Be Excellent To Each Other

Buh? Surely not?

I'm sure someone would pm you if you really wanted to know, or read the BNP thread in it's terrifying entirety.

Jeez, I ain't that fussed! Have you seen that thread?

Mate of mine posted this link with the title "Woman loses handbag while doing housework"

Carnage and people talking in circles and trying to out-do each other with the fancy talk basically.

Ooooh, yes please a biccy!

Here's mine, in no particular order:

CoD 4
GTA IV
Crackdown
Bully: Scholarship Edition
CoD 2
Halo 3
The Orange Box
Guitar Hero III
Forza 2
Top Spin 2

That's just retail games.

Voices in your head doing snacks as well now?

Top Fifteen Xbox 360 Games (from bestest to worstest, very roughly) -

1. Hitman Blood Money
2. Crackdown
3. Grand Theft Auto IV
4. Earth Defence Force 2017
5. The Orange Box
6. Fallout 3
7. Oblivion
8. Sega Rally
9. Halo 3
10. Test Drive Unlimited
11. Far Cry 2
12. Viva Pinata
13. Call of Duty 4
14. Civilization Revolution
15. Rock Band

EDIT: Fuck, also Bioshock, which needs to be number ten, or something.

Sorry! I was typing on MSN aswell bloomin' 'eck

Oh yeah Crackdown. Get Crackdown.

And I missed Halo 3. Get Halo 3 too.

Top 10 FunSquare+++ Games:

Crackdown
Test Drive Unlimited
Dead Rising
Ace Combat 6
Rock Band
FIFA 09
Guitar Hero II
Oblivion
GTA IV
Virtua Tennis 3

Well I'm not sure I can list an order but here's 10 you must plan. This is not the 10 "best" as such, this is me. Moto GP really requires at least some fandom for instance.

Bioshock - FPS, here for atmosphere, game mechanic slightly flawed but generally beautiful and engaging.
Civilisation Revolution - Turn based strategy with a very well thought out style, probably the best single game in the series. Slightly simpler than later PC incarnations.
Earth Defence Force 2017 - Lunacy. Serious Sam meets Doom back when you had more than 1 (hundred) enemies of screen. Rough as all fuck but absolutely glorious, especially in co-op.
Fifa 09 - Fifa comes of age again, not going to convert non-football fans but PES players need to try this. Be a Pro mode is, as Myop says "RPG but football".
Flatout - Ultimate Carnage - Like a Burnout (pre-paradise) but with more racing and less "TAKEDOWN!". Excellent deformable courses and career mode.
Forza 2 - The daddy of near sim racing games. Kicks any GT you care to name into the ground then stomps on its face for several hours. Not perfect, small fields and some poorly thought out game mechanics and fictional tracks don't help.
Moto GP 08 - Finally THQ are ordered to stop fucking up MotoGP. The 125 and 250 classes are back, there's a career mode that works, physics that are usable but challenging and AI that's (largely) fair. 35 bike fields in the 125cc class are heart stopping.
Race Driver : Grid - Flawed but there's little this varied in a career mode anywhere. A very wide racing game let down by some slightly bizarre physics.
Test Drive Unlimited - Everytime you play it you'll find a new flaw but who cares. The most open, engaging and at times downright beautiful driving game ever. If the concept of driving round 1000 miles of real Hawaiian roads, entering races, buying cars from real dealers, houses to keep them in from real estate agents and just generally being freer than in any game ever even slightly appeals, grab it. Defines "open world" in racing games.
Tomb Raider Legend - A massive return to form for the series with decent controls, decent variety and a story and characters that don't make you rip your face off or leave you alone in the level for hours like in previous games.

Everybody loves Crackdown!

Yay, my 14 year old daughter just passed with merit her Grade 5 violin. Me = proud dad (with no musical ability to speak of)

Excellent stuff.

(I never even made Grade 1 on the pianoforte so am horribly jealous of anyone with any musical talent)

Apart from Dudley apparently, this voids his opinions on anything.

For some reason I read that and thought of the late Richard Whiteley.

I can't believe I forgot Fifa. Take CoD2 out as it's similar to 4.

I played the crackdown demo and found it very tedious and annoying. Just like the full orchestra tuning up in the next room. Sounds like Jazz Club ("Nice!") in here.

My mum's on the train to Wales because my grandpa is dying. He may have a couple of days, he may have three weeks. But he's going, and it sounds like he'd rather it was sooner than later and this point, when he can think clearly at all.

And... oh, fuck it, there's lots of ands.

Anyway, things are tough right now in all sorts of ways, so apologies if I'm not my usual jolly, good-natured self for the next few weeks. Or months. Or years.

I shall go get some chocolate, I think.

Although I think I'd prefer a new puppy.

Get the fuck out.

chocolate puppy then.

Chin up Rev, we're here for you, vent if you need to!

Yes! A chocolate puppy!

I think I'd go for the eyes first.

Fanks. Yes, I have no perception of pitch but would love to be more musical - I think this ability skipped a generation in me as both my parents were quite good musos. However, I can paint, so I make do with that!

Crackdown is fucking brilliant. Easily in my top fifteen games EVAR.

Ah, now see, the demo REALLY doesn't do the game justice.

I got thrown out of my recorder lessons at school.

And thrown out of the choir, despite it being a time that they were begging people to join.

I also got thrown off my cycling proficiency course, but that's another matter.

Do what I do with jelly babies -- start with the skin.

There's the thing you see. I wasn't impressed enough by the demo to want to give it another go. I have the xbox hooked up Dolby Digital stylee and the ambient noise in traffic was seriously annoying. Perhaps if someone lent me a copy I might give it a bash...

Further to this, I have this in a communication with him



That is all.

Because of a disagreement over something? That's a bit of a shame.

It would cost more to post it than buy it these days. You must get it.

I can't remember if the Grumpy Old Man likes Crackdown or not.

To be fair it's not your fault. I get the impression (as I haven't spoken to him directly about it) that things had been building up for a while.

Perkies? Yeah, he does, although I think he compensated by being grumpy about the DLC. Plus it came out a few years ago, when he still had a tiny little bit of hope left in his soul. Nowadays, not so much.

He keeps bumming Oblivion 2, though.

Congrats! I can play '3 blind mice' on the recorder and that's about it well, and the drums-kinda

Rae (my sister) has a violin and is a whiz on it too, it's a lovely instrument

frickin college network has been up and down like a whore panties all bastard day. Irate students with deadlines are not polite. New levels of passive aggressiveness have been reached!

I got bored with crackdown when all the women I killed and put in a dumpster kept disappearing so I could never fill the dumpster. I felt like Sisyphus.

Man, I really want to party.



EDIT - this is entirely unrelated to the female corpse-dumping escapades mentioned above.

Yes Sir! I can boogie
But I need a certain song.
I can boogie, boogie woogie
All night long.
Yes Sir, I can boogie,
If you stay, you can’t go wrong.
I can boogie, boogie woogie, all night long

@ Mr Chris, I was wondering, you weirdo.

In other news,
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=665847

Sorry if old news, but I like the drawing.

Heh.

[Types joke about recent collapse of the pound. Realises it is not funny. Deletes it]

Yeah, I linked that last week from the b3ta newsletter.

I am so slow!

It's funnier this time.

Francis Rossi from The Quo has put his house up for sale:

http://www.teamprop.co.uk/properties/SHP0850/10+Bedroom+House+For+Sale+in+PURLEY+Surrey.aspx

Lets buy it and then re-enact the pool scenes from this classic Quo video;

Turns out he only had a few hours.

My mum got there a few minutes too late.

Sorry to hear that. Best wishes to you and your family.

I'm so sorry Rev.

xxx