MerseyMal

Play
====

Skyrim (PC) - As I wasn't very far into the game I decided to re-roll
(give easy respec please) to a chap that concentrates more on 2-handed
melee and archery.

Mario Kart 7 (3DS) - Ace, racing fun.


Want
====

Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC) - early access this week hopefully!
+
Guild Wars 2 (PC)
Prey 2 (PC) - maybe
Far Cry 3 (PC)
Trackmania 2 Canyon (PC)

Bin
===

New shower mixer tap allowing cold water into the hot water feed. Which
means that have to turn off cold valve to shower when doing the washing
up until it's fixed.


Expenditure
===========

£ 67.71 January
£ 20.84 February
£ 71.89 March
£ 74.55 April
£106.06 May
£ 31.98 June
£119.87 July
£ 20.36 August
£ 88.81 September
£156.77 October
£ 22.08 November

£ 4.50 December so far...
+
£ 0.10 Fruit Ninja (Android)



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HarpingOn

On 12/12/2011 11:16, MerseyMal wrote:
>
> Play
> ====
>
> Skyrim (PC) - As I wasn't very far into the game I decided to re-roll
> (give easy respec please) to a chap that concentrates more on 2-handed
> melee and archery.
>

Skyrim. Fucked off with it now.

Apparently 'something' happens near the start of your playthrough, which
will clobber the theives guild questline right at the end. So about 40
hours of play time into the theives guild questline, doing theives guild
quests, I find myself stuck in a room with no doors, unable to exit.

I'm /supposed/ to touch a circle on the ground to get a nocturnal power,
and this would majik me back to the open world. But it doesn't. No
ammount of reloading old saves will fix it. Fucking game.

I can, of course, reload a save right before I jump into this exit-less
hole, but that means I've wasted all those tens and tens of hours on the
thieves guild and can't finish it. Fucking game bitching hate.

I'm not going to shred it, but I'm finding it difficult to eruditely
articulate quite how pissed off I am.

Chris Stevens

MerseyMal wrote:
> Play
> ====

Temple Run (iOS)
I think I'm about 6 months behind the rest of the world with this, but it's
great fun - a 3D 'endless running' game, with power-ups, coins and
unlockable abilities. Great, but I'm shit at it.

Zombie Gunship (iOS)
Unlocked all sizes of weapon now, and the second bunker location, both of
which make the game even more enjoyable. Spent some of my coin stash on
upgrading the number of coins received for each zombie kill, which has paid
dividends - I'm in the process of upgrading the 25mm Gatling Gun, and those
coins come in very handy.

W.E.L.D.E.R. (iOS)
This has lost its edge a little since I completed it. Still bashing away
trying to improve my score, though.

Diddy Kong Racing (N64)
At a house that was not my own, helping retrieve Christmas decorations from
the loft, I spied an immaculate, boxed, mint condition N64 and small pile of
games. This was retrieved along with the decorations, and a long afternoon
(and night) of fiercely competitive head-to-head racing on DKR ensued. I
always preferred this to Mario Kart 64, and I loved every second of my trip
down nostalgia lane. No, No, No! Wrong Way!

> Want
> ====

Skyrim, Batman: AC, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Forza 4, etc, etc (360)
I want them but, at the same time, I absolutely don't. Unless I can have the
next 3 months off work.

> Bin
> ===

Toothache (RL)
Bastard.

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John Dow

MerseyMal the Monkey was never naughty:
>
> Play
>====

Dark Souls (360). Bastard gaping dragon in the depths kept ganking me.

Dragon Quest IX (DS). Just lovely lovely lovely.

> Want
>====

My hideous, stinking lurgi to just fuck off.


> Bin
>===

Having the lurgi

J

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John Dow

HarpingOn the Monkey was never naughty:
>
> I can, of course, reload a save right before I jump into this exit-less
> hole, but that means I've wasted all those tens and tens of hours on the
> thieves guild and can't finish it. Fucking game bitching hate.

Ah, but you haven't wasted all those hours cos you've had loads of
fun!

J

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gunthergloop

On 12/12/2011 13:04, Russell Marks wrote:
> Assassin's Creed (PS3) - ugh, really terrible ending bit on this. After
> the last "normal" bit with pretty severe aggro levels, you get waves of
> enemies over and over again, then for the very last couple of bits they
> seemed to make it so you couldn't even block any more (or rather, you
> could but you took double damage whether you blocked or not). Extremely
> annoying. If they pull that sort of crap in later games I actually might
> not bother with them, but this ending was so self-evidently broken that
> I doubt they will.

I stopped playing it at that time. Never completed it, never looked back.
Happy to say I completed the next two without similar issues.

-Kevin.

Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <mZmFq.179819$WC5.27495@newsfe09.ams2>,
Russell Marks <russell.marks@spam^H^H^H^Hntlworld.com> wrote:
>MerseyMal <spampit@merseymal.com> wrote:
>
>> Bin
>
>Okabu trial (PS3) - a sort of puzzley thing with fairly frustrating
>mechanics, I suppose it's competent enough but for me it just seemed
>kind of boring somehow.

I reviewed this game on the website I write for. It was really only ever
tested with two players, which is why so many of the puzzles require you
to ping-pong back and forth across a big empty area. In theory it
encourages you to find a mate to pick up the other pad, but in practice
it's just mind-numbing. The setting is nice though, in a cartoon
Banjo-Kazooie sort of way.

-KKC, whose year-end bonus payout is surprisingly not insulting.
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[ste parker]

On 12/12/2011 13:04, Russell Marks wrote:
>
> No sandbox mode in AC1. WTF. It has hundreds of collectibles and they
> didn't think anyone would want such a mode? The closest you get is
> replaying levels, including the lengthy unskippable cut-scene and that
> tedious trip down the hill. Better yet, it seems like when replaying
> you have to do the level in one go (and a single level can involve
> three different hits, so even with the viewpoints already counting as
> done that could easily take an hour or two) - it doesn't matter if the
> game claimed to save or not, when you reload you'll be back outside
> the level. It really is remarkable just how badly they handled this.
>

Don't recall having a single problem with this, and I collected an awful
lot of stuff. Rarely, if ever, went back to replay memories.

> AC2 apparently not even having that level-replaying option, just one
> for side missions. I suppose at least that might cut down on the
> cut-scene overhead, but it still sounds a bit weak. Do the later games
> do any better for this stuff?
>

You can replay any bit of AC2 and ACB that you want.

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deKay

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, MerseyMal wrote:

> Play
> ====

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (360)
40 hours in now, still another Machine to do, and some Cristina missions,
and various Guild tasks. So should keep me going a while longer.

Pullblox (3DS)
Acesomebest puzzle game. Done about 70 puzzles now, but have also created
a few and finished loads others have made over on rllmuk and on twitter.
Fantastic.

Sonic Generations (3DS)
No comment.

> Want
> ====

Same old, same old.

> Bin
> ===

Gwan, guess.

> Expenditure
> ===========

£5.40 for Pullblox. That's all.

deKay
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HarpingOn

On 12/12/2011 12:12, John Dow wrote:
> HarpingOn the Monkey was never naughty:
>>
>> I can, of course, reload a save right before I jump into this exit-less
>> hole, but that means I've wasted all those tens and tens of hours on the
>> thieves guild and can't finish it. Fucking game bitching hate.
>
> Ah, but you haven't wasted all those hours cos you've had loads of
> fun!
>

No I haven't really, because I've been constantly stressing about when
I'm going to reach the 'save of death' on the PS3. When your save file
reaches a certain size, 6MB for some, bit bigger for others, the frame
rate decends to an unplayable 1SPF. No fix is likely from Beth, so every
time I save, and it goes up by a few 10s or a few 100s of KB, I stress
about the inevitable impending end.

So, much less fun than you might think.

And yes, those hours were wasted anyway, if the stupid game prevents you
from completing it and makes you hate it.