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Here’s the GTA 4 Trailer, My impressions after.

Just kidding Lawls. That’s an awesome and a bit old Cola advert. Here’s the real thing:

You can see this trailer again in better quality and also download it in it’s various formats HERE.

So what do I think about this? Well off the bat, I’m not entirely convinced that the russian guy is the main character. He might be one of the main characters, if they pull off the multiple characters thing that Rockstar’s been talking about for ages. But I don’t think he’ll be the main character. Maybe I’m just bitter towards russians. No, I am bitter towards russians.

The first 30 seconds of the trailer reminded me of the matrix… and the spiderman movies… and crackdown. Simply for the vertical-ness of the city. You’re gonna want to jump to the top of that, but you won’t be able to. Ah. just wait for the “Hyper Jump Mods” for the PC version. New York was a perfect choise, though I am sad to see good old Liberty gone. I’m sad to see the old cities leave. We have to be wary though, other games have leeched off real cities before and that yealded unsavoury results. True Crime anyone?

The background music, I thought, was spot on. Quite far from the usual Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow style of previous games. I hope that they keep this flavour throughout the game. Graphically, I thought it was spot on. Anyone remember how shitty SA looked on the ps2? I saw a couple of people out there *ahem* sony fanboys *ahem* that were saying stuff like “Because it’s now multiplatform, it won’t use the full potential of the PS3″. Fuck you guys. Go suck kutaragi’s cock or something. This game looks SWEET. And looks like it won’t lag.

Hopes? I want planes, I want less boats. I want rockstar to have their own internet radio station that’ll stream directly into the game (and that you can send requests in via the x-box dashboard). I wan’t the option to not play as a russian. And I don’t want to lose all my guns when I die. And Finally I want some online play and decent achievements. That’s all.

As a side note, my flatmates finally got their internet in. Let the bitching ensue. Five minutes after I heard the news, I heard a scream come down the corridor. I know that in my heart, Mitch was looking at pron, and Raid wasn’t happy about it. I’m off down the road to pick up God of War 2. Latzorz!

‘Nin Out!

Freaking Blizzard.

Wednesday downtime just sucks. Being a student and having tonns of “Free Time” allows me to play WoW at almost any time. When I can’t play, it’s a plain pain in the ass. I’m just sitting here doing basically nothing, listening to the special midweek edition of Major Nelson’s Podcast, Admiring my new Pure Pwnage beenie, trolling Ebay to try to get a PS3 for under £50.

There’s a bunch of gaming news I want to touch on today, but I’ll touch on it later when I’ve listened to all the podcasts. Wednesday is Podcast Day.

The stuff I ordered off the internet a couple of weeks ago finally came. My Pure Pwnage Beenie and “No Noobs” T-Shirt, along with my Battlestar Galactica sew-on patches… I’ll maybe go and sew one on in a minute. You’ll see all that stuff when I do my March pick-up post.

I should also mention that I’m done with Uni for the day. Went to the counting house afterwards. Pancakes and a full breakfast. Indeed.

I’m just rambling now, I’ll post something more focused later on.

‘Nin Out!

I hope you read all this it’s pretty good.

So I’ve had a pretty strange day, well actually 2 days. Here I was nearing midnight on Sunday when A knock comes to my door. Barely asleep, I accept. Going to Clarks, my flatmates were, along with a bunch from flat 10 (the flat below us). Having had nothing but microwaved burgers to eat today, I accept. The 8 of us scrambled into 2 cars 15 minutes later.

Clarks had just had it’s refurbishment, and it was the first time we had been there in a while. I had my usual steak and egg roll with a hint of HP. Fun and food was had by all. On the way back to the flats, we get a call from flat 10’s car. Come for a runabout up the top of the Dundee Law. Puzzled, I enquire as to what it is. Turns out that that’s the big (and only noticable) hill in dundee, the one with the weird building at the top. Several turns and losing ourself in dundee’s streets later, we arive at the top of the Law.

It’s quite a beautiful site, especially at night. Fucking freezing mind you, but well worth going up if you have the wheels, there’s a road that goes all the way to the top you see. I think it must’ve been about 1-2am by then, so we head back to the flats. #10 invited us in, I don’t usually accept the invitation being it a smoking flat, but I was sure that I couldn’t get to sleep by now, I accepted. We all just sat and talked until about 5am, then someone had the great idea to go back to the Law to watch the sunrise. I was reluctant for a while but eventually gave in. Back to the hill we went.

It seemed colder now, can’t think why. I shoud’ve worn my scarf. We all waited about one and a half hours for the sunrise, and I had my camera with me so I snapped a couple of shots. Many of them were blurred, due to the shiver factor, but that only really affected the cityscape shots. Up the top of the hill is practically a 360 degree view of Dundee. The weird looking building at the top, which you’ll see in a couple of the photos, is actually a World War 1 memorial. We actually found a bunch of flowers at the memorial, just inside the doorway. There’s also some sort of radio tower with a white boxed building next to it, no idea what they are for. Well here’s the photo’s:

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I took 2 small videos too. The first one a simple panning of Dundee at night. It’s quite hard to make out anything, but it’s more awesome if you’re actually there. The Second is a bunch of the people I went with YMCA’ing it up on top of the weird white building… Yeh. Those two videos will be edited in later.

It was a real shame that it was a misty morning, there was no sun to be seen, just the twilight coming through the clouds. I really want to go back up there sometime and get the shot that we all went for. Maybe take a tripod or two for the cameras… yeh. After that trip, now about 8am, we went to the nearest Tesco and loaded up on breakfast goods that we all cooked and ate once we got back to the flats. The End.

I guess I should also mention that I went to see 300 again with a bunch of my flatmates. Not so awesome the second time, but worth it for all the money shots.

And student life continues…

‘Nin Out!

So I went to see 300 today. It’s the most awesome thing I’ve seen this year. Like usual I don’t want to preach the awesomeness of a film, I want to have faith that you’ll go and see it regardless of what I say.

For all those /b/tards out there, the film wholeheartedly delivers on the meme’s. There’s tonns of invigorating speaches, tonns of decapitations, tons of marble-esque nipples, tonns of blood, tonns of marble-esque nipples, and quite possible the prettiest film about death ever made. It is well and truly the most legendary film that I’ve seen in a long while.

Anyways I want to leave it there and hope that you’ll report back in the comments so we (you and I) discuss the film. I really want to go and see it again. Here’s a trailer for 300 to entice you to go.

Contrary to popular belief, I did not dine in hell tonight, I dined at McDonalds.

‘Nin Out!

This just popped up over on Joystiq. Thinking so highly of it, I think it deserves a post to itself before I move onto the main course.

Normally, I’d dismiss an advert like this as blasphemy on the gaming gods, but it’s all about the whole “different places, different meanings” message the bank uses to draw in it’s customers. I thought that the quality of the GTA clone within the ad was done quite well, which is something to be said considering that game clones are usually portrayed to look shitty. So is this ad actually being shown on the terrestrials? I wouldn’t know since all the TV I see is delivered through a Hard Drive along with all the ads removed and months before it’s shown in the UK. Ahem.

I remember the last HSBC ad vividly, I think that it made my hungry for japanese cuisine.

‘Nin Out!