Verymostodd. I’d previously managed to complete all of the contests, and made Skater of the Year (the Thrasher cover), but neither achievement was activated. Then, today, for some reason they unlocked. All I did was a relatively minor bail while skating. I hadn’t even completed an event or goal or anything. Bizarre. I then pulled off the last two tricks in my trick book, and the achievement for that hasn’t popped up either. What the hell is going on?
Well, I didn’t think I’d ever get there, but today I managed it. Unlike many other games, I really feel my skill within the game had actually improved, and it feels like a much more realisitic skill progression than the Tony Hawk style of stats and levelling up. In skate., it’s me that improves, not my skater. That’s not to say everything is better than Tony Hawk, though. The Pro Skater games are more arcadey and less realistic, but big, …
Ah! I figured out what the “ride the hubba and 360 flip” pro challenge was. It seems a “hubba” is just a platform, and a 360 flip is not a flip through 360 degrees – it’s a specific (and very difficult to pull off) trick. Basically, you have to hold the right stick at the 3:30 clock position, rotate clockwise to 7:30, then flick to 2 o’clock very, very quickly in one movement. Not easy. Anyway, with that done (and …
You might recall that a couple of weeks ago, I posted about how I was possibly going to be used in an advertising campaign. Well, today is the day the campaign is unveiled, and I will be part of it! So, I could be appearing in newspapers, bus stops, and on the backs of actual buses, promoting The University of East Anglia. Woo!
I didn’t realise you could find and unlock other LocoRoco blobs to play with/as. Until I unlocked two today – a pink one, and a blue one. And here’s the genius bit: they have their own voices that they sing along to the level music in! Fantastic! Even if the blue one has a really deep manly voice and sounds a bit creepy… Today I completed all of the levels in World 2, all bar one completed with at least …
Amazing! I’ve really progressed today, both in terms of how far into the game I’ve managed to get, but also in my skill at the game. I finished off everything to do with the Skateboard Mag (beating P-Rod at SKATE was virtually impossible, though), which unlocked the two X-Games events – both of which I managed to get Gold in. The giant ramp you unlock after the events really helps nail some of the Thrasher videos, as high scores, big …
OK, so I improved today. A lot. It seems I hadn’t actually been doing the Thrasher goals much, so had loads of them ready to attempt. Also took part in a Jam session that I easily won, and plenty more photo and video spots too. Here are a couple of today’s bails:
I’ve just written a birthday card out for a friend, and noticed something a bit odd… Apparently, a card for someone’s 30th birthday is not suitable for children under the age of three.
It really is getting too hard now. I can’t find any more goals (or “milestones” or whatever EA calls them) that I can realistically complete. It’s a good job the skating around aimlessly is so much fun, otherwise I think I’d have to stop playing.
I’ve just had a phonecall on my mobile. Welsh Bloke: Hi there! I’m just ringing you to let you know your T-mobile contract is up for renewal and we can offer you a brand new phone and a massive reduction on your bill! My contract is indeed up for renewal. So I naturally just assumed it was T-mobile calling me. Me: Erm, OK. It’s unlikely you’ll be able to reduce my bill… Welsh Bloke: Lets see we– Me: Hang on, …
Just another couple of levels completed today. The ice one was ace – loads of sliding all over the place!
Having played all the demos I could find over the last wee or so, the full game finally arrived today. Only managed to get as far as completing the first two levels, though, and played about with the house, and the crane minigame. It’s very cute, isn’t it?
A while ago, I upgraded all the networking kit in my house. My wireless access point kept freezing, and I was getting some lag on Xbox Live, so I thought I’d replace the lot.¬¨‚Ć In doing so, I also bumped my wireless security up from WEP to WPA – something my old kit didn’t support. However, my DS only supports WEP or nothing. That meant I wasn’t able to connect to the internet for Nintendo WFC games like Mario Kart …