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The Chatterbox global operations centre. I'm kidding, it's a scene from generally well-liked Move launch title, R.U.S.E.
Let's face it, the Best of Chatterbox posts have always taken a lackadaisical approach to deadlines. Ideally, we'd have one of these out every Monday, and each edition would catalogue the previous week's brilliant conversation and sparkling game-related repartee. But often, for one reason or another, you're kept waiting a little longer.
Here then, is the best of what everyone said from Sept 20-24. It was the week that Halo: Reach was in the news, Chris Moyles had a pay dispute, the pope was in town, and the thing that everyone wanted to know was – what goes on in the back room at Argos?
You can hardly wait, can you?
Monday, September 20
Another glorious Monday, another bulging blog! Today's chat seemed amazingly 'on topic' – perhaps the impending end of summer sparking more interest in gaming?
A generally positive reception for Sony's PS Move, but perhaps not the universal adoration Sony would have liked. Even Sony's most ardent friend Chubster2010 was only moderately impressed: "Overall, I think the Move's launch line-up isn't too bad." [Definitely a quote for the adverts - Keef]
ShadowMind on the other hand was a little blunter: "Can I have a game for this please?" Naboomagnoli was more positive in his reviews of RUSE and Flight Control, talking about the former: "RUSE + Move = Lovely Stuff". The mighty blog has spoken and the verdict is – nice kit, shame about the lack of games.
The inevitable Halo: Reach discussion showed the blog's incredible capacity for gaming. Completions and review scores already? Fast work chaps! A quick (and likely less than accurate) assessment shows Reach to be a solid 8/10 in general. Not bad, but once again not the universal acclaim expected.
Quotes of the Day:
"Did you know that Limni once asked me (in all seriousness) to send him some pictures of myself and my old flatmate, recreating memorable scenes from the hit TV show 'Dynasty'? Dresses, wigs, lipstick, the whole works. He offered to pay for everything. That was on my first day in here, and to this day he has yet to explain how he got my home telephone number (I'm ex-directory)."
HereComesTreble takes issue with the standard Chatterbox welcome package.
"Nothing says faith in the Lord like three inches of bulletproof glass"
Art1eFufkin gets topical – and heretical...
Thought of the day for Monday comes from old man Limni: "all is pain and suffering. Then there is only the void." [He clearly spent too much time with those Move launch titles - Keef]
Tuesday
The actual games talk (such as it was) continued to be centred on Demon's Souls, with brief nods to BFBC2/Vietnam, Gran Turismo 5 and Psy-Duck. BUT, in addition to the usual support and advice on car/pet insurance, working, presentations and what to take to interviews (cheesecake and large testicles being the main advice given), the blog took on a distinctly historical, nay serious tone today.
Inadvertently started by CountGinula mentioning the World at War TV series (not part of the Call of Duty franchise surprisingly for a Gamesblog), and from there on the theme continued with bloggers re-counting stories of their grandparents' involvement in the Second World War. Building railways as prisoners in Burma, being on sinking ships, hiding in hay bales as part of the Italian resistance, dropping spies behind enemy lines… endless tales which should be a lesson to us all, sitting idly in armchairs blowing virtual people to pieces. One positive to note though- as PicPicPic pointed out:
"Real war: One of the few exceptions on the battlefield where camping would be acceptable."
But nevertheless, the Killzone NaN Tuesday action for the evening was afoot with the most apt comment on Real Life vs Gaming coming from English Red:
"We'd all be dead before the day was out... especially if Killzone is anything to go by."
As the shadows lengthened the tone lightened, with 'Best-war-film/programme-theme-blog" rearing its head, which slowly degraded to best theme music, then to talk of ladies wrestling in gravy. Balance was restored.
Wednesday
Wednesday. Hump-day. It's all downhill to the weekend now, and Simian was feeling it: "I emerged into the unfaltering morning light, blinking back the tears forming in my eyes from the harsh glare. I surveyed the surrounding landscape and was pleased with what I saw. Verdant plains of grass rolled away as far as my eyes could see. The mountains towered behind me a looming reminder of what I'd come through. It was a new day, a new start and hopefully, a new life... I made it to the second stage of the OZ interview...."
Stay tuned for updates on Simian's job hunting. And remember not to take interview advice from the Chatterbox, especially if it involves fancy dress or fistfuls of pound coins.
Gamesblog regulars are at the cutting edge of games and gaming technology (some of us even using PS3 interfaces that no one else uses….). Some of us are a bit behind on web 2.0 and social media though. Despite the Gamesblog Facebook group and Spotify playlist, Bloatboy has only got around to getting some online 'friends':
"No gaming last night as I became a late, yet perhaps the most important adopter of Facebook. When my profile went online the value of FB increased threefold, such is the value of my 'name' online. Spent considerable time setting up privacy settings (you have to be a female and at least 9 out of 10 to look at my profile). I think when the internet gets popular this app could go global."
Don't hold your breath for Farmville chat on here though.
Halloween is just around the corner; well miles around the corner actually. And that means party time. Stackhaus had a request from his better half about a fancy dress party they plan to attend. Tired of the usual 'sexy vampire', 'sexy ghost', 'sexy zombie', 'sexy nurse'-type costumes for girls, she suggested a couples fancy dress outfit – the gorier the better (she's a keeper).
In typical Chatterbox fashion, here are the top 5 suggestions (that we can publish):
5. Pete Doherty & Kate Moss – HappySocks
4. Alien & chestburster victim – timthemonkey
3. Chucky & Bride of Chucky – StiLteD
2. Kurt & Courtney – CunningStunt
1. The Krankies - SuperSmashin
What we learned today
David Cameron's favourite game is Angry Birds on the iPhone. Which is worse – citing the blogs' choice of mobile game or having an iPhone? Also there were some new arrivals - another Silveryfox cub (congratulations, and commiserations to Mrs Silveryfox – 9.5lbs!). GethWynJones joined looking for some sympathy and complaining about having to watch terrible TV (see above): "If I have a gaming night she calls it a 'Man's night'. Does anyone else get an option to have a 'Man's night' from their other half?"
Sound advice from pdmalcolm though: "If you do get offered a 'man's night' you can be damn sure it's a trap."
Thursday
The big news today was Chris Moyles' incredible pay-related diatribe. This was met with much rejoicing on the box and when the news surfaced that he'd also split up with his girlfriend and was sleeping on his mate's sofa, the levels of schadenfreude on display rivalled those available from an average episode of Jeremy Kyle. However, all was not to be, as Moyles hadn't gone DLT on us, just refused to play music for the first half hour of his show in protest at not being receiving a salary cheque for two months. From what I remember of listening to his breakfast show, I'm not sure if his listeners would have noticed the difference. While I can sympathise with the guy for not being paid, surely anybody who earns around £1500 a day should have some put away for times like this?
Moyles' continued employment by the BBC was a matter of some discussion during the morning, and although his contract is a blight on their performance, it was generally agreed that the BBC is worth the licence fee we pay for it. Radio 2 and 4, 6music, World Service, BBC documentaries and comedies outweighing the negativity from Moyles (but only just). Generally agreed, I say, because our resident Broken Britain expert, who shall remain nameless, doesn't pay his as he doesn't own any equipment capable of receiving a live signal. Despite the torrent of dross that, in his opinion, is pumped out by the BBC, he still manages to find it in him to watch iPlayer. But obviously not often enough to justify the frankly ludicrous £12pcm it costs to help keep such services available to the rest of us.
Other discussions throughout the day involved whether the presence of a Wimpy restaurant could be used as an indicator of social depravation, which was the best film trilogy ever made (after Empire magazine got it totally wrong – Star Wars prequels above the Naked Gun trilogy?) and what exactly takes place in those back rooms of Argos? Enquiring minds want to know.
Quotes of the Day
"Bicycle racing, followed by too many beers followed by wandering round the battlefield, drunk, firing a Spas12 at anything that moved. Astonishingly a positive KDR as I recall. I put it down to the weaving. What they really need is a "pi**ed tramp" class."
WilliumCobblers – very much living up to the latter part of his name.
"If anyone doesn't believe me then go into Argos and pick up a seasonal worker application form: you must sign the official secrets act, possess a 2:1 degree or higher (or lower if Bruce Forsyth) in Physics and have no hope left in life, just to get an interview to work there."
Bloatboy is joking. At least about the 'no hope in life' bit.
Friday
Quote of the day (probably going to end up a running theme) came in from HereComesTreble on fine form as usual. "Does anyone else's internal dialogue tend to be in a foreign accent? Sometimes, very rarely, the voice in my head actually speaks in Afrikaans. I can't understand a word he's saying, it's just noise, but he's very angry, and I know he's angry at me." A worrying admission from a worrying man.
Friday kicked off, as it has a tendency to do, with an impenetrable post about some game only known to the uber-geek elite. It was a start that could have quickly descended into another diceblog, but thankfully spirits were high as it was Friday and disaster was averted. This was followed by the usual gratitude for the previous night's games, most notably KZ2, along with the daily laments of the hungover and the suffering. Salubriousone unknowingly summed up the night, and the general NaN KZ2 experience: "I owe you an apology for the worst team kill I've ever managed last night. On Radec you were getting ready to defend the S&D target and I was going in for a melee kill on a downed enemy, I had a real spazzy moment and hit upwards instead of down and ended up battering you instead. Ooops....." It was a quote that could quite easily be attributed to almost half of the players that night.
A lot of the rest of the day was spent contemplating what resided behind those magical doors in Argos where all the good stuff comes out. Theories varied wildly and, given the malformed and depraved mind of the average gamer, soon turned from the bizarre to the extreme. HereComesTreble started to let his curiosity get the better of him, but details of his "investigation" are best not repeated for legal reasons, suffice to say I will be expecting a full debrief from him in the near future.
Talk soon turned to how morally correct it is to change historic events for the sake of storytelling in a movie. There were probably a lot of very interesting and valid points, but I tuned out almost immediately and each post bought with it a soothing white noise.
The day, and indeed the week ended with all the disappointment of a firework that doesn't go off. People said their goodbyes, finished their 'work' for the day and headed down the pub, ready to repeat the whole sorry mess again the following Monday.
Films/TV this week: True Blood, Iron Man 2, This is England 86, Britain's Next Top Model, Full Metal Jacket, Rachel Getting Married, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Resident Evil: Afterlife
Link of the Week: The taxonomy of hip-hop names.
This week, Best Of was written by Humofevil, AlexP, ImperfectRex, PicPicPic, Schwen and Limni.
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