A Gaming Diary
360
Tiger Woods 07 Demo (360)
Oct 10th
Damn.
I really enjoyed this.
And I really didn’t want to.
Looks merely okay, but the golf seems very solid. And that’s what important, yes?
Another one for the wishlist, then.
Doom (360)
Oct 7th
A couple more levels completed.
Annoyingly, I seem to have lost my 360 headset – I’m sure it’s around… somewhere – and my wireless controller has developed an annoying clicking sound when I move it back and to the right. Movement still feels fine so far, but the clicking noise sounds very wrong and gets into my brain and makes me want to kill things.
So Doom’s quite good for that, really.
FIFA 07 Demo (360)
Oct 7th
Hmpf.
I decided to play it until I scored a goal.
In the first game, I didn’t score.
In the second game, I didn’t score.
In the third game, I scored… sort of. It was credited to Giggs, but what happened was that Giggs took a shot, the goalkeeper fumbled it, a defender ran in, the ball bounced around between them and then over the goalie and into the back of the net. Looked like an own goal by the defender to me.
So, thinking that didn’t count, I played a fourth game, but didn’t score.
So I tried a fifth game, but didn’t score.
And then I turned the bloody thing off.
FIFA 07 Demo (360)
Oct 6th
Hmm.
Looks nice and shiny, ball seems to behave better than any other footie game I’ve played, but it felt quite clunky and I didn’t score once in the three half-games I played.
I need to play this further. I am intrigued, but unconvinced.
Sonic The Hedgehog Demo (360)
Oct 5th
I tried this again to see if I was being too hard on it before.
I wasn’t.
Need For Speed: Carbon Demo (360)
Oct 5th
Bloody awful.
I played it yesterday when I was off work sick and could only stand it for about a minute before the horrible framerate made my head feel like it had split in two. (Before playing it merely felt like my head was in danger of splitting in two.)
You can play around and customise bits of your car before racing, but beyond the spoiler I doubt anybody would notice any difference during the racings. (Especially in the in-car view, obviously.)
Anyway, the framerate is no better than Most Wanted last year and the racing seems significantly more annoying and handling much more sludge-like.
I am not impressed.
Sonic The Hedgehog Demo (360)
Oct 3rd
No, I’ve not played it again, but I’ve written something I think begins to sum up how bad it is -
Imagine you get into work to find your boss at the door with a cardboard box of your belongings telling you to go home. Forever. So you walk home in the rain, stepping on dogshit twice on the way. On your doormat is a letter from the bank saying they’ve discovered errors in your account dating back twelve years and you owe them $57,583.10, payable immediately. Annoyed, you kick the cat, which lands at an awkward ankle and breaks its neck. It’s yelping in pain and confusion, trying the drag itself across the floor by its chin, so you put it out of its misery with a heavy book. Just then the doorbell rings and it’s your wife’s parents come to collect the book they lent you. Which you’re holding in your hands. Covered in cat brains. And an eyeball. With a dead cat lying on the hallway carpet behind you. They turn in disgust and leave, their Volvo running over your prize-winning flowers in their haste to exit your driveway. Then you go upstairs to find your wife to tell her about your day and find she’s been brutally murdered. Her brains – looking not unlike the cat’s – are spread all over your bed. You call the police and they arrest you and beat you in the cells and feed you food they’ve all pissed in, but by mid-evening come to the conclusion that you’re not a murderer and it was all the work of a gang of seventeen men she had been sleeping with every day for several months while you were at work. The police therefore simply charge you with animal cruelty and release you on bail. You get home to find you’ve been burgled because the police investigators left your front door open. All that’s left is your TV and Xbox 360. And a tightly coiled turd in the middle of your living room floor. So you sit down on the floor, away from the turd, download the Sonic demo and play it and it’s the worst thing that’s happened to you all day. That’s how bad it is.
Doom (360)
Sep 27th
First episode complete! Hoorah!
Top of my friends list (for now) and number 946 in the world (for now).
It really is my favourite game of all time. The controls feel perfect now I’ve adjusted, too. Wonderful, wonderful pure gaming perfection.
Doom (360)
Sep 27th
It’s up and it’s got the best joypad controls the game’s ever had. It’s Ultimate Doom, too, not the original version.
Not quite up there with a pre-Win95 keyboard, but good enough.
Tried a Deathmatch online. Was laggy as fuck for a while, but got much better once a couple of people dropped out. I lost. Horribly.
