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Very uncharacteristic error there, I've lost faith in you. -1 integrity. @Dr4aqsdjhejf, not sure how you can make that kinda call right now. I'm personally not too excited for it, but we'll see. Hopefully they make the campaign a lot more varied, I want less room clearing and more gun turreting/sneaky shit/ amazing scripted sequences/ actual decent puzzles, ala Tomb Raider, as it's a 15 rated game and yet they spoon feed you that shit. Basically the whole thing should be a scripted sequence, I don't care too much for bulk cover-shooting gameplay, leave that for multiplayer. Let us have zero-gravity samurai sword fights in the campaign, and take down mega-zombies with rail guns whilst riding antelope.

Nothing I've seen so far has made me think it's fun to play. There's going to be more 'ooh wow' moments, and more variety, but none of the minigames or levels exhibit much meaningful quality. Still waiting for something to show me otherwise.

Where the hell are the snipers in this game? I've worked all the way to the strip, and explored a good proportion of the map, and yet no sniper. Or a rocket launcher come to think of it, not that I could justify carrying one.

Yeah, the Queen exchange at the time was postponed for a while (and eventually never happened) but I think what I was worried about at the time was you trapping my knight, without him being able to do any damage. Definitely was thinking of the castle but for some reason squandered the thought of doing so. Blah, it's all too confusing.

Point and click games are possibly the closest thing to being near the mediums, however, there's always stupid jarring things that take you away from any momentary belief that games are showcasing some sort of reality. You just don't get caught up in them in the same way as books and films. Do you want them to offer this though? I mean, point and click games don't really count as proper games anyway (if ya get me), and you're going to have to get rid of that damned controller if it's gonna work. And if you take that away then... Well shit. You're left with Kinect. Which is never gonna produce anything serious. At all.

Had I castled after the Queen take I think it would've been a stale but I saw an opportunity. It failed, kind of. But yeah, good game! At the start I was just wondering why you weren't piling into my pawns, I think that would've raped me, as yours had a lot more defenders, and you had the opportunities take first. In actual fact, I think pressing forwards with Knight and Queen gave you more developing moves (like the castle) as I had no choice but to retreat the Queen, which was quite wasteful. Mutual respect we'll call it.

I thought the first couple of Tomb Raiders were fantastic, and they far more tense/adrenaline fuelled than the follow ups, even if they did have dodgy controls. You bought the new PoP.... Jayyyyyy

LOLLL I despise Harry Hill now, he used to be OK, and then he turned his show into a catch-phrase contest. It was good when the majority of the show was just awesome observational work. Desperate. Songs are the shittest part! And he makes a fucking CD out of them?! Who the fuck buys this wank?! Hayte. --- Videogames ....I wouldn't say they're captivating enough for me to be fully addicted. That said, over the years I have wasted too much time on them.

I just got daily mailed by JayJay Aborigine Squander-bus. It was a kinda stale mate situation, and I said 'all I need to do is look out for the knight fork' and then maybe 2 moves later I blundered horrendously by giving JayJay a fork (and essentially a big spoon to lap it all up) and basically should've resigned immediatly. It wasn't worth offering a draw as I still had one 10% success chance move but never got to it. Argh. Edit: * A draw before the big forking.

@ MCJ - in almost every situation you have to be a complete n00b to be owning and still suffer a stalemate. Just keep the King in check whilst being able to check him next go, or making sure whatever you do leaves the guy some room.

I remember seeing a bit of that and thinking 'no'. It's almost as bad as School of Comedy.

I read a few of his books when he wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman, I think he did so because he wanted to see if he could achieve success again from scratch or something, as well as publish more books without coming across as a cunt. The Long Walk is quite a different read, but really good, as is The Running Man. The latter is basically a horrific game show (totally unlike the bullshit Arnie film) in a future America where everything's corrupt and totalitarian, where a man is tasked with surviving for 30 days whilst being hunted by hitmen, and at the same time everyone in the country will be rewarded if they find him or kill him. It's pretty damn awesome. Thing is it's been a long time since I read it so I had to rejog memory on Wiki.

Oh, when I saw the thread I assumed you'd landed an autobiographical documentary pilot. Uhm. Well I'll be seeing you...

I should be doing more than I do now, but then that much would be overkill. It's silly really, as these grades would improve my life by so much, but it's whether you want your presentness (i.e. a couple of months) to be strenuous or not. Most people don't, and they lol at the repercussions. Otherwise everyone would be at Uni.

I think the easiest way to do this would just to have everyone signed onto the same thing - Chess.com Then there's no faffy shit between games as people have to set everything up. Use n-europe chat so agreements can be made, so if a game can't be finished, both players can agree to come back the following day or press to finish/hurry up etc. You can save states of games surely? If not, an annoying getaround would be to take a pic of the screen and both just play until every piece is in the correct position. Best to avoid that if (surely definitely?) possible. Raining, I will be your downfall! (punwintentional)

I'm not too keen about tieing all this up into fb. I insist Ellmeister takes the spot.

Yeah but you've got to think subject quality and attainability. The 5 I've chosen reflect the best of all worlds without compromising too much across the board

Jon, just because you're a cynical waster doesn't mean you can fart your woes and waft them in my direction. I preferred my Sheffield visit than the Birmingham one. The economics dep at Sheff was better, and not tucked a mile away from everything else. Also, the library there was fucking insane - tremendously modern and I could picture myself working there, with a lemon curd muffin. The cafe on the ground floor sold lemon curd muffins to DIE for, and that's reason enough to say Chefs>Burma Manchester overall though was just amazing. It has everything really.

Oh hadn't seen you were holding one. Ellmeister can have the spot if he so wishes.

I plan on going to Manchester, though I'll have to get AAB, which won't be easygoing. Still waiting on offers from Leicester, Birmingham & teh Sheffield. Really don't want a shelf-stacking job, I mean, I don't want to be wasting my life on videogames and doing that with my life with a totally un-fit partner. I'd probably just kill myself or turn weird, trying to seek attention to make me feel better about myself, as if I deserve better when in fact I don't, and never will. Really wouldn't want that.