A Gaming Diary
Posts tagged geometry wars
Geometry Wars 2
Feb 2nd
Put it on for a quick go… which lasted an hour and a half.
Best score: 194,240.
I need to reach 250,000. Soon.
Xbox 360
Jan 21st
Robotron 2084 first, to check to see if the background can be removed. (I don’t think it can.)
Then a few levels of Wik, which is seriously draining for some reason. I’ve got on to levels with poisonous bugs now, which is really annoying because I have to, you know, be careful and stuff. Boo.
Then Geometry Wars 2. Hours of it. Well, about an hour of it. I got best score ever, which should be a cause for celebration, but it was only 6,000 short of the achievement-netting 250,000 mark, which put a damper on things. Just 6,000 more and I could have got some more sweet, sweet gamer points.
Geometry Wars 2
Jan 11th
Half an hour.
No score above 120,000.
Sometimes I don’t know why I bother.
Well, apart from the fact that it’s great fun.
Xbox 360
Jan 9th
I’m really starting to get into the Fight Night demo. I am actually starting to develop technique. My blocking is very suspect and my ducking and weaving is entirely random, but I’m starting to get into the right rhythm, mix up my shots nicely, look for openings, that sort of thing. If March wasn’t Oblivion month, I’d pencil this in for a purchase, EA or no EA.
I still haven’t won by knockout, though. In the second match I played today I knocked my opponent down twice, but he still managed to get up.
Anyway, after three matches I switched over to Geometry Wars 2 for a five minute go that turned into over half an hour and was only stopped because Life of Mars was about to start on BBC1. I got a new ‘official’ high score, but it was only 192,000, a good deal less than my actual best score. The quest continues…
Geometry Wars 2
Jan 5th
Bah!
My high score is now the same one I had last year. My heroic score from a few days ago has disappeared completely.
Annoying.
Though it doesn’t actually change my position in the leaderboard based on my friends’ scores.
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.)
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.
Xbox 360
Dec 28th
Well, I download the FIFA 360 demo earlier, so thought I’d give it a go. Very disappointing, in that it doesn’t seem to be as amusing crap as I’d expected. Didn’t give me enough time to work out how good it was before dumping me back to the menu, but it seemed to be somewhere between just about acceptable and sort of all right. Depends on whether it’s possible to get through the CPU defence, which I seemed to be unable to do.
Then I played a couple of games of Geometry Wars 2, but didn’t even get half-way towards my high score. Gah.
Then a couple of games of Mutant Storm Reloaded. The first game was a disaster, but my second game saw me increase my high score, but I died annoyingly close to getting a cool million points. Still, stretched my lead at the top of my Friends leaderboard, so I can’t complain. I am the Mutant Storm king!
