
- Nana Burr, stepmother of Father Fisher, dies after a long struggle with leukemia. Funeral attended, I nearly break right at the end but cover well by closely inspecting random nearby tombstones to hide wobbly lip. The phrase "see you at the next one" is banded about by the elders to many chuckle but also actually quite true. Also definately have the vibe that my parents have now moved up a generation, and brother David and I are now officially Adults. Further compounded by...




I won't reveal anything further, but the game mainly consists of you wandering a massive landscape of post-apocalyptic Washington DC, rendered in immense graphics, and dotted with hundreds of different shacks, towns, cities, and giving you the choice of how to behave in every encounter. My character, for example, is the purest, kindest, gentlest, most caring individual ever to walk the landscape, dealing out kindness to those in need, blowing the legs off those who break what law remains, helping anyone with any problem, solving conflict and even giving what little water I find to the thirsty. Adam's character tricks children into wearing tight metal "necklaces" with explosives inside and sends them off to be child slaves for the rest of their lives. She blows people in half after getting everything out of them he can through other means, breaks into houses, uses her wiles to seduce men before murdering them as they sleep, and generally looks after Number One. It is so open ended that you can't get bored, and there is so much to do you will never see it all. Currently I am far as I can get, experience points wise, until they release an expansion, so the only thing left to do is finish the main story of the game. I HIGHLY recommend buying it, it is in the top five all-time games for me I think. Street Fighter 4 is immense, and I have reserved a copy of Resident Evil 5 for Friday's release. Nice.

- Saw 'Watchmen' at the cinema on Sunday, excellent and very enjoyable, even more impressive that Zack Snyder has managed to get a more than decent version of a very complicated graphic novel onscreen! It is long, although I didn't check the clock once, infact the only annoying this about it was the two pissed juggernaut black-eye wearing scallies who wandered in half-way through the trailers, one of whom shouted "YO!" every three minutes to no replies, and generally sat around being loud. After about five minutes of the film, with the same random shouting and jabbering, I went and snitched on them to the ushers, who called the security, and after a couple of minutes hidden in the toilets so I didn't walk in alongside the security guard who told them off, thereby revealing myself as The Betrayer, they shut up a bit and ultimately left. Take THAT, scum.

- Trying to watch every Lovefilm sent out to me in the post within a week and then sending it back, thereby getting my money's worth instead of keeping the same three 1980s Chow Yun Fat blood operas for three months at £15 per month. Just got through Star Wars Robot Chicken (comedy classic), United 93 (sad and amazing at the same time), Another Gay Movie (Graham Norton performing scat on a boy under a glass table), and Shiri (Sun from Lost as a female assassin from North Korea, wrecking the South). Also saw Frontiers, French horror about robbers who seek refuge during a Paris riot in a remote hostel, only to discover - we can all relate - it is ran by cannibalistic Neo-Nazis. Ouch(witz)!
Anyway, the idea of an abridged version was to to minimise the size of the post, but it is already a massive length, so I will end it now. I will try and post more often and in more digestible chunks, but I seem to have a penchant for binge-blogging, storing up lots of information about my day to day life and then purging them all over my screen at once, it can't be healthy.
3 comments:
Simon, thank yee for the comments my friend, I aim to send you an email before the week is out.
Good work on the run down, but I can't believe you've seen Watchmen! I've only seen 3 films in the cinema since i've been here and you've seen everyone either before me or at the same time! What is the point in being in the US if you can't even see films early! Lol.
I did love Watchmen though, I thought it was really really good. I'm surprised you didn't mention more of it's crazy violence, which I thought was particularly pleasing. Prison canteen justice is a cruel and unusual fate, but devastatingly good.
Will speak to you soon man,
Sam
oh also, how is resident evil 5? I had quite a long discussion with Jill about the differences between your and Adam's fallout characters and the psychological insight each choice provides. It was most pleasing, and I think intrigued her to the idea of the game (which would be good cus then I could play it with her watching rather then having to find time to use mr xbox when she's out or in bed - which isn't very often!).
Also, good work on stopping random scallies from ruining the beautiful and glorious Watchmen. Bravo sir, Bravo...
Samwise, a full and heary welcome to thee.
Indeed Watchmen was great, the savagery of the "I'm not in here with you, your in here with me!" section was highly exciting (one of the parts of the graphic novel I was looking forward to seeing on screen). Uber-violent and I want to watch it again!
Anything I missed (such as the violence) is more reason why we should both post regularly instead of leaving huge gaps! I will add something tonight, fingers crossed.
Resident Evil 5 is excellent, graphics are top notch and the co-op is very well done. Adam and I are playing through it together, and although this means it has taken me approx. 4 weeks longer to complete it (still not done, very hard to get me + Adam + empty front room) it is a lot of fun and probably worth it. Although playing it across the ocean with Sammy Sausage would be excellent too :D
Fallout 3 is required gaming for all, there is no way to get around the fighting however, even a charismatic bartering ladies man will spend a lot of the game shooting bugs and what have you, so that could be a hang back for Jill. However you have action points where you pause the game and choose where to attack, so that does take the panicky real-time combat out of the equation, making it more accessible for people who aren't experience at FPS. Haven't finished that yet either, sending it away to be repaired and then buying Resident Evil, as well as being maxed out at level 20, has put the breaks on playing it, but I think maybe this weekend as I am going back to St Annes without young Dance I will be able to rack up a few hours.
I am the law.
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