ShavenWolf

I had a good half hour on this yesterday in Manchester. It's bloody brilliant! I played on a level called 'Skate To The Finish' (or something like that) and loved every damn second!! Wish I had a beta key, like.

Thoughts on MotorStorm: Pacific Rift demo - It's more of the same. In a tropical environment. I'm buying it.

Yeah, I've not gone as mad the past few months as I've finally got to the point in my life where I am saving up for moving out/holidays/a car. And then I really won't have any money for games! *am cry* PSN games aren't bad though, £5 for even a night's worth of entertainment every couple of weeks isn't bad these days!

As you asked, here are the Blu-Rays I have: Assassin's Creed Burnout Paradise CoD4 Colin McRae Dirt Devil May Cry 4 Everybody's Golf EyeCreate (came with PlayStation Eye) F1 Championship Edition GT5 Prologue GTA4 Haze Heavenly Sword Lair (was free ) Lego Star Wars MGS4 Motorstorm Ninja Gaiden Sigma Oblivion The Orange Box Ratchet & Clank Resistance Ridge Racer 7 Sega Rally The Simpsons Game Skate Soulcalibur 4 Unreal Tournament 3 Uncharted Virtua Tennis 3 And I really wish I had more time to complete most of these games, dammit!

Daft buys all the PSN games, you say? I have: Warhawk The Last Guy Pixeljunk Eden Elefunk Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo Blast Factor Pixeljunk Racers Dark Mist High Velocity Bowling PAIN Toy Home Everyday Shooter Pixeljunk Monsters High Stakes Poker Snakeball Piyotama LocoRoco Cocoreccho Nucleus Super Stardust HD Calling All Cars Go! Puzzle Gripshift Go! Sudoku Super Rub A Dub Tekken 5 flOw Lemmings Gran Turismo HD (which was free) Trials of Topoq Mesmerise Operation Creature Feature Tori Emaki Aqua Vita Theme Hospital (PS1) Populous (PS1) G-Police (PS1) MediEvil (PS1) Jumpin' Flash (PS1) Wipeout (PS1) Crash Bandicoot (PS1) Championship Sprint Gauntlet II Rampage World Tour Joust Rampart Mortal Kombat II Q*Bert I blame how easy it is to buy these games....

Single reviewwwwww for the This Is My Lawnmower EP, released on 22nd September on iTunes: Those familiar to MM’s soft spot for This Is My Lawnmower, will know by now that this band can mix dance music with toughened indie rock, emblazoned with EMO and brassy flourishes. “Quagmire” is the band at their archetypal best, stomping out four for the floor and cementing a reliable line in their own pocket sized anthems. “Rain Piped Up” provides a familar northern flavour, tinged with elements of Ska and Paul Rawson’s deadpan melodies. It’s not long before a series of meaty hooks bookend these narratives, as the song rushes into a simple but smartly spaced out crescendo. The recordings have been supervised by the band’s Halpin brothers and a fine job it is too, providing the sparse, slightly raw brightness of a regular demo with some brilliantly EQ’d and recorded instruments. “Closer To Home” is another of the bands post-ballad, almost epic soundtracks; one that ambles along with croons and sideways-on melodies that still punch at an intelligent weight. It's another hint that there’s a little party going on somewhere inside this intriguing band. MMMM(/5) manchestermusic.co.uk

Gig reviewwwwww of us from Tuesday night: Six months since I last saw This Is My Lawnmower, they were impressive then in a loads-of-potential way; tonight I'm watching a band who have pretty much nailed it, and that's always a good feeling. Manchester mostly stood aside during the short-lived and somewhat manufactured "New Rave" scene, this being a city that never found it unusual to have techno in one ear and guitar bands in the other anyway. Now This Is My Lawnmower along with the equally exciting Delphic are at the forefront of a new flavour of Mancunia, where influences from our illustrious history of epic indie rock are stuffed with electro beats and bleeps. TIML's speciality is boneshaking post-punk reminiscent of the early Chameleons, wired up to the National Grid and injected with a Killers way with a pop tune; elsewhere they're already showing signs of a wider outlook. New song "Closer To Home" is bleaker, reminiscent of Talk Talk with frontman Paul Rawson adding mournful trumpet lines across Paul Halpin's wintry keyboard lines. Another new one doesn't have a title and sounds like LCD soundsystem covering So Young-spec Stone Roses. "Two contrasting songs there, I think" muses Rawson afterwards. Indeed, and two bloody good ones at that. And that name? Yep, utterly ridiculous. Stick me down for a T-shirt as soon as you've got some, lads. manchestermusic.co.uk

You mean like this? (The video is made of fail too...)

I can't stop listening to these guys of late... *COUGH*BLATENTPLUGFOROWNBAND*COUGH* Sorry, just had to clear my throat! :wink: But srsly, we're releasing an EP soon, which is on the MySpace site and any comments and opinions are welcome and encouraged! Yes, I know there's a band plugging thread in the Creative Gallery, but hey...

I read an amusing article that mentioned us today: "I went to see a new local band called This is My Lawnmower purely because I thought with a name like that they had to be either really good or really terrible. Luckily they were really good." Guestlist

I'm the bassist, with what appears to be spider-like hands towards the end of the video. I blame the director for making the cameraman get a shot of that!

Thanks! Our singer did start his musical ventures as a trumpeteer in a brass band though, to be honest. We were on TV once:

Crikey, uber-bumpage! Anyway, I'm not in the band I posted 2 years ago anymore, they kinda fizzed out after the singer had a baby. Oh well. But I'm in a new one now, and we're pretty damn good, if I may say so myself. This Is My Lawnmower We're an electro/rock/indie 5 piece from Manchester who got their band name from a silly MSPaint drawing our guitarist did years ago. We've got several songs on our MySpace and we've been on TV and radio several times and things. If you like Muse, Bloc Party, Interpol or The Smiths at all, you may like us. It's all good!

Best music video, EVARRR!

PSN: ShavenWolf Games I have that are online: Burnout Paradise Call of Duty 4 Colin McRae: DiRT Everybody's Golf Formula 1: CE GT5 Prologue GTA4 Haze Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga Metal Gear Online Motorstorm Resistance: FoM Team Fortress 2 Sega Rally Skate Unreal Tournament III Warhawk

I wouldn't say that MGS has 'dated badly', as I played it for the first time a few months ago and it's still way more fun than many games released this gen. The graphics do look a bit ass though, especially when the characters are talking. It looks like they've got a nervous tic or something.

Urgh... I'm using shopto in future, my MGS4 is still 'preparing for dispatch' at Gameplay. I was hoping I'd get it today, as it's my day off!

My Gameplay order's just changed to 'Preparing for dispatch'. Oh riiiiiight!

I've been playing SoTC on my PS3, and the frame rate isn't *that* bad. I sold my PS2 a few months ago though, so I can't see how bad it is on it's intended console...

Are you sure you didn't mean 250,000? I mean, this is canand we're talking to here...

So your only reason towards buying a PS3 would be to play PS2 games on it?

I started playing guitar at 13, but started learning bass soon after, cos it was way easier to play Blink 182 songs on. I started guitar on a crappy 3/4 size Spanish acoustic from Argos (woo) and used my school's bass to learn on. I think it was a Squier Precision bass. It was awful anyway, the action was miles between the strings and the fretboard and the strings themselves were rusty as frick. I got myself a Peavey Milestone III for my first bass: Which I'd recommend to any budding bassist, as it's pretty good for it's £120 (7 years ago) price tag. That did me proud for a few years, as I was in several bands and did my GCSE Music stuff with it, but I swapped it for a Squier Stratocaster guitar a couple of years ago, after I got my new bass. It's improved my guitar playing immensely and I'm pretty damn good at guitar too now! It's ok for dicking around on I suppose, but the bridge is a bit knackered so the E string slips out of it from time to time.... As for my current bass, I've got a Rickenbacker 4003. It's teh sex and I love it as much as anyone can love a chunk of wood. Me playing my Rick! And my amp is a Hartke VX3500: I can also play keyboards to an extent and a minimal amount of drums too.

Trials of Topoq is pretty fun. The rest of the games on the PSN store are more like toys though to be honest. It's implemented quite well in Burnout though: Get taken down online and it takes a snapshot of you giving the V's to the player that took you down.

The thread title kinda speaks for itself. Let's see what your top 5 games of every console you own/owned are! I'll start with my own (I'm doing them in the order I got the consoles too): Atari 2600: 1) Pitfall! 2) Enduro 3) Battlezone 4) Space Invaders 5) Skateboardin' Amiga: 1) Sensible World Of Soccer 2) Theme Park 3) Cannon Fodder 4) Frontier: Elite 2 5) Out To Lunch PS1: 1) Metal Gear Solid 2) Final Fantasy VII 3) Gran Turismo 4) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 5) Rage Racer Gameboy Color: 1) Warioland 2 2) Super Mario Bros. Deluxe 3) Pokemon Yellow Erm, I only had 3 decent games for GBC. Unless you include the Gameboy Camera too... Gameboy Advance: 1) WarioWare Inc. 2) Zelda: ALttP 3) F-Zero 4) Mario Kart Super Circuit 5) Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga Gamecube: 1) Metroid Prime 2) Super Mario Sunshine 3) Animal Crossing 4) Super Monkey Ball 5) Star Wars Rogue Leader N64: 1) Zelda: OoT 2) Super Mario 64 3) Goldeneye I only own 3 N64 games, but they're all pretty damn good. Xbox: 1) Halo 2) Jet Set Radio Future 3) Project Gotham Racing 2 4) Halo 2 5) Knights of the Old Republic DS: 1) Animal Crossing 2) Mario Kart 3) Zelda: Phourglass 4) New Super Mario Bros. 5) WarioWare Touched PSP: 1) Locoroco 2) MGS: Portable Ops 3) God Of War: Chains of Olympus 4) Patapon 5) Ridge Racer PS2: 1) MGS2: Sons Of Liberty 2) MGS3: Snake Eater 3) Ico 4) Shadow of the Colossus 5) Gran Turismo 4 Xbox 360: 1) The Orange Box 2) Crackdown 3) Gears of War 4) Halo 3 5) Boom Boom Rocket (Seriously!) Wii: 1) Super Mario Galaxy 2) Metroid Prime 3: Corruption 3) Super Paper Mario 4) Mario Kart Wii 5) Zelda: Twilight Princess PS3: 1) Uncharted: Drake's Fortune 2) Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction 3) Resistance: Fall of Man 4) Folklore 5) Heavenly Sword And I'm not much of a PC gamer these days, in fact I'm WAY out of touch, but heck: 1) Half Life 2) The Settlers II 3) Little Big Adventure 2 4) Age of Empires 5) Medal of Honour: Allied Assault