Bizzare. I just joined a game of Hardcore onslaught and the rest of my team are on a different squad! Now someone else is joining, on my squad. Weird.
Author Archives: Donncha
Military Show at Cork City Gaol
Some photos from the military show at Cork City Gaol today. It’s also on tomorrow and well worth a visit!
I got to try out the red dot sight on an M416, see a Scar-L up close, and even checked out an M60 too. All replica air guns, without ammo unfortunately. There was a target range but there was a long queue for it. Maybe next time because my 3 yro son was disappointed the guns didn’t work!
I have a few more photos on my phone which I’ll upload tomorrow.
It’s kinda crazy having different usern…
It’s kinda crazy having different usernames on XBL and PSN so I’m going to send a load of friend requests to my current friends list on PSN from a new “xeer2000” account I registered a while back.
Now, if only I could think up pronounceable usernames so random strangers don’t stumble over my name …
Oh, since I’ve built up a mid-level character on BfBC2 I’m going to use donnchaoc for playing that but xeer2000 for any other games. Friend Requests will be flying out the door over the next day or so!
Top Ten Android Games?
The Guardian games blog has a post listing some of the essential Android games users should play. My current mobile contract expires in about 2 weeks time so I’m looking at my options and it’s likely that I’ll buy an Android phone.
Three have the iPhone 4 at a reasonable price but it’s Three and I’ve heard lots of bad things about them.
What would you choose?
Well, that was fun. Blur that is. Despit…
Well, that was fun. Blur that is. Despite suffering from selective amnesia, I built up my series of 1st place wins in Blur, beating Ducky by a huge margin each time. Poor guy. David did really well too, we basically shared the 1st and 2nd places in each race! (*)
(*) The above may or may not be true, but much fun was had nevertheless.
For a more accurate record of what happened, read David’s post. 🙂
The Comeback Kid
MILEYCYRUSTHEVIRUS and his team were winning a game of Conquest 152 to 63. What happens when they swap teams? Bad Company 2 Conquest game on Nelson Bay.
I played a few games of the Blur demo wi…
I played a few games of the Blur demo with David, Mike, Tye, and Duck (nice to hear the Cork accent!) and while I did good and bad it was great fun. Getting the hang of the power ups really helps. I lost count of the number of times I shot down a fireball (shock?) right behind me!
Last race was a ball. I broke Duck’s winning streak of 9 wins! Somehow he managed to avoid two fireballs fired backwards at him even though he was on my tail, but I think I hit him with the smaller pink projectiles! 🙂
Will I buy the full game? Maybe. If the rest of the guys buy it I probably will. It’s obviously most fun played against friends than against random strangers, especially when everyone has a mic. The one thing that worries me is longevity. It’s only racing after all but I suspect we’ll have a lot of fun with it before it gets boring.
Here’s a review in case you’ve never heard of the game.
(David’s video from his blog post linked above)
(From Duck)
Just played Onslaught on easy mode with …
Just played Onslaught on easy mode with a “try hard”. First time I’ve used that expression but the guy was screaming at everyone to get in the chopper at each base! Needless to say I ignored him after the first base, but he did tie up one of our team who flew around and around in the vehicle!
I mean, it’s easy. The hardest bit was the enemy heli!
I just remembered. You can easily roadkill your own team in hardcore mode. I was flying as a passenger in a heli on Isla when I jumped out. Whatever way the pilot flew he managed to roadkill me in midair! First time for everything I guess!
The Insane Console History Video 2.0
Amazing video by Eliot Hagen. So far I’ve got to 1978 and I haven’t seen that console my parents bought us all those years ago. Eliot is more than right, I don’t recognise most of those old consoles.
Streaming is so slow I created a Vimeo account so I could download the file. It’s currently downloading at 60k/s from Amazon S3 so it’ll be a few hours before I get a chance to watch the whole thing.
Arming is for idiots
Tell everyone you know about this. You don’t need to arm the crate in Bad Company 2 rush mode. Just shoot it from afar with an RPG.
Maybe when everyone including the cows in the field are doing it DICE will sort out this problem and we can play Rush again.