A Gaming Diary
Posts tagged dead or alive
Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 (360)
Mar 4th
My wife’s been playing this a lot, so while she was in the bath last night I started my own game, as the 360 was on and the disc was in the drive. I chose to be Kasumi because… well, because I’m always Kasumi. I bought her a hat, bought some presents for Ayane and Lisa, got to be good friends with them, played some volleyball, took some photos and did an awful lot of jet ski racing. (Which made me long for some Waverace action on the Gamecube, but I’ve got the US version and no way to play US Gamecube games at the moment.)
It’s quietly compulsive, which is all down to the freedom of choice. If I don’t want to do pool-hopping – which I don’t – then I don’t have to. It’s all a bit strange – especially how certain parts of the characters’ bodies move – and no one element is outstanding, but it’s more than the sum of its parts.
Hardest game ever to get an achievement on, though. I didn’t get one in the couple of hours I played last night and my wife, who’s played a lot more than that, still hasn’t got any.
Dead Or Alive 4
Feb 19th
Went through the Story mode with four or five more characters. Takes about twenty each time. There’s always a sticking point. The worst characters for me to play against are Ayane, Hitomi and, curiously, Bass. And Alpha, obviously, but she’s not as bad as I’ve been led to believe.
Then I tried Survival mode a few times. Best was five wins and about 920,000 points. I’m at 80,000 in the world-wide ranking now, out of 105,000 people.
Dead Or Alive 4
Feb 19th
Through story mode with Kasumi and Kokoro.
It does seem utterly random whether I win a round or not. I’ve given up trying to throw the computer characters and I really can’t counter, so I mainly just launch flurries of punches and kicks, but try to mix them up a bit. And then get cocky and decide to try some blocking or countering and find half my health bar disappearing.
Trouble is – apart from being a bit too quick for me – is that with a lot of attacks I’m not sure if they’re high, mid or low. Is it where the attacks hits or where it starts? I’d assume it was impact point (head, chest, stomach) but I’m not sure if it is. I don’t know if I’m countering the wrong way or at the wrong time.
Hmm.
Dead Or Alive 4
Feb 18th
Well, okay.
Dead or Alive 3.5, maybe.
Or Dead or Alive 2.2, even more mayber.
Bad thing? Don’t think so so far.
Haven’t played it all that much, to be fair.
Went through story mode three times with Christie. Or whatever her name is. Something like that. White hair, claims to be poisonous, seems to be allergic to clothing. You know.
Then I decided to – gulp! – jump into online mode. Bought myself a space lobby and a skeleton avatar, found a lobby, joined, first thing I heard was a voice saying, “Argh! It’s just started lagging!” So I left. So I joined another one and had I game. Which I lost. Then another game. Which I lost. Then another game. Which I lost. Then another game. Which I won! Then another game. Which I lost.
Lag was terrible, but I don’t mind the game slowing down, to be honest. I don’t think I managed a counter in any of the matches I played.
Anyway, after that I went into my profile to poke around, went to an “Edit Comment” page, which was a black box with a flashing yellow square in it. Nothing I pressed on the pad did anything. At all. Couldn’t enter text, couldn’t quit out. Nothing. So I had to bring the Guide up and dump myself back to the dashboard. At which point I decided to turn off the 360 and watch TV Burp.
DOA MIA
Jan 23rd
So I started up my old Xbox, wanting to play Dead or Alive: Ultimate to see how much I enjoyed it, to help decide if I want DoA 4 or not. But it wasn’t on my hard drive, which is odd as I definitely remember copying it there. So I looked for the box on the shelf and couldn’t find until, right at the bottom of the pile, hidden by the coffee table, I found it. But the disc wasn’t inside. So I got my old CD storage folder out because I went through a phase of storing my games in there. I found the DoA 3 disc, the DoA: Xtreme Beach Volleyball disc, but no DoA: Ultimate disc. Looked back at the box I’d found and it wasn’t the Ultimate box it was the Volleyball box. Gah.
So I can only assume I must’ve traded in DoA: Ultimate at some point and consequently deleted it from my Xbox’s hard drive, but I’ve got no memory of doing so. Most odd. And annoying.
