Long weekend, short post

This weekend was a 'Long Weekend' in Australia. I’m not sure what the official reason behind it was, maybe ‘Because we haven’t had one since June’.

You’d think that with three days off I’d have gotten a whole heap of gaming done. That’s what I’d originally intended. I was going to make a massive dent in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and have a good old go at Borderlands.

Instead I just made a couple of massive curries and watched loads of episodes of Angel, Mad Men, and Hardcore Pawn. So not too much to report today.

I did, however, manage to finish…

Battlefield 3

What did I like about Battlefield 3?

Was it the intentionally glitchy menu screens that flickered and stuttered as you scrolled through each option? Was it the intentionally glitchy music, which crackled and sputtered in a monotonous groan over every loading screen?

Was it the glitchy gameplay, unintentional or otherwise, that caused me to restart entire missions several times because the other characters in my squad would frequently get stuck in a bush, or each other, and not know how to advance?

Maybe it was the story, which jumped around all over the place, fleetingly introducing characters and various protagonists before switching it up so many times it got to the point where I didn’t know who was who, or very much care?

Actually, it was probably the final level that featured no real gameplay and was merely a drawn out series of quicktime events asking me to press corresponding buttons as they appeared onscreen in order to stop some baddie from doing something or other, removing all sense of thrill, challenge, or accomplishment.

Yeah, those were the things I liked about Battlefield 3.

Little Big Planet

After so much manly shooting and shouting in the last few games I’ve knocked off the list I decided that a real change of pace would be to try to guide Sackboy through the last levels of this cutesy platformer. I knew I was only a few levels off the end of this one, but I couldn’t remember what it was that had caused me to stop playing this one. Probably something as simple as a new bargain purchase arriving in my letterbox.

So I fired this up and finished a few more levels, got to what seems like the last or penultimate level, but being half-drunk at midnight I lacked the required skills to competently perform precision platforming, so I left this one to be finished off in the next couple of days.

FIFA 12 and my virtual Fulham FC

I forgot to play this! I’ll try to get a game in tonight, and hopefully do better than the real Fulham who unfortunately lost to Man City on Saturday.

Bollocks.