WARNING: 24 hour gaming sessions may lead to square-eye syndrome

It's been a good weekend. Tiring as hell, but good, that's for sure. A real 'lads' weekend. Gaming, beer, fighting and girls. OK, there weren't actually any girls; so just gaming, beer and fighting. Though the gaming and the fighting were technically the same thing, so gaming and beer. Although I drank cider. So yeah, gaming and cider. Quality.

You see, Simon invited me over on Saturday, basically to have a crack at playing through the new Resident Evil 5 game on the PS3 in one sitting. We'd read somewhere that it would take about nine hours to do, so definitely achievable in one Saturday. Whoever said that is either:
a) a big fat liar
b) some kind of gaming God.

It actually took much, much longer.

We started about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and by the time we completed the fifth of six chapters, it was 5am on Sunday morning. We'd already clocked up 14 hours. Outside of a quick 30 minute break to eat some pizza and watch an episode of South Park, it was a solid 14 hours of gaming too. Come 5am though, we were knackered. That fact that we'd sunk 19 pints between us too probably wasn't helping matters either. We called it a night and hit the hay, but agreed to get up at 10am and do the last hour or so needed to complete the game. It turned out, that five more hours were actually needed. Five! Armed with our cups of tea, we cracked on again at 10am and didn't finish until 3pm. Some parts of the last chapter were so unbelievably hard that it took us five stinking hours to do. Was worth it for the sense of achievement in the end though, even if Simon gets all of the game trophies and I don't.

Still, we managed to plough through the entire thing in a 24 hour period, which was great, but I'm suffering because of it now. I had to have a little snooze earlier. No wonder kids slouch around all of the time. They're all fucked from gaming. Probably.

Anyway, we took a time-lapse video, both of us playing and getting progressive more drunk and more relaxed, and of the television (which is a constant wash of "You Are Dead" screenshots) which Simon's going to put together and upload somewhere. I'll be sure to post it as and when it appears. Not that you'll watch it, because it's stupid.