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A Gaming Diary
Mr Driller Online (360)
Apr 2nd
The 360 controller’s killed me a few times, but other that…
::happy sigh::
I love Mr Driler.
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (PS3)
Apr 2nd
Sony really don’t make this easy to love. Bought it from the store, waited a couple of hours for it to download… then had to try for three hours for to download an update. Progress bar was going up incredibly slowly and it kept failing. I thought I was going to have to leave it overnight, but just as I was going to bed I checked the PS3 and the update had finished, so I actually managed to get two quick races in before sleep.
Leapt it and bought an RX-8 and took it to London in arcade mode, with everything set to the defaults. Hit many barriers and didn’t do very well at all.
Then I went to the first C-class event and played with physics on professional and traction control turned down to 1. Still kept it on automatic gears because I can’t do manual. Not in games, not in real life. Came first by a long way, despite spinning out in the same place both laps.
It was excellent and all the installation nonsense was forgiven as soon as I was driving. Looks very nice, though London stuttered a bit here and there.
Pity there’s no way to turn the music off during a race.
Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS)
Mar 27th
Woke up this morning to an email from 1:18am last night from my wife, telling me she’d sent me a rescue request.
So I spent my lunchtime on a quest to rescue her from the marshes. Didn’t have any anti-drain armlets and my sword wasn’t plated so I rushed through the final coupe of floors, but I managed to save her without mishap.
NetHack (DS)
Mar 26th
Oh, for goodness sake. Twice this lunchtime I died because I hadn’t noticed I was hungry and fainted during fights with gnomes.
NetHack (DS)
Mar 25th
I drank from a fountain, because I’ve just discovered the drink command.
It unleashed a water demon, who killed me dead.
Oh.
Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS)
Mar 25th
Rescued my wife a few times and built up a good set of equipment for my next attempt to free the golden condor, or whatever I’m meant to be doing. I’ve not paid much attention to the story.
Also spent a good long time sorting out my warehouse, which is now full of storage jars full of weapons, shields, scrolls and staffs.
NetHack (DS)
Mar 24th
There are two versions of this out for the DS. One is unplayable due to using a tiny, unreadable font, but the other works very well. Can’t seem to name my pet, but not had any problems apart from that.
Keep dying very early though, oddly. Once because my pet dog tripped a bouder release switch, squishing me. Thanks for that, puppy.
Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS)
Mar 24th
I got to level twenty-eight today, by some way the best I’ve ever done. Things had got silly by that point. My weapon and shield had disappeared somehow – I missed any message because so much happened at once – and I was just using all my precious scrolls trying to stay alive. Eventually things just got too much.
That was the only proper run I did today. Did a lot of rescue runs and quite a few puzzles.
Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS)
Mar 24th
More rescuing. I now have a warehouse full of equipment. Rescuing people is great.
Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS)
Mar 22nd
In normal games I didn’t do too well today, but I picked up loads of good stuff rescuing my wife a couple of times.
