A Gaming Diary
360
Dock’em Demo (360)
Jun 4th
A simple little game, but well worth a look. Ships enter the screen from all directions and you have to draw paths to their correct ports, without having any collide. It’s all good… except for the alert noise, which is the worst noise in any videogame ever. It annoys me and got to my wife so much that she had to go upstairs. It’s horrible – and I stopped playing myself soon enough because I feared I was going to get a headache.
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (360)
Jun 2nd
Spent half an hour trying to scan my face in. Failed. And why, every time I took a picture of me facing to the left, did it flip it round so I was facing right? Is it meant to do that? Help!
Anyway, after giving up I tried the first mission, which was all sorts of fun, but I died a lot. Not Demon’s Souls amounts of death, but more than I’d expect on what amounts to a tutorial level.
Star Trek D.A.C. Demo (360)
May 23rd
Decided this was rubbish about five seconds in, played for about four minutes in case I was mistaken. I wasn’t.
Flock Demo (360)
May 23rd
Played it until it started annoying me, which I think took a little over two minutes.
Blazing Birds Demo (360)
May 23rd
Over-complicated Slime Volleyball. I thought was enjoying it for a while, then suddenly realised I wasn’t and turned it off.
Trivial Pursuit (360)
May 21st
Four more games last night, still no repeated questions. Excellent stuff. I won the first two, but then my wife came back to win the second two, which meant she was the winner, because the first two were just practice games… or something.
Two Worlds (360)
May 19th
Awful. Just awful.
Not only was it a seemingly endless parade of “run here, trigger cut scene, run back, trigger cut scene, run here, trigger cut scene” but something about it has left me feeling physically ill. I assume something about the graphics (framerate?) but the voice acting is bad enough that it might be the cause.
Just… imagine Oblivion, but from a parallel universe where everything about Oblivion went wrong. It’s Oblivion with a sinister goatee. And one leg. One arthritic leg. One gangrenous, arthritic leg, limping jerkily in the general direction of… of… of… I dunno. Vomit, maybe. A giant lake of vomit.
It looks awful, it sounds awful, the quest design (at least for the forty-five minutes I played) is beyond awful, the combat is… almost serviceable, actually, if quite dull, but having to fight boring wolves and boars every six yards gets old, fast.
This is going cheap on the Internet these days, but your time is worth more than this. Even if you’re an unemployed immortal who has played every other game ever made, go and draw a pretty picture or help someone across the road or something. Just don’t play this. It’s not worth it.
Mind you, maybe it gets better…
Trivial Pursuit (360)
May 8th
Two more games last night. It’s not important who won. (My wife won both of them.)
New questions pack came out last night. I have heard it’s free on the PS3, but they want 400 points for it on the 360. I would probably buy it anyway, but I only have 350 points, so, no. I’m adding 500 points when I only need fifty. No way.
Trivial Pursuit (360)
May 7th
Three more games and it’s still not repeating questions yet. Fingers crossed it lasts a bit longer, because it’s excellent fun.
