Duke of Edinburgh

This is my 50th post.

Tomorrow morning I set off on my Duke of Edinburgh training expedition. I have no idea how it will go but I will inform you all fully when I return on Wednesday evening.

Call of Duty 6

All you need to know is that Call of Duty 6 is coming. It'll be amazing. Infinity Ward are making it so it will kick World at War's ass.

Ciao xox

Leturing

Before I start I'm just going to add how much I'm enjoying trying to find trophies that match the blog.

We had a lecture today from an ambassador for the British embassy. Usually I don't like any of the lectures we recieve but this one was quite good. He simply talked about confrontations and what the major current ones are in the world. I mainly enjoyed it due to his random movie mentions.

Random sections of Shrek, Batman, The Incredibles and Mars Attacks made it lots of fun as some of the references were truly random. The reference with the Joker was very ood but did mess up about the next ten minutes of his speech as all I could think about was all the little lines that the Joker says.

Ciao

xox

Elite truly is

I only played 10 minutes of Elite because that is all I had time for but it was hard.

The Helghast actually aim to kill you, and the grenades do a lot of damage. The bullets really hurt you as well so it becomes very common to die alot. It is a bit annoying but I am sure that if I sit down with it, scope each arena out and think before I do this game will fall into place.

Radec Rage

Continuing from my last blog and my continued plight on the way to becoming a War Hero I finished the campaign on Hard. The final battle with Radec annoyed me so much yesterday that I had to stop, otherwise I am sure I would be missing a controller right now. After having a day away from the game to relax, forget about it and then come back with a new strategy I completed it.

It was a pretty hideous ordeal. It was an unrelenting battle which was just depressing at times. Having to hold off in a tiny area, with surprise attacks appearing to the sides of me which continually killed me, was just so painful at times as it is hard to tell quite how you activate the next section. After many attempts I got to the final sections and got them almost in succession. I would have completed them in succession if I had known all the details of Radec's battle. There is a way to tell if he is nearly dead which I was unaware of so I tried to finish him mid-battle which was never going to work.

The outro for me was amazing. There was one part which was a tad unsatisfying which I will not spoil for those who haven't got there yet. However, if you know anything about my personality you can guess what that was.

All in all, this is game that you need to buy. The campaign in intense, the online is relentless and everything else (including the game menus) looks amazing.

Ciao

xox

Want That

That is what I want, and so does Raj.

That above you there is the 'War Hero' Trophy. The Platinum trophy for Killzone 2. The trophy gained when you have completed all the other trophies.

I want this, not because it is a Platinum trophy but because of what it means.

Killzone was the most hyped game of this year, and to me it delivered. I love everything about this game. It may be brutally annoying at times but it is just because the AI are too clever, or the dust physics are just too perfect. I want to do everything in this game. I want to try a bit of everything and succeed at it. I unlocked the 'Master Conductor' trophy today by complete accident. I was playing around with the electroshocker and three Helghast stepped into line so I fried all three and chuckled as they all groaned and fell to the floor. Then I heard that lovely 'ching' noise denoting an unlocked trophy. I though maybe it was for 500 kills or something like that and was surprised with the result.

To have the War Hero trophy would mean, to me, that I had done everything the best that Sony could throw at me. And I'm loving it

Ciao

xoxox

Running Music

I've been doing some cross country as part of my sport on Tuesday afternoons and I believe I have got into the rhythm of it.

I may not be very good as I usually stop after two long laps of the school but I could be worse. What I was referring to by getting into a rhythm was the ever important running music, and to me there is only one choice. Bring Me The Horizon. Opening with their cover of Eyeless moving into Suicide Season and in theory onto This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For depending if I am out there for long enough.

The fast drum beats, intense guitar riffs and lyrics so filled with pain, anger or emotion depending on your opinion but either way it helps while away the pain of running. Seiving legs and tight lungs seem less painful with Bring Me The Horizon ringing through.

Ciao

xox

It Is Done

That is the complete set of Fallout 3 Trophies. Which I finished today, unlocking me my first Platinum, ever. It was long slog of 33 hours and 14 minutes (I apologise ifI said the wrong time to anyone) but it is fully complete. It took about eight save files and as many tricks as I discovered. To each trophy there is a little story, an adventure one could say, and some knowledge gained. Tips and tricks picked up along the way to be passed onto another in search of the same trophy. I've discovered what Sony meant when they said Trophies were for the community.

As I've been working towards the ultimatum of the Platinum Trophy I have had to ask for help. Certain things are quite hard to do without assistance, such as finding all the BobbleHeads. I found a good few of them, 11 to be precise, without any assistance except for Ravens Rock which I was told I had to get there and then. I turned to PS3Trophies.co.uk for some help to find people with shortcuts and clever ways to avoid certain hazards. I was also able to return with tips I had spotted on my voyage. People exchanging this information brings them to a common ground they can discuss and starts a friendship.

It feels to have this Platinum, for a few reasons. While 48 of the trophies were fun to achieve and didn't even feel like effort, the last two were a real slog. The last 10 terminal hacks (you need 50 to achieve the trophy 'Data Miner') were pretty hard to do. I had to venture across the entire Wasteland (the area in which you play the game) and was stuck on 49 for a while. 'Doesn't Play Well With Others' was another pain as I started today with 169 people kills (you need 300 for the trophy) and geting the last 131 is a challenge. After raiding all of the colonies I was running low on ideas. I eventually ended up travelling to places where I knew there would be one or two people to kill. I had to headshot a sleeping Agatha (a kind old lady who plays the violin for people in the wasteland), surprise Reilly (a friendly mercenary who was mourning the loss of her dear friends in battle) and even jump Three Dog (the legendary DJ who runs Galaxy News Radio). It was a low point for me but it is done now.

I am also glad as it shows it can be done. Much like with Runescape and getting my first 99 (the maximum level for a skill), it showed me I could do it. You see people with them everywhere but actually doing it yourself is something you can never until you do it. Now that I've done it, it can only get easier so the voyage for trophies continues.

I also apologise for not blogging recently. My laptop has been refusing to work with Blogspot