For a Beta build, MGO is great, I’m looking forward to MGS4 now and I wasn’t particularly interested before.

I can’t highly praise the CoD4 maps either. I’ve only played Killhouse on a private three player free-for-all (with a hardcore set-up), which I found to be amazingly fun. But the other maps tend to be a bit more “Rambo” and less tactical assault. Although I’m sure that this will balance out when people learn the maps and what style of play is better suited to each map.

MGO is genius.
It doesn’t take itself too seriously, adds real comedy value to the core MGS gameplay and makes for a truly FUN online experience. Awesome.

If you are not too lazy to go & make a beverage, why not make use of your new-found locomotion ability & move your PS3 console nearer to where you sit? Don’t forget to use the PS3 browser to buy a longer TV cable, or even move the TV nearer to you, first though [as afterwards may prove very tricky]. Alternatively, if you have reach of a telephone you could always ring somebody else to do this for you. Kill two birds with one uzi, erm, stone, and order a pizza & get the delivery driver to pick up the required lead for your TV in transit (or moped, or whatever).

Additionally, you could even invest in one of those stylish pieces of plastic as found in various Sunday newspaper magazine supplements to ‘house’ your beloved, but ‘un-love-ed’, Blu-ray collection & place this on top of your console for easy access. Of course you would need to lift your arm to reach for a case & have the energy to insert the game into the console, but think of this as exercise for the day. A small price to pay to ensure your future gaming for many more years. Gyms are for fat people. Stay at home & exercise your right arm only.

No, wait… what am I thinking? Why not just sit closer to the TV? Oh, I suspect you are one of those gamers from the current millennium with a new-fangled so-called High Definition screen with such a superior picture quality and size that you need to sit the equivalent of three football pitch lengths away from it to truly appreciate the experience. As somebody who still uses a 10 year old Cathode Ray Tube “fat” screen device, I can sit within 6 inches (man-size measurements) of it without any hassle. I sometimes forget how lucky you are! Sorry.

My 60Gb HDD (as in hard disk [with a 'k'] drive) regularly gets full to capacity & I have to offload the downloaded media I gain from the three major PlayStation Stores on a weekly basis.

Yes, I know I can upgrade to a larger drive, but my European release day console has never moved since it was unpacked… doing so may invoke the “out-of-warranty-Blu-ray-drive-is-dead” scenario that seems to becoming a more regular occurrence (if you read other forums… as if!).

I am with you on laziness due to the provision of a hard drive though. Every day I have the intention of playing a disc (as in compact, DVD, or Blu-ray disc [with a ‘c]) based title, but the convenience of “Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online” (with new match types already available in Japan), “PixelJunk Monsters” (also with new levels; it isn’t just “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” or “Metal Gear Online”!), or “Pain” (also with new content coming ‘soon’). Having these titles pre-installed & immediately available is too much for my tiny brain & muscle-wasting legs to cope with. A tip for the uninitiated here… never drink more in a gaming session that runs into the wee small hours than you have room to accommodate in any empty vessels nearby. And if anybody asks why the plants have died, or what the odd smell is coming from the vase, deny all knowledge. Any attempt to make an excuse about fertilizer is just going through the motions.

The ownership of Wii consoles aside, I blame the advent of the Internet with the increase in apathy towards doing stuff. That and the desire not to visit my ‘hood after dusk when the local hoodies are in force arguing the toss about whether the latest must-have game is better on the Xbox 360 or the PS3. Or both. Or neither.

However, from today all of those less-than-fragrant characters will be inside their homes (with their homies) getting up-to-speed (pursuit) with the latest street culture (read: crime & violence in various tempos including aggravated assault, & vehicle theft, all in a grand style) playing something that many insist is “the best game ever” (version IV) until the next version is released.

So, rejoice in the fact that should you need a longer cable for your TV, you can visit your local town centre without the fear of abuse for the next week until the ‘yoofs’ are back on the streets again.

Be careful out there…

BFN,

fp.

Online game #1 as of yesterday was Warhawk, OBM is great and I hope more map packs are to come. Todat it might well be GTAIV, I’ll know more once my kid goes to sleep tonight…

Saying that MGO is fantastic the CQC really adds to the game… the faking on the ground can be so sneaky… the lock on sucks… the SOP system is an interesting take on modern warfare… and then the catapult

Also bare in mind COD4 is more like a war sim whereas MGO is and arcade based blood bath of fun.

So guess COD4 is fun and i will still play on occasion but MGO is just fantastic… when was the lastime you crocodile rolled a guy in any other game?