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Finished Gone Home this morning. It lasts a couple of hours, and really enjoyed it. It's an ideal game to sit down and finish from start to finish. Genuinely memorable game. Had a couple of shots at NBA. It looks great. I think I'll get into this once I figure out the controls. The story mode is supposed to be bat**** mental, should be a laugh.

I would go for Shiels in the midfield alongside Holt; Halliday in the holding midfield role. The attack and defence, pretty much, picks itself. I'm not wholly convinced the wee rest is ideal, but it is what it is. I fancy we'll get a goal late in the first-half, and then early in the second. Foderingham Tavernier Wilson Kiernan Wallace Halliday Holt Shiels Waghorn Miller McKay

Tropico 5 is the second game I bought for the PS4 ... cracking game. Admittedly, I really enjoy these type of games and had a blast with this. You've got long-term goals for your island (eg. exports, alliances, succession etc.), which clash with short-term demands (revolts, natural disasters, tourism, electricity supplies etc.), and the difficulty is trying to find a balance between the two. It's the type of game, if you get into it, where you'll easily lose hours and not realise. Pleased to get a racing game too this month with Table Top Racing, if it's anything close to the classic Micro Machines game, then it's been a good month.

Wild Reese Witherspoon plays a character who embarks on a fairly impressive hike across up the Western United States. It's based on a true story / auto-biography. I didn't fancy this one bit prior to renting it and assumed it would be a bit worthy, self-help style, mawkish even, with very little of interest but I was quite, quite wrong. At first it was a little bit sexy, then a little bit annoying, then it got quite sad, and then uplifting and made me smile, and then a mix of emotions but, ultimately, it finally leaves you with your own questions of existential crisis and dread -- 8/10, would watch again.

As a student a few years ago, one of the courses I had to take as mandatory was an English Language course. One of the modules was the Scots language which I chose out of interest. One lecture in particular, the lecturer conducted a good half-hour entirely in Scots. It was really impressive and still something I mind positively. There was something about hearing the language in a relatively formal setting which was appealing and I was able to understand / interpret relatively well. I've been pre-disposed to moves to advance the language since then - it can only be a benefit imo.

MacBeth - 9/10 Absolutely loved this, get this watched. I enjoy a bit of high-brow movie intellectual what-not as much the next man, but this can be enjoyed as a quality historical action-tragedy which gets you on the edge of your seat whether you know the text or not. Great film. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 6/10 This is a good laugh. It does a good job of keeping your interest right the way through, whereas comparable films go on a bit.

Looks good - an improvement, something to look forward to. Tbf, GalakZ is actually not too bad, give it a go ... Broforce is not for me though. Hope we get something really good next month (doubt it)

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That's it, I think I misinterpreted the first few minutes on first viewing, and figured it was that zany type comedy, and tuned out of it a bit. It does have some really funny bits: esp. the police walking into the room with the 'vampire fight', with one clawing at the ceiling and the other being held down by his feet, still makes me chuckle when I think about it.

What We Do in the Shadows 7/10 I enjoyed this even more the second time round. The bit with the police house inspection cracked me up, which I sort of missed first time, and the send-up of different vampire film tropes is brilliant. Still, slightly loses the place in last half-hour for me. Soaked in Bleach 7/10 A documentary film investigation into theories about Kurt Cobain's death. It's well put-together, with interesting recreations of meetings and events, and genuine recordings from the time. Still, I'm not sure it tells us anything new, but does at least put it all into one place. The Martian 9/10 Absolutely loved this. Actually quite moving at times. Great film.

This looks a pretty good month. I had been looking at buying Hell Divers a wee bit back after hearing good things about it, so really glad to get it for Plus. It seems to be a co-op team shooter - looks a good laugh. Nom Nom Galaxy looks to be one of these games, from what I can see, where you p*** about collecting and building stuff, which I quite enjoy and it has co-op / invasion elements iirc which should be a laugh. So, a big thumbs up Last month, Grim Fandango is f***ing brill - although I need a online guide to make any progress tbh. But, Hardware Rivals (or whatever it's called) - I played one game and got it deleted.

I feel your pain. In all honesty, it is genuinely slightly distracting I shall try this science tomorrow morning

I've tried that, but no luck so far. I'll persevere, though. Don't you start too from Kilmarnock, WFAANW

You're posting from the City of Dundee ... you've got no business judging others' levels of cleanliness

Pitch Perfect 2 - 6/10 I was compelled to watch the first one under duress, figuring it was some sort of Glee knock-off or what-not for the Mrs., but it cracked me up and I laughed pretty much throughout. The sequel is still quite funny, if a little baggy and not quite as good to watch. Probably best watched with a couple of beers 'You are one of us ... you paid the registration fee.'

When a bar of soap nearly runs out and gets small, I like to get a new piece from the cupboard and then get the two pieces to stick together. It's especially pleasing when the two pieces are different colours. But currently, I've got a small piece of soap and a new bar of soap, and they are not sticking together It's been five days now ...

I was just about to post something similar. I finished Bloodborne eventually, and was left so f***ing exasperated by it that I deleted my save, deleted the game from my library, took the disc out, put the disc into the box, and put the box away into the back of the drawer as soon as it was over ... ... I've went crawling back and I'm 3/4 the way through a second play-through, and now stuck on the exact same boss that caused me to nearly give up the whole thing first time round. Dark Souls 3 in a couple months (cannae wait )

There's a load of reviews out now, but I can't even bring myself to read them for fear of spoilers. I've got a few days off over Xmas and plan to watch 1 - 6 ahead of this. Just got hyped ????

There's a couple of folk in work having a bit of a nightmare with this. Personally, I hardly have the heart to let them know my drive into work is now considerably easier now that Fifers' bumper-cars and horses-and-carts have been diverted elsewhere

Yup, finished Bloodborne last night and, tbh, I'm slightly pleased I'm finished as it is an exhausting game. Don't get me wrong, it's genuinely outstanding, brilliant. But I'm slightly glad it's completed as I found it really difficult. I loved the story and the way in which it is told, but there was something slightly lacking in the tone, atmosphere,etc. In honesty, Dark Souls II is one of my favourite games, and I think I was probably holding Bloodborne to high expectations which is probably unfair in retrospect. All in all, I'd go 8/10 Next up for my main game, is Witcher 3

I've had a wee look about the internet and it's a fairly negative reaction. King's Quest intrigues me, and I would've been unlikely to ever pay money for episode 1, so that's a positive for me, and I'll give Gauntlet a shot, plus Freedom Wars has good reviews for the Vita. Plus, the games for PS3 seem to be pretty good (Far Cry: Blood Dragon and SSX). Last month, I tried Magicka and it got deleted after about 15 minutes. I kept trying to join a game and got booted off each time, only to realise you had to work through a prologue etc. So, I spent about 10 minutes watching through the intro. and tutorial etc. and got bored and deleted it. And, the less said about Dragon Fin Soup the better (absolutely no idea what was going on there). I downloaded TWD2 as I've got a fair few days off over Xmas and might re-play through both TWD seasons. I'm fairly new to PS+ so these extra games seem like a bonus. The successes for me outweigh the failures: Broken Age, Super Meat Boy, TWD2 have been a relative success for me so far.