THE game i was going to rebuy a PSP for, has not been, and i can find no information of, being released in europe or the UK.

This really sucks, as i was thinking again recently about getting a PSP again, for Street Fighter and whatnot on the bus, but this news has really disheartened me.

I can find no news whatsoever, ne uk retailer listings or anything that so much as hint this even exists, let alone a release date.

Just plain sucks, if any of my US buddies out there ;) Feel like picking me up a copy and mailing it, lemme know i would really appreciate it (Lemme know roughly how much it's gonna set me back first :P) i'd reimburse you via Paypal of course.

I wouldn't ask so brazenly but theres none on ebay.co.uk either, and the grand total of 5 times i've ordered overseas from ebay, the item has only arrived once, and i've never received a refund.

Link: http://uk.gamespot.com/psp/rpg/chronicleofdungeonmaker/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=tabs&tag=tabs;reviews

If all else fails i could probably download it illegally from somewhere, but this seems like such a fun game i would want to own a legit copy.

When it stops.

With Guitar Hero 3 on the horizon, i dusted off the first one in an attempt to actually get through the game on hard mode. Well, after several aggravating attempts to make it past Bark At The Moon, i almost gave up.

When in true rock n roll fashion, i had a.. well not so much a revelation, but i managed it while in a drunken stupor at a party (One in which i drank an entire crate of strongbow, leaving me unable to standup, and will little option but to vomit uncontrollably after a short nap, and then spend the next two days with the shakes due to the massive amount of depressants in my system. I have vowed to never drink again.... NOT!!! Wooo!)

So again, after yet more aggravating attempts to finally make it past this song, i was done with hard mode, and made the progression onto expert, and to my surprise, i had greatly improved at the game just by learning one song. And expert was smooth sailing up until... Well... Eric Claptop and Creamstepped in and took away any skill i thought i had, leaving me once again a quivering wreck as i try to best Crossroads.

Challenge is not often found in most of todays games, but i'm glad to say a few shining, yet murderously frustrating gems still manage to fall on our doorsteps. Guitar Hero is one of them.

Now please excuse me while i try to survive for more than 81% of the song :P My current record on expert mode.

The more i delve into the gaming community, the more i seem to distance myself from it.

Recent arguments on forums and in person and such, have led me to beleive i am not simply of a different opinion than most, but am something of an outcast.

The problem is, i failed to notice when this happened/started to happen.

What puzzles me, i cannot work it out, is when precisely, did developers (and the community) begin to put more effort and time into multiplayer, and useless features than into the core of the game?

In recent time, it seems to me as if the majority of people view Multiplayer now as the core of a good game, and Single Player comes secondary to that, and only exists to build you up for the multiplayer. This is a completely alien concept to me. I simply cannot understand why a person would willingly accept a compromised single player experience in favor of multiplayer, or 'features' such as forge mode, which i will get to in a little while.

I constantly find myself thinking "This could have used an extra chapter, or a few more coridoors of action" when playing games such as Halo 3, or Gears of War, only to find the extra effort had gone into producing multiplayer maps and game modes. This frustrates me immensely, as i am paying my fair share for the game as well,but i do not want multiplayer. I'm not interested in it in the slightest.

Maybe it's just my anti-social nature rearing it's ugly head, but i genuinely do not see the appeal of multiplayer.

People like me must surely (unfortunately) be in the minority nowadays, which is a great shame in my opinion, as the emphasis on development shifts greatly from crafting an interesting, involving storyline, and brilliant puzzles or gameplay sequences, in favor of balancing weapons and making sure maps are symmetrical.

As if the shift in multiplayers favor wasn't enough with that, games like Farcry Instincts, Timesplitters and Halo 3 even further shift the attention of the ADHD aflicted public to useless features such as recording modes, or terribly limited map editors. These additional features must surely require a lot of additional developer attention. Specifically these crude editors, as they cannot simply throw their own editor on there, as that would simply not do without proper equipment and advanced knowledge. So they must develop and entirely new editor, in most cases using a crude real-time in engine editor, binding the controllers buttons to certain console commands, such as spawning items or tiles.

This takes a lot of effort to produce. Effort that i personally feel should either be spent producing more high quality multiplayer maps, or another campaign mission. (Or fixing broken parts of the game.)

I know that Multiplayer seems to be taking over, and i can begrudgingly accept that, but how developers can waste their time on such useless features when they should be crafting a finer experience i will never understand.

Leave the editing to those with the know how to do it properly on a PC, don't waste your, or your customers time.

As you all know (or dont, if your in the USA)

Guitar Hero 3 and Mass Effect both come out in 24 days.

Now, i've pre-ordered and fully intend to get Mass Effect.

Now, in your opinion, would GH3 be worth trading in the following for:

Starfox Assault (GC)

GH + Guitar (PS2)

GH2 no guitar (PS2)

Then i would be paying about £15 on top, which i can just about afford next month. (Full price for it is £70)

What do you guys think? I'm on the fence about it, most of me says just wait, it will be cheaper, and you've got a much better job on the horizon. But a smaller part of me screams "GUITAR HERO 3!!!!"

Whoop whoop!

Got bored and decided to attempt Legendary solo. What do you know? I did it! :D

Hooray!

I am now very tired... and have work in like, 4 hours...

The British government apparently, has only just begun to realise how much our relatively small games development industry is worth.

However, it may be too late, as all of our developers are migrating to Canada, where they are offering tax breaks and extra opportunities for games development studios.

Never one to miss an opportunity to appear bitter and twisted, the UK government have had their lawyers begin research into whether or not these incentives, given by french and canadian governments are against the ecenomic obligations they hold under some treaty or something i forget the name of.

So it's not happy that it's losing all it's talent to other countries, but it still wants to skim the cream and offer no incentive for staying! What a load of crap. Not to mention they are still perfectly happy to allow unlawful bans (Manhunt 2!)

They say if these incentive schemes are found to be fully in appliance with these obligations, then the UK will 'consider' a similar scheme, however they specifically mentioned these incentives would only be granted to games which are considered 'Culturally relevent'

Excuse me? Culterally relevent?! For one, that doesn't even make sense, for two, who decides this? Huh? What a complete joke.

The British Government, day by day they make themselves look more desperate and out of touch, like a tired old proffessor stumbling to gather his dropped papers as the other countries younger selfs drift past sneering at him, or feeling sorry for him.

The Government needs to make it's place clear, it needs to sort itself out and make an announcement about it's future policies. Either it wants to nanny us, ban violent imagary, and continue the road it's travelling, while anyone with talent runs for their lives. Or they embrace the creative industries, and give us a reason to stay, not continue to give us reasons to leave!

This news has made me most angry, possibly more angry than the unlawful ban of Manhunt 2. It is incredibly bitter and unsporting of the government, not to mention greedy.

And makes no sense whatsoever...

I checked my XBL feedback to see what it was all about, and apprently, 83% of people avoided me for 'unsporting behaviour' and 16% for being 'disruptive', with a ratio of 25% preffering or not reviewing, and 75% avoiding!

Since when was winning unsporting? Huh? I mean, i don't cheat, i don't trash talk because i don't use a mic. I don't taunt after every kill, i'm not coc.ky with how i kill my opponents, i just get on with it. Those things are neither dicruptive not unsporting.

This leaves only one alternative, people are bitter when they lose, bitter enough to waste their time leaving a player review. How sad, futile, and annoying. Disruptive i can live with seeing as i dont play with a mic. But unsporting?! I am not unsporting.

In other news, i need help playing Halo 3 on Legendary, anyone who wants to take a mission or two with me feel free to hit me up, it's built for coop, and i've decided it's too hard for me to tackle on my own. In the previous games you had to play legendary just to get a decent challenge, but on 3, it owns you to pieces.

It's my own fault i suppose.

I don't like leaving things unspent, unresolved, cases open, whatever.

Unless it's work of course...

But yeah, i just got finished with the Castlevania i was playing on the DS, and the 300 points letover from Puzzle Quest were calling out to me, so i tossed a coin between Doom and Castelvania SOTN, Castlevania won. So i bought it, and now have 0 points, but spent another £5 ($10) on the 500 points to pay for it.

I'm so annoyed at myself right now, i was supposed to be waiting for SF2HD and never buying any other XBL games, but it looks like it's a downward spiral from here, because now i've considered buying Doom, i will probably buy it next payday whether i like it or not, and theres bound to be leftover points, so i will probably end up buying something else like Bomberman Live, or Puzzle Fighter HD.

But it's so expensive! I'd be better off addicted to cocaine!

EDIT: In other news, i just breached 12,000 gamerpoints! Woo! Constructive...

... with Halo 3 and dumba$$ kids who think they can use photoshop!!?? God...Damn.

Sorry, i just tried to read a forum post, dominated by freakin tutorial generic Halo 3 signature images, god it makes me want to vomit my endtrails these people, you can't just cut his head off with the magic wand tool and then put "Ph0tosh0p Mast0r" in your sig.

Jeese. Sorry, that sort of thing gets right up my back. At least put some effort in if your going to show off your 'creation' in a forum.