Yeah, I loves me some Xbox. It may be noted that many of the games listed are pretty old, with newer versions out or imminent. Well, I tend to play a couple of years behind the trend, which means I get the same gaming experience as everyone else, for about a quarter of the price – a strategy independently featured on XKCD.

My gamer tag is Tommi Starr, by the way.

–c.

Oh, and having also conquered Oblivion, that’s been replaced with Mass Effect. Looks like Bioshock and Halo 3 will have to wait until I finish one of the other two… I can only devote headspace to two major games at a time.

In other news, I still have Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2, and no-one has come knocking. My gamer tag remains Tommi Starr… look me up, yo.

–c.

Do you want some?

–c.

I know I posted before about not getting much done due to playing too much Fallout, etc, but this is almost a return to my school-age complete obsession with gaming (then on my ZX Spectrum, of course). I mean, I must have put in about 6 hours on Friday, 3 or 4 on Saturday, 4 or 5 yesterday and a couple today. And that would have been more if I hadn’t been doing actual work work, too.

I find I’m starting to think about it when I’m on the train, or in a queue in a shop, or dozing off in bed. I find myself thinking about new spells to make or new ways to enchant pieces of armour to my advantage. I’m hardly even bothering with the main quest line, just nipping about working my way up in the Thieves’ Guild, the Mages’ Guild and the Dark Brotherhood. It’s bloody awesome.

BTW, tip for anyone else who plays it: if you haven’t looked into enchanting stuff using black soul gems, do so. Buy yourself a full (5 piece) set of fur armour, and get yourself 5 black soul gems* with 5 grand souls inside. Then you can go to the Arcane University and enchant your 5 bits of armour to have 20% Chameleon effect on each. Hey Presto! A complete suit of 100% invisibility with freedom to use doors and objects without revealing yourself.

To be honest, it’s a good thing Saffron’s into it as well. I think we’d have fallen out by now if she wasn’t.

–c.

* If you need a hand with how to do any of this, check out the wiki.

Anyhow, the reason I mention it is that I’m going to implement one of those weeky digest Twitter posts – all the Tweets I’ve crapped out in a week, rolled up into a blog post and automatically fired up here in lieu of writing actual content. Hoorah. When would be best? I’m thinking Friday morning at the moment. I’ll do it and we’ll see.

In other news, the Xbox360 continues to dominate free time, with Fable II now completed and Fallout 3 getting a proper coat of looking at. Bioshock, Half-Life 2 and Halo 3 all sit waiting in the wings, and there is talk of a belated birthday present featuring a plastic guitar.

Musically, though, things are still gathering momentum despite this gaming frenzy. “Gunslinger” is almost finished, and is likely to enter the mixing stage some time in the next fortnight. The bassline is in from Germany for “Wonko’s Asylum”, and another bassline has been contracted out to deepest Essex.

So there you are. And there you have it. And why not?
–c.

Some of you out there have Xboxen too, I know that much. Please feel free to add me to your friends list – my GamerTag is Tommi Starr.

See you in there,
–c.

As I understand it the 360′s comprehensive trouncing of the PS3 thus far is down partially to the online experience – multiplayer is handled very well by the Xbox Live service – and also perhaps more significantly down to the range and quality of games available. Personally I’ve never heard or read anyone saying “Oh man, I’m so glad I got a PS3 – this game rocks my face off. I pity those Xbox suckers.”

Well that is about to change with the imminent arrival of one of the most anticipated titles in gaming history, LittleBigPlanet. If you don’t believe me, read this news post on Penny Arcade, then come back and tell me you don’t want to play it.

I fucking know I do.

–c.

PS. This post will be rendered null and void if the game is ever ported to the 360. If that happens I’ll probably buy one.

1. If you thought that Scrabulous would win, and be allowed to stay on Facebook, you are an idiot. I mean, really.
2. If you are Hasbro/Mattel, and you didn’t just buy Scrabulous out and rebrand it, you are also an idiot.

Now can we move on?

–c.

Oh and feel free to leave your code in a comment if you want – I can’t promise to add everyone, but the more the merrier, right?

–c.

Click here to view the embedded video.

I’m deeply mebelimebelideeply fucking average at GH3, let me tell you.

–c.