Kendrick Kerwin Chua

I wanted to take a minute to say that I appreciate hearing about
everyone's gaming each week. I'm inspired to try new games and new genres
when I see the diversity of experiences, and if I'm not sure if a game is
worth buying I trust the impressions of UGVM posters over any professional
reviewer or industry press.

Play:
=-=-=

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) - I dislike the Thieves Guild missions,
so I reverted to an earlier save and I'm choosing not to pursue that story
line. I did accidentally kick off the Dark Brotherhood plot though, and
I'm hoping that it turns out to be a little more morally ambiguous than it
did in Oblivion. In the mean time, I'm whittling down my miscellaneous
quest list so that I don't have to scroll it, and I've picked up the
useful shout that makes dragons land on the ground. I am starting to find
the dragon fights annoying, mostly because they never come after me and
decide to fry mudcrabs and bandits, which disrupts my travels. Doing the
Nirnroot mission in Black Reach was something of a breath of fresh air, in
that I could count on there being no dragon attacks down there.

Ninety Nine Nights II (360) - A pleasant surprise. This game may have the
best non-tutorial intro segment I've ever played. It doesn't pour the
complexity over your head, it just gives you simple goals and points you
at them. The way the graphics are structured, it feels less isometric than
its somewhat bland predecessor, but it feels more immersive. I get strong
Diablo association with this game, but at five times the speed. The story
isn't half bad either, although it's full of half the usual cliches.
Here's hoping my attention span is up to the challenge.

Emulator acrobatics (PC) - Getting a DOS VM running on my Asus EEE so I
can play Daggerfall and/or Arena is something I keep meaning to do when I
have some spare time.

Want:
=-=-=

Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity (PSP) - There's an ever decreasing
chance that the expansion to the original (sequel) game will be released
in the west. I hold out hope for Vita updates of all the late PSP titles
we've missed out on, but they're likely as not to be download exclusives
too.

Yakuza: Dead Souls (PS3) - Sega's getting better at the marketing, if only
because younger heads are in charge of that particular activity now. Their
blog has new media to remind us all that this is out in March, to be
somewhat overshadowed by whatever sports or shooter update comes out then.
Having Ryuji Goda from Yakuza 2 as a playable character is sheer
brilliance, and clearly separates this title from the regular continuity.

Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition (360/PS3) - All the DLC on the disk? I'm
sold. And I was just about to ask for the original April release for
Christmas too. I can wait until February. Seems like Warner Brothers
adopted Midway's dumb-ass marketing methods as well as purchasing their
properties.

Bin:
=-=

This week? Non-gaming bin entries.

Expenditure:
=--=--=--=

Oh dear.

Balance Forward - $1,727

Syphon Filter (PSX) - $2
Syphon Filter 2 (PSX) - $2
Syphon Filter 3 (PSX) - $4
Monopoly (PSX) - $3
Tom Clancy Triple Pack (Xbox) - $6
Hulk (Xbox) - $4
Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift (PS2) - $3
Gungrave Overdose (PS2) - $4

Total year-to-date - $1,755

-KKC, who has some interestingly unrealistic work deadlines in December.
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HarpingOn

On 05/12/2011 02:13, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
> I wanted to take a minute to say that I appreciate hearing about
> everyone's gaming each week. I'm inspired to try new games and new genres
> when I see the diversity of experiences, and if I'm not sure if a game is
> worth buying I trust the impressions of UGVM posters over any professional
> reviewer or industry press.
>
> Play:
> =-=-=
>
> The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) - I dislike the Thieves Guild missions,

I'm doing those. Started off as a mage, but I hate being locked out of
things. So I'm doing these to get sneak, and lockpick up. I figgure that
there will be lots of locked 'things' to pick, and so far, turns out I'm
right. I likely won't complete the questline for the theives guild. I'm
just using them at the moment. They don't seem to know it though. Mu-ha-ha.

I'll be doing my 'proper' job afterwards, which is to become archmage.

Skyrim isn't grabbing me the same way Morrowind, Oblivion, F:3 and F:NV
did. I don't know why I'm not connecting with my character like I
usually do. I'm too far in to start again (I think) - about 25 hours. So
I think I'll have to stick with it. Perhaps I'll get more engaged at
some point.


> Want:
> =-=-=

Um. Nothing.

>
> Bin:
> =-=
>

Nothing

>

Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <jbhrnn$e8h$1@dont-email.me>,
HarpingOn <harpingon@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>On 05/12/2011 02:13, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
>>
>> Play:
>> =-=-=
>>
>> The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) - I dislike the Thieves Guild missions,
>
>I'm doing those. Started off as a mage, but I hate being locked out of
>things. So I'm doing these to get sneak, and lockpick up. I figgure that
>there will be lots of locked 'things' to pick, and so far, turns out I'm
>right. I likely won't complete the questline for the theives guild. I'm
>just using them at the moment. They don't seem to know it though. Mu-ha-ha.

They lifted the lockpicking mechanism from Fallout 3, so I was comfortable
enough with it to be able to get into just about any lock without skill
specialisation. Just about every dungeon has that one chest with the lock
past your abilities that's good for levelling up on.

>Skyrim isn't grabbing me the same way Morrowind, Oblivion, F:3 and F:NV
>did. I don't know why I'm not connecting with my character like I
>usually do. I'm too far in to start again (I think) - about 25 hours. So
>I think I'll have to stick with it. Perhaps I'll get more engaged at
>some point.

Out of curiosity, was the stat management in the previous games something
that entertained you? I hear anecdotally that old-fashioned paper RPG
players are turned off by the lack of visible stat numbers in the game. I
think it's a brilliant simplification of the system, but it is a radical
break from all the previous entries in the series.

-KKC, working on making Daggerfall run on his laptop.
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HarpingOn

On 05/12/2011 09:04, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:

> Out of curiosity, was the stat management in the previous games something
> that entertained you? I hear anecdotally that old-fashioned paper RPG
> players are turned off by the lack of visible stat numbers in the game. I
> think it's a brilliant simplification of the system, but it is a radical
> break from all the previous entries in the series.
>

Maybe, and I never really noticed until now.

That whole 'constellation' perk thing annoys me, as I can see myself
'perking' myself into a corner, and am obsessing about it, not in a good
way.

The magic system is irrationally annoying too. Why can't I have
different spells assigned to the D-Pad for example? (or can I?)

Zomoniac

On 05/12/2011 02:13, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
> I wanted to take a minute to say that I appreciate hearing about
> everyone's gaming each week. I'm inspired to try new games and new genres
> when I see the diversity of experiences, and if I'm not sure if a game is
> worth buying I trust the impressions of UGVM posters over any professional
> reviewer or industry press.
>
> Play:
> =-=-=

Saints Row The Third (360)
Finished! Well, finished the story anyway. It's in just about every way
a fundamentally awful game, but it's brilliant. There are few things
more fun in gaming than racing across the city in a VTOL, coming across
a gang hideout, switching to hover mode and dropping a pile of rockets
on it, gaining height and disappearing into the distance again. Just got
to do a bunch of activities, find a load of collectibles and then assess
whether or not the challenges are doable without spending 5 years on it.
Put in 15 hours so far, feels a lot longer, but it's great fun.

Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
Not as much as I should've. Done the first four 50cc GPs. It's very lovely.

Halo Anniversary (360)
Just the second level. Struggling a bit on Heroic cos I'm shit at games,
but I will persevere. It's great.


> Want:
> =-=-=

Nothing apart from a few free weeks to play all the games I've got
queued up.


> Bin:
> =-=

Nothing much.


> Expenditure:
> =--=--=--=

Zelda: Skyward Sword LE (Wii) - £0.99
Mario Kart 7 (3DS) - £29.85


--

Zo

MerseyMal

In article <rsqdnbwFcZdEtUHTnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
kendrick@nospam.io-nyc says...
>

> Play:
> =-=-=

Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC) - Had a blast playing this and looking
forward to joining the side of the Sith which I've avoided during the
beta to not spoil it for me when I start properly. The beta finishes
today and doesn't launch until the 20th, though I should get early
access. However I won't be getting the full 5 days I suspect as I had to
re-preorder the game as GAME had failed to send me the code to register
for it. Oh and met an NPC whose last name is Everton.

Skyrim (PC) - Due to work in the house, I've not been able to play this
over the past few weeks so I decided to start from scratch and looking
at some sort of melee/magic hybrid character.


> Want:
> =-=-=

Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC)
+
Guild Wars 2 (PC)
Prey 2 (PC) - maybe
Far Cry 3 (PC)
Trackmania 2 Canyon (PC)
Mario Kart 7 (3DS)


> Bin:
> =-=

Wife being made redundant for Christmas because they decided they only
needed one admin and they decided to keep the girl who started last year
instead of my wife who'd been there since 2008.

> Expenditure:
> =--=--=--=
>
£ 67.71 January
£ 20.84 February
£ 71.89 March
£ 74.55 April
£106.06 May
£ 31.98 June
£119.87 July
£ 20.36 August
£ 88.81 September
£156.77 October
£ 22.08 November

December so far...

£ 4.50 Terraria - bought a 4 pack to give some copies to friends


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gospvg

"Kendrick Kerwin Chua" <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote in message
news:rsqdnbwFcZdEtUHTnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@giganews.com ...
> I wanted to take a minute to say that I appreciate hearing about
> everyone's gaming each week. I'm inspired to try new games and new genres
> when I see the diversity of experiences, and if I'm not sure if a game is
> worth buying I trust the impressions of UGVM posters over any professional
> reviewer or industry press.

Why thank you now go out & buy Jackie Chan Stuntmaster on the PS1


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deKay

On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:

> I wanted to take a minute to say that I appreciate hearing about
> everyone's gaming each week. I'm inspired to try new games and new genres
> when I see the diversity of experiences, and if I'm not sure if a game is
> worth buying I trust the impressions of UGVM posters over any professional
> reviewer or industry press.

Hugs?

> Play:
> =-=-=

The Be Awesome And Fix My NES Game (RL)
The PSU was fuxxored so I bought a new one from consolegoods.co.uk. I
think the propriator, Robert Webb (no, not that Robert Webb - another one)
may even be ugvm alumni. Anyhoo, I was sceptical because the NES needs a
9V *AC* adapter at 1.3A, and this was a 9V DC at 400mA. I read up a bit
about it and it turns out that much of the current is needed to actually
convert to DC internally, and in fact, theres no way in hell a NES can
actually draw more than 600mA and using a DC source is in fact fine. So I
plugged it in and...

Der Blinkenlight. Boo!

Stripped the NES down, cleaned the contacts on the 72 pin connector, and
while I was in there did the region/security mod which was far too easy.
Put it all back together and...

Grey (that's "gray", for KKC) screen. Bah.

Stripped it down again and looked at the pins on the 72 pin connector.
Realised that a combination of age and vigourous cleaning had bent all the
pins inwards, so prised each and every one out. Put everything back
together (again) and TA-DAAAHHH!!! IT LIVES!

Celebrated by playing the "cream" of NES games - Mega Man II, Bart vs the
Space Mutants, Bart vs the World, Dragon's Lair, Totally Shi^H^H^HRad,
Jurassic Park, The Adventures of Bayou Billy, Probotector (Contra, KKC) II
and Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers.

EFFING AWESOME.

Also, I played:

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (360)

Which I completed. It was awesome. Still have a lot of Leonardo related
stuff to do, and guild and shop quests, but it still felt a lot shorter
than AC2 for some reason.

Zen Pinball (3DS)

Which is also awesome. Love seeing friends scores pop up to beat as you
play. Acebest.

> Want:
> =-=-=

Batman, Skyrim, Mario 3D, Mario Kart, you know. All them.

> Bin:
> =-=

Too many 3DS game releases. I simply don't have the time or money to keep
up. It's ridiculous.

> Expenditure:
> =--=--=--=

Zen Pinball £4.50

Total is just tipping over the £800 point.

deKay
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deKay

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, HarpingOn wrote:

> The magic system is irrationally annoying too. Why can't I have different
> spells assigned to the D-Pad for example? (or can I?)

You could in Oblivion, if that helps!

deKay
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jochta

On 05/12/2011 10:06, deKay wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
>
>> Expenditure:
>> =--=--=--=
>
> Zen Pinball £4.50
>

Didn't realise this was an eShop game. I might have to purchase a copy.

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