A Gaming Diary
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Lumines Live (360)
May 5th
I’d like slightly shorter games, I think. Playing for half an hour and not getting close to a high score isn’t much fun. Well, the playing part is fun, but I tend to get a little disgruntled when I die.
Earth Defence Force 2017 (360)
May 5th
Best played in half hour chunks. Bear that in mind.
It’s awesome.
Catan Demo (360)
May 5th
Hmm.
Well, the demo’s back up so I’ve given it a go.
I need to ponder any purchase decision carefully. On the plus side, it seems like a well-designed and engrossing board game. On the minus side, the interface is a bit rubbish and each game takes approximately eight days to play, which doesn’t really fit with how I use Live Arcade.
Also, I’d probably never dare play it online, so I have to base my decision on the single-player side of things. My gut is telling me to use the points, but my head’s telling me that I’d not give it enough time.
Tricky, very tricky.
Mutant Storm Reloaded (360)
May 5th
Sitting in my basement, wearing sunglasses in the gloom because my real glasses broke yesterday, playing Mutant Storm Reloaded instead of working on my novel. Well, not really “instead of”, more “after”.
Anyway, jumped in to Tally mode for the first time. Making things difficult for myself by starting each level on Black Belt and only turning the difficulty level down with the greatest reluctance. After nine levels I’ve already got a better score than half the people on my Friends Leaderboard, though.
Earth Defence Force 2017 (360)
May 2nd
Three more levels done on Easy, which is a bit too Easy right now. A great huge boss went down without a fight after I fired the Air Tortoise 02 at him a few times.
Centipede/Millipede (360)
May 2nd
Well, that was a surprise. As the Catan demo has been removed I downloaded the demo of the Centipede/Millipede double pack. Didn’t expect much, but found a couple of shooters that have aged surprisingly well and have been given some very nice visual makeovers.
Needless to say, I spent some points on them as soon I was asked without a second thought. Excellent update all round. Hooray.
Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars Demo (360)
May 1st
I did the tutorial, then decided life was too short to do any more.
At least tonight.
Pinball FX (360)
Apr 28th
Rubbish. Me. Tonight. Rubbish.
I wish the tables had more to them. I think I prefer impossible video game pinball to video games based on tables that do or could exist.
Earth Defence Force 2017 (360)
Apr 28th
Right, that’s polished off the levels I’d already done on Normal. Next time I play I’ll be continuing my Easy play through on all new levels. Yes.
