What's in a name?

Quite a lot apparently.
After posting last weeks blog, I considered that it might be time to get myself a Casual Lamer Gamer YouTube channel, as is the done thing in this crazy day and age of online videos. I tried to sign up using the name "clgamer" which turned out to be taken. I thought I'd have a look at who actually had this name, just out of interest and then I found something out. clgamer.com is actually an existing website, apparently called "chocolate lemon". Normally I'd be angry at them, but they had it first, so there's really nothing I can do about it.

But this leaves me with a situation. I need a new name. I was never particularly happy with the Casual (Lamer) Gamer anyway. I'd initially planned to call it the "Lamer Gamer", but that domain name was taken, so I settled for clgamer instead. I know I could just play around with the address, but I feel I need a catchy name.

So from this point on, I'm gonna leave the blog nameless. The address will stay the same for the time being, but the blog is self is going through a refurbishment. I've had a few ideas...
- Some niche gaming reference i.e. threeheadedmonkey
- Something about pirates and/or ninjas
- Something totally random and off the wall e.g. ninetailedpiranha
- Just lavalampbamboo

So until then, this'll be the Un-named Blog.

Turning to games... There isn't much. I've been a tad busy recently, with a Psychology and a Drama exam on Friday (as well as leaving school), then my Leaver's Ball yesterday. In what moments I've had spare, I've been playing a bit of Yoshi's Island on the GBA, which is a good little platformer. I completed it years ago, but I've been going back to get absolutely everything, which is going well. I should probably get the DS version.

Anyway, I'm all out for today. Hopefully the blog will have a name by next weekend. If not... I don't know. Stay awesome, y'all.

Welcome any newcomers!

I guess this is slightly odd but what the hey.

If you are visiting this blog for the first time because of its being mentioned on Gamespot UK, I bid you a hearty hello! I don't usually talk like that, but I thought I might as well go all out. I'm really grateful to the guys over at Gamespot for mentioning me, and I hoping that it will lead to an increase in my followers... An increase from zero =) But I update every Monday and Thursday (hopefully) and talk about games, games and occasionally my boring personal life. But it'll be mainly games, thankfully

Right, back to our regularly scheduled blog. What have I been playing recently? Well I'll tell you what it isn't. It's definately not a game about a green-tuniced young boy washing up on a mysterious island and fighting hordes of monsters to get to a giant egg. Definately not.

I'm still doing a bit of Rolando, and I've been getting quite aggrivated with it, but in a good way, if that's not an oxymoron. The puzzles are tough, which is good as it provides a challenge. I can't just roll my way through it HAR HAR HAR.

I read today on Gamespot that a new Jak and Daxter game is on the horizon, which made me a little sad. The original "Jak and Daxter" was the game that begun my love affair with the platform genre. Jak 2 taught me the best word in the English language (renegade) and was also brilliant. And Jak 3 had confusing time paradoxes and gladiatoral battles, a winning combination in anyone's book. But then I gave up my PS2 (well it broke actually, but same thing in essence) and I left Jak and Daxter behind. It wasn't that I didn't like it any more, simply I didn't have the resources to play them. When Daxter came out on the PSP I flirted breiefly with the idea of getting it and the console, but this was back in my simple Nintendo fanboy days, and I would never have considered lowering myself to the "evil men" of SONY.

But now Jak's back (baby) and he has a new game coming out on the PS2 and PSP. It's being made by High Impact Games as opposed to Naughty Dog, so it should be interesting to see where they go with it. The subtitle "Lost Frontier" suggests a new big explorable world for you to... uh, explore. I would love to get this game, but alas, I do not have the capability to play it... Unless I buy either a PSP or a PS2, which I guess isn't entirely out of the question... You never know.

My laptop's interent is awful tonight, I'm really gonna have to sort it out. Or just get a MacBook. Yeah, that's a better option, a MacBook...

Ah, webcomics. If only I knew how to make one... NO, BAD EDD! DON'T GET INVOLVED IN ANOTHER HALF BAKED INTERNET PROJECT LIKE WHEN YOU DID ALL THOSE VLOGS ON YOUTUBE!!!

Pretend I didn't say that...