A Gaming Diary
Archive for January, 2009
Every Extend Extra Extreme (360)
Jan 26th
1 min: Best game ever! Why don’t I play this more!
10 min: This a bit easy. Where’s the danger?
20 min: This is going on a bit.
30 min: I think I’ll just stop collecting the time extending power ups and let myself die.
32 min: Right, what other games do I have here?
FEAR 2 Demo (360)
Jan 26th
F.E.A.R. 2? First Something Assault Recon 2? I don’t know. Let’s just call it FEAR 2, eh?
From what I remember of the original – which I had on the PC but didn’t play very much – this seems fairly similar, but with a slightly borked slo-mo mode. Fighting enemies is still fun, the spooky atmosphere is appropriately spooky and atmospheric and the big stompy robot bit at the end of the demo is actually a really nice change of pace.
I like it. I won’t be digging out things to trade in to get it all full price on release, but I like it.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Jan 26th
I have a new floor to my house. I have set it up as a lab to study the strange Yoshi egg that arrived in the post the day my house was expanded. There is also a grill, just in case I manage to open the egg and find tasty goodness inside.
Space Rangers 2 (PC)
Jan 23rd
Except, not.
It was crashing out on start up and it took me so long to find a fix that I didn’t get a chance to actually play it. It at least gets to the main menu now, though.
Peggle Extreme (PC)
Jan 23rd
Oh. I polished off the final two challenge levels in about five minutes. Ah well. I’ve found my old activation code for the full version of Peggle, so I’ve got that now. Come payday, Peggle Nights will be mine. I may not have any money, but I think I can put six quid aside for new Peggle.
BreakQuest (PC)
Jan 23rd
Yesterday I found my old Stardock details, which includes licences for a lot of old games. Some good, some bad. I installed Impulse (Stardock’s Steam-aper) and BreakQuest was the first game I downloaded. It works reasonably well the trackpad, though the game seems harder than I remember. Still it’s good fun.
Peggle Extreme (PC)
Jan 23rd
Did three of the challenges last night. Slightly difficult without any real super powers, but none of those three levels took me very long. The fourth level looks like it might take a while, though.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Jan 23rd
The big news last night was the opening of Nookington’s in town. We now have a very posh, two-floor shop. No salon in the back now, though, since that’s in the city these days.
Other than that, not a whole lot to report. Nothing, in fact.
Dawn of War: Soulstorm Demo (PC)
Jan 22nd
Should probably be “Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm Demo” or some such nonsense, but life’s too short.
Anyway, I got it running. Had to reinstall DirectX, install a Virtual C++ runtime (why?) and reboot the computer, but it works. And works well. Just did a little bit of the tutorial, so haven’t seen what it’s like with lots of units onscreen, but it was fine. Perfectly smooth and all that.
Defense Grid: The Awakening Demo (PC)
Jan 22nd
Starts up fine on my little NC10, but is unplayably slow, even with everything else closed, all settings on Low and the computer set to Max Performance. Ah well.
At least that’s better than Dawn of War: Soulstorm, which just refuses to start. In Steam I get a “Game Unavailable” message, starting it directly results in Windows popping up a box about a configuration error. Ah well.
