Apparently, there’s some sort of football tournament on at the moment. Quite a big one too. I wouldn’t know. However, the fact that it’s on, and some of the games are on during the working day, causes a few problems in that staff at work want to watch them. And they don’t have teevees. Me to the rescue then, with this motley crew of software and devices: An Elgato EyeTV 410 A PowerMac G5 VLC The VLC Plugin for EyeTV …
Although I’m a remarkably fantastic individual in pretty much every area, there’s one thing that I’m really not the best there is at. DIY. I try. I really do. But things just don’t always work. Take last night’s surround sound speaker setup for instance. I’ve got four speakers to hang on the wall, one in each corner of the room. Running cables was easy – the carpet lifts up and there’s space between the grip rods and the skirting boards. …
If you too were shocked and horrified at the awful Bingification of Google today, here’s how to fix it. Which you’ll want to do. I mean, just look at it: First, click “Add your own background image now”, and upload this suitably sized blank image. Set that as your background, Bing and You’re Done(TM). Phew, eh?
Torn. Very torn. You see, Lego games are some of the BEST. THINGS. EVAR. However, Harry Potter and Harry Potter Related Things are some of the WORST. THINGS. EVAR. So Lego Harry Potter is an irresistible force meeting an immovable object, innit? I don’t know. It was OK. But I hated it. And I loved the Legoness. And having idiot wizard children and beardman and a rubbish dog was stupid. But smashing things and collecting studs was great. But it …
All done! Finished the final two achievements (replay all the levels in Quick Play, and the quite difficult Complete Hangar 51 In Under 5 Minutes). The Hangar 51 one took 6 or 7 attempts, but finally I managed to do it in 4:46 having fluked three hits on the end of level boss. Phew! That means I’ve 100%ed it, 1000/1000ed it, and seen and done everything the game has to offer. Hurrah!
Well, wouldja just look at what appeared on the App Store today: That’s right – excellent XBLA (and, of course, real life board) game Carcassonne. With online, turn-based, push-enabled gameplay! Flabber has never been so ghasted! After a few hiccups, such as no idea how to start a game – it just “happens”, and no way of swapping to another game (turns out to press the cog then Pause), I now have a game in full flow. And it’s excellent! …
Kane came up in conversation about some other “wild west” game over on the ‘muk last week. It’s another game I used to play a lot, but (like Crazy Caverns) totally forgot about until the name came up. It’s hard. I mean, it was rare I ever got past level 3, and I certainly never completed it. What was great though was that the levels were completely different to each other – the bow-and-arrow bird shooting, the train chasing, the …
Well, it’s about time I finally completed something! It’s been months! Admittedly, I’ve been somewhat busy for the last couple of months, and consoleless for around a month of that time, but still. Not only have I completed Lego Indiana Jones 2 today, but I then went on to 100% it. Since I’d been playing to get 100%, that wasn’t too long afterwards as I’d already done nearly everything necessary. The final few % came from just buying stuff in …
And, for the curious, here’s how both charts stack up together. Phew, eh? Don’t forget to clickybiggy. (That’s enough charts for today)
For the purpose of seeing both sides of the coin, here’s the Mario Game Comparison Chart. In case you’re a little confused at why the original Mario Bros gets a 0, note this: it’s a comparison chart. Each title is rated compared to the others. The best game, however poor, gets a 10, and the worst game however good, gets a 0. See? So Mario Bros gets a 0 even though it’s a pretty good game.
I did one of these for Tony Hawk games a while ago, but I decided, in the wake of Sonic 4 and Sonic Colours, that we needed reminding of what we have lost.
Sega, please. Stop doing this to Sonic. It’s like he’s already dead and now you’re raping his corpse.
Still rattling through this. I’ve now 100%ed both chapters 1 and 2 of The Crystal Skull, completed both the Super Bonus levels for doing so, and completed (but not 100%ed) both chapter 3 and Raiders of the Lost Ark. You know, at first I wasn’t sure of this new hub-based level structure, but I’ve grown to really like it. I’ve noticed there’s no Free Play mode any more either – instead, you redo old levels, differently. Like the giant spider …
