A Gaming Diary
Archive for October, 2008
Lego Indiana Jones (360)
Oct 9th
Finished off Raiders of the Lost Ark with the wife last night. It’s very good fun, but the perspective makes some jumps hard in co-op mode, where the camera can’t move around to the best angle for you.
Disgaea DS (DS)
Oct 7th
Back to the DS version. Created a Brawler, Knuckles. Put his three bonus points into Attack and he’s already doing a fair amount of damage at level one. I didn’t really want a Brawler, but I need a Brawler and a Warrior to unlock the Rogue, who I do want.
Phew.
Pain (PS3)
Oct 7th
Just twenty minutes or so in the Abusement Park, trying and failing to get a decent number of points. I think I’m missing something there.
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness (PSP)
Oct 7th
Yes, the PSP version last night. For some catharsis, I did a level that’s quite hard for my team on the DS version and completed it with Oce, my lowest-level Prinny. It’s a lot smoother than the DS version, feels a bit more responsive and the wide screen view is lovely, but I did miss the map a bit. I think if I had to choose one version, it’d be the PSP version.
Lego Indiana Jones (360)
Oct 7th
Just one level last night. At some point my wife and I switched characters and couldn’t work out how to change back. I’m Indy, she’s Marion, that’s how it is. Except last night. Tch.
Lego Indiana Jones (360)
Oct 6th
Goodness, but the levels are long in this game. My wife and I played co-op for over two hours and only managed to do the first four levels. It’s good fun, though, if sometimes a bit fiddly when it comes to jumping and aiming.
I’d also like to work out why my wife got some of the Achievements for finishing levels, but not all of them. She was signed in the whole time we were playing together.
Strange.
Mercenaries 2: World In Flames (360)
Oct 5th
I played for a few hours and blew up a lot of stuff. Got an Achievement for getting all the Allied outposts. The Chinese really, really hate me now.
Disgaea DS (DS)
Oct 4th
Got myself a cleric with a green mage pupil after farming easy mana from the tutorial level.
Inefficient, but easy to do while watching TV.
Crystal Quest (360)
Oct 4th
Blast from the past! In the years since I last played there seems to have been a leaderbooard reset. Got up to 315th in the world in a few minutes. More a testament to how few people have bought the Xtreme mode DLC than my own skills, I think.
Mercenaries 2: World In Flames (360)
Oct 4th
Lots of bugs today, including one console lock-up, but it saves checkpoints to the save file, so I managed to make it through the huge “Get Solano” mission. Tanks, helicopters, jeeps – I used pretty much every type of vehicle to get through it.
Also: Artillery.
