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Gravity 5/5

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The majority of my movie watching is done via the Amazon Lovefilm by post service. Ideally the Blu-Ray version of the movie or 3D if available.

Cinema watching is very expensive & sometimes not enjoyable with other noisy attendees so I am more than happy to wait the extra months for the movie to arrive on home media to enjoy.

I will post my score out of 5 in the title so if you have not watched a movie you can ignore the post for potential spoilers.

The latest movie was Gravity, winning itself a stack of various awards & accolades.

It deserves all the awards & accolades it has received, a great story of how an astronaut survives in outer space & her trials to get back to earth. 5/5

Movies & TV – Back to the Future

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When I am not gaming I watch movies & quite a few of them thanks to my Netflix & Amazon Lovefilm/Instant subscriptions.

I had pondered a while ago about posting non-gaming posts on the blog but decided against it.

I've now changed my mind & will now be posting about the movies & tv shows I watch with some quick one or two line reviews. I enjoy sci-fi, westerns & action-adventure movies the most but I do also watch a fair few animation & kid movies (because I have children). I rarely watch comedies or horror & I should watch more drama. Thanks to my wife & daughter I do watch the odd Bollywood movie.

For clarification though The Back to the Future Trilogy is the best movie trilogy ever made with the first movie being the best movie ever made.

Link to a spreadsheet with 2014 movies watched
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hMBjZ_3RK0f069Ffcp1cuqiVdStFIBaoE5j6kcsbsCc/edit?usp=sharing

26 so far this year with some good titles like Shawshank Redemption, Finding Nemo 3D, Elysium, Man of Steel, Kai Po Che, Kick Ass 2 & Thor Dark World.

Mass Effect 3 – Thane

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After delivering the cure to Tuchanka & deciding to ignore the sabotage option. I returned to the Citadel following up on a video call from the Salarian politician about Udina working with Cerberus.

The Citadel is under attack by Cerberus forces, during the mission whilst saving the Salarian politician an assassin Kai Leng fights and wounds Thane. After taking back control of the Citadel, Thane is admitted to the hospital.

He has lost a lot of blood & even with his son's help, because his Kepral's syndrome is in it's final stages, his time has come.

The weapons in the game can be upgraded with various mods & by only carrying a few weapons your powers recharge quicker. I only carry the Assault Rifle, Sniper & Handgun with damage & ammo capacity mods equipped.

Time to go find this Kai Leng for some revenge.




Mass Effect 3 – Chemist

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I enjoyed planet scanning for minerals in Mass Effect 2, this has changed quite a bit now in that you scan the solar system you are in to reveals areas/planets to investigate. You can only get three to four scans before the reapers are alerted & you have to run the Normandy out of the solar system to escape. If you get caught you restart the game.

You find lots of fuel, some credits, intel which you can then use at Liana's Glyph for upgrades or side mission artifacts (fetch & retrieve quest lines).

Ashley is now out of the hospital & has accepted an offer by Udina to become a Spectre. I've met quite a few characters from the previous games including Garrus who is now an advisor on Reaper matters but happily joins me on my quest. Miranda who is worried about her twin sister again. Jack who is now a biotic teacher, Kasumi who is still using her stealth abilities to steal tech, I've sent her to help the alliance build the reaper weapon. EDI has decided to take over the robot that attacked Ashley to give herself a body. Thane who is still slowly dying, Urdnot Wrex & Grunt who I've helped recover a female Krogan from a Salarian research lab, hoping Grunt becomes a controllable character so I can recreate my Mass Effect 2 team again (Garrus & Grunt).

For now my team is Garrus & James. I've done a ton of side missions since my last post & rescued the Turrian Primarch. After saving the female Krogan, I now need to go and dispense a cure for the genophage. Cerburus also are a constant thorn, the illusive man I think wants to control the reapers.

Mass Effect 3 is all about uniting the various races together to take on the reapers but for now I'm a chemist dispensing a cure for the genophage.

Trials Frontier – Shredder

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The amount of gold needed to upgrade any bike parts is huge compared to the amount I can now generate from the tracks. It's now taking me two or three days of playing the game just to update one part.

The wait timers & gold needed are getting longer but the revenue generation is now forcing you down the in-app purchases route.

It's been fun for a while but it's now time for me to quit, shame because the game was very playable & if it had not taken the Free 2 Play route but been price at say 9.99 for the full game I would have happily purchased.

Luffers made a comment in the Tiny Dice Dungeon post about hating games with wait timers. I don't mind wait timers but I hate it when it's also applied against slow in-game coin generation thus the paywall is forced on the player to make the choice.

It's Shredder Time !!