Back/rant.

So yeah, I took a bit of a break from updating this. There are many reasons why, but to be honest, I really wasn't motivated with anything and so this blog had to stop. For a bit. There was one reason why this all happened, but it quickly progressed into another, but later turned out I was overreacting about said thing (I think so, anyway...)

But yeah, I just felt like I needed to catch up on the rants, so here's a selection of 'tweet rants' that I've had ready to go for the last few days on twitter/wherever, but guess what? That went the way of the Blog too.

Duke Nukem Forever has been released, and it looks a good game. What I hate is the reception it's had - there's no way possible it could live up to the hype, but stop bashing it because it's retro, or it's not enough like Call of Duty. Of course it isn't - that's the whole point. It's designed to be fun, not realistic. And completely realistic games are awful anyway, like those 'realistic' sports games. WHY?! Just go and play the sport fo reals if you really want an authentic sports experience...

Lag switchers, Turtle Beach headset users and Modded controller users - go away.  Nobody likes you in the gaming world. Yes, Headsets as well. I'm sorry if I've just bought a £45 game on a £200 console with a £40 a year membership, I don't really want to pay another £150 to be able to do better at a game, and nobody else should have that privilege either.
Alright then, in the next Call of Duty, make Headsets still effective, but I want to buy constant radar and the best guns straight away. And all the people who don't buy them have to lose all the time. That's the same thing.

School. Enough said.

Exam boards, why are they so vague with questions? I've had History today, and a question went 'What does Source X say about the popularity of Jazz Music' and the Source literally only said it became more popular. Great, one mark. What about the other 3? Fail.
And don't even get me started on Religious Studies. "Christians should look after the world. Do you agree? Give an opposite view referring to Christianity."
Erm... What? I've got to suggest that Christians should leave the world alone for it to descend into ruin when nobody cares about pollution? HOW DO I ARGUE AGAINST THE STATEMENT?!?!

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BRB

Stuff's going off, lost motivation to do this, etc. etc.
So I'll be back in a few days once it's all blown over - I get over things easy.

Why I support the CoD Elite Boycott to an extent.

PS3 gamers were devastated last november when Black Ops dropped and was damn near unplayable on the PS3, but Activision took ages to fix that. Why should we have to pay money for extra features that Activision is spending time and money on when they should be fixing the product they've already sold, but was insufficient!
Oh well, Battlefield 3 all the way across the sky.

Do you like free stuff? Course you do!

And this is why we <3 Sony. We lost our network for a few days, so we get boatloads of free stuff to say sorry. I'm personally looking forward to playing Infamous and Wipeout HD from the 2 free games we're being given. In fact, that's not it for the free stuff - we get PS+ as well, so there's free stuff to be had there too.
They might have been hacked, but Sony are doing a pretty damn good job of getting people back to their console. Microsoft on the other hand, are doing a great job of pushing me away from their console. First off, they banned me with no reason being given, and after 3 months I got the access to Xbox Live back, then I had to pay for new membership, as it was cancelled in the mean time. They refused to refund the money despite there being no reason for a ban, but I bought another £40 membership and lo and behold, it's been cancelled again. To be fair, it's illegal to steal money like that and they have to give a reason for the ban - it's in THEIR terms and conditions. If they didn't have Halo or Gears, and if my friends had bought the right console, I wouldn't have an Xbox.

Boycott Call of Duty: Elite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXlNLBLYSjg
Free features that cost. Activision, stop ripping us off and actually polish Call of Duty before it releases.

Cheryl Cole's not judging the X factor.

Now normally, I couldn't care less, but I've noticed that if I write about stuff that's pretty popular, then I get more views. I've doubled my all time views just by saying that Harold Camping is an idiot, so here goes.

Cheryl Cole is apparently at war with the X factor (according to the press) because she was taken off X factor USA or something like that because the Americans 'couldn't understand her accent'. Cool Story Bro.
In all fairness though, I'd be pretty gutted if people couldn't understand me talk. Which they often can't, which is why I have a blog, not a vlog. But the thing is, I'd also go back to said TV show if I was offered a large amount of money - Cheryl didn't according to newspapers and shizzle, so yeah. Make of that what you will.

And that's all I have to say on that....

GAME don't know anything about games.

"You don't usually associate great stories with first person shooters, but Call of Duty: Black Ops' single player campaign tells an excellent tale. You play as Alex Mason, who remains strapped to an interrogation chair for most of the game. Your captor wants you to reveal the meaning of a sequence of numbers, which are part of a puzzle you're also trying to solve in order to avert a global disaster."

Really?
Halo
Halo 2
Halo 3
Halo 3: ODST
Halo Reach
Modern Warfare (Cod4)
Modern Warfare 2
Battlefield bad company
Battlefield Bad company 2
Portal
Portal 2 (technically, you have a 'gun' and it's first person.)
Half life
Half life 2
^Episode 1
^Episode 2
Red Steel
Red Steel 2
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime 2
Metroid Prime 3
Frontlines: Fuel of War
Resistance: Fall of man
Resistance 2
Resistance 3 (probably, when it's released)
Killzone
Killzone 2
Killzone 3
Rainbow Six Vegas
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Crysis
Crysis: Warhead
Crysis 2
Borderlands
Duke Nukem 3D
Duke Nukem Forever (Come on, you just know it will.)
Fallout 3
Fallout: New Vegas
Oblivion (?)
Perfect Dark 64

And that's just a short list. GAME, do your research please. Or at least hire people to write on your website that aren't completely videogame-illiterate.

Oh, and for the record, Black Ops' story was alright. Not great.