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Well...4 to 5 years on and my PC, or "the trooper" as i like to call it (or rather, not like to call it) has died, how it died i do not know, but there was a slight power outage in my own home, and i suspect thats what did it, because after that, it didnt start at all, some internal damage or something like that, who knows?

But now i've lost some important stuff in the process, and repairing it is an option, so i could potentially get that stuff back, but in the meantime, i've ordered a new PC, a gaming PC, something i've wanted for a while, but now im just worried something will go wrong in the process. Im going to miss my old PC and its Flexibility with old games.

(Im currently using a Laptop if you were wondering)

Anyway where have i been!? i'll tell you!...or maybe i wont...damn i dont even have a good explanation...other than Gamespot pretty much sucks right now...Ha!

On top of that i've had some friendship issues, i wont go into them here, but over the last 2 months things have been pretty damn Sh*tty for me, hence the title of the blog, i aint gots much left *cue the Aww*

Oh and on a bloody further note! im quite annoyed how Battlefield: Bad Company's servers are so full of lag, the games great yet a lot of us just cant play it, the lag's unplayable! :/

Edit: Using PS3 version

Hope its fixed soon...

Im talking about Brad Shoemaker's (eventual i guess) leaving

Ok so heres the thing, i knew they were getting shot down one by one, and i poked fun around the idea that brad was next...But i poked fun at it, so i didint actually expect it to happen but unfortunately it has happened.

So Yeah, I'm not going to namedrop like a lot of other people, about the place to go now, but this is truly 11 years of beautiful history gone down the drain, but it was kinda easy to see that at the end of november huh?

anyway in other news, im currently tired of Army Of Two after playing it through too many times and i am now anticipating the release of RS:V2, but in the mean time, im killing that said time, with a second play through of uncharted and of course, some WoW.

Well Jason Ocampo Is leaving Gamespot, after being here for 4 years and at Cnet's Gamecenter for 3, Jason was one of my favourite Editors here at gamespot, and heres why.

To me, there was no one else with such enthusiasm for a game, Jason was so passionate about games (especially the games he brought to Demo on On The Spot) and just gaming in general, so much so that he was the one i could really trust and rely on, I'll never forget his mannerisms and his often quirky way of messing up some of his words, and nor will i forget his Stellar PC reviews, especially on Hit series like Battlefield and Rainbow Six.

Jason always made me laugh, always made me warm, and always made me smile. Its going to be tough to not see him around anymore, but I wish him the very best in his future plans.

Goodbye and Good luck Jason!

I have just been in my cave cultivating a beard again with my fellow Gnomes, Dwarfs and Pixies alike, all the while sipping the great oak's tea out of a tiny little wooden cup! singing the fairies tale over the open fire next to the magic bridge, where the gnomes walk beepbeepbeep with their little feet, as they go teeheehee!

No seriously i AM alive, not that anyone was wondering.

Where have i been? well i aint been anywhere, you know, just...hanging around the site, i havent posted up a holiday themed blog either which kinda sucks but anyway heres a blog anyway.

First off, games i asked and thankfully got for Christmas, now before you go "hey, thats quite alot there Mr.Death" yes it is....But my brother got a real big Apple computer thing that costed around £1,400, so i....fleshed things out a bit *ahem* (the fact that i dont own some of these yet is a shame anyway)

Heres the List:

New:

1) Uncharted: Drakes Fortune-PS3- probably my favourite game for the PS3 so far, great great game

2) Heavenly Sword-PS3- Yeah quite a few months off i know, but still good so far even if i really dislike some of the animations, getting back up for example, I Love Andy Serkis' performance in this, you can tell its really him with that technology

3) Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools Of Destruction-PS3- My first ratchet game, so far only like 1 hour into it, so yeah...

4) Mass Effect:-360- Wow, what a game, altho im dissapointed in the whole exploration aspect...as their aint much to explore other than surveying gas giant planets. Story so far is outstanding, Bioware know what they doin!

5) Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3-PS2- First DBZ game i have bought for my self at least, only quickly tested a few things out with that so i still need to get stuck into it

6) GTA: Vice City Stories-PS2- Again only played like 1 hour of it, but its ok so far, kinda like liberty city stories obviously

7) Nervous Brickdown-DS- Now this is a fun but bugger hard game, good so far!

8. Pokemon Diamond-DS- Haha im gunna have to find the time to put all of that time into it...which is hard

Old - Games i owned or played:

1) DOAX2-360-Broke in March- yeah...your guess is as good as mine

2) Halo 3-360- Already completed it on legendary with my brother and his friend via 2 rooms and an ethernet cable, but had to own it anyway

Dont Know Where it Goes:

1) TESIV: Oblivion GOTY edition-PS3- Now technically i have already played the orginal twice now, and knights of the nine...but i havent with the Shivering Isles so i guess it goes in this...weird place

Yeah thats about it for games, got some other stuff too yada yada yada, will i do the same thing as last year and try and review them all? probably not sadly.

Oh yeah, i also took pics of those drawings of Rich Gallup and Ryan Davis i talked about a while ago, but since this blog is pretty long it can wait till next time.

Thats it for now, Hope you all had a happy holiday and well...still having one too.

Peace.

After waiting anxiously for this weeks podcast, i was happily surprised on how the guys handled it on the show, i knew its how they pretty much felt already via the blogs last week, but yeah, that podcast has sure made me feel better on the matter, I'm still peeved as its unknown why it happened (and the sitting and letting it happen part), but having enough respect for the site and Jeff as reason is completely understandable

Whatever the hell it was, i feel better now, and besides, theres still tons of great staff here that i already know and love, and i knew that from the start

You Will be missed Jeff, but Never Ever Forgotten, for the things you have done for this site, and All those classic memories that will stick in our hearts forever

well its a bloody good question, you all know what this is about anyway so i will cut that crap out, but man, i dont think i even want to work for a company like CNET anymore, i have been recently noticing how things have been going downhill and i really, really dislike CNET's managing skills

Dont get me started on Eidos...i hope the realize they practically killed a website

as for staff leaving such as Tim, good on him and good on anyone else who does the same, i hope they do it too personally

pathetic...

this is all of course...haha...if whats been told is true, but it sounds like it to me, Jeff was my reason to be on this site, i'll admit that i kinda disliked him for a while, but whatever, he was still the best IMO

ps (lol good coheed quote from me there )

Is There No World For Tomorrow?

haha ok ok ok, I'm part of Europe too, sadly

since i am part of Europe, i and others who understand English here in the United Kingdom, get games later as you know, due to the other countries around us, and usually i can tolerate it.

except when its Cooking Mama 2!!!!! i lovez TeH cooking Mama, and the fact that its just straight up out over in the US and wont be seen here until early next year bugs me

i can import, and probably will if i can, but still, i think something should change here about localization

(and yeah lol, this is a semi jk blog, i really want that game, but changing that over this is silly )

Finally Death HAS COME BACK.....to GAMESPOT

i certainly have and this is my first review in ages, but it had to be done since i feel so passionate about this game, i may have not of been the first person this time, but i still managed to get it out there before Navarro's review, so I'm happy about that

please recommend, you dont have to read at all, just 27 outta 34 would be nice again hahhaha

You go Ozzy

lol anyway today i got the one game i have been more excited about than any other, SVR 08

and man its just as awesome as i had expected, at first i bought it for the ps3 but noticed some seriously bad framerate issues, so i quickly swapped it for the 360 version....reluctantly, since my 360 is just a b*tch to me, lol

but yeah i got it anyway and im loving every second of all of my extreme rule matches, and my extreme rules tournaments XD

whether this one will see the same groundbreaking review from me as the last one did, is yet to be seen

But so far all this blog is going to get is this since im too busy playing it (for as long as i can....stupid 360)

for a long time now, i havent been able to get that new crackdown DLC, "the one with the" new weapons vehicles n such, oh and the keys to the city

reason being is that since my new xbox 360 and since using my MU from my previous xbox, everytime i download the free one and the PAY one (yes i have payed for it even though it wont work) it keeps saying that the DLC is invalid once starting the game, and that includes the 4 new player pack

now...it kept doing that, i dled them again n again and still it said the same thing, even with the game ported over to my hardrive, my first thought was that it thought i was commiting fraud or something like that, but still i dont know why this is happening

so...do you think deleting all saves of crackdown and starting again from scratch and THEN Dowloading them might work? i dont mind starting again at all but i would just like your thoughts on what it could be?

MS have the most stupid of memory and file moving systems ever i know

EDIT: i also have deleted the content 3 times n retried 3 times..still didnt work

The New Album (Coheed&Cambria) is finally in my hands as of now, went out and got it today, pretty awesome stuff

so for the rest of you, this means my old Icon will be in use, no more of this small stuff

well farewell for now, haha, this is pretty amazing to have it, even though i ruined it, in my last blog

i will keep this short and sweet

coheed and cambria released their entire new album on myspace for everyone to listen to, the albums only 3 days away now, but still..

Talk About Temptations.....i mean, i thought, why would anyone wanna ruin it now, but i just couldn't help my self, i listened to the first 3 tracks...Oooooooooooooh, yeah i know, Dip Son

meh i guess its not that bad, but yeah i aint gunna listen to anymore, i hope

for being the only one to notice the demo blog *applauds* bravo sir.....

anyway for those who missed it or not (since its not everyones cup of tea), here it is again


BOOM

well im not going to go ZOMG or anything, since i have been highly anticipateing its arrival, but the SVR 08 demo finally came onto xbox live after being dangerously late

and i say dangerous since all day on the october 15th i was hanging on the IGN smackdown boards, people were going crazy it was too funny to miss, but still, i was aware the whole time that it was all down to american time zones, and it was a shame to see so many noobs go "whens the demo out, in australia" Grrr

anyway so yeah waiting a long time to finally get the demo, and got it this morning, haha if was funny, i manged to finish downloading after watching "Raw" that i recorded at 2 am, so their plan worked out anyway, and that was to let the demo out sometime during or after "Raw"

what can i say...well what can i say, im still playing it over and over but i havent come to my final "impressions" state yet, so that might take a while, the only thing i can say now is how annoying it is they didn't pack the hardcore fighting style in there somewhere, but thats something i have known for AGES, since the yanks have been rubbing it in how pre ordering the game from best buy get you a demo disc for over a month almost

PS: oh yeah Fire Pro still PWNS everything, its a shame that a uk release for FPR wont even happen till like a GAZILLION years, bloody rest of europe *shakes fist*

Because Coheed and Cambria's Welcome Home is now officially in the game, so yeah im 100% buying it now, finally i get to prove that i am Da Best at claudio'ism, ahahaha, lol

i found this out over at the fansite and it was originally at IGN, whatever you do DON'T watch the video, the guy singing has now i idea how to PWN in the Claudio Vocals department

lol anyway i have listed to Gravemakers and Gunslingers (see blog) 14 times now, its just too awesome for words and it only Fortifies the fact that the album is awesome

this week in Kerrang Magazine, they were TOTALLY in it, not only that the new album was given 4 K's, and thats generous for Kerrang

so yah, i'll calm down now

FRIGGIN AWESOME

ok i will explain for once

oh and this pretty much directed at coheed fans, that being like 3 of you

Coheed recently put up a new song of their upcoming new ablum on myspace, Gravemakers and Gunslingers, yah, hence the title

lol its awesomo, i mean dude the bridge part "we will march to the top of this tower, as god isnt at home..." is my Favourite part of the song let alone the rest of it haha

oh well, uhh, for everyone else though in this GAMING website, uhhh.....hello!!

OH Ya.....

Hell I'm just pissed and peeved

Today Skate FINALLY came out in the UK and yeah it is awesome, but as i suspected with my faulty Xbox, i wasn't going to enjoy it as much as i possibly could....and i cant, its just the music that the damn machine cant handle, if in the vicinity of music the drive will attempt to load the music but fail and go silent, the game still runs, but its dead annoying to have this clicky clunky noise in the background with choppy and silent music

Its not just music, its often with loading something troublesome like some sort of menu graphic in BioShock

But yeah, its really pissing me off, i cant enjoy any game because i know it could F*** up any minute and that just leaves you on edge...at the end of the day i just tell the machine to F*** right off, because if you brake you loose anyway, coz you gettin fixed or replaced Fool