2015 Staycation

Today is the last day of my three week staycation. If I'm being honest, I've done very little during my break.

The highlight was perhaps seeing a John O'Shea lookalike standing outside of Argos. He was smoking an electronic cigarette. I don't think it was the real John O'Shea.

Other than that, I did a lot of sorting out, getting rid of stuff mainly, like clothes and my old PS3 disc games. I played on my new Xbox One quite a bit. Which was nice.

I went out for a meal and drinks with people from work. It was boring and the food was bad. I won't be doing it again. Though I'm getting made redundant soon so it's not something I really need to worry about.

I managed to watch one film on Netflix. Species III. It wasn't very good.

Overall then, not the most exciting holiday I've ever had. Prolly the worst. Oh yeah, I've been using the word prolly a lot lately instead of probably. That's something at least.

Switching Sides

I've not been on here for a while. Hello, if anyone ever reads this.

As everyone in the world knows, I'm a Nintendo man first-and-foremost when it comes to gaming. The problem with this is that Nintendo consoles tend not to get many of the big multiplatform games (GTA, Borderlands, Battlefield, Bioshock etc).

That is why I got a PS3 a few years ago, so I could play such games that weren't on the Wii or Wii U. I enjoyed my PS3, though recently, started to get pretty annoyed with it. The online is pretty crappy on PS3 (slow downloads, random disconnections from PSN even though my internet is fine), all multiplayer games get hacked so quickly you can't play them for long before the games are flooded with cheats (it took about a week on CoD: AW) and, probably most importantly, the PS3 controller became increasingly uncomfortable to use for me. I'd get hand cramps if I used it for more than about half an hour, partly I think down to the useless L2 and R2 trigger buttons meaning most games used the L1 and R1 instead. This means your hands are in a strange claw-like shape with the low analogue sticks and L1 and R1 buttons for many games.

So, about a month ago, I decided to switch sides and get an Xbox One. A controversial decision, given that the PS4 is vastly outselling the Xbox One by about 2:1, and is the more powerful machine with many games having better performance and graphics on it. But I really couldn't face having to use the crappy Playstation controller anymore (despite many people claiming the PS4's redesigned controller is better than the PS3's, which can't really be difficult in my book).

Maybe I'm just a sucker for the underdog (the situation was reversed when I got a PS3), or maybe I'm an idiot, I don't know. Anyway, I'll write more about the Xbox One in the future (I bet you can't wait).

Obviously, I could have not bought a console and got a life instead. Erm...