A Gaming Diary
360
Hitman Blood Money
May 29th
On to the Faultline mission. I’m making some progress, but I’m finding it hard to find the space to perform my misdeeds away from prying eyes. There’s not a really obvious way in like there was in the last mission.
This game is excellent.
Hitman: Blood Money
May 29th
Right, it’s 1:04am, but I’ve finished the ‘Curtains Down’ mission.
Not only did I finish it, but I got a Silent Assassin rating for it. That netted me two Achievements – one for getting a Silent Assassin rating and the other for doing a kill that looked like an accident.
A wonderful night at the opera, then. I wonder where I’m going next?
Hitman: Blood Money
May 28th
Been playing “Curtains Down”, the second proper mission. Just trying things out. Not close to finishing it yet. I’ve got an idea of a couple of times that I could kill one of the targets, but the second target is proving tricky to get near.
Geometry Wars 2
May 28th
Well, I was really tired so I told myself I was just going to have one game before bed.
So I did.
I scored 16,775 points.
Which is possibly my worst score ever.
I guess I’m tired.
Hitman: Blood Money
May 27th
I finally finished the first proper mission! Yay!
However, the newspaper headline after my mission was “Hoodlum Massacres 18!”, which shows that I didn’t quite manage to become the silent assassin that I was going for…
Hitman: Blood Money
May 26th
So, I started it on Expert difficulty, which is the third of four difficulty levels. (Unlike the second of three as it is in Contracts.)
Uses a slightly different control system to Contracts, which threw me. Looks much, much nicer, though.
I died doing the tutorial. Twice. Right at the end. That was annoying. And should have been a sign to me to change the difficulty level, I guess. But I didn’t.
I’ve been playing around in the first real mission today. It’s not going too well, but I think I’ve got a plan on how to dispose of my first target. I’ve tried it once and missed, but I think it’ll work.
Tomorrow.
Table Tennis
May 26th
Phew. I can now play online again. Unfortunately, the lack of lag exposes my rubbishness. I’ve lost all my matches this evening.
I just had an epic best-of-five match against some random person. My best rally won was 85, his was 87. It was that sort of game and must have gone for at least 45 minutes.
I notice that I’ve had some “unsporting” feedback left me in the last couple of days. Eh? How can someone be unsporting when it comes to Table Tennis? Unless I was somehow unsporting by having a rubbish connection last night. People, eh? Bastards, the lot of them.
Table Tennis
May 25th
Well, I’ve confirmed with Telewest that there’s a problem with their network so no online gaming for me until it’s been fixed.
Harumph, I say!
But that gave me a chance to do the first single player tournament, which I won. Wasn’t easy, but by the gods it was fun. The gameplay mechanics are brilliant. Everything feels right. The use of rumble in particular is inspired – take that PS3!
Oh, and it’s right stick rather than buttons all the way for me.
Table Tennis
May 25th
The new 360 game from Rockstar. It plays brilliantly and I’m having fun online, even though I can’t find anybody with a non-red connection to play. Bah.
I just won a couple of matches, too. Well, someone dropped out before I’d even served and I got credited with a win and then I actually won a game, which gave me 10 gamerpoints. Hoorah!
Uno
May 22nd
Managed a couple of ranked games, but all the custom games I found had red or orange ping bars. Is my Live connection fucked or is this a common problem? This is something I feel might be worth putting somewhere someone might read it, so off to the forum I trot to ask about how well other people are faring online. I suppose I could also try another Live-enabled game, but… meh.
