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Ramblings / November 16, 2005 / John / 0
So, there I was, lying in my bed reading the first volume of the Final Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (as you do). From somewhere about a foot above me came a droning sound. Not a buzzing sound. Not a whine. A drone. A fairly weighty sounding drone – the kind of sound a twin prop
Game Diary / November 14, 2005 / John / 0
It’s the BEST CIV EVAR. The ‘bullying’ has been fixed for one thing – after spending centuries building up good diplomatic relationships and friendships with neighbours, they’re much less likely to be bullied into going to war with you by a larger aggressor. In fact, they’re more likely to help you out. The religion aspect
Game Diary / November 13, 2005 / John
I had doubts about a full 3D remake of Civ because I didn’t think it was really needed and would do nothing more than raise the spec required to play the game. Wrong. It’s ACE. The ability to zoom and swoop and do all the usual 3D camera stuff is lovely.  The addition of
Game Diary / November 11, 2005 / John / 0
Nothing happening on the games front – I finally succumbed to the boaking lurgi that the kids have had for past week, so spend a day and a bit feeling very sorry for myself. I did play Fire Emblem for half an hour or so, which was long enough for me to decide that –
Game Diary / November 9, 2005 / John / 0
Hmmm – where to start? Well, I started playing DAoC during the original beta test, way back when. I think, all in, I played for about a year and a bit and got some quite high level characters. Anyway, a friend at work has been nagging me to play for months and I succumbed. A
Game Diary / November 9, 2005 / John / 0
Woohoo! Chocobos! Made a dramatic escape from the sinking castle mounted on Giant Chickens. Was pursued by some magitek riding goons who didn’t prove much of a problem. There was a really well done and funny bit of dialogue mid battle as well. Unfortunately, Number One Son decided the king should be called Bob instead
Game Diary / November 8, 2005 / John / 0
Finally cleared chapter 6, but it cost me my thief and my journeyman. I think the problem is that I’m playing in too linear a fashion and should really be revisiting cleared levels to train up the weaker characters. Either that or my strategy is just crap 🙂 Possibly the latter. Difficult to believe I’m
Game Diary / November 7, 2005 / John / 0
Gah – Chapter 6 handed my arse to me on a plate. The map has really thick fog so, other than a thief with good senses and a cleric with a torch, all the characters have very limited vision. I ended up walking into the mother of all ambushes and being chopped to tiny little
Game Diary / November 6, 2005 / John
Would you believe I’ve never played Final Fantasy VI? Well, I haven’t. I do, however, have it on very good authority that it’s one of the best. I’m about 38 minutes in so far and the one thing that’s struck me is the music. It’s just lovely. So, I’ve managed to have a mind-control thingy
Game Diary / November 6, 2005 / John
Gaaaah. Chapter 5 complete, but at a bit of a cost. I lost a junior mage and a pegasus knight in the process and I don’t have anyone who can directly replace either of them. I wonder how that’s going to affect the story? So, Chapter 5 was tough – in the end, it was