So aside from two fragments (Serendipity is a ball-ache) and whatever DLC extras there are, I've done the game. And in surprisingly rapid fashion. Somehow I feel disappointed - not in the game itself, it was much more involved and free-reign than its prequel. No, my beef is with the time it took - somehow 60 hours seems awfully quick for a FF game. I remember spending months on FFVII just to be strong enough to beat Ruby Weapon. And this took the equivalent of 2 and a half days?! I need more gameplay!

Arkham City is awesome. That is all.

So I finally made it to the end of Nier - for the first time, so 3 more to go. But I'm bored of Nier now, so next up, it's Magna Carta II and it's been so long since I last played, I've forgotten all the controls. So there go 50 hours of gameplay as I start again from scratch, back to the island go I. Well, I say 50 hours, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was half that; like a lot of games, this one doesn't stop the clock if I pause for extended periods - say, for example, going for a shower or having my lunch or even, dare I say, going to work. Which is one of he annoying traits of RPGs - they tend to forget that you can't sit there and play non-stop until it's completed, you gotta pee at some point. And no, I'm not having a catheter fitted. Anyway, back to the battlefield...

Greetings, one and all, to the new, totally unplanned and more-than-likely soon to be abandoned blog of your friendly neighbourhood hellraiser deluxe. Figured I'd start this off on account of needing to take my brain off the game for a moment. So what about lil' ol' me? Well, my name is Al, I'm 34 (at the time of writing), father of two toddlers, and banned from ever going anywhere near WoW by the missus. I live on the coast of Cumbria, UK, in a crappy little town called Workington. I like music (mostly metal but why limit myself to a genre?), wrestling, gaming, pottering about on MS Office, Transformers (much to my long suffering partner's chagrin), reading, occasionally writing, porn, tea, sci-fi & fantasy and comedy. So far I'm sounding like the archetypal net nerd and, well, I am. So I'm currently playing far too many games at once. At this very moment I'm playing Nier which isn't all that bad but not Square's/Square Enix's best. Driving myself barmy trying to find all the weapon materials I need on account of a stubborn refusal to just get on with it - a stubborn refusal that is waning. Also got FFXII on the go, as well as Magna Carta II, Star Ocean TLH and lots more I've lost track of. Anyway, brief intro over with, see you groovy people later! Al H, the Hairy Heathen