Everyone loves Ghibli films, right? They’re everything Disney aren’t. You know, like good and stuff. My Neighbour Totoro follows the story of two girls who, with their father, move to the country to be nearer their mother in hospital. There’s not really much of a plot, as very little actually happens. It’s just a very nice fairy story of the forest spirits (Totoro and his friends) and how they help the girls a couple of times after the girls lend …
Getting the achievement for building a city up to create over 200 resources per turn is impossible. Even on the easiest setting, using the Egyptians (as they get a production bonus), and focussing solely on developing a city for resource creation, I still ran out of moves before any of my cities passed 90 per turn. Bah.
Yes! It’s the Irregular Xbox Demo Roundup Post! Alone in the DarkOh my. How bad is this? From having to press a button to blink, to having to be positioned pixel-perfect in order to pick stuff up or open doors, to the stupid indestructible baddies who can only be defeated for good if you drag them to a fire. And it’s too dark to see anything half the time. Awful. SBK08Supposedly, this is all about realism and simulation, whereas MotoGP …
It looks impressive. Very impressive. And I’ve always been slightly tempted by the series. However, it’s made by Sega (with whom I am currently not best friends), and it’s PC game. And I don’t have a PC. Anyway:
Aside from blasting off and nuking them from orbit, is there any way of stopping these people from calling me?¬¨‚Ć I’m set up with the Telephone Preference Service, but I still get people ringing. Usually, no one is on the line when I pick up (or I don’t pick up at all), but they shouldn’t be calling at all. Today’s offender is 01563 556366, which (according to other posters at WhoCallsMe?) is yet another company pretending to be T-Mobile.
Yeah, sorry. I’m addicted now. Played tonight and last night, but haven’t had time to post about it. Anyway, the game is ACE, I’ve completed it about 8 times now, played some of the Scenarios (Lightning Round is amazing), and generally been sucked into the game totally. Again. Civ always does this, which is why I never bought Civ III or IV. Curses!
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – I don’t like shooters. Except Defender. And Geometry Wars. And Smash TV. And Side Arms. And Parodius. And Sol Feace. And Space Invaders. And Galaga. And Dominator. But generally, I don’t like shooters. So why did I buy this? Because it’s BIG and SHOOTY and makes my eyes bleed, only bleed slightly less than GWE2 does. And it was by the Pac-man CE team, and that was amazing. This is …
By my unborn child! It was amazing! I had my ear to my wife to have a listen (I’ve been able to hear various sounds for a few weeks now), but this time, I got a kick to the face! Yay! Naturally, I kicked it back.
I started a new game this evening, thinking I’d have a go at the “Win on King before 1000AD” achievement. Sadly, I didn’t even meet any of the other countries before 500BC, as they were all across the sea from me, so I gave up as there’s no way I could do it that attempt. So I decided to give one of the scenarios a go instead, choosing “Beta Centuri”. You start off with all the technologies, and you’re attacked …
Hurrah for killing the French and Italians! 😉 Got myself some achievements – for Domination on King, and for winning as the Germans. I then went back to an earlier save (reincarnating everyone bar the Zulus) and got an Economic victory, before reloading an earlier one again and getting a Cultural one. I can’t reload for a Technology victory, as there aren’t enough moves left in the game to get everything built. I didn’t realise there was a move limit!
This arrived on Friday, and it’s all I’ve played all weekend. First off, I on Chieftain level, as the Russians. Played four times, getting each of the four victories. It seemed very, very easy, so I bumped it up to Warlord level, and completed it (with a Domination victory) as the Aztecs. Their heal-every-win power is excellent! That seemed awfully easy to win too. So I started again, on King difficulty, as the Germans. I quickly wiped out the Zulus, …
Play Asia started selling these recently. They look like a Megadrive variant of the many Famicom “famiclones” out there, but they’re not – they’re officially licenced by Sega! And they’re really cheap too, coming in at under ¬¨¬£20. You get 20 games built into the unit, but it also has a cartridge slot to play original (and forthcoming re-released) cartridges. I tested it with quite a few games of varying geographic origin, and aside from the UK version of Street …
I haven’t posted in a few days, but I have been playing things. Just been a bit busy and tired and stuff. Anyway, here’s what I’ve been up to this week: Fable II Pub Games Demo (360)Marginally entertaining collection of gambling games. If I was interested in buying Fable II (I’m not), and it was 400 points, I’d buy it. So I’m not, then. Bionic Commando Rearmed Demo (360)Quite good fun, although I can’t get used to having no jump …
At work, I’ve facetiously named all our servers with actual proper names. “Server 1” or “Mail Server” are dull, boring, and – most importantly – rubbish names for servers. So they have names. Some were named after specific people, others were named because the machines were different colours and the name started with the same letter as the colour. Roxy is the Proxy. So there’s no real pattern to them all. Anyway. This week, we killed several of the older …
OK. I’m not sure of the point of this, but anyway: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday. May 15th Events 1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world’s first machine gun. 1756 – The Seven Years’ War begins when England declares war on France. 1940 – World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years …