been going through dawn of war's original campaign. its strangely compelling. even though a simple steamroller tactic is winning every engagement so far. its just cool to be in the 40k universe.

nath is also having another go at his silent hill 2 longplay. he went through it a few times quick today on easy to unlock endings and so on. more tomorrow.

today eugene and i finally got round to playing doom 3: resurrection of evil. over a year and a half since completing the original doom 3...we used tunngle vpn to play it as a lan game over the internet. although there was a lot of lag even for an internet game which could have been caused by tunngle. further testing will need to be done.

it was quite short and pretty easy with the last man standing co-op mod but good old fashioned fun none the less. jimbob managed to mince through it on ultra-high quality without even breaking a sweat with his shin new radeon hd 5670

finished zelda 2. finally. so damn hard. even with save states. undoubtedly the most merciless, weird and bone-crunchingly hard zelda ever. another childhood nes game put to bed. and i think thats the lot. maybe i should move onto unfinished snes games now...

nath finished silent hill 4 today too. pretty good ending generally considered one of the worse silent hill games, but i liked the story in it. more narrative and events rather than just wandering around going "what the fuck" most of the time like most silent hills

closing in on the end of zelda 2. 5 dungeons in, 2 to go. already further than i got on the original nes cart.

nath got most of the way through silent hill 4 today but went to bed before he finished.

trying to finish off the last few nes games i have on the list. only 2 are zelda 2 and mario and yoshi. and i dont think mario & yoshi really has an ending....so i went with zelda 2.

its still rock hard as ever. emulating it on ds and having to make ample use of save states. seems to be slow, nibbling progress. you have so little life and magic. and limited lives. what the fuck. so everytime you die you have to go all the way back to the start castle. but making slow progress....did 1 temple and am close to the second i think.

nath was gonna do more silent hill 4 but didnt feel up to it. perhaps tomorrow.

just beat totally rad there today. another blast from the past finally conquered. originally called 'magic john' in japan. the surfer lingo and characters were added completely out of nowhere by the american translators. curious.

nath beat silent hill origins last night. it locked up near the end then he went to bed in defeat. then came back 5 minutes later saying it would bug him if he didnt finish it, so he did. pretty good ending. hes starting back at silent hill 4 today.

also, my army of two 2 came today. it didnt get lost in the post after naths da re-sent it using the same postage mark. good stuff

i am starting this as way to keep track of gaming progress/history so i will have something to look back on fondly in future days and remember good times had with gaming.

yesterday i finally finished the pc version of braid. it got very hard very quick and was especially difficult towards the end. the epilogue didnt make a lot of sense to me and apparently it has no concrete meaning. the 'girl' he is chasing is possibly a metaphor for the atomic bomb....quite odd. but still good nonetheless.

today i finished a game i had left unfinished since i was about 12. rad gravity on the nes. through ample use of save states on an emulator i eventually finished it. interesting twist at the end in that your computer was actually evil and you were doing his evil bidding all the time. but in the end when he was revealed as the villan you did the right thing.

nath has started going through silent hill origins again due to being stuck in the last attempt with too little health to progress.

not sure what to play next. so many options....so little time