{"id":152,"date":"2008-12-21T19:20:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T09:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-12-21T20:11:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T10:41:22","slug":"goodashduke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"GooDashDuke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently<\/a> I bitched about the fact that I hadn’t knocked any games off The List<\/a> lately; and now, a mere fortnight later, December is looking plump with Completion. First came Mercenaries 2<\/em>, then Mutant Storm Empire<\/em>, and this week saw the Pete-Completion of World of Goo<\/em> and Dash of Destruction<\/em>.<\/p>\n

World of Goo<\/em> has been an absolute delight. I was one of those who jumped through homebrew hoops to get their PAL Wii to chat with the US Shop Channel, purely to allow the purchase of this independent masterpiece. Goo<\/em> picked up the Indy Game of the Year<\/a> at last week’s VGAs, and was finally released onto the PAL Shop Channel last Friday – the very day I finally knocked off the last of those nasty, nasty<\/em> OCD challenges. It’d be a tad fibulous to say that I enjoyed every minute – some of the OCDs are incredibly<\/em> frustrating (leading me to question whether Goo<\/em> is actually better suited to mouse-control, rather than Wii-mote) – but the sense of satisfaction from having all the OCD flags pop up is immense. Highly, highly recommended – get thee to the Wii store<\/a>! …or just buy it for your PC or Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A paragraph ago I mentioned that I’d Completed Dash of Destruction<\/em> – the Doritos-sponsored advergame – this week. In truth, it took less than 30 minutes to see all it had to offer: a cutesy, but shallow, combination of Rampage<\/em> and Crazy Taxi<\/em>. With tongue planted firmly in cheek (constant references to its freely available GamerScore abound), it’s absolutely worth the price of admission – that is, free<\/em>. Go on, kids, click this link<\/a> and add it to your download queue… it’s cheerful, fun in its small dose, and costs nothing. And it boosted my Completion Percentage by 0.18%, so that’s nice.<\/p>\n

The rest of the weekend has been taken up playing Duke Nukem<\/em> on XBLA. My Completion target for this one is all levels + all secrets + all Duke-isms, and it’s going pretty smoothly (using the excellent 3D Realms walkthrough<\/a> for reference). I’ve certainly got much further than I did when I had my dodgy copy of the game on the PC, and – with the exception of wishing the weapons had hotkeys – the controls don’t suffer at all from the conversion.<\/p>\n

And that’s my task for the week of Christmas – finish Duke Nukem<\/em>, and bring The List down to 64. Piece of cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I bitched about the fact that I hadn’t knocked any games off The List lately; and now, a mere fortnight later, December is looking plump with Completion. First came Mercenaries 2, then Mutant Storm Empire, and this week saw the Pete-Completion of World of Goo and Dash of Destruction. World of Goo has been … Continue reading GooDashDuke<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,20,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}