Hi to the 0 people who are reading this. There hasn't been a lot going on. No i haven't bought a new game for my PS3, in fact since my last post i don't even think ive plugged it in. The sheer thought of having to update the system and then each and every different game i out in really scares me.

So what have i been playing. Well not a lot really, Starcraft 2, great game, nothings changed since the original which is good as this was the best balanced strategy game to come out, Crack down 2. Is it me or is that game crack down 1 with much loser controls, Wii fit . . . yeah and red dead redemption Poor showing this summer but i think the mash of halo, dead rising, metroid . .well there are quite a few.

Please male this connect some god as so far all ive seen is the same reservations i had for the wii when this was first domed, looks good but its not quite as they made you believe. A lot of the E3 stuff looked fake, especially the aminals thing with the little kid. The Forza thing looks pointless we have dave, dave+1 and bbc top gear for looks on cars . . oh yeah and the internet . . .why do we want to do that in out house, and to even think about driving a car with an imaginary wheel, well, at least Mario kart game you z plastic hold on . . . . . it looks pointless.

AL I CAN SAY IS COME ON HALO . . .not played a decent game in AGES . . .and im pretty OLD!!!

Not sure why im doing this but recently ive gone a bit mad. Ive gone all out to get an original playstation 1, link cable and f1 to play the season with a mate. We agree that Formula 1 (96) on the ps was the best f1 game ever and this weekend proves it. We played f1 96, 97, 98, 99 on ps1 then 2000, 2001 on ps2, then champ edition on pc and ps2 then we played the xbox 1 f1 game and finally the playstation 3 debut release and the new wii 2009. As much as i don't like the playstation it has given me the best f1 experience ive ever played. 97 was good and the wii is just ok (pc is excellent but the controls took a while to configure). You should all go mad and get this game as is truly stood the test of time. Yes the graphics are harsh but the gameplay is spot on.

My other playing has been FF13. At first i was like. . its just ok this but as ive got towards the end, fought some of the more challenging battles and levelled up my chars, read a bit ore into the story im telling you this may be one of the better games the series has to offer. Maybe not as indepth as some of the others but after 50 hrs of playing i can say that ive enjoyed every hour. There are still the scenes in the game which make you want to puke, you know the scenes which go "we can do it if we work s a team . . . together" and then one character will give some motivational speech which they are all stood together. If this were a real situation ive often found myself in, well not the fact im wielding a sword with a gun attachment and a 7 headed beast wants my blood, but a situation where you feel you have to say xomething to a group. If anything like Hope said ever came out of my mouth im sure my party would want to swap me out as soon as they came near a save point . . ie, the pubs door.

The games good but there is too much, "im too weak" from Hope. My answer would be. "yes you are. Deal with it"

Apart from that it is a very quiet april for me. I may get splinter cell or hard rain but that game still has me thinking, do i really want to control a character brushing his teeth. Patting his kid on the head, and other things like that. I buy games for escapism not to do the tasks im always on the last minute with.

My look forwards are Reach and the F1 game later this year. Lets hope they are actually good, ive got no doubt halo will be but i have doubts that the f1 will be, it looks awesome but they all do. Even i can model in 3dsmax a great looking f1 car im sure these game modellers can make what i consider acceptable 50x better. Listen codemasters racing fans would sooner drive rectangles around the track and long as the physics are good, realistic collisions and offroad handling are spot on. Look at f1 96. The game will give you a seizure but we did over 4 hrs at interlagos going for fastest time. Thats racing and thats what you should be copying. DONT port the wii handling as its really stop starty and terrible on some sections of some tracks. Play forza, even gran turismo if you have to, this is what you need to do and youll have an online community like motogp07. Yes we racing fans are loyal. Trust me when i say getting new people/fans to an f1 game is pointless. Make a racing game for already racing game fans. Cut the arcade out of it

Just about had enough of sony now.

Im trying to make my sony purchases (psp, ps2 and 3) worth the money I paid for them on launch. Lets face it these are very overly priced video games consoles. Wait, did I say console? What I meant was entertainment system. A console implies that it does one thing and one thing well so it aint a 'games' console so maybe I cant complain because playing games it certainly doesn't.

1. Not had my ps3 on for a while but when I do turn it on ive got an update to dl. No problem, ill play some of my xbox live titles or another game while I wait. Two hours later im still 23% to go and I have a really fast net connection. I went through all my port forwarding to see if that had reset but no, Its still pf'ed and the only thing downloading. Ok. So I play a bit of my DS, space invaders, oh how I love the retro and finally I see 98% (40 mins later) so I sit and wait and doss around on the net looking at F1 stuff. Finally. Update complete, . . . . Now installing . . . . FFFFFUU . . . .sigh!

Put in killzone 2 just to play the online (although im not a big fan of the game, the multiplayer mode is pretty innovative here) wait, update required for this game . . . oh. My. God. This wasn't so long, about 30 mins I had to wait. I started to play blue dragon and try and just get that mad level 98 – 99 achievement, hell anything is better than just sitting there waiting to play a game.

So I thought. I know ill give the psp a whirl, whack that bad boy in, whack in the ac adapter thing starts up, put in all the correct date and that (yes its been maybe a few weeks since I turned it on) then Im like reet. Ready to go. Put in my newly purchased LBP to see if its any good (love the level design on this game, its flawless) you must update to version 6 to play. No problem. Went through all the red tape, clicked next, "battery power too low charge the psp and the update will continue (to which I found out has to be over 50%. "Oh you mothe . . . . "!

Happy 2010.

I would say this year has been really good for games. The best I would have to say have been without doubt Borderlands, Forza 3, left for dead 2 and surprisingly the Wii F1 2009.

Yes we could include COD, AC 2 and a few others but I wont as we know these games are good as they are in the AAA lists.

What im getting a bit annoyed about now though is the PS3. Seriously. Uncharted has been the ONLY game that's come out exclusive that's been any good this year but still I read more and more on sites like this and others of the 'like' of the ps3 over the xbox. Why? Nothing has come out for it! Updates take all friggin day long and the games are always £10 more expensive with a less than adequate online system and communication method.

I don't even know why its annoying me and then I read some reviews saying how GT5 is going to be better than forza when you know for damn fact that that game is going to cost the earth just like LBP, it has no damage, none of the others can match forza 1. Seriously.

See the thing is im still going to buy this game and notice what I notice time in and time out with the game, all of the cars RWD, 4WD, FWD and the rest will all handle almost exactly the same with the sound being the same sound file but with other frequencies added / taken out and them all playing the same. Anyone says this to be different needs to really play the game. Also the tuning is going to be as it always is, lame and not really any depth, its all or nothing with it. Paint jobs and that . . not really sure whats in the pipe line for this, if its there at all.

All im saying is im going to keep a close eye on this game and total up my spending vs forza. In the unlikely event that this is going to beat that game im hoping to get some more game time on this machine.

Anyway, dead space extraction, mario and f1 2009 are excellent buys for the wii. Get them.

I posted this tonight out of sheer boredom. I will hopefully put something a little less ranty on soon, but noones reading anyway

Yes ive carried on buying games which means I must have spent a hell of a lot of time playing them,…,. And you'd be right. So what has been released since my last post, well. Forza 3, Halo ODST, borderlands cod4 and dragons age. These are all the ones ive bought. All for xbox I might add. Is the PS3 going to release any decent games. I haven't got uncharted 2 but some people I know who have it have said its quite good so I may be giving that a bash.

So what do I think if at all you care, well the above titles ive mention are all nothing more than class acts. Borderlands being my favourite so far this quarter. Getting online with 4 people makes this game insane and the most fun ive had for absolutely ages. ODST was good, a bit short but it was supposed to be a downloadable add on and nothing more than a couple hours worth of play. Fire fight is excellent and the game itself if just pure plain good fun halo. Forza 3 is immense, I love this series and it steals all of my time when I get into getting fast times for the leader boards. Modding cars takes ages and Im really REALLY annoyed to see that they have added a rewind button which is ojk but couldn't they have added a Start lap again button so that I don't have tp go round it again OR keep pressing rewind to find it only rewinds just before the freaking line! This game is just pure excellence though so its only a small complaint. Dragons age next, well what can I say, its just oblivion/wow/insert RPG here with a bit more of a story line focus. Good voice acting and choices, what more can se said. I started as a mage cos I always go warrior when starting games like this . . . im kinda wishing I had done this time. COD:MW2 I have to say is a great game but just COD. They've always been good (the infinity ward ones) and this is no exception. kinda breathes too much COD:MW though. Don't get me wrong it's a great game and im playing iut top death but ive seen it all before and it became a marathon to get the game finished. Online as always is flawless so what more can be said.

My next purchases are going to be L4D2, formula one and dead space extraction and the new mario ( dead space being long overdue as so many games keep coming out, my wii and ps3 takes a backseat at this time of the year).

Well that's it I recommend every simgle game ive mentioned here if you want to lose best part of £300, hell I did and I believe my life is better for it

Just to add really i messed a lot out, i don't generally re read what ive written . . .this time i did and missed a load of things i wanted to write down.

•1. HOW GOD DAMN LONG DOES IT TAKE TO UPDATE THE PS3!!!!! After my machine broke i tell you now it took me over 5 hours to download all my content again and get the thing up to date, i didn't bother with home which is a massive flop FACT. Ive even had to put some games in my NEVER to be played again box (FFXII, FF9, FF7, Oblivion and a few others) because i just cant get back the 100s of hours ive plugged into getting all of the stuff and where i left off . . . .well maybe i can but i just don't want to.

•2. Star Ocean. @Just got to the second disk, everything about this game is good . . . .apart from the story. I just don't care at all. Just got to the second disk . .man it had so much promise the game but the dialogue is possibly the worst ever. Its not totally hopeless but everyone you meet is too gimmicky and annoying and EVERYONE seems to be up everones arse . ."oh i want to be just like you" "your a really great person kaaaaaay . . .", "Dont worry as long as you tried your best thats all you can do." "Your a really nice person", ". . ." . . . . "Kaaaayyyyyy". OH STFU! Ive stopped playing the game as the story is grating on me. Why cant RPGS released from enix just have a bit of grit and darkess in them, not overkill on pointing out being a geek with not many life skills can be OK as long as to believe in yourself and try your best. . . .im not going to go straight in and review this game on GS . .

Well i do love throwing in my 2 cents now and again. My game catalogue has got ever increasingly bigger with me buying over 100 games since my last update . . .and not selling a single one of them, god im running out of space.

Ok so what have been the highlights: Fallout, punchout, killzone2 (surprisingly), street fighter IV, Wipeoput:fury and Sacred 2 with the lowlights being star ocean, transformers 2, killzone2 (...yeah) and possibly a load of others which i cant remember as i just buy too many games. . . oh and the PS3.

Punchout on the wii was excellent. What a game this is. Just like the original with updated graphics, god i love this **** Fallout has been great with the barrage of constant updates, all as good as each other. This machine(Wii) though is beginning to show the strain there just isn't anything coming out for me to really get into it. All the games i own (about 36 of them) are really good but i need to ask the question again. I played these games in 1986-1996. I recently just re bought a SNES and N64 as both my machines broke in the same month of each other. . .god i love the retro. Golden eye . .ebay, £4 . . . bargain!

Ok my ususal rant on the PS3 . .seriously Sony . .either cross platform all your releases or just give up now trying to secure exclusive deals as your games are not as good as the xbox's. Oh get this as well. My Ps3 broke a month ago (im blaming it on the heat wave we had, everything electronic in my room broke near enough . . .including the f%^$ing fan!! Anyway, i phoned sony and they said all the stuff to make it sound like id actually broke it, and they replaced it within 2 days . . .this was ace. What wasn't ace is that my transformers blueray disk was still in the machine and they told me i couldn't detatch the HD. You see the problem right now. I had loads of saved for games which i never play lost. Some may say, "whats the problem if you never play them?" . . . . well that is the point, i never f%$^%ing play them so i don't know what the f%^$s goin on in some of them now. Not to mention losing my LBP levels which took me weeks to make perfect and all my wipeout saves and laps. B%$^$rds.

Moving onto the games, Killzone2 i have to say is a good and bad game good in the fact i love the online idea bad in the fact its pure pray and pray and point blank seems to miss or do no damage . . .i hate that **** Everything else came out on the xbox . . .so thats that really. So much for the 100's of exclusives before last Christmas and before this Christmas . . .that makes about 200 exclusives to me . . . what is the actual count . . 8? Less? Its not many any way.

Going a bit more positive . . so we naturally turn to the xbox, Sacred 2 is a game i have to say ull love or hate. There is something hypnotic about levelling up just to see what the next level unlocks but this game is a 3d join the dots. (those who've playing it and got wit will get that).

Now lets get onto the xbox dashboard update. Who in the F$£* is so bothered about dressing up an avatar? I spent all about 20 minutes with my Mii and then went . . .limited sh%$^ aimed at kids. Now xbox want you to do it. As i buy anything an everything im not at all arsed about the price of the content . . its just. Why? Some people are getting so wound up by this that they are filling forums up with their pointless banter on how expensive it is . . . ill tell you now, the comparision is . . if you think its expensicve it aint no where to close to how POINTLESS it is. Who gives a f$%% if you have a red tshirt saying gears on it, or a bloody chicken in your hands . . i have to say a big W T F here, and this is nothing to do with warcraft. People should start to delete that WTF folder in their brains where s%$£ like this must get placed. Another thing . . .i have around 40g left on my 120gb HD, all of my content is fully paid, no demos, no films . . thats after 1 yr of having the 120gb hd. The on demand games must be around 5gb in size as some demos have pushed near 2 . . . if i have issues what the hell are the 20gbers thinking. Pointless update. I do like the idea of the party reconnect though cos god how many times do i put games in that say update required and then have to go through the mess of reconnecting . . Or if you use EA servers. Christ. Battlefield 1943 is rampant for the dc.

Quite a shallow pointless blog this time for anyone who may stumble across this. Ive seen the future in games and believe me its a NES, SNES, and XBOX360 with the occasional DS game in there. 100% FACT.

As another Christmas passes and I think of how much cash ive wasted on video games I remember that I posted a blog on this site so I will update it once again and offer my opinions to anyone that will listen.

I remember I got caught up in the ps3, xbox and Nintendo war and I can safely say that the xbox has been the clear winner with both my ps3 and wii collecting rather a lot of dust, saying that however smash bros for the wii was particularly good and I got buzz for the ps3 so that we could have some family Christmas fun so they have had their uses I suppose. Nothing however was to impress me more than left 4 dead, dead space and Gears 2. These have to be the best three games ive played all year. Dead space has replaced Doom 3 for mist atmospheric and gripping story. The game is pure class and I cant believe something which so far (up to chapter4) has so much polish has come from EA. That company are starting to win my money as at a time all they seemed to produce and publish were flash in the pan games that had no real depth and simply didn't live up to their "Its in the game" slogan. Dead space is an amazing game and should not be avoided. Left 4 Dead is another which I say if you haven't got it, GET IT! Its classic valve game architecture. Switching their counsterstrike style into a coop run and gun tactical shooter, I say tactical as they really have done a great job on making it crucial for you to stick and work together.

You have to get the game to understand what I mean. Ive heard loads of people slating it as it only has 4 levels, or maps. Its clear to see that these people who are saying this have never played counterstrike and don't understand what valve have tried to do here. Maybe they don't have XBL, in which case all of their opinions need keeping to themselves as having an xbox without live is rather like giving crash helmets, elbow and need pads to a kid for Christmas and not getting the skateboard.

I bought it both for the xbox and the pc in the hope that I can create a few maps for the game or create some custom skins, this game really is born for the pc but the port to the xbox is always welcome.

An what can we say about Gears. I wasn't a massive fan of the first one but they really have completely tweaked the game for the better. The campaign is more engrossing and varied and none of the vehicle levels seem tacked on like they did in the last one. This game to me is the best of the year in terms of pure game vs online. Im not a massive fan of gears online, my heart will forever be with halo2/3 for that but they have done a few new things this time around to stop the game from being a ring a ring a roses with a shotgun. Horde mode is awesome . .which is kind of like what left 4 dead is all about but a bit more scary.

As for the ps3, im glad I spent £400 on this thing to play wipout HD, I really am. I absolutely hate metal gear, im not into the whole watch a game movie and do a little bit of controlling here and there. I like the way GS said something like "youre missing the point" if you don't like the games cinematic style. All I say to that is I think they are missing the point, we are gamers who want to play games and giving something which isn't quite a game a 10 is a bit ridiculous to me. Gears, Halo3, Dead Space and Fallout are much better games but they fall up to 2 points short. MGS online is not as great as they made it out to be and if anyone really disagrees with that and claim its best FPS/online game ever then they must like imbalanced spawn and flawed clunky controls in their games.

My biggest disappointment of the year was motogp08 made by capcom for the xbox. Didn't quite get what the point of that was. You couldn't really attack the tracks, it seemed like you just feathered the throttle all the way around the track with slipping and sliding being really unrealistic as they tried to make power application realistic . .anyway nuff said about that I had it for like 8 hours and took it back.

Three years down the line and I believe the xbox is getting to be the better console at £129 and some of the best games of all time being released over the last 12 months we can only see things getting better. FF12 has to com e out yet, an exclusive from sony taken away.

Live as always has been excellent and sonys effort has been lack luster. I couldn't log onto home for all of the beta and now its gone live I cant be bothered to download all of the things its asking you to do . . oh well maybe in the new year ill get into it a bit more . . .but kingdom for kefflings seemed much more addictive, who really wants to go through so much trouble to see each others achievements and look at a stock house . . id sooner be playing a game and talking to my friends without any real issues . . if anyone knows how to have a reliable chat with someone with the PS then please give me a mail as its totally unachievable for me.

Oh yeah I bought Scene it for £20 . .DEAL. Well infact ive just bought everything this year apart from COD:WAW and Mirrors edge. Ive played them briefly at friends but I don't think they warrant a buy at full price just yet, besides im playing much bigger and better games than these seem. Fallout, Deadspace and halo3 again being there main ones with constant online action with L4D.

Have a great year everyone with your games, thanks if anyone has read this, check out the games ive rated in my profile and see if you totally disagree, send us a mail or something and we can chat about it all.

As I ramble on to myself in these posts I get to thinking about how many wasted hours im spending on these damn consoles.

Recently my PSP took a trip out of storage as I tried to get it to work as a rear view mirror on the PS3 F1 . . but then realised it was never included in the game after their initial release . .damn . .all this showed was that I have a good memory. Played a lot of Halo 3 recently with reset of all the ranks. Started to play through MGS4, Warhawk and WipeoutHD and Ninja Gaiden IIwhich are solid games to say the least a bit of fun but not really offering the depth that I want from my games.

Anyway, my predictions for this year is that the xbox is going to be laughing all the way to the bank this time as the reports are already saying that all of the cross platform releases are better suited to the xbox and its live rather than the other consoles, which is fair enough. Gears 2 is going to be big, but lets hope COD and Fallout along with Fable and a few choice others strip the sales. This is a good end year for games which kinda makes up for the very lame E3 we had (or I at least thought it was rather weak). Halo raises its old head talking about new expandable content and some new maps for the game, which is good. Waiting for halo wars but after the closure of ES that game may as well just be a flash in the pan as far as im concerned.

Im needing at the moment some competitive players for my PSN, StatixEx is the name if you wanna challenge.

As far as major busting convo goes, theres really not that much, theres too much coming out at this time of the year . . not to mention the World of Warcraft expansion, which will result in me spending all my living time getting to grips with that.

I hope some of you people have in the region of £400 as that's what its gonna cost this year to get all of the top titles for all the consoles, the problem we have is TIME to play them. At the moment ive bought about 15 games and still not played some of the others from the summer (Lost Odyssey, Blue dragon (which is till need to get of the first disk) and some others). I purchased a SNES a few weeks ago with Mario kart, im having massive trouble trying to get this a ps3, xbox360, ps2, skyHD and a Wii all hooked up to the same TV and turned on and set up at the click of a button. I bought one of those multi AV's which doesn't work (the third now) to try and get them all working. Oh and by the way, why must AV connectors be too damn big? I can barely fit 2 in the back of my TV because of the design . . its insane

Ok that's it, had enough, ill post and talk to noone in about 4 months or so. Adios

So what have been the best games over the last 3 years?

I'm buying tons of games, so many I cant even update my play list fast enough. The hits so far however have got to be

Rock Band x360

Unreal Tournament 3 x360

Lego Indiana NDS

Credit has to be given to Harmonix and Rock Band. This is a truly a fantastic game and the innovation they are showing towards the gaming industry can only get better and better. I think it is important that that they keep these games as GAMES or TOYS as they may loose the plot and start developing games that are for actual musicians and lose a greater captive audience. This isn't to say that challenge cant still be applied to the games but they should keep the gaming demographic in mind when building this marvellous software and now hardware.

Halo, 8 years down the line still impresses me, great new updates in maps, strong hardcore community. Whas not to like about Halo? With Unreal coming out just a day although the community is strong right now, I think the community will still lie with Gears and Halo after a few months, UT (which is one of my all time favourite games) will soon fade away due to its fast pace. About the game however, its nicely modelled, getting sick of this unreal engine though and its style, I't may as well be gears without the cover and the players on speed . . .not the drug just accelerated C++.

Its not as good as UT2K4. I really loved the Assault mode in UT, the modes were 20X better in that game, I'm only hoping that these are going to come as updates and addons. The bots in this version also are still a bit dumb or on Insane just ridiculously accurate. Gone are the days where they just increase the health and move ability of AI, now they are just dead shot accurate and IMO its not fair, id sooner the skill still lie with the player to aim more accurately but have to do it more times.

Finally F1 to the xbox next year with Codemasters doing the development, great kinda nearly bought a PS3 just for the F1 . . thank god I didn't as all of the games I really, really looked forward to Haze, Lair, R:FOM and Metal Gear all of which haven't blown me away like the pre release hype had given them. I think we can all agree that the showing from the PS3 on an exclusive level has been poor right from the word go. For every ONE game that comes out on that console you have about 4 on the box. All things they have spoke about 3 years ago still hasn't come out and side by side the cross platform games just work a hell of a lot better on the xbox, both online and console. This is obviously my opinion. Looking at games side by side on my mates PS3 and xbox, we are always on the xbox after a quick blast. Come on Sony, sort it out, up some money into well established Non Ubisoft, EA, Activision code grinders and give them more time to give a game they want to deliver, not one under massive deadline constraints.

I'm waiting to see Fable 2. When the firt one came out we were promised so much, the game wasn't half bad . . .thats because half of the game was missing. Even the manual shipped in the EU said you could do all this really good idea stuff but in fact you couldn't.

I love gaming, I love the industry and all I want to do is play great game after great game on all of the consoles. Its really saying something when I have no desire, not even the new toy feeling about one of the going consoles.

When I get five minutes from work ill be back on the Wii and on the Smash Bros.

Anyways good gaming, good fragging, for me try and play UT3 for about an hour a day and I don't get "Cannot find server" cos theres no one about

Later peeps