A Gaming Diary
Archive for July, 2008
World of Warcraft (PC/Mac)
Jul 7th
Today I killed some farmers and got a few measly silver coins for my troubles.
I need new daggers. I’ve had my current ones for many levels now and I’m sure I should be doing more damage.
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (DS)
Jul 7th
Played for about an hour and a half. The actual fighting seems incredibly simple and easy so far, but everything outside the fights seems incredibly complicated and bewildering. I have no idea how jobs and abilities work as yet. I think that your job dictates which abilities you can learn, along with your current equipment, but I’m not sure. And there seem to P,R and A abilities, or something. My main character has an ability I can put in an A slot, which lets him use a shield, but he seems to be able to use a shield anyway without it being there. Maybe because of his current job, I’m not sure.
Anyway, I’ll play it a bit more and if I don’t get a handle on it all within another couple of hours I think I’ll go back to Disgaea, which was the original plan anyway.
OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast (PSP)
Jul 6th
Mainly time trials round Ice Scape in the OutRun-class Enzo. I just can’t get it right.
Call of Duty 4 (360)
Jul 6th
Just the single player campaign today. A great variety of gameplay styles (well, a great variety within the limited scope of a modern war-themed first person shooter) and some amazing set pieces. Great stuff.
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness (PSP)
Jul 4th
I was planning on playing this all evening yesterday, but OutRun got in the way. I did manage to do one story level before bed, though. It’s been a very long time since I last played and I need to spend some time going through my team, to see who I’ve got.
I so, so wish you could remove story characters from your team. I’ve got ones I’m never going to use hogging spaces in my list and it’s very annoying indeed.
OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast (PSP)
Jul 4th
Two years on and it’s still a stupid name for a game. However, it’s also still a great game. I put it on for a quick go before playing the main evening feast, Disgaea, and ended up playing for most of the evening. Still can’t do the SP 15-stage continuous route, but that’s just because I’m rubbish. I tried that a few times, tried to impress Clarissa and failed, did some Time Trials, etc. There’s just so much game here.
Call of Duty 4 (360)
Jul 3rd
More online play. Saw a couple of friends online for a little bit, but I mainly played randoms. (And made good use of the Mute button.) It was great fun, even though I was a bit rubbish, and I got up to level six. I only need eleven more kills with my AK47 to unlock a red dot laser sight, which I guess might be nice.
Call of Duty 4 (360)
Jul 2nd
Last night was the weekly BETEO vs UGVM match, which this week was Call of Duty 4. I had a couple of goes at Free-For-All with strangers before the match and got slaughtered horribly. And then got slaughtered horribly when we started playing Team Deathmatch. I was on the UGVM side to make up numbers and it seems that the BETEO players are much, much better. After they killed us a few times we just decided to completely mix the teams up, which worked a lot better and made for some very close games.
I was awful, though. Just kept dying over and over again. Except for one map that was just lots of corridors and small rooms. I had a shotgun in that one and managed to kill eight people. Pretty cool.
Great fun, but I really need some practice.
World of Warcraft (PC/Mac)
Jul 1st
You know you’ve set a buyout price too low for your auction when someone grabs it before your six feet away from the auction house. Bother. I guess that staff I just sold for eighteen gold could have gone for a lot more if I’d priced it correctly. It’s all guesswork, though.
Anyway, I’m happy, because after two days of looking for Jailer Eston I finally found and killed him. Hoorah.
