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my life is taken

So fallout 3 has taken my life and pritty much most of my soul.

I know i shouldnt be suprised, every time ive seen, read or heard someone talking about fallout 3 it's been talking about how much time the game has taken from thier lives.

I suppose its going to be more a suprise about how late ive come to fallout.

I tend to leave game for a while. And end up just as addicted to them as everyone elce, just after everyone elce is long gone.

Same thing happened with smash bros, same thing will happen with batman, and the same thing has happened with fallout. It's mostly because im poor. I just cant afford to buy games new. Money is tight and theres no other way.

But this has left me with a larger collection of games then anyone elce i know. because i get , adore and look after what i have. Where people i work with buy right away, and then trade for the next big thing a couple of days later.

Ill let you all in the uk in on a cool tip i got from my friday. So I went to my local gamestation and was planning to but some ms points, to download the dlc for fallout 3. Instead i notice that the store has the 2 double packs of the first 4 dlc in its 2 for £20 deal. I notice also that these are 2nd hand.

Im then struck with a thought/question.

So I walk up to one of the guys in the store.

me: "Hi"

ginger store guy "hey"

M:"Can i just ask you a question out of wonder"

gsg:" sure"

m:" Uuuuummm , you know these downloadable content disks"

gsg:" yep"

m:" well, do you , you know , need the disks to play the content, or just the original fallout disk?" (i was thinking in responce to the upcoming gta4 addon disk that you can play without gta4)

gsg :"no , you just download off the disk"

m:"ok, so , umm , why are you selling them again??"

gsg:" huh... well, i dunno."

m:" Because its like, you know. odd."

gsg:" i hadnt really thought about it"

m:"because someone could just buy it and then just return it right away"

gsg: " yeah, i mean you could probably just bring it back as part of the 10 day thing and even get all your money back and get the add-ons for free"

so thats what i did.

I get home with the 2 discs and 4 dlc addons. and log onto my 360, and guess what. i get 800 free mspoints from microsoft for buying all the summer of arcade games.

then i took the disks back , traded them for the mspoints i was going to buy all along.

so i got all 5 of the dlc for fallout 3 for free, instead of £40.00+

So people, go out and get those two disks and trade em back quick..... and get yourself a couple of cool games with the money you traded em back in for. whooooooo.

i suppose this would only work if you had fallout 3... but still.

join me again.

ok , going to go onto a short live stream soon , feel free to join me.

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give me comments and thoughts , or just some company.

pimping meself

so ive set up a new account on yet another site.

but this one is a shop too. Feel free to take a look. And the t-shirt here is cheaper then on my online shop. woooo!

http://www.redbubble.com/people/contentcontext

best summer of arcade ever!

at least for xbox 360.

I cant really talk for ps3 as Im too poor to buy one.

But it really has been a top notch schedual for the xbox live arcade.

Battlefield 1943 has actually taken over my whole life, next to fallout (i know im a latecomer but it cost so much before) And Iv'e NEVER gotten into the whole wwII shooter thing. So its a shocker for me. I have just one achevement left. come oooon 100 matches!

Turtles in time is an excillent update to an often loved yet overlooked classic.

Shadow complex and splosion man both bring back a return in class to the different ends of the platforming game spectrum. Splosion man with its manic , kenetic and brilliant play... if a little steep in some places. Shadow complex with its metroid inspired exploraiton and atmosphere. A brilliant pair of games.

Marvel vs capcom 2. The greatest over the top fighting experiance you'll ever have. And a great way to introduce 2d fighters to a generation that may have passed up past chances to play such brilliant games.

Also worth a look are Monkey Island se, king of fighters 98 and garou mark of the wolves.

Also as an extra nod, although not arcade games, are kudo and the batman game demos. Both the best downloads in thier respective sections of the marketplace in like ever.

So what do you think of the xbox live marketplace from this summer. Did you like 1vs100, are there any other download games you loved?

going live in five

well 20.

2nd live stream sesh starting in about 20. book your seats now kids.

http://www.livestream.com/contentnocontext

hope some people can join. It was actually fun last time.

art it out

In one half hour , at 4.00pm uk / gmt I will be doing the stupidest thing ever and going "LIVE" on livestream. Feel free to come and laugh at my lack of skills. and Hopless artworks.

Mostly please comment and give advice and ask questions. Make this an information exchange.

Because Through Support We CAN get better.

Or you can just gorp at a looser. bwah ha ha. "failings"

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sorry.

I dont want to go into it too much.

But i want to say sorry for the lack of plan towards my updates. I had and still have planned it all out. but I wont get it going untill next week.

Mostly due to all the crazy stuff thats been going on. But also now due to the fact that me and my girlfriend came aufly close to breaking up last night, I lost my wallet and got slightly drunk, entirely by accident.

I know. It's been a mad week.

I feel ok now, but ironically i need a little time to rest from the web stuff before i get properly started. so bare with me.

God its early.

robin smith 3:57 am. about to go to "work"

review special

Yes! For one time only the

"GAMES I DIDN'T ASK FOR REVIEW SPECIAL!"

Ok so the guy who stole money from my girlfriends bank while in my xbox live account used the microsoft points to buy 3 games.

Games I had no plan to buy at all. This could be seen as a bonus, I mean they would be a chance to experiance something I wouldnt anyway, and he doesn't actually get to have the games he wanted..

But really. It's not.

So first up is the game I was most likely to buy of the 3 , but ironically the least likely to buy of all this years summer of arcade games , Triles hd.

It's like being at the wedding of a family member you dont like that much, with a groom youv'e never met before surrounded by people who are much too low rent in the I.Q. department, who just love to dance to las ketchup and the birdy song... But theres no music , so they are dancing to nothing. While covered in bees! BEES! and your just hoping they have allergies. So they just bloat up and roll on the floor weaping tears of phegm , foam and honey.

And thats exactly what triles hd is like. Just worse quality.

Next up the xbox 360 game battlefield bad company. or BF:BC as people apparently like to call it.

Which makes it annoying from the off. Anyway It's odd, Ive become totally addicted to battlefield 1942. Its a game that just works. and is totally brilliant in just about every way. The same cannot be said about BF:BC which has bad cut scenes , voice acting , useless ai , on both the sides of the npc coin. Its still Alright a game. I mean I could give it some time, and might grow to like it. But it'll take a back seat to many other games first.

Lastly we have lego star wars the complete saga. This is extra painful as I already own the original lego star wars on ps2. And find the fact im having to play through the whole game again a little depressing. also the achevements are not all that worth going after. On the plus side, although I wouldnt have chosen to pay £19.99 for it , and if i was to get it i would get it on disk, Its alright as the game stands..... That is untill something you dont know is going to happen happens. You see , Iv'e been having all sorts of teck problems with xbox live lately since the hacking type event. I get dissconnected a lot. I hear from a friend who lives near me it's also hppened to him, so it might be local. But , and this took me by suprise last night, If your playing a downloaded xbox 360 game, and you dissconnect from live, you start getting a 10 min countdown. Every min that goes by, you get an announcement that you have 9 or 5 or whatever left.

This isnt explained. So leads to a sence of panic unlike any intended by micro soft. So even though you bought the game, you still only own it if your onlive. ALL . THE . TIME!.

And therefore , you never really own it.


What a load of **** Dont buy games from games on demand people. Disks are the way. Power to the disk drive people!!! raaaagh!

And thats my thoughts.

now for burgers for everyone. wahaaaay!!

The title was supposed to read "It's the "Games I didn't really want but am stuck with" Review special!!" but it was too long.