A friend came round this evening and we played two player mode. Once again, it looked like the 3:1, 1:3, 3:1 thing, but it turned out to be slightly different. I lost, though. I had, however, in my defence, chosen a weak female player, whereas he chose Federer. Clearly that is the only way he could have beaten me.
Just one online match of this played today, against someone I’d played previously. I remembered his gamertag, but for some reason it didn’t remember out VS stats. Odd. Anyway, I lost. And it was another Kenneth vs. Kenneth match.
Turnip Panic came to an end today, as Nook was buying for 110 bells each. OK, so I didn’t make much of a profit, but importantly, I didn’t make a loss either. I’m not sure I can be bothered with turnips every week any more. I have 20 million bells or more in my account, and I’m spending only 2,000 or so a day on items I don’t have in my catalogue – an amount easily made by selling a …
This took AAAAAGES to download, but it finally did and so I got to have a play. I’m a bit torn on it. On one hand, it’s great fun, with lots of weapons to mow down the zombies, but on the other hand, many of the weapons act exactly the same as each other and it all gets a bit samey quickly. Whether the full game will suffer from this, I don’t know. I hope not!
I only had three more levels left to do, it seemed. Level 28 was a real pain, 29 was quite hard, and 30 (the last one) was actually pretty simple, if a little brain bending due to the gravity effects of so many planets in orbit around each other. So then there was the credits, and now it seems I’ve unlocked some Extra Mode levels. Hurrah! I didn’t actually want it so end so soon!
More working through the career mode. I managed to win a round or two in a few tournaments, so I gained a bit of money and so trained a little. I’m finding it very odd that every single match I play is ending up as 3:1, 1:3, 3:1. Sometimes I win, sometimes the other player. Very strange, non?
Worked my way through the career mode some more today, and I’m now into the second season. I haven’t even got close to winning a tournament yet, which is crap, and I’ve now run out of money with which to buy training sessions. Bah.
Had another short play on this, but didn’t do anything constructive. Overall, I’m quite disappointed with it. The main thing it lacks over GTA (and there’s no way to talk about Saints Row without mentioning GTA), in my opinion, is bikes. I loved the bikes in That Other Series, and since Saints Row doesn’t have any, I’m not enjoying it as much. That said, the combat is a lot better, and the number of things you can just kick around …
TURNIP PANIC! Nook is buying for just 37 bells and there’s only today left! Panic! Panic! As well as doing a lot of panicking, I passed more furniture on to Bluebear, and gave Rodeo yet another shirt. Wendell was about, but I didn’t want to give him another red turnip, so gave him an apple. He gave me some rubbish block design in return. Then I shot him.
I’m up to level 26-ish now. Some of them have been really quite difficult – I was stuck on level 20 for absolutely ages before finally managing it. The problem now is there are lots of bits of “space debris” floating round the levels, as well as moving planets and stuff, making steering in and out of orbits somewhat difficult. Still love it, though.
This is the last of the bitGenerations games for me to try. I thought it was going to be a bit like Lumines, going off the screenshots, but it isn’t at all really. It’s more like Zoo Keeper, only you change the colours of blocks rather than move them. It’s very simple to play, but a bit long-winded to explain. It is great though. I’ve played through the first 10 or so Basic levels, and the first 2 Advanced ones.
My word. This too is ace. It’s another one of the seven “bit Generations” games that I now have. Basically, you wander round a solar system collecting moons and planets smaller than you, to make yourself bigger. You steer by pulling yourself in and out of orbit with the planets, which takes a bit of getting used to. It’s like a cross between Katamari Damacy and that bit in Star Trek IV where they launch around the sun. Or something. …
Had another stab at this demo for a bit, and enjoyed standing on the roof of a moving car shooting at pedestrians. ACE. I also shot a plastic surgeon in the face (another Jack Thompson moment) and generally just explored a bit. I’m slightly disappointed that there isn’t more to do (although it is only a demo), but VERY disappointed there don’t seen to be any motorbikes. Bah.
Played this in Versus Mode against my brother for a while this evening. It took him a few rounds before he realised he was destroying his own security machines instead of mine, making it somewhat easy for me to win, but even after he’d figured that out he was still rubbish and I beat him about 68642378923 times. Ha.
I played this quite a bit more, mainly on Ranked Matches against random people. I didn’t do too badly either, as it turned out – playing 20 matches and winning 14 of them. There was a huge divide between the attitudes of the UK and US players. Generally, UK players will say “Oh, too bad!” if you lose, and “Well played!” if you win. US players will say “WTF? You cheated! You can’t do that move! That isn’t allowed! I’m …