One Month On...

Hello readers, Merry Christmas and a happy new year! I hope everyone is feeling refreshed and ready to work hard this term, I am.

I bought six PlayStation 2 games after Christmas, they're getting cheap these days.

I bought:
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
(For a bargain price of £1.95, brand new from Game in town)

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Jak II: Renegade
Jak 3
Killer 7
Killzone

There are reasons why I bought all of these games, some have great character design, others have great storytelling and back-story, and others just have a unique style. All useful in preparation for my game design task. Plus I wanted to buy Killzone to understand the story before the sequel is released next month.

Moving on, I have no reasonable explanation as to why I didn't blog over the holiday season, thinking back, I don't know why I didn't.

Just because I can, and I'm weird like that, I have some YouTube videos for my blogging comrades. Some of these (probably all of them except the last one) may be offensive to minors, so lock away your children. Most of them are kinda funny, but I enjoyed watching all of them anyway.

To keep it simple, I'll list these in alphabetical order. If you're not in the list, don't be offended! Just know that I didn't add you because you don't blog regularly. Yes I'm that harsh. :O

Bob: Ling Ling's Song


Joe: Gay Zombies


Johnny G: Horde Vs. Alliance


Kiwi: Pac-Man Cereal Advert (Early 80s)


Nathan: Harry Hill 's TV Burp - The Apprentice (again)


Ryan: Call of Duty 4 Review
by Yahtzee (His game reviews are almost always negative)


Last but not least,
Miss: Repetitive Caramelldansen-ness


In other news, I'm taking the role of "Organiser" of the After-Hours Gaming; that will be running on a Wednesday or Friday night at 6pm, I haven't sorted out when it will be yet. I'm also hoping to get the podcast up and running again, after some confusion and forgetfulness last term. My Gamelog is now up, it looks the same as this blog, but without the widgets and posts of course. That will be updated when I start one of my new PS2 games, because I haven't played on any of them yet.

If you read all this and watched all/most of the videos then congratulations to you. Thanks for paying attention for this long.

Oh yeah, a final note, I updated the music on the blog too, the theme this time is fire of course. But you already knew that didn't you.

Tracklist (It's on shuffle, but you should be able to guess who's who. Plus, it displays artist and track on the player if you look closely):

Franz Ferdinand - This Fire
Jimi Hendrix - Fire
Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire
The Ink Spots - I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire (Fallout 3 Soundtrack)

Keep Warm this Winter! :D

Podcast, People and Pro Evo (Now with Pictures)

I've had quite a few busy days recently.

Let's start with "Podcast", now officially called "Breaking the Rules". It's up now on the Breaking the Rules blog which is still in construction I might add. Check it out, it's available to stream or download. There are a few volume issues I need to work on, but it's only my first try at editing really. :P

"People". Playstation Home was released last week, and I had a go. Epic it was. To explain, basically I made my character and then I began wandering around "Home Square" with a friend from my friends list "TheIronEagle", and we stumbled upon some people dancing on the bridge over the pond. So we joined in. I started chatting to a couple of people, and we decided to stay on the bridge and keep dancing to get in everyone's way. This left four of us dancing on the bridge, and "TheIronEagle" put on some music through his headset for us to dance to. Eventually, some seven year old walked over and started calling us gay and emo?! We argued with him and told him to go away, but he persisted. So while he had gone away for a few minutes, my newly formed "Bridge Dance Group" and I formulated a plan. Follow him around everywhere. So we did. He was gone within 5 minutes and we celebrated. We then went everywhere as a group (still talking about Home XD) and spread the dance to everyone. We also encouraged people to line up and dance with us. Basically we started dancing in a single file line, and then we'd ask other people to join, so we'd have a pretty big line of people dancing. Here are some pictures, I'm the one with messy long hair and the white jumper.

That's me in the middle with two of the guys from my "Dance Group" XD.


This is the line that we made, everyone was "body popping".

That's enough of Home. Let's move on to Pro Evo. I bought the new edition (2009) on Friday and I haven't really had the chance to go on it, but I had a few matches against a friend called Aarron, and I won one of my games with the legendary South Korean team. They're legendary because Aarron and I usually play Exhibition Mode and click random to choose a team for us. Over the last couple of years it has chosen South Korea for me, who I usually win with because all the players are amazing at headers for some reason. They're just one of those teams that you can't beat unless you really focus and put your mind to it. Or pick Brazil. That has worked on previous Pro Evo games, but that's not the idea, it's supposed to be random teams.

Anyway, thanks for reading this massive post, don't forget to check out the podcast, it's a bit sketchy but definitely worth a listen. :D