Well, having sorted out the multiplier issues I’ve been having (it would appear that “1G” is actually “16” and therefore the multiplier and not something else), I managed to get a score of just over 2.2 million. This takes me back to the top of my (now extended) friends list, but I still can’t complete Area 3.
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
Many, many, many attempts to beat my Pacifism score this evening, but I only managed a feeble 27 million. Of course, 27 million is higher than certain other people’s scores. People I have mentioned here before. But, it’s nowhere near the 373 million the guy at the top of my friends leaderboard has.
Oh. My. Word. What an awful, awful game. I mean, I know licences can be bad, but this… oh my.
Three games tonight against my wife, and three wins. I finished two of the three games using all my trains too. Also managed my highest score so far – 176, which included 10 destinations!
I was away for the weekend, and this is the only game I thought to take with me. And it’s very good. Sadly, it isn’t quite as good as its predecessor, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, mainly for menu and display reasons, but a decent SRPG is a decent SRPG, and very soon I’d plowed over 6 hours into it. Difficulty is all over the place at the moment. The first couple of battles were reasonably easy, and all of the …
Well, I don’t know what happened, but everything I was struggling with last night clicked today, and bar a couple of head-scratchers, I didn’t have any real problems completing the rest of the game. It was very lovely, and there is some “find the stars” thing I could still do which is completely impossible without a guide, but at just over two hours long it wasn’t really the epic puzzler I was expecting. But is it art? Oh yes, definitely.
Brane! Hurting! So… very… confusing. Braid is a 3D platform puzzle game. Only instead of depth being the third dimension, time is. So you go left and right, up and down, and forwards and backwards in time. But not just that – each world changes the rules a little. F’r’instance, on one world, when you reverse time a shadow of yourself re-does whatever it was you just reversed. Example: You need to get through a door, but the switch to …