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This post made me cum.

Joystiq go a little more in depth with it. It looks pretty good anti-camping sort of stuff. If you suspect someone's hiding in the corner you can probably surprise them with a strafe-boost or descend on them with a high jump. Battlefield is still the boy though.

It took them a generation longer to cotton onto where the real shit goes down, but I'm happy to have them now that they've matured. I only mean to be condescending a tiny weeny bit.

I watched the Two Best Friends Play walkthrough of Soul Suspect. The game's dialogue was dreadful, really, really shit. Of course those guys like to take the mick out of everything, but by fuck does it hand itself to them on a comedy platter. In no other medium would you get away with the kind of dialogue found in Suspect (broadly speaking). Why do people give give it such a free ride? £20 seems a stupidly high amount to pay for something that isn't even close to being a good example of its genre. Save the money for a game that's worth the money.

Hmmm, sounds intriguing. Might check that out. I've finally hopped on the House of Cards bandwagon. 4 episodes in. YES.

What's amazing is that the game endlessly throws you into new situations. It's about planning ahead, reacting to spacial changes when they occur, and picking the right decision at the right time. You can't beat a team single handedly, but you can pull off rambo-esque bullshit and 'turn the tide of the battle', as game trailers and box-arts love to say. Having said that, it's also fun to idle about and piss people off with cheap tricks. Finding killer sniper positions, or fruitful gangways which when loaded with explosives rack you up crazy amounts of kills and points. Some insane stunt is just around the corner. If you're making long journeys between objectives, for example, and there's not a lot to do, the very fact that you can fire a cross-map RPG at a helicopter, and it not be impossible to connect with it, is something which you don't get in other shooters. And you only need to be successful once to be sold on it for the rest of your life. Plus, you will occasionally flank a base and be presented with about 10 bunched up targets which, if you have some explosives, an LMG, and a good position, you could feasibly have each and every one of their lives. Time seems to stop when that happens, and it seems too good to be true in the moment. It's a right lark I tell ya. I still play the download-only BF 1943 with my mate when he comes over. There's one map that has a deserted boat at the side of the map which is of no real strategic use, and yet we go there every time to snipe anyone who attempts to capture the two central flags. Most of the time the enemy players don't even notice you when you frag them (the kill-cam doesn't reveal much in '43, unlike 3 & 4) but when they do notice they sometimes try to swim over to the boat or land on it after parachuting from a plane (our preferred method). If they swim up to it, we blow up the C4 along the gangway so that they go flying into the sea, and if they parachute onto the boat there's a cheeky little cubby hole we use, equipping the samurai sword whilst concealed ready to pounce and shank the commie shit in the back when they jog by, thinking they've got the drop on us. It's that hilarious sequence of victories - the first being the unfair headshot from a remote and pointless area of the map which doesn't even contribute to the objective, and then the second kill which just rubs salt into the wound, having pissed them off already only to exacerbate the pain when their faces (presumably) glow with excitement upon finding our nest before receiving a career-ender to the spine. It honestly doesn't get better. I would delve into the piss-taking we get away with on the air-superiority mode but I think I've said enoough.

Battlefield is unrivalled as far as multiplayer shooters go, providing you're in a decent squad. If you're not playing as a cohesive unit, the thrills are still there, they're just much more sporadic and there's a ton of A to B sprinting. Other shooters can be more instantly gratifying, but you can't pull off the same unbelievable shit and go on a complete and utter tear on a giant motherfucker of a map. Fuck sake, when I get a PS4 everyone here best be up for a match or two. And yeah Flink, you'll probably tank to start with. You have years of catch-up to do :P I actually recommend going on Youtube to find what class set-ups you want/suit your style etc. Make sure you get the little things right, and then just try and be the best objective player you can be. That's what makes it rewarding.

'I assume he could hear me all right, still not sure though because he didn't respond when I asked if it was OK.' LOLZ. When gaming and using a headset, people talk AT each other. I bet it would be gut-wrenching to play it back. P.S why is 'alright' still not in the dictionary?

UK release date website which you can filter by platform http://www.mcvuk.com/retail-biz/release-dates/

I'm editing a document for my student newspaper's games section and would like a section dedicated to useful and interesting gaming websites. I'm listing Eurogamer, linking to Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation series and the savygamer bargains website. SUGGESTIONS PWEAZE. Edit: Included the site below for release dates http://www.mcvuk.com/retail-biz/release-dates/

I might actually pick this up for the PS3 if it runs well. Looks as if it shits on Dead Island.

Already consigned itself to the shit-heap.

If you don't like Sue Perkins you need to get your head checked. She is adorable, amusing and very talented.

Paul is such a love rat too. When he whisked Mary aside as she was about to voice her disapproval of beardy-guy's rolling method I fell in love with them both all over again.

I can't bake or cook for shit, but there's no denying this show is pure televisual alchemy. The HD cakes, Sue's puns, the crazy characters (YES NORMAN, you cupcake wizard, you) and the perfectly timed musical cues. Buenísimo. Also: lol at preferring Masterchef.

^ http://www.gamepur.com/news/15695-sony-gamescom-2014-teaser-trailer-hints-until-dawn-playstation-4-features.html Just to quell the excitement.

You've done it wrong. The book isn't a part of my course but David Mitchell (mimes wanking gesture and gently whines a mental 'oooeehhh' sound to anticipate forum ribbing over the obsession) mentioned it as being one of his favourite albeit flawed novels. So I snapped it up and ended up really enjoying it. Clearly inspired Mitchell's output. Edit: Title fail in my above post, now corrected.

On my English Lit & American Studies degree I engage with the great literary minds of Shakespeare, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Arthur Miller, Earnest Hemingway and Ice-T. Yes, Ice-T. He got a co-writer to help him produce Kings of Vice, which is basically a novelised GTA. It makes me want to cut myself. Convinced it's only on the crime module I'm taking as a basis to assess the commercial climate of literature in America. Either that or the lecturer is retarded. /// I mentioned Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller in the purchases thread. It's fucking awesome. The novel is comprised of short stories which are interspersed with snippets from a narrative thread that involves you, as reader, in search of something. It's very meta, a book about reading (and writing), and it's very concerned with form. Calvino has a deeply intimate style which might be something to do with the translation, it's certainly a result of his play with form (second-person protagonist + transitions to other perspectives), but also his laconic and direct use of language. Occasionally the act of reading it can feel like you're hacking through a thicket of denser matter in order to get to the juicy stuff, but it is completely worth persevering. He puts you under a spell at times and there are a couple of chapters that I'd love to share with you in their entirety but I won't spoil them because I can see you are about to order it now and judge for yourself. Here are a couple of extracts, although admittedly it is somewhat pointless of me to do so because you've just opened a new tab to buy a copy: The actual short story stuff I will leave for your discovery.

Velocity looks sick.

I just realised that the PS3 is the first forwards compatible games console because it runs all the best games of its successor.

Life >>>> trophies > achievements

I don't think you can on hard mode but it might be an option for Flink because he's a pussy.

Precisely why they should go third party or roll out a subscription service. A Nintendo Steam would be incredible. I haven't given them any money for 7 years now solely because I didn't want to buy their consoles.

And then crying I presume?

Did anyone get this? Got decent reviews, but wanted KNEE impressions.