Diddums

Cheers Jordie! I've got a few of those blood echoes already, how do I spend them? Also, in the first 10-15 mins, in the courtyard where you first leave the doctor's place, you can hear a massive monster thing walking around. I've found a way to get to it, am I meant to take it on? I've tried once but he swatted me like a fly. On the other end of the same road, there's a monster trying to batter the city door down. I avoided it as I wa ted to find another lamp before doing anything stupid but something else killed me so I'm back to the beginning again. It's a great game, I just need to get my head around it, it's all a bit deep end at the moment.

First impressions: I realise that this game is meant to be hard and all that, but the lack of any info or tutorial stuff is a stupid move. The HUD has no explanation at all although it's fairly self explanatory. The only thing I couldn't figure out in the hour or two I played was the XP system, basically nothing in the top right makes any sense. It's just numbers which go up when I kill something, but that's it. If that's XP, then there's really no excuse for having a level number next to it or a progress bar. The story, or lack thereof, is also stupid. So far I've woken up, been killed by a rabid dog, ended up in some dream thing where little skeletons come out of the ground and hand me letters with some basic shit to get started. The inventory is stupid, again no explanation. Still no idea about this parrying stuff you guys are on about. The lamps, or checkpoints are too small. A map of sorts would be great as well, but then again it could have a negative effect on the setting of the game. What are the things I'm killing? They look like farmers which have turned into scarecrows with the slowest muscles known to man. They also speak like cockneys, which is a bit odd. Why is everything trying to kill me? The only person who hasn't tried to kill me is the doctor lady right in the beginning, behind a locked door who gives me a blood thingy and then tells me I should be hunting and asks me to leave her alone. Don't even know what she looks like, but she must be a bit odd if she's giving blood to random people. There are also numbers next to health bars on bad guys, dunno what that is either. Seems to be levels, but they change every respawn, unless it's some random shit. The combat however is great. The ability to take on four straw men with pitch forks, torches, cleavers and even some ancient rifle and chop them all into bits in a matter of seconds is great. The combat really is what this game is all about for me. Granted it's still very early for me to comment on other stuff but I'll get there. I just feel that the setting of the game is completely dead. Everything wants to kill me for no reason, the whole city is some goth shit with no explanation of what world this is, I've come across a few monsters which are just there. They could be from the underworld, some evil force could've summoned them, they could've fallen out the sky, they could've grown in lovely sunny fields on daisy plants and then turned into murderous thugs with fucking huge cleavers that want to chop my head off. Fuck knows. And that's what lets this game down for me. I should at least have some tidbit of info, some scrap of story, even just a newspaper article lying on the ground to indicate something. Anything. But no. "Here, take this gun and this cleaver, go back into this world you know fuckall about and kill shit. Kthnxbai". That combat though.... hell yes.

Just a heads up, I've had to empty the Paypal account as I am a bit short of cash at the moment and Kyla and I are flying to Holland on Wednesday to go to my father's funeral. I'll add the cash back in on the 25th when I get paid again.

Omg Palle, watch this: Then, 5 years later, Heineken did this one:

Completely forgot about this ad. Have a classic from Australia:

Get off my internet.

Someone needs to learn how to fix shit I'm with you Mark, I've had a week from hell too.

Isn't that what you said about the last 3?

The show's in bloody Brum this year! As it happens I drove past Earl's Court a few weeks ago and noticed it was standing in scaffolding. Didn't even think twice, but when I got an email from the Eurogamer folks saying that it's going to be in Birmingham, I managed to put two and two together.

Nice. I've got the Mamba 2013, only bought it to experience a newer Razer product and because I couldn't leave Eurogamer last year without buying something. It accompanies my RAT 5 and Corsair M60, both of which I prefer to the Razer. The Razer is a great mouse, performs very well but there are two reasons I prefer the other two which are 100% down to myself: the Razer is a bit slippery for my dry skin, and I like my DPI adjustable on the fly. I'm still enjoying the Razer, make no mistake, but it's certainly made me think about other things I wouldn't have when buying a mouse.

Rerelease bo2 for the ps4 with loads of classic maps and guns. Keep the perks / streak system. $$$$$$$$

Hawkmoon.

^agree 100%. You can tell Jordie was raised by good parents.

Congratulations Jordie, lovely little cars. I've got the same albeit slightly older as the older ones are a 1.6 and are just restricted coopers, so for a small fee you can chip them for an extra 38bhp. They handle like go karts too. I'm yet to have an "oh shit" moment in mine, no matter how hard I push it, it just clings to the road. It's going in for a bit of a freshen up tomorrow actually, new discs and pads all round, new top mounts, swingarm bushes, clutch, aux belt and tensioner, full set of tyres and a Hunter's alignment. Then it's time for some track action methinks!

Picked this up for 22 squids at Sainsbury's today. Hope it's good!

I absolutely love these ads. I don't know what our Murican friends will think but I thought I'd share them anyway as those over the pond are very unlikely to have seen them.

How the fuck does Lee have more than me? She's no makey no sensy captain!

299 hours for me.

Nobody's as sad as Ryan Well, maybe me, but I get paid to play so meh.

Crucible music

nah, definitely yelling. Booting just sucks. Yelling is much more fun.

We should play together some time.

Defender Titan it is. Bubble? WHAT BUBBLE EUAN?

Yeah Rich, come on man!

What a dick. Sorry I didn't participate in last night's activities, I seem to have contracted a bit of a stomach bug so the majority of last night was spent on the can and being moody. Properly moody, like Lee moody. I was a right arsehole to be around (yes, even more than usual). Fuck you Euan. Seriously, fuck you. You're lucky I wasn't there, the abuse would still be ringing in your ears.