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A Gaming Diary
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee (PSP)
Aug 4th
I’ve completed all the Senior events now and am about the step up to Grand. I hope it’s not too much harder.
ZAngbandTk (PC)
Aug 3rd
Suddenly, I’ve got a character doing quite well. He got some lucky, lucky equipment early on and that meant he could cut straight through the early enemies and earned him enough cash to get properly started, with scrolls of Identify and Recall. He’s now down deeper than I’ve ever been, killing invisible enemies and even, on one memorable occassion, seeing off a whole kobold army by dazzling them, so that in their confusion they ripped into each other and he managed to kill those on the sidelines and even the leader of army himself. Sweet. So, when Creep the Beastman Chaos Warrior finally dies, as he will, he’ll be top of the scoreboard, easily.
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee (PSP)
Aug 3rd
I’ve been having a good time with this. The events I’m doing now are just hard enough to be a challenge, without being frustrating. Had some bitter Sudden Death defeats and some wonderful victories on points. It’s good stuff.
ZAngbandTk (PC)
Aug 2nd
I’m not sure how the scoring works. The character I talked about in my last post – Your Mam’s Face – managed to get more than a thousand points before dying stupidly. (He was killed by cave spiders. Cave spiders! I didn’t even think of them as a threat and so wasn’t paying attention.)
My next character – Mexico Shooter – didn’t do too badly, either, before dying stupidly. (He read a random scroll he’d found and it turned out to be a scroll of summon monsters, so found himself surrounded by dragons and bees without a way out.) However, he only ended up with 24 points, which is about as many points as I normally ever get.
So where did these hundreds and hundreds of extra points come from for Your Mam’s Face? I wish I could find a scoring guide somewhere.
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee (PSP)
Jul 31st
This is just as enjoyable as I remembered it, which isn’t bad after two (yes, two) years. I’ve started using the old guy to get his loyalty up. Sometime I need to find out how you get medals. There’s a space for them all, but I haven’t got any yet.
ZAngbandTk (PC)
Jul 31st
So I’ve gone back to this. Tried some spectre characters with no success. Currently have a chaos warror who started off as a beastman, but got turned into a nie… nib… nil… nieblu… type of dwarf by a Chaos God. Fair enough. At least he can see in the dark now.
I wish this ran on OSX.
CastlevaniaRL (PC)
Jul 31st
Okay, I think that’s it. I can’t work out how to heal in the church, with is annoying me more than it should, but, more than that, I keep dying very early and doing the initial forest stuff over and over gets tiring.
Pac-Man Championship Edition (360)
Jul 30th
This may be my last chance to play proper console games for a while, as my consoles are being packed to be moved tomorrow evening. So what did I choose to play to mark this occassion? Well, obviously, Pac-Man C.E., of course. Unfortunately, I was awful and didn’t come close to any sort of achievement or Achievement.
(And then I played Rush’n Attack, but lost all my three lives because I forgot which button was the special weapon button three times, so I’m going to ignore that and not post about it.)
CastlevaniaRL (PC)
Jul 30th
Not an official Castlevania game, but a roguelike in a Castlevania skin. At first it was annoying because I kept dying really early, but then I discovered I should be attacking (a) with my weapon and not firing (f) my weapon. Then it was annoying because I kept falling into a lake from which there seems to be no way out. But I discovered the jump (j) key and all was well. Now it’s annoying because I’m in a town, I need to heal myself at the church, but nobody will tell me where it is and I can’t find it. And some people say I need to heal by shouting outside the church, some by resting inside the church, but there’s no church and no key to rest and no key to shout and I’m getting very annoyed indeed.
I’m probably being really stupid, but I just can’t tell what I’m meant to do.
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee (PSP)
Jul 30th
The PS3 version of this is out in Japan and my lust for it is wild, but I’m not going to buy it. For it costs money and is in Japanese. So I loaded up the PSP version for the first time in many a moon. Or “months” as I sometimes like to call them. My save file is, I’m sure, a long way behind where it should be – I think some backing up went wrong somewhere – but never mind. I started it up and got my “best ever” (i.e. best on this save) score on an event (a lovely minus five over nine holes), which made me happy.
