Bought myself a car (a used, silver Nissan Micra (2002-model)) and an XBox. Now known on XBox Live as m4v3n [boy, how inventive…] 😉
Spending lotsa Money
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Still not immune to Peer Pressure ;)
No, I didn’t buy myself a GBA SP and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance; it was just someone with an extreme resemblance to me… 😀
Update: Picked up Superstar Saga: Mario & Luigi as well as Wario Ware Inc. (which can be had for €25 at MakroMarkt).
Making Progress
Now the only thing that keeps us (Alex and me) from completing “1080° Avalanche” is the Extreme cup and the tricks section (of which we don’t have the slightest idea of how to make enough points… ;)). Collecting the coins in time-trial and doing the gate challenge was probably more fun than doing the main-races, although some of the coins were very well hidden. The problem with gate-challenge is to control yourself not to want to do them “too well” (i.e. too quickly).
Fighting spare time
Although I’m always complaining that I don’t seem to have any time, I finished “DeusEx: Invisible War” and “Prince of Persia – Sands of Time”.
DE:IW is a good game, again with many conflicting choices – but this time around most of the choices by some twist or another have the same consequences. But the shadows in this game are awesome (and probably part of the reason why it’s such a system-hog)! It’s the first time I’ve felt they are done correctly (in a unified way) and not a second pass with subtractive blending or some such cheat.
PoP-SoT is a great game, excellent level-design / puzzles. Combat is allright (but like the game itself really has to be played with a gamepad (Thrustmaster bundle-offer)) and I like that enemies can damage each other with their hits. The final confrontation with the vizir (sp?) was a bit of a letdown, though. At least in “Legend of Zelda – The Wind Waker” I knew I was fighting the evil last boss (i.e. sweating blood and tears). But all in all, it’s got great graphics (but no AR other than 4:3) and excellent gameplay while it lasts.
Games are getting easier
Pretty much finished “Mario Kart: Double Dash” today together with Alex (i.e. mirror-mode Star-Cup and All-Star Tour). Good fun, but not as challenging as the good old “Super Mario Kart”. I don’t know whether I can be asked to complete the All-Star Tour for 50cc and 100cc, though… 😉
He’ll be my Hero
Nintendo / Sega ought to get their asses in gear and publish an F-Zero GX soundtrack, the music is awesome! Until that happens, you can get some very nice game-rips here. FilePlanet needed a bit of convincing to give me all the files, but after circumventing their subscription / bandwidth-limitation system (which blatantly tells you that the requested files cannot be found although they are there!) with a bit of URL-fiddling, all is good.
Mario Kart: Double the Dash
Playing quite a lot of Mario Kart: Double Dash, and I enjoy it very much. It’s not neither as hard (currently doing Star Cup on 150ccm) nor as extensive (unlockables) as F-Zero GX (by far), but bloody good fun.