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A Gaming Diary
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.
Football Manager Handheld
Apr 16th
And a 1-0 win at home to Carlise and it’s time to put the PSP on charge.
Football Manager Handheld
Apr 16th
Phew.
I was worried last night might be a fluke, so it was some trepidation that I started the game back up.
It soon crashed as I played around with the squad and my PSP rebooted, but I hadn’t lost much. I think I’ll be saving after every match now.
(Got the same draw in the League Cup both times – Leicester, might be tricky.)
I was on the edge of my seat as my next match kicked off. Away at Chester, nine places above us in League Two. I needn’t have worried, it was a good 2-0 win.
(Looking at the official forum for the game, I’ve seen someone else has seen miracles after switching to 4-3-3. I do hope it’s just our teams and management style being suited and not some super game-breaking formation.)
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Apr 16th
Big Top’s sick.
Wolfgang’s moved out.
Katie’s lost again and needs to get back to Vatican.
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.
Football Manager Handheld
Apr 15th
Well, that’s better. I just turned it on for a game before bed, ended up having two. I changed my formation to 4-3-3 so I could play Kuffour in a position he’s more comfortable in and that one change seems to have worked magic. I won my next league match, 2-0 at home against Mansfield. Good result.
But the next game was even better. We were away to Swindon in the League Cup. They’re a division higher than us, so I didn’t hold out much home, but we scored twice in the first five minutes, then Walton came on as a second half sub and hammered one home in the eighty-forth minute, just to really kick Swindon when they were down. Excellent stuff.
And I’ve bought a chap called Lee Goodwin from Dagenham & Redbridge. He’s really just to cover the right side where I’m short on players, but I brought him on as a late sub in the Swindon game and he didn’t seem to do badly. Got a six and we kept a clean sheet, but probably not really much of test.
Football Manager Handheld
Apr 15th
Had this sitting next to me for a couple of days, but hadn’t dared start it up until this evening. Faffed around for ages and ages trying to decide who to manage, so in the end went for the random option. The game chose Torquay United for me. Suits me. I don’t feel ready for the Premiership quite yet. And I’ve just check the BBC web site and Torquay are bottom of the real League Two, so I can’t do any worse than reality.
Anyway, got two or three rubbish players on free transfers, just so I’d have some cover. Not that that made me feel much better when my two most expensive players picked up long term injuries in pre-season training. I took the fitness part of the training regime down to “light” after that and haven’t had anything more than an odd knock since.
I did well in my three pre-season friendlies – two wins and a draw. But the league’s proving to be a different matter. First match, lost 2-1 away at Wycombe, then lost 1-0 at home to Oxford. We’ve just picked up our first point of the season in our third match, away at Wrexham. Hopefully this will be the start of a good streak. Morale’s holding up okay at the moment, but a lot of players are merely satisfied and I’m sure it won’t take much to knock them down a bit. Goal for this season is survival, I think. Nothing more.
Oh, yes, and it’s very good. Works surprisingly well on the PSP.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Apr 15th
Spent a few hours running around closing Oblivion gates. Not the most interesting part of the game, it has to be said. But they don’t take long. I’m really, really fast now, so I can out run just about everything. I don’t even sneak any more. I just charge through hammering my healing spell.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Apr 15th
Still trying the OutRun 2 continuous route on the PSP.
Still failing.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Apr 15th
Argh!
It’s too hard to stop playing!
You want to do A, but to do that you need to do B, but on the way you get distracted by C, which leads to D, so then you go back and do B, but after that you find yourself doing E instead of A and then…
