A Gaming Diary
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SingStar (PS3)
May 6th
Played enough of this last night to leave my throat broken. We got four new songs with some credit I had in my account. Minnie Ripperton’s Loving You, which was highly amusing. Sonny and Cher’s I’ve Got You Babe, which was awesome to sing with my wife. (We don’t have a pot! I have long hair! It’s our song!) And I can’t, right now, remember the other two, but they were great. Oh, Blue Bayou by Roy Orbison, which I did really well on considering I didn’t know it. And the final song was… was… nope, can’t remember. Oh, yes, I can. It was Girl Put Your Records On. I’m glad I remembered that.
Anyway, I’m torn between Pull Shapes and Total Eclipse of the Heart for a favourite. Got our best score ever on the latter and would probably have done even better if I hadn’t had a coughing fit halfway through.
SingStar (PS3)
Apr 5th
Spent a fun Saturday evening with SingStar, my wife and a bottle of Jack Daniels. We only spent five pounds in the store – a very tight limit, as there were about twelve songs we felt we really needed – but that was five pounds well spent. It turns out I can’t sing The Ramones, but I rock at Pull Shapes by The Pipettes. Well, as much as I rock anything.
Since we last played, those nice chaps at Sony have added the ability to swap in PS2 SingStar discs, so we had fun going through the old 90s and Rock Ballads discs. They fit in seamlessly, it’s just a shame that you can’t copy the tracks into the library on your hard disc. There’s a very obvious reason for that limitation, though.
Singstar (PS3)
Aug 3rd
No new songs today, but the wife and I rocked some old ones. We beat our previous high scores on just about every track we played. I’m not sure what was special about today, but I seemed to be just a little better than normal. I still can’t hit a single note in some songs though. Not sure why, but Losing My Religion is just impossible for me. And the less said about The Greatest Love of All the better.
SingStar (PS3)
Jun 11th
Used up the final dregs of credit with the Playstation store to get some new songs. Then had fun singing them.
Oddly, I did really well for the first few songs, then was worse than ever for the last few. I hardly hit a note in Total Eclipse of the Heart and the playback had my wife and I in stitches. Do I really sound like that?
Singstar (PS3)
Jan 19th
Got four new songs today, none of which I can sing. No surprises there. As well as those, my wife and I took it turns to choose songs to duet from our existing library and it was great until my voice cracked and died. Cough cough, like.
Singstar (PS3)
Dec 17th
Another game I played with my wife. It’s wonderful. The Singstore is great, letting us populate the song list with songs we love, not just what’s on the disc. And I seem to be getting better. You know, at singing. I’m actually learning to control my voice and I’m starting, just starting, to be able to get roughly in the right place without having to rely on the blue line. I’m still awful, though. X-Factor audition awful, even, but I am improving. It feels good.
SingStar (PS3)
Dec 7th
Played every song on the disc once last night (in Duet mode) and then downloaded seven (!) more from the SingStore, which we’ve not tried yet. I really wish I could actually sing. Or at least sing well enough for SingStar. Though I actually did okay on Feel Good Inc., No Surprises and Lovefool. And didn’t totally suck on Hey Ya, either. And I got to do the “give me some sugar, I am your neighbor” bit, which pleased me and disappointed the wife.
As for the question of how good it is, well, it’s SingStar again, so it’s great. I have no interest in uploading any performances, as public humiliation isn’t my thing, but the SingStore is going to be great.
Singstar ’90s (PS3)
Aug 19th
It’s a PS2 game, but I’m playing it on the PS3. Mostly excellent song selection, but unfortunately one of ours mics has developed a fault and cuts out now and again, which means my scores were even more pitiful than they should have been.
Singstar ’80s (PS2)
Feb 17th
You know, I can’t sing. I really, really can’t sing.
But I can rap.
The Reverend Run would be proud of me.
