Posts Tagged ‘Skate 2’
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
2009 was to be the year my concentration for gaming dwindled to a considerable low. People say that gaming is a hobby you inevitably grow out off, but the fact I returned to it on my 19th birthday after a 4 year hiatus, and have since spent a lot of time doing, proved to be the opposite for myself. However, something odd has happened to me over the past 12 months, and I find myself notably less excited about gaming than I ever have been. Where did it go wrong, and why?
On January 25th, my birthday, I found myself having “the talk” with a guy I was seeing. You know the talk, the awkward one where you’re furtively investigating how serious you’ve become, whether you’ve made the leap to exclusivity or are still seeing other people. For whatever reason, having a boyfriend who didn’t game meant that I also paid less attention to my Xbox, especially as only a few months earlier I had finished with a guy who was as big a gamer as I. It was at this point I was playing Skate 2, the follow-up to one of my favourite games of 2007.
Skate 2 was meant to have me as hooked as the original, especially as Black Box had done a great job of building on and improving the foundations of Skate. Somehow it failed to be the game that had me itching to finish work just so I could freeskate around San Vanelona, which was odd as it was undoubtedly an improvement over the original. It wasn’t logical… I loved the original, and now I was playing an improved version of that, so there really should have been no reason I was struggling to get excited about Skate 2. Yet I was. Even though I had put my inability of getting hooked on Skate 2 as a direct result of my new relationship, it was to set the unfortunate tone for the coming year.
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Tags: 2009, Assassin's Creed II, Assassins Creed, Batman Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Infinite Undiscovery, Left 4 Dead, Lego Batman, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 3, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 5, Round-up, Skate, Skate 2
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Tags: Skate 2, video
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Skate 2 has been both the bane of my life and the love of my life for the past month. Set in the New San Vanelona, Skate 2 builds upon the original with more challenges, double the tricks, and the option to now play as a female skater. With a lengthy career, downloadable content, and plenty of multiplayer modes, Skate 2 is still keeping me busy.
Tags: Currently Playing, Skate 2
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
I’ve been a member of Xbox Live for over two years, and within that time I’ve ventured ever-so-apprehensively into the murky waters of multiplayer on numerous occasions, namely with Rainbow Six: Vegas. I’ve been fortunate enough to have not had too many bad experiences. The occasional name calling (an Irish guy who referred to me as a “fucking clown”), a potentially nasty experience from playing a camera-based Aracde game (a presumptuous pervert who thought my sole intention of playing UNO was to see his “arrrd cock”), and being excluded from games because I have a vagina (me speaking up in the lobby, which lead to all-round cries of “It’s a girl!” *you have been kicked from the server*).
In fact, I would consider myself to be fairly lucky with how smooth my online experience has been. However, I’ve got to the stage where I wish there was an age filter on Xbox Live; something that would enable me control over what age groups I’m playing with. Because, for whatever reason, out of all the idiots I’ve encountered online, the ones I seem to be least tolerant of are the pre-pubescent kids who take the whole online competitive nature far too seriously.
A couple of days ago, after cleaning up all the single player Achievements in Skate 2 (bar the DLC ones), I decided to take my created skater, Candy, online for a bit of a Jam session. The Jam sessions basically involve 3 rounds, and whoever racks up the most points from pulling off tricks wins. Simple.
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Tags: Rainbow Six: Vegas, Skate 2, Xbox Live
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
If you’re looking for insightful tips on how to get your missus loving Master Chief, run along. I’m looking for those that can tell me how to get my other half as excited about frags, Achievements, and all things Tom Clancy as I am.
Yet again I find myself in another relationship with someone disinterested in video games. I knew this from the get-go as it was, of course, a mandatory question I asked on our first date (ahem). Hairy chest? Check. Non smoker? Check. 360 gamer? Negative. I told myself, however, that he may catch the console bug like I have, and a few days later he text asking where he could pick up an original Xbox, already showing promise.
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Tags: Left 4 Dead, Rock Band, Skate 2, Tom Clancy
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
I wasn’t sure what to call this. Video game faces? Skate 2 frustration? I obviously opted for the former, but it’s a perfect example of how frustrating Skate 2 can be! Anyway, things I’ve discovered about myself; I’m an annoying gamer, I feel sorry for the people I’ve been playing Left 4 Dead with due to the irritating shrieking, and I can’t figure out if that’s a hiccup or a burp.
Now it’s you’re turn.
Tags: Aside, Skate 2, video
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After playing Dragon Age: Origins, Bioware’s latest Role Playing Game, for just under a month, I’m only 30% odd complete. There’s sex, there’s violence, there’s a question of morals, there’s a meaty story. With real-time gory combat and big swords, it’s what every action RPG fan wants, right?
