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Guitar Hero online
Just a quick rant, to say matchmaking is crap and the fact that when I 99% a song on expert but somebody 100% a song on medium they win a pro face off? that is really annoying .
Posted by ben_stokes, May 11, 2008 9:31 am PT   5 Comments
Yeah Baby
Yeah, so I've just completed Guitar Hero 3 on Expert! After ages its been done and I couldn't be happier game wise. So if any of you want to play with me online and contribute to the Long Road Ahead achievement or for fun just send me an invite.

Whats your favourite song on the game/s?

Favourite song in game: Peace of Mind by Boston
Posted by ben_stokes, May 5, 2008 2:06 pm PT   6 Comments
My Top Eleven 360 Games

Inspired by Robobie's blogs, may contain serious fanboyish and confusing descriptions that may or may not make sense.

11. Tony Hawk's Project 8

Bringing old Tony Hawk games' style back to the series this game could of been one of the best with a storyline like Underground.

10. Spider-Man 3

Perhaps not one of the titles you would expect to see up here but the game has some really great elements to it and I've always been a fan of Spidy and his games .

9. Mass Effect

Mass Effect brought a new standard for 360 RPGs all the main aspects are there and they can easily improve on the silly mistakes (top answer being good etc) they got wrong for the second game and raise the bar even higher.

8. Viva Pinata

Viva Pinata is yes a 3+ game made for young children but damn its addictive, if you play that game for an hour I bet you wouldn't be able to put it down . The fun and sense of achievement you get from making a really cool garden is strangely overwhelming (kind of like showing off an A exam paper or something). Its party time!!

7. Oblivion

When Oblivion was released I was pretty late to buy the game, I'd heard very little about it but borrowed it off Tom and became addicted instantly. The sheer size of the game was pretty overwhelming and the sidequests were actually fun to do and rewarding aswell, which some RPGs recently released can't seem to pull off *cough* Mass Effect :p.

6. Halo 3

Halo is just fun for me, I find the story strangely compelling though at times it makes little sense and online just a great laugh with mates. Features like building your own map or editing videos and stuff like that isn't unique to Halo in the slightest however the good thing about it is the fact it can take all of those features and put them together whilst expanding them further.

5. Madden 08

Madden gets me extremely competetive and is great to do tournaments on and stuff with mates, they need to improve local multiplayer as you can see your mates plays as he picks em' but that shouldn't be too much of a problem for this awesome football game that does everything it says on the tin and much, much more.

4. Guitar Hero 3

Theres not much I can say about this that you don't already know but this game just makes me keep wanting to come back for more, whether to improve, play with friends pr just mess about Guitar Hero is a game anyone can pick up and play.

3. Call of Duty 4

COD4 certainly took a while to grow on me but that only made me like it even more when I finally picked it up, some really cool moments in the single player campaign (far too brief), but multiplayer being great fun with large teams (hopefully people you know for a more pleasant gaming experience ) and a wide variety of game modes.

2. Gears of War

Almost 2 years old and can still hold its own as one of the best games on the 360, I just love it .

1. Bioshock

Easily the best single player "experience" on the 360 if not one of the best games on 360 one of the ebst of all time because this game is MINTAGE!!!!!!!!

Posted by ben_stokes, Apr 23, 2008 4:56 pm PT   12 Comments
Make the Cut?
Hey this is just a quick blog asking you guys how hard Rockband is on expert and whether I should be able to complete it, I'm on the last setlist on expert on GH3 and my friends don't want me to start Rockband and then get stuck on the last songs. So what do you think my chances are? (I am no Paul/PAJ89 at GH)
Posted by ben_stokes, Apr 13, 2008 4:18 pm PT   3 Comments
5 Things you may not know about me

Well "tagged" by Paul and Tom, here are some very "exciting" facts about me.

1. I spend far too much time on my 360 and after 1 and a half years it is yet to fail.

2. I borrow money and forget to pay people back.

3. I have a mangey old cat called George.

4. I will never ice skate again.

5. I am addicted to Bourbon biscuits and Custard Creams.

I've bought Army of Two and RSV2 and I'll put up a blog on what I think some other time. Paul and Tom, who the hell started this wierd trend!

Posted by ben_stokes, Mar 27, 2008 2:49 pm PT   4 Comments
Trading in

After being skint for a good month, I've resorted to trading in Burnout Paradise(360), DMC4(360), My Sims(DS)and my PS2 for around £120 at GAME and am looking for some suggestions to spend it on.

I'm really tilting towards Army of Two, an Eagles jersey and a football but have only heard bad things about AoT to be honest. So if any of you guys reading this have it, is it good or fun at the very least?

In other news,

  • Pre-ordered GTA IV.
  • Completed Legendary for the third time with Sean and Rob.
  • Wired up my Xbox to my router fixing my connection.
  • On study leave.
  • Enjoying Lost Planet.
  • Confused on Super Mario 64.

To finish up does anyone wanna play football on Friday or in the Easter holidays with me and Jack?

Posted by ben_stokes, Mar 18, 2008 4:01 pm PT   6 Comments

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