A Gaming Diary
Archive for May, 2006
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
May 7th
I’ve just been looking for a statue called The Sentinel. Didn’t find it. All I know is that it’s west of Dragonclaw Rock. Trouble is, there’s an awful lot west of Dragonclaw Rock. Trees, rocks, bears and ogres, mostly.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
May 7th
One day I will turn on my PSP and I will do the OutRun 2 15-stage continuous route.
It will happen.
One day.
Just not today.
Mega Man Powered Up
May 7th
Treid playing as Cutman. Did the first section okay and got another 0.2% and then tried the old Cutman stage – now a Mega Man stage. Mega Man killed me three times and I quit.
I’ve just noticed that my New Style game save seems to have overwritten my Old Style one. That’s very annoying. Bah.
Loco Roco Demo
May 7th
Excellent, I found a brand new area and got another little man.
There’s still that one I can see and not get to, though. I’m wondering if I have to use the wheels to launch me somehow, but I can’t see how.
Brain Age
May 7th
I did all my training, including the newly unlocked syllable count game. It’s hard, but I suspect that’s the point.
Actually, that’s a bit of a lie. I did all the training I wanted to do, which didn’t include the reading aloud thing. Too boring, that one. I don’t need it to get my stamp.
Checked my brain age after doing the training and was 29. That’s younger than I am actually am. Hoorah!
Geometry Wars 2
May 7th
It hated me today. That’s the only explanation. I wasn’t even doing too badly, but it just kept on fucking me as soon as I got 200K. I hate it.
Hardwood Hearts
May 7th
Won one, lost one. By one point. In the last round. I growled.
It’s a very Sunday morning kind of game.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
May 6th
I downloaded the Wizard’s Tower, the first bit of extra paid content I’ve downloaded for the game.
I was down in Anvil when I started the game up after downloading the tower, but I decided to walk to the tower instead of fast travelling there. Inevitably, I did some sightseeing and had some adventures along the way. Found a lovely bridge by a waterfall. Killed a couple of ogres and some nasty people who attacked me as I passed. Killed a nice person who wouldn’t have attacked me by mistake. I saw her up ahead and assumed she was an evil person. But, no, she had a proper name so was probably going to have a nice chat and offer me a cup of tea, possibly. I’ll never know. Couldn’t find a bed I could sleep in in the Chorrol Mage’s Guild, so I wrecked the place from top to bottom with my fireball spell. Petty, I know. Then I played the “get the fireball as close as possible to the guard” game all night while I waited for the weapons shop to open. It’s an exciting game, you should try it. The idea is, as you may have guessed, to send a fireball flying by a guard without hitting him. Knowing that if you get it wrong you’ll have to pay a fine or go to prison adds some great tension. Too much tension, in my case. After some very close shaves I couldn’t handle it any more so I stopped and spent the rest of the night summoning lots of scamps so I could use their souls to recharge my weapons.
Anyway, finding my way up the mountain the tower is on was a trial, but I got there in the end and seeing it emerge out of the fog was wonderful. It looks very, very good. Comes unfurnished, so I went across to the Imperial City to buy the furnishings. Got there at night, so slept until five in the morning in an inn and then went out to feed. Found a beggar asleep outside, so I was able to drink his blood. I like it when I don’t have to break into a house to feed. Another beggar was wandering around and I fired a sneaky arrow at her, which killed her outright and sent her slamming into a wall. I feel bad about that.
Also feel bad about sending a sneaky arrow into the back of Bruma’s stable boy’s head as he ate his lunch. Will make it easier to steal a horse in future. Though I own a horse. And never use it. So it was an utterly pointless kill. When I started playing this game I was good. Then I was honorable thief. Then I was a slightly honorable murderer. Now I’m just a vampire and a killer. I may have saved the world, but I’m just plain evil. I wonder how history would judge me, given all the facts?
Anyway, the furnished tower is superb – Shadowbanish wine in the basement! – and I’m very happy with the 15,000G and £1.50 I spent on it. The view from the top is awesome, too, despite it showing off some of the limitations of the engine.
Oh, and you know what? I can say it now: Oblivion is the best game ever. Finally, after twelve years or so we have game better than Doom.
(I do, however, reserve the right to change my mind again.)
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
May 6th
It’s back!
Or rather I thought I’d play it. Took, ooooh, about ten minutes to get back into the swing of things. Didn’t do any quests or anything, just wandered around near Anvil finding new places to explore. A den of necromancers, a marauder camp in a ruined fort, that sort of thing.
It was absolutely wonderful. I think I’m almost ready to call this the best game ever. Almost.
Hardwoord Hearts
May 6th
Note: not demo.
I won a game.
I lost a game.
And then I stopped playing.
There’s nothing really to say about Hearts. It’s just a card game. Oh, I changed the cards to a different style, which makes the suits easier to see. That’s almost interesting.
Not that I normally bother with being interesting, not sure why I’m going on about it now.