I thought the game was about to take a turn for the crap when I realised Bam Margera was in it. His sections in “The Tony Hawk Dark Days Trilogy” (that’s THUG, THUG 2 and THAW to you) were the least Tony Hawk-y and, generally, crap. I mean, I love Bam and all, but he added too much Jackass to the game. Thankfully, his story was mostly about outdoing him with proper skating and climbing stuff, rather than the usual …
Yeah, I know I completed it earlier, but there’s still quite a bit to do. Not least, almost all of the Rigger storyline. Which is what I spent most of my time on. It seems very hand-holdy. You’re told exactly what to rig or mod, and how. Yeah, you’ve a bit of freedom over adding other bits, but I’m yet to find a reason to do that. Also completed a few more Street challenges that I’d missed, and now my …
So it would seem that in order to complete the game, you just have to do X many goals, and then impress Y many pros, then do the final video with the pros in. So I did! Hurrah! I still have most of the Rigger stuff to go, and loads more street challenges, but the actual Story is now complete, and I got the credits and stuff. So an excellent game by all accounts. I’d sit it a little behind …
Well, of course I’m not going to tell you how to do that. The black helicopters would come and take me away. However, it’s very easy, as these links show: Link with swearing in it. Link with xkcd image. Link proclaiming a love for p2p. Just to show you what these do, in case the RIAA fix it, here’s a screenshot: Note: Yes, this isn’t really hacking, it’s a image injection via URL technique. EDIT @ 19:30 It seems like …
With more stats built up (everything bar wallride and spin), I had another go at Mike V’s huge gap thing – and managed it first time. Ditto for the few gaps he asked me to nail afterwards too. That opened up a load more of stuff in the Hardcore story. Completed all of Dustin’s “missions”, most of which involved “skate checking” – punching people as I skated round. I then did a few Classic goals, and went off to build …
Tried the other game modes today. Classic is much harder than Arcade, because the bunnies move forward every three moves, not every few seconds. This means that when you’re in a panic and need a specific colour bunny, you can’t just chuck bunnies until you get is as you’ll just quicken your demise. As a result, I died halfway through the jungle levels. Endless Mode is just that. Only got around 20,000 points there though, which is crap.
You know, one of these: No, the laptop, not the very rich grinning bloke dressed in black. I’m not getting one. Of course, I don’t buy all gadgets (I’m more of a games person), but I do occasionally have pangs of gadget lust. In this case, however, I’m just thinking “meh”. It’s very impressive, though – incredibly slim and light, nice and shiny, and the “remote drive” features are clever (although almost completely necessary in this case). It’s just there’s …
I’m not anti-[insert religion here] (some of my best friends are [insert religion here]), but some of these quotes are simply unbelievable. Do people really think this: Yes, that is a great company. I bought one of their large print version (old eyes… what can I say?). The only thing I don’t like about them is they sell foreign language versions of the KJB. I don’t think that’s right. We know the only true translation is the 1600’s version in …
I’ve given up on trying to clear the gap that Mike V wants me to do (for now), and have instead moved back to the Pro storyline until my stats have increased a bit. I’ve bumped into another Pro skater and his photographer, and we took loads of photos of me doing stuff. He taught me how to “nail the manual” too, which is really quite hard. I then went off for a bit and completed some spot street challenges …
Yeah, it’s just a normal, nothing special puzzle game. But it’s cute and fun and that’s all you need, right? It seems so, as I really like it. Reached the beach level on Arcade Mode, before dying. That placed me 307th in the world – amazing! Of course, I’ll be 300,007th this time tomorrow…
It would appear that a new version of Buzz! is out. I’m guessing from the title, it’s about fillums. Here’s an advert! Hurrah!
So this morning, I arrived at work some 90 minutes late. Considering I’m often 15 minutes or more early, that’s almost two hours later than usual. The reason? An accident. This accident, in fact. I’m not complaining about the accident at all. It looks especially nasty, by all accounts, and I hope everyone involved is OK. I’m also not really complaining they closed the road. After all, what else could they do? No, my issue is the way in which …
Didn’t play for all that long today, but I did finish off Arto’s chapter with the last of his video clips and the final of the Tri-City comp. That netted me a few more achievements. I then went back to Mike V’s chapter (he does the hardcore stuff, dontchaknow), and completed a few things. I’m totally stuck now though, as I have to jump a huuuuuuge gap, and there’s no way in hell I can make it.