A Gaming Diary
Archive for August, 2007
skate Demo (360)
Aug 22nd
Either something’s up with my controller or it’s incredibly difficult to do some of the first flip tricks it shows you. A right something-or-other was done first time, but the left took about ten minutes to finally get. I’m not sure why.
Rest of the tutorial went okay, but I can’t manual to save my life.
Track & Field (360)
Aug 22nd
I failed on the hammer throw today. I then checked the leaderboards for the events I have completed. I’m not very good, but I’m only bottom of my friends list in one event.
Hexic 2 Demo (360)
Aug 22nd
I tried Battle Mode. When it ended I wasn’t sure if I’d won or lost. 800 points remained unspent.
Street Trace:NYC Demo (360)
Aug 22nd
So bad it felt like deleting the demo wasn’t enough. I wanted to somehow cleanse my 360, to try to rewind to a time before this abomination had been downloaded.
Space Giraffe (360)
Aug 22nd
Demented farming sim that pretends to be shooter. Utterly baffling if you’ve not spent two hours reading about the scoring system online, excellent once everything’s been figured out.
I like.
Quake (PC)
Aug 21st
I played Quake yesterday for the first time in many years and seems to be a better single player now than it was at the time. I remember thinking it was a bit dull at the time, but now I’m seeing a lovely quick arcade blast, with some ingenious level design and great set pieces. I think at the time I wanted something epic and huge, but now I’m just happy being able to zoom around at a hundred miles an hour shooting things in the face.
But most of all, maybe, is that now I’m so used to the keyboard and mouse interface I can play it as id intended all along. There’s no interface now, if you know what I mean, and it feels a lot like Doom to me. Surprisingly so.
It’s actually really good fun.
But, yes, it really is as brown as I remember. Maybe browner.
Track & Field (360)
Aug 19th
Okay, I used to hate this type of game in the eighties. Turns out that with the 360 controller held on its side that it’s actually good fun. Probably still wouldn’t have bought it if I didn’t have the points sitting there waiting, but I did, so I did.
Stranglehold Demo (360)
Aug 19th
Played through this again and enjoyed it even more than I had done previously. The Precision Aim power is very much a guilty pleasure. I really want this now.
Fatal Inertia Demo (360)
Aug 19th
Unlike virtually everyone else on the Internet I rather enjoyed this. Not enough to consider spending any money on it, but it was nice bit of Wipeout-esque fun for a couple of minutes.
