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That Rev Chap
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Dead Or Alive 4
Feb 19th
Through story mode with Kasumi and Kokoro.
It does seem utterly random whether I win a round or not. I’ve given up trying to throw the computer characters and I really can’t counter, so I mainly just launch flurries of punches and kicks, but try to mix them up a bit. And then get cocky and decide to try some blocking or countering and find half my health bar disappearing.
Trouble is – apart from being a bit too quick for me – is that with a lot of attacks I’m not sure if they’re high, mid or low. Is it where the attacks hits or where it starts? I’d assume it was impact point (head, chest, stomach) but I’m not sure if it is. I don’t know if I’m countering the wrong way or at the wrong time.
Hmm.
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max
Feb 18th
Hooray, I’ve just finished Asia in world tour mode.
Last bit took a while. In one battle I could only damage the enemy with combos – and combos of over two hits. I can’t do that, due to rubbishness. But you start off with a bigger health bar, so I just had to bugger about avoiding damage until the timer ran down. Next battle was against Sagat, a two out of three job. A Power battle, which means his attacks did loads more damage than normal. That’s what took…
Hang on, this is tedious even for this diary, which is an exercise is ultra-boring geekdom.
Anyway, yes, I kicked some arse and progressed to the USSR.
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max
Feb 18th
God, I love this game.
Why can I kill Blanka in Free Battle but not when he turns up in Arcade mode?
Dead Or Alive 4
Feb 18th
Well, okay.
Dead or Alive 3.5, maybe.
Or Dead or Alive 2.2, even more mayber.
Bad thing? Don’t think so so far.
Haven’t played it all that much, to be fair.
Went through story mode three times with Christie. Or whatever her name is. Something like that. White hair, claims to be poisonous, seems to be allergic to clothing. You know.
Then I decided to – gulp! – jump into online mode. Bought myself a space lobby and a skeleton avatar, found a lobby, joined, first thing I heard was a voice saying, “Argh! It’s just started lagging!” So I left. So I joined another one and had I game. Which I lost. Then another game. Which I lost. Then another game. Which I lost. Then another game. Which I won! Then another game. Which I lost.
Lag was terrible, but I don’t mind the game slowing down, to be honest. I don’t think I managed a counter in any of the matches I played.
Anyway, after that I went into my profile to poke around, went to an “Edit Comment” page, which was a black box with a flashing yellow square in it. Nothing I pressed on the pad did anything. At all. Couldn’t enter text, couldn’t quit out. Nothing. So I had to bring the Guide up and dump myself back to the dashboard. At which point I decided to turn off the 360 and watch TV Burp.
Marble Blast Ultra
Feb 18th
Hooray!
Whirl is defeated!
Not sure how I managed it, but for two beautiful minutes and eight glorious seconds everything went my way and I sneaked home.
How people have managed it fourteen seconds I don’t know. There must be some serious glitches somewhere.
OutRun 2
Feb 18th
Well, as the Xbox was on I couldn’t not, could I?
Did the the easiest route in arcade a couple of times and came 5th and 3rd on the high score table. Flushed with success, I decided to try a mission, as I’ve never fnished mission mode. A few goes later I realised why – it’s bloody hard. Too hard for midnight Friday night, anyway.
Halo
Feb 17th
As Taito Legends was such a disappointment I decided to fall back to Halo. All the talk in the rllmuk thread about the game had left me itching to play it on Legendary difficulty again. Seems I’d finished a few levels already on that setting, so I started where I’d stopped, at the beginning of the level called Halo. Took me ages to reach the first checkpoint. Then ages more to reach the second. I haven’t reached the third yet.
But, oh, despite looking weirdly dark on my LCD TV, it was wonderful stuff. It really is gaming perfection. And it was the Needler that got me through to the second checkpoint. It’s got a reputation as a useless weapon, but it really, really isn’t.
Taito Arcade Legends
Feb 17th
Broken.
It boots in widescreen, which is good… but it plays the games in widescreen, too, which is bad. There’s an option in the menu to play the games in OAR, but it doesn’t actually seem to do anything. I don’t want my games stretched, thank you!
Rubbish.
Also, they’ve broken Rainbow Islands. The music’s rubbish and it just doesn’t seem responsive.
Bah.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Feb 17th
So Whitney asks to come over. I leave the DS turned on with the sound turned up by me so I won’t forget. For half an hour. She finally comes round, refuses to rate me and only stays one minute.
Grr.
And according to Friga a cactus in a pot isn’t a houseplant. It’s been in my house for weeks now, thanks.
Grr.
And that bloody kitten’s back. But she wants to go to Teacozy, which actually is a town I’m likely to visit. The only town I’m likely to visit, really. So that’s okay. Still, that kitten’s very annoying.
Grr.
