Playing games this week...

Has seen me enjoy the experience of Operation Flashpoint. I am on the last level, and in doing that I am attacking the final base. While I have died several times, I have enjoyed, somehow, playing through this last part. In addition, I have really got into PES2009. I am enjoying winning the games, and doing well. I do not enjoy winning 2-1 with Porto on the more difficult lev...

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Three times

I have played a good number of games the past few weeks. The focus of this shall be PES 2009. The become a legend mode has always held some interest. The issue is, of course, that the vertical camera used often does not aid my skills and experience in using the wide camera. As such, I was utterly unable to score, or even play, in the vertical mode. Interestingly enough, I had a housemate who persevered with this mode for something like three seasons. When you bear in mind this can be 40 games or more, at ten minutes each, this is a substantial amount of time. Add to this the fact that he scored something like 2-3 goals in an entire season, and those goals were always tackling a defend, or hitting in a rebound. So why play it? Why suffer this frankly atrocious gameplay? Because the idea is...

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