A Gaming Diary
Archive for May, 2006
Moto GP Demo
May 11th
I am bloody awful at it.
Can’t stay on the road for more than ten second… at best.
I took it online to see if other people were having problems.
They weren’t.
The game session ended before I could even finish the race.
SiN Episodes: Emergence
May 11th
It stutters.
It loops.
It’s completely unplayable.
Odd, because Half-Life 2 is fine. This just seems to die down to one frame per second whenever it has to play a new sound effect at the same time as moving things on the screen, or something.
Loco Roco Demo
May 11th
A free UMD with MCV this week containing a Loco Roco demo.
It’s not the same demo, though.
It’s even not the same level as the other demo but in English.
It’s a completely different level. Best!
Well, actually, I’m not sure if it’s quite as good as the downloadable demo – fewer secrets, no singing – but it’s still a free level of Loco Roco excellence so I really won’t be complaining.
Lost Planet Demo
May 10th
This is really, really good.
Tried the second level this evening, against humans rather than bugs. Lots of enemies, fairly open areas, big guns.
Brain Age
May 10th
Forty today.
BAD.
I had a new game today. I had to memorise lots of words from a list. I remembered eight, which was better than I thought. I’ve always sucked at memory type games.
Uno
May 10th
It’s apparently a popular real life card game. P’anther knew of it. I think I’ve vaguely heard of it, but I’ve never played it. So I cautiously downloaded the trial version of the game. After a few hands getting used to the rules and filling in the blanks in the slightly rubbish online help I realised it was ace and bought the full version. (It’s a 400 point game, which seems fair.) No idea what makes it so compelling, but it is.
I’ve played a few single player games and one match online. Unfotunately, there don’t seem to be that many people playing so that match had only one other human player and two AIs making up the numbers. The other human won. I lost. I’ve lost all my matches so far.
At least one achievement you’re meant to get for winning a game got given to me for winning a hand. So that’s okay.
Lost Planet Demo
May 9th
It’s available now on Live Marketplace and from a brief (failed) go at one of the levels on offer it seems really very good indeed. It’s a very satsifying third person shooter with old-school Gauntlet-style generators, all wrapped up in a next-gen coat of impressively shiny graphics.
Almost made me forget about the Wii for a few minutes.
Brain Age
May 9th
Thirty today. Acceptable.
I’m very surprised I did that well, givent that my head’s full of Wii.
Brain Age
May 8th
Fifty today. Oh dear.
I just froze up a couple of times and got some horrible scores.
Test Drive Unlimited Demo
May 8th
Hmm.
Server wasn’t up when I tried it, so I couldn’t go online.
Seemed okay, if hard for me to control, but I really, really hate demos that time out.
