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A Gaming Diary
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Jan 4th
I love this game.
I love it because it’s online.
And I love it because Monique is packed up and ready to go.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Jan 4th
Hooray! I have a whole new floor to play with. At the moment it’s a kitchen and dining area, which leaves downstairs looking rather empty.
Nook’s not open yet, so I can’t see how much my new mortgage is. I mean, I could look it up easily enough, but I don’t want to know.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Jan 3rd
Oh! The guilt! The horrible, terrible, soul-tearing guilt!
I’ve just paid off my 298,000b mortgage, but it came at a cost, a terrible cost.
The cost of a stringfish and a tuna, in fact, both of which the museum needs. I caught one of each today and instead of taking them to Blathers I sold them to Nook. I’m terrible, greedy pig.
My soul is lost.
Perfect Dark Zero
Jan 2nd
Bizarre.
I’ve just completed the game on the easiest difficulty setting.
The story makes absolutely no sense and the levels start getting really good… and then there’s a laughably bad boss level and that’s the end.
Perfect Dark Zero
Jan 2nd
Well, I played a single player level. It’s really not very good. Not on the Agent difficulty level I’m playing on, anyway. It gives me so much health that it’s practically a god mode, but it doesn’t give a very good idea of how to meet each objective, so I tended to run around randomly until it told me I’d completed it. (And that’s with guide arrows on. They just disappeared for no reason now and again.) And then I failed the level because my AI buddy died for no reason. So I did the level again and this time he didn’t, so I got through.
So I jumped online. Mainly Onslaught mode, which is ace. Not the best group of people I’ve ever played with, but some good people in there. I didn’t do too badly either and only killed someone on my team once, when they ran between me and an enemy.
(Oh, and the Xbox Live scoreboards got reset again overnight, so my great new Geometry Wars score has been wiped again.)
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Jan 2nd
A couple of hours today, which is far longer than I’d normally play. I wanted to pay off my current mortgage, but didn’t manage it. I’m still 50,000b short.
However, I did catch my first insect today – a pill bug. In fact, i caught two – one for the museum and one for Big Top.
And I shot down my first present. In fact, I shot down three – a cabin wardrobe, a billiard table and a kitchen sink.
Wow.
Xbox 360
Jan 2nd
Well, Microsoft started 2006 the way they’ll probably go on by screwing us over. In this case, by resetting the Live scoreboards for all the games.
So I just played four of my Live Arcade games to at least get some sort of scores back on there and managed to get my best ever Geometry Wars 2 and Mutant Storm Reloaded scores. Result! (At least I think it’s my best Geometry Wars score, there’s no way to tell. But I’m pretty sure it was under 200,000, which I beat easily in my first game tonight.)
Got my second best ever Robotron score and couldn’t come close to my Joust score, though.
Unfortunately, none of my friends have played any of those games yet, so my friends rankings are bare.
Did a couple of races in NFS:MW while the box was on, too. Well, I won two and then came last in the next one I tried, so I turned it off. I’m petty like that sometimes.
Dragon Quest VIII
Jan 1st
I’ve just played for four hours or so without doing any story stuff at all, just exploring.
I’ve actually got ahead of myself, I think, and visited places I’m going to have to return to when the story requires it.
I’ve just got to where I should be, story-wise, though, and I’ve saved. I’ll dig in a bit later, after my eyes have had time to recover from extended screen-staring.
And I hate being really proud of a reciepe I’ve made up only to find it written down somewhere five minutes later.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Jan 1st
And no turnips this morning.
I ran all round town, but couldn’t find Joan anywhere.
Still played for an hour, though. Fruit picking, letter writing, chatting, fossil digging, all that.
