The gaming diary

[phoenix1967]

8-player system link last night with den, ron mexico, and friends. Started with some Call of Duty 2 then went into Halo 3 when everyone was there. Slayer, Infection, and Rocketball.

Dammit. I've never played a game with 8 players in real life before. Sounds freakin fun.

It's a GREAT time! In October we had 10 players over at ron mexico's place...so we had to use a router in order to be able to have everyone playing across 3 TVs. 4-player per TV split screen + system link makes it all possible. 

It's a once (or twice) a month ritual among den, ron mexico, myself, and other friends of ours here in Michigan.

[cverz2]

Mike Tyson's Punch out
Super Mario World

[Tondog]

8-player system link last night with den, ron mexico, and friends. Started with some Call of Duty 2 then went into Halo 3 when everyone was there. Slayer, Infection, and Rocketball.

Dammit. I've never played a game with 8 players in real life before. Sounds freakin fun.

It's a GREAT time! In October we had 10 players over at ron mexico's place...so we had to use a router in order to be able to have everyone playing across 3 TVs. 4-player per TV split screen + system link makes it all possible. 

It's a once (or twice) a month ritual among den, ron mexico, myself, and other friends of ours here in Michigan.

Nice. Sounds fun.

So, I'm playing Uncharted: Drakes Fortune right now, and I am absolutely blown away. Wow. This could easily end up being one of the 10 best games I've ever played. I might be compelled to write a review of the game for RFG.

Kudos Naughty Dog, you have outdone Insomniac this year. Uncharted is a better game than Ratchet. Yup, there I said it. 

[James]

I had another night of playing Gears of War until 1am. Then I couldn't get to sleep until 3am. Then I woke up half an hour later, almost fell asleep again and stayed awake until 4:30am. Had a snooze until 20 minutes ago at 6:40am when I decided to check my bank account to see if a transfer had gone through.

I've bought Hitman: Blood Money and Tony Hawk's Project 8 for the 360 from someone on another forum for £20. Hitman I know is a good game but I don't know about Project 8. Tony Hawk's used to be good and then this generation the main complaint seems to have been that they aren't worth the full price.



Evening edit: I realised I haven't played Bioshock for a month and a day. So much for raving about how awesome it is. In ten minutes I got 3 achievements. It's getting a bit repetitive but still playable.

[James]

Hitman: Blood Money and Tony Hawk's Project 8 on the Xbox 360.

Both are pretty good so far, although Tony Hawk's is more of the same.

[Shimra]

Bleach DS is currently wasting all of my time. God that game is so crazy regarding how deep the battle system is and the obvious difference between players online. For anyone that may or may not play the game who do you use? I play as Ichimaru online and hold up pretty damn well; if I get beat it's always close unless it's some insane psycho who has completely mastered the system.

[den68]

I've been playing Fatal Frame II : The Crimson Butterfly

[TraderJake]

I just got my 120th star in Mario Galaxy, I can play as now. In case you are wondering, it takes about 25 hours to get 120 stars.

[Shimra]

In the past 3 days I've spent about 25 hours of playing Bleach pulling all nighters (literally go to bed at 9). It's quite fantastic.

[phoenix1967]

Mass Effect.

[phoenix1967]

Downloaded the Mjolnir Mix (Halo theme) for free and played it on GH3.

Then more Mass Effect.

[Zimbacca]

Mass Effect.  Lots and lots of Mass Effect.

[Tan]

Mass Effect.  Lots and lots of Mass Effect.

Amen to that.

[James]

I finished Hitman: Blood Money on Expert level last night. Obviously I used a walkthrough to get to the end to unlock all the levels. Now I'm going through shooting everyone because I don't have to worry about how my notoriety affects the rest of the game.

Then this afternoon I've been playing Tony Hawk's Project 8 again. As I said above, it's more of the same. A bit like Vice City was more of the same GTA:3 without the big changes of San Andreas that ruined the game.

[Shimra]

Bleach. Everyone with a DS really needs this game, no lie. Quickly becoming one of my favorite games of all time. It overtook Smash Brothers Melee as my favorite fighting game.

Also, finishing Tales of Phantasia, the amount of sidequests are insane. I´m not even going to try attempting the gilgamesh weapons and trading quest. So essentially I´m in the bonus dungeon getting the last summon then taking on Dhaos.