Author: John

BBC NEWS | Politics | Blair defends house arrest plan

Well there we have it. That lovely Mr Blair would like to follow in the footsteps of Apartheid by giving law enforcement officials the power to effectively imprison and silence anyone the state considers to be a supporter of “terrorism”. Without trial, without being required to provide any evidence whatsoever. Does posting this blog entry

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Third Age – it cheats

On hard mode, I’m sure the AI cheats in Helm’s Deep. Three times now, with the same line up of characters, the Uruk-Hai just get as many goes as they like until two of my chars are KO’d and the last one is below 500 Hit Points. At that stage, it’s the uck of the

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Nothing. Nothing at all.

I’m waiting for a review copy of Resident Evil 4 (US) to arrive. The rants and raves about its undisputed greatness has me all excited and I can’t focus on anything else 🙁

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Super Monkey Ball 2

I’m still taking a little break from the aggravating exercise in pointlessness which is Helm’s Deep. Last night I had a little (20 mins or so) go of SMB2. Everyone loves this game. Everyone thinks it’s great. It really really REALLY annoys me. It gets me tense, irritable and aggravated. So it went back on

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Star Fox Adventures (Gamecube)

On a cheerier note, I played through the first few levels of Star Fox Adventures today. It gets dissed a lot due to it’s easiness and repetitive structure (and I guess it’s guilty on both counts) but it has a nice game mechanic – it’s fun just mucking around in the world. One thing that

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Gaaaaah. Helm’s flaming Deep

It’s not often I get in a temper tantrum through frustration, but Third Age has done it. I’m playing it on hard mode because anything less than that is just stupidly non challenging. Up till now, it’s all been going swimmingly except the developers have obviously decided it’s not hard enough. Solution? Improving the enemy

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A ramble!

There haven’t been many rambles on here of late – it’s really just been the game diary that’s been getting postings. Anyhoo, I’m here now. First off, homeAudit has been doing very well of late – it seems to have attracted a fairly large audience. Just as well, really, because I’ve been spending a lot

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Damn you, Grima Wormtongue!

It’s not as though he’s tough, or anything, just that he has two dirty great seemingly-indestructible Uruk Hai henchmen. Not to worry, though – I’ll get him tonight. Resident Evil 4 is on the way – I can see poor old Third Age taking a break for a day or two 🙂

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