The gaming diary

[aeroc]

I'm still hoping for a sequel, but until Firaxis announces Civ Rev 2

They did, it's called Civ V. Still waiting for the true sequel to Civ IV. =)

[Izret101]

Minecraft XBLA - Finished achievements
Gin Rummy - Still working on the classic gin (1 more win) and oklahoma gin (2? more wins)
Wordament - still working towards the 250k
Wits & Wagers - still turboing for the 700 questions. This is taking much longer than anticipated...

Did a little messing around with Fable Pub games again too. I'll probably go back to that after i do a few more games. Prepatch there was an infinite money glitch that i plan to use.

[MercuryCrusader]

So this happened:

[img width=600 height=800]http://i.imgur.com/levPv.jpg[/img]

Near-mint condition, CD doesn't have a single scratch or smudge, manual still had the Working Designs merchandise pamphlet catalog thing in it as well as a Dragon Force sticker that you are apparently supposed to stick onto a Saturn Back-Up Cartridge. Still wondering why that game was at a thrift store of all places in the condition it was in.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to play this game. I probably chose a really hard starting kingdom or something, because I'm getting stomped hard.

[Cobra]

Oh, Dragon Force. That was the entire reason I wanted a Saturn!
... never could get my hands on it back then though so unfortunately by the time I played it I couldn't appreciate it as much as I would have as a teen.... super shame.

Anyway, make sure they don't have the field or man advantage and try your best and you'll enjoy it I bet. You'll also have to figure what units are strong vs what units.

[MercuryCrusader]

Tried out a different kingdom in Dragon Force and the game got a bit easier. The manual happened to have a chart to show what units have an advantage against others, and I found out how to expand the amount of troops a general can have, so the game is going a bit smoother now. Much more enjoyable when I know what the hell I'm doing. The one thing I can't figure out is how to keep certain generals loyal; seems like at least two will leave me at any moment.

I tend to appreciate older games a lot more now that I'm getting old and bitter and maybe a bit more senile than I did when I was much younger. Looking at how software utilized that old hardware, what kind of gameplay innovations might have come around the year it was made, that sort of thing.

[SirPsycho]

I just got a Saturn this week, all I picked up for it (mostly for testing purposes) was SimCity 2000. After playing it for a good 15 minutes I was already annoyed at how slow it was. Luckily the case is in pretty good shape, so I can switch it out if I find something better or rare with a worse case.

[Crabmaster2000]

Tried out a different kingdom in Dragon Force and the game got a bit easier. The manual happened to have a chart to show what units have an advantage against others, and I found out how to expand the amount of troops a general can have, so the game is going a bit smoother now. Much more enjoyable when I know what the hell I'm doing. The one thing I can't figure out is how to keep certain generals loyal; seems like at least two will leave me at any moment.

I tend to appreciate older games a lot more now that I'm getting old and bitter and maybe a bit more senile than I did when I was much younger. Looking at how software utilized that old hardware, what kind of gameplay innovations might have come around the year it was made, that sort of thing.

Fantastic grab on the Dragon Force!! I had the same problems when I gave it a go initially. Still havnt sat down and figured it out though. One day I'll get back to it for sure though.

[Izret101]

Wits and Wagers - I have another 17 hours of turboing  Still have not gotten all 700 questions. Still turboing away.
I have a session tonight so i can try and finish playing X# of unique tags online.

Gin Rummy - Finished all the solo wins last night. Started on the online stuff going to try and finish it tonight. Going to have to make a session to get 4 gamers together for this one too.

EA Active 2 - Still need to play catch up on my missed exercise. Only did 1 last night instead of the 2.

Wordament - I am up to 120/250k needed My average score is up to 227 from 211.2 but now i am ranked 632 and i was in the top 500 before. So i have no hope of finishing this before hitting 250k :-/

[Cobra]

Been playing KOF-i 2012 each day to receive my daily reward.

[Duke.Togo]

Finally finished Skyrim... well, as much as I figure I can. All the achievements and finished the final main story mission. I have put way too many hours into this game, and I kind of wish that the DLC was here already. Oh well, guess this will let me move on to Mass Effect 3 until then.

[Izret101]

Finished wits and wagers.

Started Jewel Quest - This game seems pretty cool so far. I can definitely see the difficulty picking up so i plan on using the infinite lives exploit just in case.

Started Sensible World of Soccer - why do people like this game?

Got the 4 player in Gin Rummy. Just need to grind out the 50k points achieve.

Did not get to EA Active 2 since my son had a nightmare and hasn't fallen back asleep.

[Izret101]

Finished my second playthru of Jewel Quest 3 more to go.

On the other hand Gin Rummy has another 4+ hours of grinding out points online. (Damn puns)

Wordament got some more playtime too. 1 game away from 129k Need to roughly double my score and i am done. :-/

LA Noire came in the mail too. I'll probably file that away with all the other quality titles i ignore.

[blcklblskt]

I finally got around to playing Splatterhouse (PS3).  It is a pretty fun game, but it lacks a bit of polish.  The loading screens can last annoying long sometimes.

[Izret101]

That was a fast game for achievements but i thought it was a really fun game too.



Finished Gin Rummy last night!

Been working on Fracture online achievements today. The 3 other players are all at work. This is the perfect boosting game since the host can force matches to start, boot player, lock lobbies, and rearrange teams!

I am REALLY looking forward to playing the campaign just because of how unique the weapons are. I highly recommend checking this game out for a different shooter experience.

[Tynstar]

Rio, Feed Me Oil and Fracture (kind of).