A Gaming Diary
Archive for February, 2009
Operation Flashpoint Demo (PC)
Feb 4th
The other day, I posted my memories of Operation Flashpoint online. They were -
“Start level. Get into back of jeep thing with other soldiers. Get dropped off near enemy. Crawl through woods into open ground. Lie there for hours, too scared to move. Finally make a move towards enemy settlement. Dead.”
Decided to try out the demo and exactly the same thing happened again. Just, exactly. No idea who was shooting me, either. Being a soldier is hard. (Especially when you’re trying to zoom, fire and aim on a trackpad.)
Lux Delux (PC/Mac)
Feb 4th
This is a game I’ve played a lot in odd lunchtime moments over the years, but never remember to blog about. It’s a Risk clone, but it works, has good controls, AI at my level and an overwhelming amount of interesting maps. I’m currently enjoying the Idaho and Dark Ages maps.
It runs fine on the NC10 – as it should – but the vertical resolution makes some maps a little small and fiddly to play. Still worth a look, though.
Peggle Nights (PC)
Feb 4th
Stuck on a “do three levels in fifteen balls challenge” – but it’s a fun challenge, not an annoying one. So all’s good.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Feb 4th
New resident in McNulty. Eloise, an elephant. I have a feeling she was a little annoying when she lived in one of my wife’s towns on the DS, but we’ll see.
Peggle Nights (PC)
Feb 3rd
Have given up on the “six unique style shots” challenge. I think you need a mix of Extreme Slide, Long Shot, Free Ball Skills, Lucky Bounce, the one for getting both green balls in one shot and, um, an extra long shot or something. Not really doable.
So I’ve moved on to easier and more fun challenges. I’ll go back sometime and get the one I’ve skipped.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Feb 3rd
So, what happened last night?
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Nope, can’t remember a thing.
Majesty Demo (PC)
Feb 1st
Old RTS, notable for lack of direct control over your units, or something. That’s what I’ve read about it, anyway. I tried the demo, which doesn’t really give you much guidance. I was happily pottering about, when huge monsters wandered over and destroyed my castle, with my guards putting up only the barest hint of resistance before keeling over. I think I must have been missing something.
Main annoyance: Moving cursor to edge of screen scrolls the map at a million miles per hour.
Midnight Club 2 Demo (PC)
Feb 1st
Wanted to see if this’d run on the NC10. Runs pretty slowly and the handling with the keyboard is pants. No sale, not even for the Steam price of £4. Interestingly, or not, it looks to me like it’s using the same map as the PSP version of Midnight Club LA. But I could be wrong – I just definitely recognised some sections.
Assassin’s Creed (360)
Feb 1st
I decided it was time to go back and finish games I nearly finished, but then stopped playing. First up, Assassin’s Creed. I was throughly enjoying it… then stopped playing for no reason. Took me a while to get used to the controls again – and I think I messed up one or more Achievements by doing an assassination too early, before I’d done all six of the pre-assassin missions – but I’m very much enjoying it. Got a couple of Achievements in Damascus, then went on to Acre. I’ve got to do an assassination there, then I think I’ve only got the last mission left after that. Should finish the game in the next few days if I keep playing.
Trials 2: Second Edition (PC)
Feb 1st
Finally finished the tutorials, which got very, very hard. Then raced through the early non-tutorial levels having great fun. It’s got hard again now, though. Not sure if it’s too hard… but it might be.
