Welcome to a very special edition of Weekly Play, in that it’s the MOST late it’s ever been, hooray! Sorry for the delay, seems everyone decided to take some time off without telling anyone else.

Since the last post, I’ve been using the Raptr gaming service, which I’ll comment on further in a rant-esque post soon, but it does mean remembering what I’ve been playing becomes a whole lot easier. So, I’ve played roughly:

19 hours of Left4Dead 2
12 hours of Half-Life 2
8 hours of Left4Dead
4 hours of Bejeweled Blitz
4 hours of CounterStrike: Source
3 hours of Pokémon Fire Red

And a whole bunch of other stuff, including Freedom Fighters (Which is an awesome PS2 game that has been nostalgia-ing me for a while), Cave Story (Once again, still stuck on the Sacred Grounds!) and Zombie Panic! Source (Though I’ll be damned if I can figure out how to actually play).

The big purchase of course, being Left4Dead 2, which has since been played and achievement whored. Lovely stuff. Combat Shotgun + Fire Axe = Devastating combination.

Ok, so enough from me ’cause I’m feeling unimaginative and unfunny today, so let’s have your comments to make me feel better about my writing skills:

“Not much change since the last week except for I have the full L4D2 now and have been playing it constantly with Alex, Joe and my brother sometimes on splitscreen. Got half of the achievements now. Doubt I’ll get them all (Mainly to do with Complete all campaigns on expert and survive a campaign on expert with realism mode enabled).

Did go on Lego Rock Band for an hour to get some more trophies (when I had remembered I had a PS3 that is) at about 50% on that too now. Starting to get a bit crap after having not played Rock Band or GH for a long while.” - Daryl

“While you’ve been playing Age of Empires, I’ve rediscovered Civilization III, a game with similar objectives but completely different gameplay; turn-based rather than real time. I’d forgotten how addictive it can be.
As mentioned above, I’ve been playing a little Left4Dead and Counterstrike:Source, whenever I can find people to play with. I still need a lot more time on L4D to become anywhere near good at it.
Also, we’ve taken my Dad’s old Atari 1040ST out of storage, so expect some retrocity articles on games from that machine in the next few months. I’ve mostly been playing Rainbow Islands on it this week, a vertically scrolling platform game.
I have also found time to play on a few online games, so much so that I could probably have a pretty good attempt at Flash Friday articles by now. Most notably I have rediscovered one of my favourites from a few years ago, Need For Madness. In this game you drive vehicles and can win a level either by finishing the race first, or ‘wasting’ (smashing to pieces) all your opponents.” - JMB22

“As Daryl said we’ve been on L4D2. To be honest I have finally ressurected my RPG on the pc, its now a full 20 mins in a speed run. I also went on COD 4 for the first time in months. Very few people on there now :P” - Jonobrow

“More Assassin’s Creed.

That is all :P

Not really :P, I ve been trying to complete the game in one go apart from the flags and achievements, I can do those later. The guards have finally got a bit smarter and can actually get a hit every so often :D. I like the challenge, but I can still just kill them quickly with a counter move so meh. I also like the fact I had to assassinate someone, who could out run me even though he had two throwing knives sticking out of his back :P.
Altair’s climbing speed is still annoying and I’ve given up trying to out run guards I just fight until they’re all dead,not so fast but easier to lose them :D. Hopefully I’ll be onto Assassin’s Creed 2 by next week :D” - Bumblebee_Prime

“Right, first of some games I’ve played recently is on my Raptr profile (http://raptr.com/zxpiesqrd) which will from now on be the source of my games played in a week.

However, I’ve managed to grab get onto L4D and CS:S enjoying shooting people and zombies :P (Also yay fail L4D Vs team, we suck \o/)” - zxPieSqrd

And that’s it from this relatively uneventful Weekly Play, do be sure to leave your comments and I’ll try and get back to actually making this weekly play.

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