A Gaming Diary
Archive for January, 2006
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Jan 6th
I have a new villager called Pate who seems to have moved into Monique’s old house.
She seems nice from first impressions, but then she is a duck which gives her bonus points straight off.
No other real news. Everything’s ticking along. I have a new fridge, which contains the same stuff as my pear dresser. A no pasties or smoothies. Rubbish.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Jan 5th
It just ate my evening again.
I opened my gates a little before nine and shut them just now, after having people over to play for the entire time.
It’s such a strange a little game but Celebrity Big Brother has proved conclusively that it’s not as insane as the real world.
Geometry Wars 2
Jan 5th
Bah!
My high score is now the same one I had last year. My heroic score from a few days ago has disappeared completely.
Annoying.
Though it doesn’t actually change my position in the leaderboard based on my friends’ scores.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Jan 5th
Nothing special to report. I picked some fruit, bought loads of furniture for the kitchen, popped out for a bit, gave Curt a fossil, that sort of thing.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Jan 4th
I love this game.
I love it because it’s online.
And I love it because Monique is packed up and ready to go.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Jan 4th
Hooray! I have a whole new floor to play with. At the moment it’s a kitchen and dining area, which leaves downstairs looking rather empty.
Nook’s not open yet, so I can’t see how much my new mortgage is. I mean, I could look it up easily enough, but I don’t want to know.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Jan 3rd
Oh! The guilt! The horrible, terrible, soul-tearing guilt!
I’ve just paid off my 298,000b mortgage, but it came at a cost, a terrible cost.
The cost of a stringfish and a tuna, in fact, both of which the museum needs. I caught one of each today and instead of taking them to Blathers I sold them to Nook. I’m terrible, greedy pig.
My soul is lost.
Perfect Dark Zero
Jan 2nd
Bizarre.
I’ve just completed the game on the easiest difficulty setting.
The story makes absolutely no sense and the levels start getting really good… and then there’s a laughably bad boss level and that’s the end.
Perfect Dark Zero
Jan 2nd
Well, I played a single player level. It’s really not very good. Not on the Agent difficulty level I’m playing on, anyway. It gives me so much health that it’s practically a god mode, but it doesn’t give a very good idea of how to meet each objective, so I tended to run around randomly until it told me I’d completed it. (And that’s with guide arrows on. They just disappeared for no reason now and again.) And then I failed the level because my AI buddy died for no reason. So I did the level again and this time he didn’t, so I got through.
So I jumped online. Mainly Onslaught mode, which is ace. Not the best group of people I’ve ever played with, but some good people in there. I didn’t do too badly either and only killed someone on my team once, when they ran between me and an enemy.
(Oh, and the Xbox Live scoreboards got reset again overnight, so my great new Geometry Wars score has been wiped again.)
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Jan 2nd
A couple of hours today, which is far longer than I’d normally play. I wanted to pay off my current mortgage, but didn’t manage it. I’m still 50,000b short.
However, I did catch my first insect today – a pill bug. In fact, i caught two – one for the museum and one for Big Top.
And I shot down my first present. In fact, I shot down three – a cabin wardrobe, a billiard table and a kitchen sink.
Wow.
