bonus of covering the rims, meaning some of the more wayward individuals who have had a go don’t cause unnecessary harm to my lovely drums…. ahh!

A bit of halo sir…

I’m sure you’ll quickly see joey & halo matching up in an almost one to on format.  Snuck a couple of hours of halo in tonight, where i was handed a solid thrashing, losing most games 15 – 9 (ish) .  It was bloody close though!  I heard that shield bleep more times than i care to mention!