It’s been a bit quiet on the gaming front this week, due to
being extremely busy for most of it and asleep for the rest. Here’s what I’ve
had going on:
For a while I’ve been meaning to start a new game on my
Xbox360. Which one? I don’t know yet. I’ve got quite a few single-player
narrative-driven games to play, many of which I’ve never even touched despite
having owned for years, and I’d like to get down to playing some of them.
However, because I’m out most evenings, and because I’m very tired when I come
home, I put on my Xbox, try to work out what I’m going to play (Current
frontrunners are Blue Dragon, Shadow of Mordor, Of Orcs and Men and Enslaved)
and invariably go “Never mind, I’ll have another bash at Streets of Rage.”
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| I can cheese that big fat guy on the right - but only if I face him alone... |
So that’s the principle game I’ve been playing this week,
and I find myself using Axel more than Max for my play through these days,
perhaps as way of keeping the game fresh for me! Interestingly I got as far as the
fifth stage and found that I wasn’t concentrating anywhere near as much as I should
have been; for this reason I lost the game on the elevator boss rush on the
seventh stage. I don’t usually get much further than that but I could barely
keep my eyes open!
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| It's big, it's dumb, it's fun. I love it! |
I’ve also been playing Hydro Thunder Hurricane; I’ve been
really enjoying going for the gold score on every level. I don’t play many racing
games; there’s fun in learning tracks and optimal customisation options, but it
is a long-winded process which gets tedious after a while. With Hydro Thunder,
you pick the right boat for the track and away you go; any customisations are
purely cosmetic – so I know if I’m going wrong it’s because I don’t know the
track very well, not because I don’t know how to set up my vehicle and am
therefore knackered from the start. It’s the kind of arcade racer I used to
play when I was younger, and I’m enjoying it a lot more than I might for not
taking itself too seriously.
In my quest to tackle my ever-growing backlog of hobby
models, I had some time in Warlords ‘n’ Wizards on Sunday and put together some
of the Warriors of Khorne from the Age of Sigmar boxed set that came out – and I
bought – over two years ago. I built and painted most of the Stormcast Eternals,
and some of them appeared in my previous blog, but it was so long ago that I
can’t actually remember how I painted them. (Yes, I know they’re blue. I can’t remember
what I did to get the highlights etc. I don’t want half my army looking different
from the rest!) This is a problem I never even considered I would run in to
before, but with many, many paints in the Citadel range, I’ve started keeping
track of my paint schemes a little better now. I build all of the character
models and monsters, and five of the Blood Reavers; I’ll do the rest at some
point but that should keep me going for now.
If I have a large number of models from the same army I like
to alternate painting the “rank and file” models in blocks of five, and then
paint something else. That keeps it as fresh as it’s going to get and I get
more done for not having to paint the same model over and over again, or take
ages to see any progress for painting too many models at a time. I like to do a
good job – or as good as I can manage – but I fall foul of many of the
fallacies that plague many amateur painters: Rushing the last few parts, trying
to get as much as I could do in the time and not taking breaks when I need to.
I try not to paint to a deadline anymore, as this puts pressure on me to do
something I’ll never manage and I get disillusioned.
Went on a bit about the paint there, but I’ve not got much
else this week!
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