Stuck for a New Year's Resolution? Listened to the government and given up smoking, drinking, sex, crystal meth, meat, sneezing into anything other than your elbow, leaving your bin open, driving over 20mph, making references to people's ethnicity or religious orientation and leaving the house after dark (or in adverse weather conditions) without a high-visibility jacket? Then you might want to consider suicide. Or the following.
1. Give up playing Facebook games. Firstly, they're shite, and your constant requests to your Facebook friends to join in just annoy them. Although you probably haven't actually met that many of them, so that's a minor point. But actually playing the infernal things merely encourages people to make more of them. If you're enough of a Facebook-freak to play Farmville and their ilk, you really need help, which can only be found at < HREF="http://www.seppukoo.com/" target="_blank">Seppukoo.com
2. Tape over the area of your screen which displays your Xbox Live Gamerscore. Achievement-whores are perhaps the most unpleasant social lepers Microsoft has ever created, and the company has a lot to answer for over the years in that respect.
3. Buy a PlayStation 3 and go to PlayStation Home. Someone has to (cf downloading a WiiWare/DSiWare/PSPgo game)
4. Build that level in LittleBigPlanet. It's been over a year now. And you clearly don't have anything better to do.
5. Go through an entire year without buying a game-of-a-film. This is one of those classic illusory New Year's Resolutions in which, by sticking to it, you'll actually be doing yourself a massive favour.
6. Resolve to reenact at least one scene you've seen in a videogame before 31 December comes around again. But remember to tip off the Daily Mail first. Happy NY!
i actually do re-enact a seen from a game quite often, the one in gta 4, staggering out of the boozer totally wasted, then falling over, but i dont drive home my misses does that bit who happens to be called michelle so my news years eve resalution is to go home sobber and re-enact another scene
i do re-enact a scene from a game quite often, the one in gta 4, staggering out of the boozer totally wasted, then falling over, i dont drive home though my misses does that bit, who happens to be called michelle, but my new years resolution is to go home sobber and re-enact another scene from the game
i do re-enact a scene from a game quite often, the one in gta 4, staggering out of the boozer totally wasted, then falling over, i dont drive home though my misses does that bit, who happens to be called michelle, but my new years resolution is to go home sobber and re-enact another scene from the game
I found plenty of signature British humour in that article and I enjoyed it. The excerpt below in particular had me chuckling:
"2. Tape over the area of your screen which displays your Xbox Live Gamerscore. Achievement-whores are perhaps the most unpleasant social lepers Microsoft has ever created, and the company has a lot to answer for over the years in that respect."
I agree about the gamerscore comment, but I do like to feel I've achieved a certain amount of mileage from a game, so last year I said I'd like to get 800 points at least on all my games and then move on. This means I went back to Assassin's Creed a couple of times, LOVED getting all the logs in Bioshock and I got hours extra out of GTA IV. More recently, it's encouraged me to find all the Riddler puzzles in Arkham Asylum and makes Spec Ops in MW2 even more enjoyable.
I figured 800 was an arbitrary score that worked for me - it offered challenge without bordering on being obssessive.
I could say that this year I'd go for 900 points but, frankly, I can't be bothered. Plus, my gamerscore is nice and neat at the moment with lots of even numbers in it, which is always calming.
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