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Where in Hell's cunt did you get that?

I'm going to pick it up from a PS3 bargain bin this year for a bit of a laugh.

Satan is made somewhat exotic and heroic in the opening two books but he is then clamped down on at around book seven, IIRC. From the outset Milton says his purpose is to 'justify the ways of God to men', but I'm not sure he really does that. You're certainly right about God's world/voice being duller and less poetic.

If you wanted the extra £2 and the convenience of postal delivery that's fair enough, but you didn't give those reasons. It was probably worth paying the extra this time to make sure the condition was perfect, and it does support the developer, which is a bonus. That said, I wouldn't say there's any value in supporting the GAME monopoly - the company's a bully (it has to be to an extent, there's obviously little room for more than one gaming shop in the market), and GAME will probably die out eventually, or at best it will become a purely online retailer. Will games ever go digital-only? I guess it depends on the expansion of fibre-optic coverage and cost-effective advances in physical memory.

Word, motherfucker. Word.

Yeah, he gets all Yoda on you sometimes because he tries to compete with epics in other languages which are, apparently (& understandably), much more romantic and pleasing on the ear. I can only enjoy Paradise Lost in small doses, otherwise it does become a splurge of verbiage. If you isolate the odd passage and read it closely though, including the Master Chief jump, it does click. Like with all 'great' poets there are way too many references and allusions to other works though. Eliot is a prick when it comes to that, and it's his earlier work I enjoy because it doesn't get bogged down in those pretensions. Preludes is enjoyable (this being part 1 of 4)

The bit where he jumps the open gate out of defiance is lol. Edit: Also, I think there are sections in the other books which disprove that example. Not that I can remember/be bothered to find the perfect one.

Tekken Tag was unreal. Hilarious bowling mode as well. So Japanese.

My PS3 is up at my house in Manchester unfortunately mate, couldn't bring it back home from uni on the train. Uncharted 4 though... Christ I need monies.

Maybe it's because I didn't pay for them but the Uncharted 3 map packs are pretty darn good - especially the Graveyard map, which is unbelievable in Plunder. I didn't bother with the coop mode to be fair, remember people saying that was weak. I suppose there were too many easy reskin jobs to make the pass worth paying for.

Liked it on Facebook and thanked it here. Bonus appreciation. The driving looks so naff in WD and the car shunting is pathetic, vehicles practically teleport out of the way when you nudge them. And dumb things like that in the above video make me hate it unreservedly. URGH. I hate how it's been so successful, it looks dull as dishwater. HATE HATE HATE.

Did you have something to say? :p

I actually only started this today, Kindle tells me I'm 10% through it. Disappointed if I'm honest - the dialogue/characters are really poor and the political stuff comes across as facile. Has pacing issues as well. Not my cup of tea bro, sorry, can't see myself persevering. Downloaded The Wasp Factory afterwards, about a quarter of the way in. Not really much of a spoiler ahead, but one line killed me - basically there's this boy who's ever so slightly fucked in the head and he kills his cousin by hiding a snake in his prosthetic leg (he also blows up rabbits and finishes them off with a flamethrower): Deliciously dark. /// Also finished Middlemarch (George Eliot) recently. Supposedly the best English novel and I can understand why it has achieved that status, even if I didn't fall in love with it myself. Was written in the late 19th century and my preconception of it was that it would be a typical stodgy marriage plot written by a demure woman, but how cripplingly wrong I was. The writing is loaded with irony throughout, subtle humour abound, and you really root for the characters to be successful, and Eliot also rather comically tells you off for judging the more latently flawed characters. She also deals in metafiction, illuminating her own novelistic processes with tidy metaphors whilst also criticising her own and others' writing. It's a fucking massive novel because it tackles a shit ton, a whole web of provincial life - the interconnectedness of people's lives and the damage and hopes born from each other's actions. It can be a bit too dense at times, due in part to being ludicrously well-researched and having a tendency to proselytise. Eliot pretty much crams the book with as many sententious remarks as possible and there's a little too much in the way of thoughts and feelings, but admittedly some of them are very beautiful and a great deal of it is done with a wry grin. The novel can be forgiven for the over-egging because it's so obvious that it's a life's work, and desperately wants to cover everything. Meta: Wisdom that reminds me of Clive James: Below is an example of the subtle humour and characterization/subtext which I would've missed had I not been privy to a close reading of this section in a seminar. Also a good example of 'free indirect discourse' (to get all pretentious for a moment) whereby the narrator's voice and character's voice converge in a way that doesn't entirely belong to either. It isn't a direct quotation, but it isn't simply the narrator speaking either, it's a sort of middle-ground indicative of internal thought. Not that this is a novel (excuse the pun) technique - the novel as a medium needed it to progress from a contrived epistolary form, and wasn't available to Shakespeare at the time but has been used by pretty much every author (and even us mere mortals probably, without knowing it) since Jane Austen nailed it - but Eliot's use of the form is especially brilliant. That said, the form has evolved, thankfully. Would elaborate but I'd either be repeating common knowledge or be irritating users by sounding like a student who isn't as wise as he purports to be (which is true), depending on who's reading. The thoughts of Sir James Chettam, who tries to woo Dorothea Brooke. He believes that her 'religious' zeal and apathy towards his advances is all just a haughty show of purity and that these can be 'fucked out' - to use my aged tutor's words - with a good shag after marriage. This sort of detail is easily skimmed over, and it can be found throughout all 700 pages or so of Middlemarch. Hopefully that gives a flavour of Eliot's staggering talent and intelligence. I'll spoiler these closing lines of the novel, which are gorgeous:

It covers all DLC 5-eva, and there will be more DLC announced.

I backed you. Having said that, I don't think the quality has been outrageously poor, especially considering the lack of AAA titles at launch generally.

Where's Nyan Cat? Would be a sure-fit for rainbow laser beamage

Or is it the full game?

Have you seen No Man's Sky dude?

Clumsy title but it sounds interesting. Is it on PS4?

This gentleman knows where its at.

The HUD makes me wonder if there's a bit more to it than that, but I guess we'll find out soon.

That looks fucking sweet.

Nothing has screamed 'next-gen' to me yet. The Uncharted 4 trailer is beginning to show signs of the unbelievable though (even if it wasn't running in real-time, just in-engine). There are definitely some solid games and I look forward to seeing Bloodborne.

@Cube - good point. For me it's just a bit too context-sensitive and not fluid enough. Hanging and shimmying along a raised walkway feels clunky, and then having a pre-animated grab take-down or drop take-down... it takes the control away from you and there's a disconnect. Button prompts for the grapple hook are similar. At least with Infamous you could bomb down exactly where you liked, and even though it was very primitive, the melee combat did a really good job of feeling fluid and dynamic despite using a similarly magnetic lock-on system to Batman. Plus, Cole's super thrusters were awesome. The gliding in the above trailer does look juicy though.

If there were pedestrians, they'd surely have to make them invincible with a ridiculous diving dodge ability a la Driver/Crazy Taxi, or implement a morality system and allow you to kill them (neither of which I can see happening). The solution is probably to explain the problem away by means of a totalitarian curfew. That would be fine. You might occasionally see city dwellers scuttling about in scripted moments. The graphics are stunning, but I'm not a huge fan of the series. It feels a bit too robotic and clunky for me, when really assassin/ninja/stealthy characters should feel silky smooth to control. I'm in the 5% who have found it a problem to be fair.