It was all going so well....

...and now I am on a mission I cannot finish. I started a side quest, did half of it. Completed a full game mission, came back to finish the side quest and an item I need to interact with is no longer active. The net won't tell me anything. People are having issues with this quest in a completely different way tho, so my searches are yielding no results. Help?

It's called cloak and daggers and I cannot interact with the weapons cache.

:(

Moral Impact...

I am playing through Deus Ex and i have finished the first mission. I killed a bunch of people and wont he day!
when i got back to base, a couple of people gave me some hassle for all the killing i did. I was like "wow... what is THEIR problem?!"
then i had a mission in a police station. "Police are the good guys" i am thinking. so i don't kill anyone, i sneak around and manage to do the mission without anyone finding me or anyone dying.
then i talk to this guy who was part of the baddies in the first mission. he goes "Hey man, you killed all my friends..." and suddenly i felt really bad. I felt like because i thought they were baddies, it was "Ok" to kill them. but tell me its the police, and all of a sudden its wrong. even tho, in both cases i could have probably got through it all without killing. anyways, it made me stop and think for a while.

Enjoying the game.

Load time vs retry attempts....

Playing deus ex....
Noticed the loading times are quite long.
This wouldn't be a problem but in a game which needs you to succeed through trial and error... You die quite a lot. Meaning you need to load quite a lot. This is frustrating for the player.

Installing the game to my hdd to see if it improves the time whilst I make some cheese on toast.


Mmmmmmm

EDIT: No... it didn't help the loading times at all. still, at least it saves the disk drive in my 360 from spinning up every load and my cheese on toast was awesome.

Gaming update.. the state of play

Where I been at!?!?

Well...

Looking at the list I thought I better do a recap.

I had two weeks off and played a few games in that time. Some were from the list, others were new and exciting.

In my two weeks I played and completed “From Dust” and Battlefield Bad Company 2.

From Dust

Great fun, nice little idea, very atmospheric and great rounded game.

BAD CAMERA CONTROLS. There are two positions, UP and DOWN but the controls feel analogue.. meaning you are always flitting between the two without realising.

Battlefield Bad Company 2

Aauh maan.... Ok. It was a great game. Lots of fun, feels polished, a few bugs but thats ok it was a great experience.

But WHERE did the humour go? I remember being in fits of laughter at the comedy in bad company... but this game has gone all... Serious and ... I dunno. Feels like its lost some individuality.

There were some great moments of humour but they were in between fights and left me thinking “I wish there was more”.

And one big question... WARNING SPOILERS! –

At the end of Bad Company 1... they stole tonnes of gold... why are they still in the army and not rich and retired?

So looking at my list...I have so far completed the following –

Hitman Blood Money – 360

Assassins Creed – 360

Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3

Bad Company 2 – 360

DR2 Case Zero – 360

From Dust – 360

Currently I am part way through..

Insanely twisted shadow planet

Bastion

Deus Ex human revolution

Alice

Shadows of the damned

I WILL Finish at least 3 of these before moving on to a new game J

Done. Finally. Take that metroid prime!

Completed! Go videogames!
Watching credits roll now. Overall I give the game 7 out of ten. It's polished and fun and I get to explore lots. It gets minus points for frustrating radial select on wii for both visors and weapons and when you have to swap between them to defeat a lot of the later enemies the game really starts to fall over. The a game cube controls were a lot better for this game.

Re entrant gameplay can be great... But prime stretches it a little too far to be fun for me. Others may disagree

17 hours play, 74% of items

In closing, I enjoyed it far more before the last few parts of the game. So overall, it's great, but lost me near the end.

Time for a cup of tea I think.

Thanks to "Claire" for her awesome help and for making me push through the frustration and anger. Without her, I think I would be at least one wii controller down :)

Defeated Ridley....

Now we are fighting metroid prime. Now..........

I really hate manual saves and having to go through half a level just to get to where you were.
The last part of this game I am not finding fun at all. It's just a grind.

More news as it happens

Grrrr

Up at 9:30 an 'troiding!

Bam! Got the ice beam, a couple of energy tanks, numerous missile expansions and are currently on our way to the gravity chamber ...

Feeling like a productive day so far :)