A Gaming Diary
360
Pinball FX (360)
Apr 26th
I don’t get the Extreme table. There doesn’t seem to be anything there. It feels very empty compared to the others and I have no idea what to do.
Earth Defence Force 2017 (360)
Apr 26th
When it’s at its peak, I genuinely believe that this is the most visually impressive game that I have ever seen in my life.
Bar none.
Pinball FX (360)
Apr 26th
Hooray! I’m top of my Friends Leaderboard for the Agents table. Somehow it kept giving me tens of millions of points when I shot the spinner. No idea how I activated that and I’ll probably never do it again.
I really need to sort out this content issue with Microsoft, too. My wife can’t even use the Dead Rising theme we downloaded for her on this new machine.
Eets: Chowdown (360)
Apr 25th
Really enjoyable little puzzle game. Wish it had per-level Leaderboards, but apart from that it’s great. Once again, deKay is miles above me on the Leaderboard. (He’s also the only friend of mine who’s bought it so far.)
There’s also a nice little mini game included, which I had a good time with, though it’s taught me that, incredibly after all this time, I don’t actually know which way round the B and X buttons are on the 360 controller. If I knew that, maybe deKay wouldn’t have twice as many points as me…
Pinball FX (360)
Apr 25th
It’s decent pinball – decent enough to buy without much thought as the points were sitting there doing nothing – but I can’t decide which view to use, it runs a bit fast and, inevitably, deKay got it before and is sitting pretty atop my Friends Leaderboard.
Gyruss Demo (360)
Apr 19th
Quite like this. So much so that I nearly bought it, but I don’t really want to spend any points until Microsoft get back to me about unlocking the Arcade games I’ve already bought.
3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures Demo (360)
Apr 19th
Very short demo. Didn’t really convince me to spend any points on the full game, though I do like the idea of designing my own holes.
Earth Defence Force 2017 (360)
Apr 17th
I downloaded some demos that had come out while I was without a 360 and they were all rubbish, so I really can’t be arsed to create separate entries for each once.
Anyway, once they were dealt with and I’d sent Microsoft a list of things that were wrong I played some EDF. I hadn’t missed it nearly as much as I should have done. it’s pretty much glorious. I’ve restarted on Easy to go through the game gathering weapons and health before jumping back to Normal.
Incidentally, the fans on this 360 seem noisier than my old 360, but the disc access is much, much quieter.
Xbox 360 Support Request
Apr 17th
1033740430 for my reference, ignore -
Gamertag: That Rev Chap
I sent my console to you for repair and have received a refurbished unit back from you. I kept the hard drive so have all the old games, but now when my wife logs in under her profile (Gamertag: Pantherbun) she cannot play the full versions of our Live Arcade games. This is obviously a problem.
The Live Arcade games we have bought are -
Alien Hominid HD
Assault Heroes
Castlevania: SOTN
Cloning Clyde
Contra
Crystal Quest
DOOM
Feeding Frenzy
Frogger
Galaga
Gauntlet
Geometry Wars
Hardwood Hearts
Hexic HD
Jetpac Refuelled
Jewel Quest
Joust
LUMINES LIVE!
Marble Blast Ultra
Mutant Storm Reloaded
PAC-MAN
Robotron: 2084
Scramble
Smash TV
Street Fighter II’ HF
Texas Hold ‘em
Time Pilot
Uno
Wik: Fable of Souls
Worms
Zuma
In addition, we have also purchased extra content for some games. I haven’t yet checked if this works for Oblivion and Viva Pinata as these are not Live Arcade games, but as they were purchased under my Gamertag then I’m worried they won’t work either.
The extra content we have purchased is -
Crystal Quest: Xtreme
LUMINES LIVE!: Advance Challenge Pack, Heavenly Star Pack, Base Pack, VS CPU Pack
Oblivion: Knights of the Nine, Mehrune’s Razor, Shivering Isles, Wizard’s Tower
Viva Pinata: Accessory Pack 1, Accessory Pack 2, Accessory Pack 3, Accessory Pack 4, Accessory Pack 5, Accessory Pack 6
Please let me know how we can get this new 360 working properly as soon as possible. All these were bought under my account but many were for my wife as much as me – and some were more for her.
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (360)
Apr 1st
A quest to getcha cure seemed to be setting up a twist ending that never came.
I’m avoiding as much combat as possible, relying on sneaking and, to a much greater extent, running really, really fast.
I’ve not been getting into it as I thought I would. In particular, the summoning and killing of headless zombies I’m having to do to keep all magical weapons charged is getting very tiring.
One classic Oblivion moment, though. My vampirism was getting stronger, as I hadn’t fed for a while. Needing to stay out of sunlight, I sat on a bench in the local inn until the early hours of the morning. No guests at the inn, so I snuck out into the streets and picked the lock on a local house. I crept up to the bedroom and in. A figure asleep in bed – but someone standing next to them! I froze, but the standing figure didn’t see me and instead tottered across the room, groaning. I fed on the sleeping person – priorities – then crept up to the groaning creature, which seemed to be some kind of zombie… called Uncle Leo. It’s a strange place, the Shivering Isles.
