I seem to have had a huge break from this, as I was a bit lost when I started playing – mainly with the awful controls. However, I soon picked up the plot from where I’d left off. It’s Christmas, and I got a tasteful knitted festive jumper from my mum. I then had a few fights with Greasers, and the rich kids (caused by breaking into their “house” and killing a giant venus fly trap), and have become part …
And what a pile of crap most of them were. Flatout UC: Dull. Like Burnout with no soul.The Darkness: Reminds me too much of Prey, but seems reasonable.Juiced 2: Like Need for Speed Underground crossed with Forza 2, but not great.MotoGP ’07: Yawn. Looks awful, plays just like the last one, which I disliked. The “crown” goes to NASCAR ’08 though. What a totally tedious, crap looking, pointless game. It’s like Daytona USA on the Saturn, only with everything good …
Today started with having to find some herbs for the High Elves, and then progressed onto killing Lord Bane’s three (rather easy) Generals, followed by a Deathknight and then an Iron Golem (both quite easy too) before finally “fighting” Lord Bane himself. With an alarming about of HP (three times what I had), it was somewhat nailbiting at the end as we were both on around 30HP, there were red skulls galore on the grid, and it was my turn. …
I’ve been away all week, so not been playing a huge amount in the way of games. However, my holiday was partly affected by rain, so my DS did get an airing. On that, I started playing Puzzle Quest, which is a Bejewelled/Zoo Keeper clone in an RPG setting. So you have to battle orcs and things by matching gems, and have special powers and stats and stuff. It sounds totally ridiculous, but is actually somewhat amazing. I also played …
Apparently, if you’re gay and live in Dorset, people can – and will – find you using the public toilets offensive. So just do it in the street, ‘k?
I’ve just been to see Durdle Door, which it seems wasn’t the unicorn tourist attraction I thought it was going to be, instead it actually existed despite the silly name. After that, we walked seven thousand miles up a cliff to see this scene – Lulworth Cove. See? For the lulz. See? See?
I’m at Monkey World, and they seem to be filming orangutans. I’m assuming this is for the Monkey Business TV programme. I don’t recognise the person who appears to be the presenter, but then I ‘ve never actually seen it.
Either this is the best name for a fish, ever, or The Oceanarium in Bournemouth is having a laugh and seeing if anyone notices.
Yes, I’m in Bournemouth, and in this picture is the house (well, flat) that was on Grand Designs on Channel 4 last week. I suspect it was actually a repeat of the programme, but it was last week that I saw it. The actual flat is the bit at the very top – the dome and the floor directly underneath. It was very exciting seeing it. Then we went and ate pasta in a restaurant a few yards down the …
I finally got round to putting some decent batteries in my PlayPal today, meaning the screen was actually bright and the sound volume audiable. I played Alex Kidd In High Tech World for a bit, but somehow managed to get Game Over without warning so played Triple Trouble instead. It isn’t actually very good at all. The main problem (and the problem with most of the Game Gear Sonic titles) is the small area of actual level that you see …
Played a few online games, but in every game there was at least one player who was lagging something chronic. This meant he was essentially invincible, as bombs couldn’t hurt his as he wasn’t really where he appeared, and also he magically seemed to drop bombs around you while he was actually somewhere else on screen. It was very frustrating! Despite this, I did manage win a couple of sets-of-2!
Hurrah! I won my first ranked match this evening. In fact, it was the first ranked match the game has actually let me play, I think – every other time I tried I get disconnected, there’s no-one playing, or my opponent quits before the game starts. But I only won by a single point! I was convinced I was going to win when we were down to about 10 tiles, as even though we had the same number of points, …
This is me using gparted to clone and expand the partitions on my old work machine boot drive to my new one. I also upgraded by data drive too, and kept the old drives as backups. So now, I have a staggering 1.5 terabytes of storage on that PC. I remember just ten short years ago when I bought a “cavernous” 4.3 GB hard drive, ad thought that would last me forever.