Irish Coff---CIGARETTE! NOOWWW!

Breaking format. Don't care. First things first, this is going to be another weirdly formatted blog in which I have to stick to the facts and type really quickly. Why? Because it's day TWO without nicotine and I'm having a really hard time maintaining. It's not even just that I don't have any cigarettes in my life, it's that I've never once worked without the benefit of a cigarette break, and as such I'm having a difficult time focusing. So type fast, focus focus focus, don't lose your mind. Another thing to bear in mind is that I'm really hyperactive now. Like a five-year-old in a candy store with a pocket filled with disposable income and a life filled with unfit parents. Seriously, why aren't they watching their kid? He's just going to eat all the fucking candy in the world and probably go into some kind of diabetic shock. I'm calling the cops.

Uh-oh, went a little sideways there, but it's going to happen. I've never had this much energy in my life... to the degree that I think cigarettes have been abating some pretty awful behavior. How am I going to control myself without them? I don't know. If right now is any evidence, not well at all... OH RIGHT VIDEO GAMES!

These...

...are a fuck-ton (sort of a fuck ton) of hi-res GTAV images, and my god they're gorgeous. It must be said that up until very recently, I wasn't very excited about GTAV, but upon hearing about live-switching between characters (as in, press a button or two, watch the camera swing across town to pick up the story of another character), the fully fleshed out underwater world (which can be seen in the above pictures), the Heat-style heist planning (taking knock off to a whole new level and making it into a bonafide game mode), and the sheer size of the map, I'm finally sporting a semi for the next entry in Rockstar's series.

I think my concerns were justified. The first trailer just looked a bit vanilla compared to some of the high end graphical offerings like Watch Dogs doing their turn on the catwalk. But what I should have remembered was GTA San Andreas. I should have remembered that it was the last GTA for PS2 and that it was gi-fucking-gantic. Graphically, nothing like the eventual GTA IV, but so stuffed with content that I boot it up more often than GTA IV when I want a GTA experience.

And that seems to be the case here. As opposed to wasting time and resources on a next-gen GTA, they just spit-shined (or didn't... you can never tell in promotional material from Rockstar) their existing engine, and set about adding gameplay elements that risk busting the edges of even a blu-ray for sheer size of content. Something I think will be interesting to see handled on the Xbox... how many DVDs are we talking about here?

Ok, that's it... Can't concentrate anymore. Desperate for nicotine. Going to go do some pushups and hope the exercise helps. Then eat something. PROTEIN!