A Gaming Diary
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New Kameo Demo
Apr 27th
Yep, there’s a new demo of Kameo up on Live Marketplace.
I can see what they were trying to do – give a little taster of all the different bits of the game – but it’s just odd and confusing and unsatisfying and not a patch on the old demo.
And that boss battle has put me right off ever buying the game now.
Zuma
Apr 24th
Hooray! I finally got off Stage 5. Didn’t get an achievement for it, though. It was definitely worth one.
Stage 6 isn’t letting me past right now, the git.
Geometry Wars 2
Apr 24th
What a bizarre session. Fifteen or twenty games, only got above 100,000 three times. Which, for those who don’t know, is so crap it’s just plain weird.
However, one of those games saw me get 343,000, beating my previous best score by 50,000 points. How odd.
Eight thousand short of the next target on my friends list though. Bah.
Marble Blast Ultra
Apr 24th
Final advanced levels are stupid. I’ve just checked. They will never be completed.
BEGONE!
Blazing Angels Demo
Apr 23rd
Tried this again. Someone left a long comment here saying I should and I noticed deKay had played it, so I thought I’d jump in again.
The voice acting hasn’t got any better.
But this time I managed to drop the flyers over the church in the tutorial bit. Hoorah! And then I shot some Germans down and sunk some battleships and shot some more Germans down and then let parliament get destroyed. Because I’m rubbish. I’ve always been terrible at lfying games and this is no different. It’s better than most – rather like Rogue Squadron without the Star Wars – and it was quite fun at time, but I ended up just getting annoyed with having to wrestle with my plane, as I always seem to in these games.
Better second impressions than first impressions, then, but I can’t see myself buying it. I probably wouldn’t even play it much if I got it for free. It’s just not for me. Apart from the voice acting, though, it doesn’t seem bad as far as these things go.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Apr 17th
I’m the Grand Arena Champion.
Other than that, I just wandered around aimlessly. My heart wasn’t in it today.
All the special items I’ve been earning are rubbish. Armor worse than stuff I’ve got, weapons that I can’t use.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Apr 16th
I felt a bit lost when I started it up, the main quest being finished with.
So what did I do? Well, I decided go to the Arena. I’d never even been into the Arena District of the Imperial City before. Bet 50G on the blue team and lost. Gambling’s never been my thing. (Though I did get my own back my stealing 500G from the bookmaker later.) So I decided to enter the ring myself.
Piece of piss, it is. I’ve been using my trusty Sickening Bow, only changing my lovely fire sword Smelter when the long range thing isn’t working. I go out, fight, come back, heal myself and then conjure up and soul trap some scamps to refill my magical weapons. At the end of the day I wander over to the weapons shop to get some repairs done. It’s a good living and I’m up to Gladiator rank already.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Apr 16th
Ah, well, the main quest was shorted than I thought. All done and dusted now.
Not the best part of the game, I reckon. All a bit dungeon-crawly.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Apr 16th
Some more Oblivion gates closed and a bit more of the main quest completed.
Not sure what else can happen in the main quest, but it can’t be finishing quite yet, so there must be a twist or two to come.
