played it again last night.
joined some random invite for the lamar stuff.
host had it set to easy..
we got to the end of the first mission, when you have to go to the meet the vagos & the ballas are having.
some guy starts throwing sticky bombs, blows up the lowrider. mission failed. ugh. i sent him/her a message congratulating them on their trolling and/or being stupid as fuck.

then i dropped near $1mil on pimping out a lowrider at benny's.
bloody thing couldn't even make it over the curb onto the footpath outside my apartment.
love it.

best game. i'm just in awe of it having come back to it after time out. it's an incredible, mind blowing game. single player or online, it's just miles ahead compared to anything.

so i had like a free half an hour yesterday for the first time in weeks. i decided to check in w/GTAO having heard there were new (lamarr) missions.
so i booted it up for the first time since spring (or whenever it was heists were released?) & it was a disaster!
i got in my kuruma & couldn't steer for shit. i got out & started to run w/R2 like i would in assassin's creed & i started firing my weapon. just a complete brain fart. all over the place.
eventually settled down & located some muscle memory, got the stereo working in the car, cruised around los santos for a little.

then i went to the marker for the new missions.
after enduring a cut scene, that had some bearnie mac-looking random in it alongside my character & lamarr, it started to load. then it didn't & i got kicked from the session & got stuck in the clouds/loading screen.
after a couple of mins i admitted defeat & dashboarded. then it was time to go to work again.
bummer.

i did get to playthru Transformers once & would absolutely recommend it. brilliant game.
but there is definitely sense in waiting for the price to drop.
there's 7 levels in total & each level lasts somewhere between 20mins to an hour - & that was first playthru. there are places where you can just drive past the deceptacons to get to the next part of the stage/level & that would cut down the time too (i didn't realise this until later in the game).
basically each level plays out like an episode of the show (tho it's not as good as the tv show). the voice acting & music is absolutely amazing, for me there were worth the admission price alone, best videogame soundtrack since fzero X on the gamecube for me. just epic 80's guitar solo's, can't beat it.
there are reasons to replay it, it's great fun & looks brilliant, with the option of using one of the four different characters on offer - & they all do play differently to various degrees. if i ever get the chance i want to revisit it.
& the weapons/upgrade system does add a little more depth to proceedings w/o getting in the way - or even being necessary.

haven't really gotten anything much done on assassins creed 4. i'm at the stage where i've just bought the diving bell & done the first mission with it. i dunno. there's too many collectibles, too much stuff to do like hunting/crafting.. it's just such a commitment. defo won't be doing the new one.

i did manage to play Dust: An Elysian Tail which i absolutely loved. even tho it came out like 3 years ago it'd have to be up there with Witcher 3 & Axiom verge as my favourite game this year. best value for money too, was only £3 on the psn sale. i loved it, total throwback to the action adventure rpg's of the snes glory days. if you ever played the likes of legend of the mystical ninja, get dust an elysian tail.

anyone get to play the Star Wars beta?
i only got half an hour with it, on the offline split-screen co-op survival mode. it did look great but didn't get to scratch the surface.

smoke & mirrors mate.

gnr won't start hitting the festivals til the end of may. maybe rehearsals in march/april. he could in theory do some of his solo stuff early spring or at the turn of the year.
his film he doesn't need to be on set, it's not like he's a director, actor or camera operator.

obv i'm just guessing. i just choose to believe SG's random encounter in a car wash to what slash says in an interview!
i want to believe.

wow. what the fuck.

one of best episodes ever imo.

first 10mins i was like oh ffs! what a boring pos show!
i thought they'd totally crapped the bed w/a character driven episode this week, & that they were going to waste the horn blowing on some angsty emo teenager.

& then carol looks out her window & some random guy runs down the street hacks a woman to death?!
(of course she'd have been inside smoking if carol hadn't been such a bitch a couple of mins earlier).

i wasn't sure whether i'd see it correctly. it was like, ok time to sit up & pay attention.

have to say, after last week's terrible cgi i thought this week looked utterly amazing. the blood & some of the hacking the wolves were doing was just brilliant.

top episode. really wasn't expecting that.

the second to last scene w/morgan in the house fighting the last of the wolves seemed weird tho. maybe it was just my copy but it seemed like there was a cut & some weird editing going on there. when the guy suddenly asks him, "you can't can you?" it felt like they'd cut out a fair chunk of conversation & the fight itself. other than that tho, that was a great episode.

the uncharted games are repetitive and short! go with transformers!
all those naughty dog games are just glorified point & click games.

i've got transformers on preorder but for some reason it's not released here til friday.
have to say tho vanquish was one of if not my favourite ps3 game so i'm really excited for this. it looks great.

been doing assassin's creed 4. picked it up it the sale last week or so. picked up a few more things in the recent sale too.

finished dragon age.
i think my time of ending the main quest was something like 90hrs. (i'm p sure it was exactly 90hrs 1min).
it was a bit much. i topped out at 105hrs by the time i'd cleaned up all the dragons/end game crap.
i'm never going back to it. or playing the dlc's. too much.

i'm all for shorter games tbh.
i'd prefer this assassin's creed to be a fair bit shorter even tho it's really good - again there's prob too much to do.
going to set it aside for transformers tho.