A Gaming Diary
Archive for April, 2008
Sonic The Hedgehog (360)
Apr 25th
Except, not.
It keeps telling me I’ve got the trial version, even though I bought it, and won’t let me play. Nor will it let me buy it again (not that I would) because I’ve already bought it. I deleted it and redownloaded it, but nothing helped.
GAH!
Mr Driller Online (360)
Apr 25th
My high score is now over twice that of any on my friends list. I win, or something.
Half-Life 2 Episode Two (360)
Apr 25th
Well, I’m never going to play through Half-Life 2 and Episode One on the 360 after all this time, so I thought I’d start off Episode Two. Seems pretty good so far, in a “more or the same” kind of way. Just finished an antlion siege, which was more fun than I expected it to be.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time (DS)
Apr 24th
…I’m sure there are odder game concepts than “roguelike Pokemon bounty hunter”, but few spring readily to mind.
Nurikabe (DS)
Apr 24th
First game I’ve played in ages and there’s nothing to say about it.
I started it up, I did three puzzles, I stopped.
I think I’m just waiting for GTA IV before getting back to the gaming, though hopefully I’ll get some Mario Kart time soon.
Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
Apr 11th
I need italics.
This game is brilliant.
The wheel is a great accessory and really adds to the experience, after five or six races of falling off things, bashing into walls and failing to do tricks. I thoroughly enjoyed my time paying through the first couple of 50cc cups.
But where it got the italics was online. Just playing random people was amazing. No visible lag at all, which is incredible. Whether Nintendo have written amazing net code or amazing lag-hiding code I don’t know, but it was just as smooth as playing offline. Except, you know, instead of playing cheating AI characters I was playing real people in the UK, Germany and France. I just thought I’d try out a race or two and ended up playing for an hour. I only stopped because I had to get some potatoes out of the oven.
Grand Theft Auto 2 (PSP)
Apr 10th
Always my least favourite GTA and, oof, it’s not aged well at all. Played for half an hour or so, but failed to find the fun.
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (PS3)
Apr 10th
Just one event completed tonight, and only with a bronze medal. Still, it was a great few minutes. I’m just loving the handling in this so much.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (DS)
Apr 9th
My wife finished this today but missed a cut scene, so I’m going to try and finish it so she can see it. Made some good progress today, opening up a couple of new areas and getting my first new team members.
