The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Game Diary / January 20, 2005 / John / 0
It’s not as though he’s tough, or anything, just that he has two dirty great seemingly-indestructible Uruk Hai henchmen. Not to worry, though – I’ll get him tonight. Resident Evil 4 is on the way – I can see poor old Third Age taking a break for a day or two 🙂
Game Diary / January 18, 2005 / John / 0
Top tip – ignore everything else and take out the Uruks. Ents can be helpful.
Game Diary / January 17, 2005 / John / 0
Aaaargh! Ok, big hard fight with swarms of Orcs lurching across a bridge. Not too bad – thankfully I have an Elf who can revive KO’d characters. The battle out of the way, something very similar happens a few steps later. So, I’ve battled my way along to the end of the bridge only to
Game Diary / January 17, 2005 / John / 0
Worth a quick mentioned. Although it’s essentially as linear as the tunnels of Moria, the area gives a really vivid impression of wide rolling countryside and a true sense of traveling from village to village. Very pretty.
Game Diary / January 16, 2005 / John / 0
Another couple of hours in and I’m in Rohan – 30% complete. Couple of things I should have mentioned – I’m playing the gamecube version. It’s stunning, graphically, but with a touch of slowdown here and there. I’ve heard that the PS2 version crawls at a few points – hardly surprising given the complexity of
Game Diary / January 16, 2005 / John / 0
Fired up for 45 minutes or so to have a quick blast around a couple of tracks. The nice thing about this game is that we can all play it, including Debbie and Harmony (who is only 4). I still find the whole game utterly incomprehensible though. Pretty though.
Game Diary / January 16, 2005 / John / 0
Well, I kinda lost interest a bit while lurching through Moria. Loads of brown, loads of repetitive battles with Orcs. Anyway, I was having withdrawal symptoms and picked it up again for another go and managed to complete the Moria section. The Balrog was fun – 178,000 hit points is no joke, but Gandalf is
Games Development / January 8, 2005 / John / 0
Hallo – just a quickie. My Macintosh ports of Andy Noble’s fab remakes are now available here. They should be up on the retrospec site as soon as I get a minute.
Rants / January 5, 2005 / John / 0
Dear oh fecking dear. I bought a plastic bottle of “Channel Islands Milk” from Tesco. That’s the creamy, slightly golden, milk from Jersey Cows. I was pouring a glass of it when a small flash of colour caught my eye. There, on the side of the bottle, was an allergy warning. ALLERGY WARNING! it proclaimed.
Ramblings / January 5, 2005 / John / 0
Well, we got four days into the year before something crap happened. That must be pretty near a record or us 🙂 Last night, whilst playing with Tristan’s Magnetix set, Harmony decided to much about with the large ball bearings that come with the set. She is now external to the ball bearing. There was