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Game Diary / 23 November 2005 / John
Damn you! Damn you to hell, deKay! If evil were distilled, shaped into human form, and given a mangstache, it would be called deKay. At least last night he only scraped a 7-1 victory, but tonight was a round 8-0. Annoyingly enough, I kept right on his tail for most of the races, but was
Game Diary / 23 November 2005 / John
How to begin? Briefly – best version ever of the best racing game ever (even if you hate racing games, like me) on the best handheld ever. With wireless online multiplayer. This is an absolute triumph. It really is. There’s your four basic grand prix races – 16 tracks in total. Then there’s the retro
Australia / 23 November 2005 / John / 0
It seems a very long time since we received our positive skills assessment. I’d expected a lot of the work that’s been undertaken in the past few weeks to have been done while the ACS application was being assessed, but with hindsight, it makes sense – had the ACS application failed, a different visa subclass
Game Diary / 20 November 2005 / John
Evil EVIL stage 2 complet0red. I hate the obligatory underwater bits in Sonic games. Zone 3 is completely fiendish, but at least there’s air 🙂
Game Diary / 20 November 2005 / John
Aaaaaargh! My eyes are bleeding! I’ve just completed the first two zones and first boss and Rush is blisteringly fast. It has the old sonic thing of ‘I’ve got through this level by just holding down left – I must be missing something.’ And, of course, I am. I’m missing a decent score and all
Game Diary / 17 November 2005 / John / 0
Well, my shiny silver DS has literally come to a sticky end. There seems to have been either severe droppage or severe orangejuicage. Either way, the speakers are fecked and the buttons all stick 🙁 I guess it’s ok for what the boys play – pac pix, nintendogs, etc, but attempting to play Castlevania on
Ramblings / 16 November 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 / 14 November 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 / 13 November 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