A Gaming Diary
360
The Outfit Demo
Mar 6th
Had a few more games, including an absolute epic that’s the only one I’ve lost so far. It was great. For the last half of the match, at least, I was really hanging on by a thread and making small comebacks that didn’t build up enough momentum to turn the tde. Final score was about 185-139, or something like that.
The Outfit Demo
Mar 6th
New 360 demo.
It’s one of those very annoying multiplayer-only demos.
No tutorial, no nothing. There is, at least, a screen showing which buttons do what.
So I leapt into a one-on-one game online. Seemed pretty simple, really. Just kill the enemy and try to capture the capture points. Bit like Day of Defeat, but different. Anyway, I won. Even though I stood around doing nothing for a while half-way through when I had to skip through the “lost kitten” conversation in Animal Crossing.
It was annoyingly enjoyable, too. I really, really, really don’t need any more games to buy. Poor buggers coming out the same day as GRAW and Fight Night. If they’d released this time last month when nothing was coming out they could have cleaned up.
Ridge Racer 6
Mar 6th
It’s ace.
But it is absolutely exhausting.
Got stuck on Basic Route race number 74 for ages. No idea why that’s so difficult. The races before and after it are the normal win-first-time types.
Marble Blast Ultra
Mar 4th
I was doing a level called “Under Construction” or something. It was hard. Too hard. I was trying over and over and over and over again. After abour twenty minutes I realised it was depressing me. I mean, my mood had crashed. I was depressed. Life just seemed to be worthless, everything good seemed to be fading away… So I turned off and I feel better already. I’ve never had a game do that to me before. I am very, very tired and deliberately staying up late tonight, so I guess I was in a very suggestible state of mind. But, really, that was horrible, just horrible.
Ridge Racer 6
Mar 4th
Eight more races one.
Two more cars unlocked.
It’s fun, but there’s still too much of it.
Xbox 360
Mar 4th
Started the 360 up when I got up to see if there were any new demos out. There weren’t, so I sent a disgusted message to my friend El Pollo, who was doing the same thing. We exchanged a few messages and then decided to play Joust. Had a few co-op games, which were great fun. We killed each other by mistake quite often. It was my fault, mostly. Oh dear. Still, got a new achievement out of it.
Then we tried Mutant Storm, but that doesn’t actually have Live multiplayer, so that was out.
Started up Gauntlet, which really isn’t much fun any more, even with two players.
And then El Pollo had to go out, so I had a quick go of Zuma and died too quickly.
And all before 9am!
Zuma
Mar 3rd
Tried Gauntlet mode for the first time.
Got 53,000 points.
Don’t really understand the rank thing. I guess you can play at a higher rank based upon your best score, or something. Not sure. The “Help” section in the game doesn’t explain it at all.
