Kendrick Kerwin Chua

Forgive me for starting the PWB post early, but you're not likely to hear
from me for a few days. I'm being locked in a room with ten of my
coworkers (basically, all the ones who didn't schedule vacation time) and
we're not coming out until we finish an urgent year-end project. I hope
they remember to put some food in here, and maybe a pail of some kind.

Play:
=-=-=

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360) - What made me believe I wouldn't play
this weekend? Wandered all the way through Namira's quest, and at risk of
spoiling I didn't remember that this is the Daedric god of cannibalism. I
reverted back to to other save and then went on to play...

Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce (PS3) - Hee. It's exactly the game I
remember, but louder and in HD. I don't like the way the lock-on function
works with the Dual Shock 3, since it involves slightly more buttons than
it did on the PSP. I've only played through to the first official Yellow
Turban mission, but it's got a clarity and a fun factor missing from...

Dynasty Warriors 6 (PS3) - "Destroy the altar" it tells me. Never mind
that the altar is behind three walls, over an impassable gap and is
exactly where the rest of my troops refuse to go for some reason. I'm
starting to understand that the proper Dynasty Warriors games follow a
very rigid pattern of play, and that you can't really deviate from the
sequence of events no matter how creative you are or what character you
pick. Strikeforce being what it is has such an anomalous quality that I'm
no longer surprised that other DW and ROTK fans don't favour it the way I
do.

Want:
=-=-=

A PSP video cable that works with all content (PSP) - I wish that there
weren't output restrictions on games and some video. Feels arbitrary and
unfair.

Bin:
=-=

Fewer than 24 hours notice to travel for work (RL) - That's no good. On
the other hand, it's a good excuse to visit game stores I never get to set
foot in.

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

Oh dear.

Balance Forward - $1,789

Dynasty Warriors 6 (PS3) - $20
Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce (PS3) - $17
Endless Ocean (Wii) - $20
Endless Ocean Blue World (Wii) - Free! Score!
Wabbit (2600) - $1
Infiltrate (2600) - $1
Sneak 'N Peek (2600) - $1
Enduro (with super uncommon blue press label) (2600) - $1
Telegames Maze (2600) - $1
Stampede (2600) - $1
Decathlon (2600) - $1
Bugs (2600) $1
Cosmic Creeps (2600) - $1
Devil Dice (PSX) - $10! Score!
Shadowgate Classic (GBC) - $5
Montezuma Returns (GBC) - $5
Sonic the Hedgehog (GG) - $1 (no I didn't own it before)
Steep Slope Sliders (SAT) - $2
Arctic Thunder (Xbox) - $2
State of Emergency 2 (PS2) - $2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (GBA) - $2
Yu Gi Oh Double Pack (GBA) - $2

Total year-to-date - $1,886

-KKC, who wonders when Star Wars movies became holiday programming.
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Carl Cross

>
> Play:
> =-=-=

Skyrim (360)

Played a couple more hours. I'm supposed to be off to see the Greybeards
but I confused myself with a custom marker I probably put down myself so I
wandered west to check that out instead.

I'm back on track now.

Quick question from an Elder Scrolls newbie: I've been putting all of my
exp into weapons, stealth and armour and not magic. Basically I'm going for
more of a Conan than a Gandalf. Am I setting myself up for a fall later?

Borderlands (360) More of this multiplayer on Tuesday before Turkeyfest I
hope.

Mario Kart 7 (3DS)

That I can only play when my son is in bed because he thinks it's a present
for me. It's not.

I have managed to whizz through the 50cc cups without losing a single race.
100cc are slightly more challenging in a rubber band kind of way but I'm
still winning more than I'm losing.

Mario Kart Super Circuit (3DS)

In many ways I prefer this to MK7. Races, right from 50cc are less of a
foregone conclusion and therefore more exciting and collecting coins is
actually worthwhile.

Ahh the memories.

Wario Ware (3DS)

Hmmm. Maybe you can never go back. I'm finding this more tedious than grin
inducing and palate cleansing.


>
> Want
> =-=-=

Luigi's Mansion 2.

Tempted to join in with the great UGVM year of no game buying. Will the
economy collapse if we all did that though?


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

Skyrim for cheap and MK for about £25. I'm happy with that.



> -KKC, who wonders when Star Wars movies became holiday programming.

I've never seen the infamous holiday special. Perhaps I should track it
down on YouTube/Torrent.

Carl.

Zomoniac

On 19/12/2011 01:12, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:

> Play:
> =-=-=

Saints Row The Third (360)
Finished all of it. Ish. Stat says 100%. Gamerscore says 900G. That'll do.

Vanquish (360)
First 2 acts done. Good fun, in a completely mental and mindless
blowing-shit-up sort of way.

UFC Personal Trainer (360)
Jesus fucking Christ. I know I haven't trained much in the last couple
of months, but still. It decided to put me on beginner, and the first
session left me unable to walk for two days.

Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
Did a couple of 100c cups. Decided to try the online. Joined a game, sat
through three laps watching other people, nominated a track, "A
communication error has occurred". Joined another game, watched two laps
of other people, finally got into a race, got halfway round the first
lap, "A communication error has occurred". Great.


> Want:
> =-=-=

Nothing.


> Bin:
> =-=

Nothing.


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

Nothing.

> Steep Slope Sliders (SAT) - $2

Bargain of the century.


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Zo

Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <698611563345971556.124284carldjcross-yahoo.co.uk@news.eternal-september.org>,
Carl Cross <carldjcross@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Play:
>> =-=-=
>
>Skyrim (360)
<snip>
>Quick question from an Elder Scrolls newbie: I've been putting all of my
>exp into weapons, stealth and armour and not magic. Basically I'm going for
>more of a Conan than a Gandalf. Am I setting myself up for a fall later?

The game system is flexible enough that you can specialise that way
without risk. In the few circumstances where magic is necessary, the game
is smart enough to provide scrolls or staves. Likewise, every enemy has a
particular elemental or magical weakness so that characters with no melee
ability can beat about anything with the right spells. You're in no danger
of being unable to play the game the way you want to.

Skyrim seems to be better about the character customization than Oblivion
was. I went into Oblivion wanting to have a dumb axe-swinging barbarian
and ended up with a sneaky, spell-flinging mage due to the way the quests
were built.

-KKC, who was building up a Red Sonja himself.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <9l8a4hF84eU1@mid.individual.net>,
Zomoniac <the_proper_one@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 19/12/2011 01:12, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
>
>> Expenditure:
>> =--=--=--=
>
>Nothing.
>
>> Steep Slope Sliders (SAT) - $2
>
>Bargain of the century.

Heh. I've not played it before. Anything special about it over the other
fifty snowboarding games on the market, or are you just exercising comedy
there?

-KKC, who was actually more excited about the Atari cartridges.
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Zomoniac

On 19/12/2011 09:16, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
> In article<9l8a4hF84eU1@mid.individual.net>,
> Zomoniac<the_proper_one@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 19/12/2011 01:12, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
>>
>>> Expenditure:
>>> =--=--=--=
>>
>> Nothing.
>>
>>> Steep Slope Sliders (SAT) - $2
>>
>> Bargain of the century.
>
> Heh. I've not played it before. Anything special about it over the other
> fifty snowboarding games on the market, or are you just exercising comedy
> there?

It just feels right. Nice tight controls, good variety of tricks, some
great unlockable bonus content (the UFO character is ace). Best
snowboarding game pre-SSX by miles. I played Coolboarders t'other day as
it was a free PS+ download, it's an abomination by comparison.

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Zo

GusTavToo

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

>
> Skyrim seems to be better about the character customization than Oblivion
> was. I went into Oblivion wanting to have a dumb axe-swinging barbarian
> and ended up with a sneaky, spell-flinging mage due to the way the quests
> were built.
>

I went through Oblivion as a sword and shield wielding armoured tank with a
sideline in healing/buffing magic. I had no real problems with that.
Although I ignored the thieves guild for obvious reasons!

Gus.
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Toby Newman

On 2011-12-19, Zomoniac <the_proper_one@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Play:
>> =-=-=
> Vanquish (360)
> First 2 acts done. Good fun, in a completely mental and mindless
> blowing-shit-up sort of way.

Is it like Bayonetta? Comparable? I loved Bayonetta and, from the demo,
Vanquish seemed like the gameplay from Bayonetta with the robot bosses
from PN03.

>

gunthergloop

On 19/12/2011 07:30, Carl Cross wrote:
> I've never seen the infamous holiday special. Perhaps I should track it
> down on YouTube/Torrent.

Really it's not worth it. Well I've only seen it once -and that was when
it was first broadcast. I remember waiting feverishly for it to begin,
then afterwards thinking "what the HELL was _that_!??"

I don't remember much. Such shocks are often buried deep. What I seem to
recall is a family -either a human or ewok family (speaking english)
sitting in their treehouse, then various stars from the cast drop by...
"I wonder who's that at the door? ...Oh look it's our old friend Luke
Skywalker!" <applause>

Then later Santa Claus drops by and they all sing songs.

It's that bad. Not even cringeworthy. Just worse than a New Year's Eve
show with Andy Williams in a kilt.

Zomoniac

On 19/12/2011 09:42, Toby Newman wrote:
> On 2011-12-19, Zomoniac<the_proper_one@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Play:
>>> =-=-=
>> Vanquish (360)
>> First 2 acts done. Good fun, in a completely mental and mindless
>> blowing-shit-up sort of way.
>
> Is it like Bayonetta? Comparable? I loved Bayonetta and, from the demo,
> Vanquish seemed like the gameplay from Bayonetta with the robot bosses
> from PN03.

I've not played a huge amount of Bayonetta, but that seemed more like a
GoW-a-like. I'd say this is more along the lines of Supercharged Lost
Planet Turbo Ultra.

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Zo