A Gaming Diary
360
Bioshock (360)
Aug 27th
Looking at the Achievements list and the blanks in the list of locations I reckon I’m about a third of the way through this now.
It’s great. Every time it seems to threaten to become mundane I turn off the game for a while and when I come back I’m amazed again.
It’s also a game that my wife loves to watch me play.
Bioshock (360)
Aug 24th
I’ve put a good few hours into this now. I find that two hours or so is my limit for a single session. I don’t get bored, as such, I just seem to start to finding it very difficult to keep track of things and to kill enemies. A break of half an hour sorts that out, then I’m ready to jump back in.
It really is excellent. The setting is wonderfully atmospheric, but the main focus is the combat, which I think is superb. You really have to think fast, to choose which plasmids and weapons to use on a split-second basis. I’m dying a lot and I think some enemies have a touch too much health, but that’s about the only criticism I have right now.
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.
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.
