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'The Line Between' from the album Yellow and Green by Baroness.

As hard rock it's lighter than my usual diet of extreme metal but this album has just blown me away. Impatiently awaiting my postman to arrive with the vinyl…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqzenI8j69c

I don't see how it could be an issue. If you want gear quick – buy it! If not – grind for it like usual. 

Up to rank 16 in the Crysis 3 MP. The only rank trophy is for getting to 20 so it's a short slog. A few skill based trophies after that but nothing too arduous in the list. I have half already and of the few left 25 kills in the Pinger will probably be the only pain.

Finished the SP in Crysis 3 today and I'm going back through the levels on Recruit to hunt down the last few collectibles and misc. trophies. The game tells me what intel I'm missing in each level but not which suit upgrades so I still have to play through the whole bloody thing. 

But the game has me worried. I've read that the trophy that glitches most frequently is for upgrading the suit. I need two more upgrades but in the stat menu it says I have 15/16. So if I grabbed one but died before hitting a checkpoint then it would have reset the upgrade but not respawned it to collect again. I'm hoping it's just the very first upgrade doubling up. You collect it as part of the storyline so the game may have registered it twice. Because if not I have to delete my game save and do a third full playthrough and spend ages maxing the levels of all upgrades.

Fcuking Crytek, it'd kill them to make a game properly.

So last night myself, Nathan, Kris and Ben decided to tackle the ensemble trophy for the zombies map Buried. The lads had hinted that this was one of the trickier trophies but after chewing up the rest of the trophy list I felt pretty confident…

Foolish mortal…

The game took my misplaced confidence and proceded to kick it in the penis for EIGHT SHITTING HOURS!!!! That's EIGHT HOURS in ONE GAME!!!! Without having to restart even once we still only reached round 16! 

As The Coalition we have met our share of ridiculous requirements in our zombie journey but never has patience been tested so! Punching signs, following glowing fart, dodging crusty banshees, randomly placed levers in a hedgemaze (A hilarious two hours spent playing with those coloured dildos) until finally we arrived at the 'piéce de résistance'; pop-up target cowboys located in four parts of the map. Cue over three hours of four (by now extremely tired, frustrated and disillusioned) gobshites trying to memorise the order, timing, and location of roughly twenty targets each. Then hit every one. Together. One miss by a single member meant a restart. Three and a half hours of restarts broken only by ammo runs, toilet breaks and occasional flurries of lag. 

This shit will wake haunt my fcuking dreams. I woke up today panicking that I had to grab the power-up before it disappeared! 

I never bothered with the first two Diablo games so I loved D3. And I can't wait to play it with my friends on PSN. The always on net thing never bothered me as internet has got to a stage where connection drops are almost non-existent. Any issues are nearly always with PSN and that'll mess up any online game. And I never suffered a single error code. 

And it's not so bad mapping something like this to a controller. I hate point-and-click movement in anything but an RTS so analogue sticks all the way!! And they have fourteen buttons to map commands to so I think they'll be fine. 

And as far as the earlier Witcher games getting a console release? I think we could be lucky. It isn't likely but then again, I never expected to see Mass Effect 1 on PS3! 

I've spent most of today on the PS3 but with a poor return. I completed a chapter in Crysis 3 and played a chunk of the next one but I've reached a point where I have to drive a buggy along a river bed and it's just the worst driving sequence I'v come across in quite a while. The sound is truly appaling and feels like someone is holding an angle grinder to my ear. It's so high in the mix I can't hear the dialogue over it. And there's so much shit happening on screen I can't focus on anything. Every stage in this game brings a new disapointment. 

I also started into Dishonoured which looks like it's going to as dynamic and exciting as Rage…

Fugly visuals, wooden animations and voice acting that sounds like it was borrowed from an automated customer service helpline. I've completed the first level and I really have no idea how the shit I'm gonna stay awake for two playthroughs.

My third choice today was Zombies in Black Ops. Back to Moon I went to get my last trophy. Nearly got there as well despite the autistic Mystery Box puking out (in this order) a China Lake, a HS10 (Okay weapon but ass for raking in points), an M72 and an L96A1. I was on round twelve still using a fcuking MPL! I even pack-a-punched the thing but that was my undoing. I forgot that the excavators cut off the tunnels so I couldn't get back to the biodome or the teleporter. Shite! Now I have to figure out how to hack those wankers before they cause me problems.