I've been away from the forums most of the time lately. I met someone and yeah i've been doing other things... I still swing by SW now and than to see what the latest news and so forth is but i don't really input much anymore.

So yeah gaming wise lately I've been playing Halo Reach mostly, I also bought/finished God of War: Ghost of Sparta. and I've just bought COD4 and Black Ops for my 360. I feel like i am becoming one of those casual shooter noobs lol.... been trying to save my money mostly recently so i haven't been buying that much in the way of games. I'll try to get around to buying more of the games i want soon, i still haven't gotten to try Vanquish yet and i really want to. I was also wanting to get GT5 when it came out but i might not be getting it for a while now so i will have to see if i can even find the time to play it.

Just thought i would post this as an update for anyone who has been wondering what i have been up to lately.

So I spent a few hours on this the other night and i still haven't gotten this achievement. It is only the biggest load of BS ever... I feel like my disc is broken because i am doing the exact same thing i see in all the videos and yet the game just will not give my my achievement. Heres a video of a couple of attempts i had this morning which also did not give me my achievement. you can also view the vid on my file share on Reach. Seriously could someone talk a look and tell me exactly what it is i am doing wrong here? :? I'm just gonna go and continue to rant at my game and say its broken and impossible to get my achievement now.

After being on the fence and not being too sure about how much i enjoyed the games from playing 1-3. It is with my time playing Halo Reach that i have decided that i actually really like the series.

I think Halo Reach was a very well designed game. Honestly i am most impressed by the menu system and the ease of use and the ability to see what friends are doing and being able to join them with is easy to do all from within the game without having to open that pesky dashboard.

After spending a bit more time with the MP on my own playing some team slayers i found myself having a lot of fun. I also greatly enjoyed the campaign in Reach too.

I have often felt the Halo series was overhyped and not as good as some people made it out to be. While in many respects i still feel the same way but for now I think that at the very least Halo Reach is an absolutely fantastic game and the best in the series as far as the overall deisgn, and i am a fan of it.

Also ARMOUR LOCK IS HAX! :D

Seriously, you should give it a try.

So i am late here, very very late, but i only just bothered to get DMC4 and i finished it yesterday. It was a bad idea playing this after playing Bayonetta thats for sure, i spent half the time complaining there was no dodge button and about the jumping.

So really an overview about what i thought of the entire game as a whole would be that, i enjoyed the story and cutscenes. while the music was very lacking and the combat felt very dated. Mixed in with the basic gameplay there were just small annoyances throughout the game which really hampered my experiance with the game; Platforming sections with terrible jump hight and camera angles and annoying board games which force you to go around the board until you roll the exact right number.

I remember alot of people complaining about Nero, but i didnt mind him, I thought it was funny that he was voiced by the same person who did the voice of Adachi from Persona 4, and the character himself was fine by me, he was more likeable then dante imo even if he wasnt 1/100th of the bad ass Dante is. The only problems i really had wit Nero was that his combat was just way too simple, there was no depth to his skill set when compared to Dante who got multiple weapons and move styIes.

The problem with the Dante section of the game is that it was so small and he only got to go backwards through all the levels i played through before with Nero.

Then there were only like 6 different bosses in the game and the final boss being the worst of those bosses was just horribly dissappointing.

Its just annoying when you play through a game and you can think of so many things which could and should have been done differently, I wonder whether or not the devs bothered to play it themselves and decide if it was a good idea or not.
Anyway to put it bluntly, I have very little love for the DMC series anymore, so i wont be holding my breath for 5.

I am going to go back to praying for Bayonetta 2 now.

Just putting it out there. Someday soon i may even go into detail, but its late now and i must goto bed, and i bet i will have some Bayonetta tune in my head while trying to sleep. :evil:

I called them today about my broken copy of Banjo Kazooie and told them it was brand new and the only game that didnt work in my machine and they ask me if i want to send in my console for repairs!?!?!?!?????????.............
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Today i got my brand new copy of Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and bolts. I was pretty happy to get it and wasted no time getting it into the machine to play when suddenly it froze on the microsoft studios screen. I was like WTF but reset the game and tried again. This time i got to the rare logo and then it froze there.

At this point i was starting to get a little worried, and so i reset it again and got through to the menu finally and went to new game and BAM! "This disc is unreadable it may be scratched or damaged", of course that is impossible as the game was brand new and 100% scratch free. I then tried to install the game and it also had a simmilar error message at 48% and 53% I then tried cleaning the disc in our disc cleaning machine at home and gave the game a go again and it froze yet again, tried installing it and OMG it worked! game played fine after i managed to get it installed.

I played it for a few hours and then decided i wanted it to run without having to be installed, so i uninstalled it and then the game actually continued to run although i noticed alot of problems like small freezes everytime the game autosaved and more small freezes while trying to purchase items from the menu. The game ran mostly fine until i tried to enter a new world and the game froze on the cinematic intro to the game world, after that i stopped playing the game for a while and played something else. Came back to the game again recently to see how it was going, now it will not install and will not make it past the first initial loading screen.

Pretty dissappointed really, this is the first brand new game i have ever bought which has been faulty.
The problem is that i bought the game online and so it may be a pain in the butt to get my money back or a replacement.

So after a while of trying to justify a purchase for the machine i have decided to just get it and buy a bunch of games i wasnt ever really planning on getting at all.

The main game i am getting it for is Alan Wake. I have had alot of reservations about getting a 360 because i really dont want to pay for XBL but i know i will want to play games online with my friends when i get it so its basicly like you have no choice there.

I have massive backlog of games to get for the 360 and hopefully alot of them will be cheap i plan to get all the popular ones like Halo and Gears of war, i also plan on getting all the rare games (excluding Perfect Dark Zero), Fable 2,Bayonetta (2nd copy) and ME1+2(again for achievements and because i want to see what they are like on Xbox).

I am a bit of an achievement/trophy whore these days so i will probably try to borrow alot of the multiplats i have platinum'd on PS3 to get the achievements although i dont think i will feel as obligated to get all achievements in games like i am to get platinum's.

Anyway heres hoping when i get my machine i dont get hardware problems or i will /sad face, pretty hard.

Edit: Also i have already made my gamertag its Zarshack just like My PSN so add me if you like i will probably get a gold acc pretty soon after i get my machine.

The one union i am in is recruiting, i am mentioning it here because i love my union and they would never put a gun to my head or threaten to chop my genitalia if i did not make a blog post about them recruiting more slaves, err i mean friendly people to be friendly and in no way threaten to eat there brains if they step out of line.

So you should definantly join TSKNDU because i am in it, and you like me, you must if you are here. DONT TRY TO HIDE IT!
or maybe you dont like me, maybe you are here to mock my silly blog posts or just here so you have something which is representitive of me to look at while you seethe with pure hatred into your computer monitor!

Back on topic though join the union........... JOIN THE UNION...... CAPSLOCK MEANS YOU MUST.
If you join then you get to see me post which games i am playing! because thats all i usually bother to post because i am generally playing games when i am not here on system wars for lulz.

Thats all i had to say really, now i just hope you can get the image of my genetalia out of your head!