Well, here you are: the fourth edition of Now Playing. Its great that now I'm back home, I have the PC and the Xbox back at my leisure. In fact, it feels rather weird to be browsing GameSpot's pages, seeing as I've been absent from any computer for a week. But still, I am back, and its only fitting that I unveil the fourth edition of Now Playing.
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Activity Over Past Week: Frighteningly High
Likely Activity This Week: Reasonably High
Likely Activity Next Week: Lukewarm
Well, you could say that Advance Wars: Dual Strike saved me from the confines of boredom on my holiday. Oh, come on! Its the best strategy ever made for any handheld games console, with some brainroasting tactics. I've spent 19 hours this week in the War Room trying to complete the standard 2 CO assignments, and I'm about halfway down the second page. And there's five pages. Plus, Advance Wars incorporates a nifty Medals system that can be accessed via the History pages, which shows you how much time you've spent in game, how many missions you've completed, how many of each type of unit you've destroyed and built, etc. And its very addictive to get a Gold medal in all 300 categories. So far I have 36, which is kinda pitiful, but at least I know Dual Strike has a lot of life left in it yet that I have to sap out. Its going to take a while for full completion; in fact, I don't think I'll ever complete it. Ah, well... thats life.
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Xfire Count for Past Week: <1 hour (I haven't had a PC until yesterday!)
Likely Xfire Count for This Week: Around 4 hours
Likely Xfire Count for Next Week: Around 4 hours
This was the first PC game I played when I got back, and I'm happy to say I've rekindled my addiction for the game in a dangerous way. Yesterday I spent about 45 minutes on it, building a huge compact inverted rollercoaster and tweaking it to get the most satisfying onboard ride while happily chatting away with Sir NeoJedi via Xfire instant messaging system. I swear, I don't know why GameSpot rated this so low (a 7.8) its a truly excellent adaptation from the ol' isometric, identikit view to full eye-scorching 3D, without losing any of the core gameplay mechanics that made the series so great in the first place. Via Xfire i'm going to be taking some screenshots and uploading them onto here, to show you some of my rollercoasters and rides in my fastdeveloping canyon park. Its a really great game and anyone whose PC can handle this game must give this game a purchase at all costs. Caution: may fragment social life.
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Xfire Count For Past Week: -
Likely Xfire Count For This Week: Around 8 hours
Likely Xfire Count For Next Week: Around 8 hours
After being absent from this game for the last week, and not joining in any of the ridiculously overblown firefights that my good friends andy, nodham, and Sir NeoJedi Legendkiller have been indulging in, I'm probably a little bit rough around the edges with this game. When I go online this week, I will probably get repeatedly pwned by Wave 1 Invasion bots; for anyone who hasn't touched this game, thats little bugs to you guys. So while I've lost my former 1337 skillz, I've became teh suxx0rs at this game. Damn. Ah well, I'll still have fun riding redeemers into random people. :D
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By my standards, that was a pretty short entry, with only three games, but hey its summer and i intend to spend a lot of time outside with friends. And no, Xfire does not count those hours. :P
I'll catch you guys later.