Trip Hazard

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  1. Posted

    Just finished all of Gone Home in one not-quite-marathon 2 hour session. 

     

    Really enjoyed it. The house wasn't very believable, and I had a strange moment right at the start where I felt completely lost after checking the answering machine - what would "Katie" do next? Not just wander around opening drawers, surely - but I was interested enough in the house and what I'd heard so far that I dug around a bit and Sam's story started to emerge. I was hooked after that; even had a little lump in my throat at a couple of points. I loved all of the other little tidbits about Terry, Jan and Oscar, too. 

     

    It would have been great to have learned a bit more about Katie herself. I know she went to Europe and then came home, and that's it really. I assume that she is a fat girl because she is very sluggish, struggling particularly with stairs, and her footsteps are very loud? Also, when I saw that

    "Lonnie D" was actually Yolanda Desoto, I thought she might be black, which totally threw my assumptions for a loop...but actually she's white *phew*

  4. Posted

    I got my step-daughter some Roald Dahl for crimbo. She's a bit young to read 'em herself, but I'm having a blast reading to her. Very happy childhood memories of The Twits, Danny, George, etc. Will give Graham Greene a try if he's at all similar.

  5. Posted

    Very true!

    I was watching one of Emmarel's videos recently and when Priscilla delivers her speech about her land being "peaceful" and its inhabitants "kind", the video had been cleverly edited to cut back to all of the horrible, fucked up, murderous shit that assaults you in the Painted World

     

    So yeah, I might do her in. Besides, bitchin' dagger.

  6. Posted

    The ninja build that I started playing with a couple of weeks back has been going from strength to strength recently. I found a whole set of Shadow gear in Blight Town, as well as an Iaito (I love Blight Town so much) so now my guy really looks the part. Not that keen on the two-handed strong attack, which winds up for just a touch too long, so I may trade it in for the Uchi later on, if I can remember where to get it.

     

    My next task is to cut

    Priscilla

    down to size, although having said that, I'm not sure that that will be in keeping with the heroic ninja I had hoped to embody. 

     

    Edit: goodly doesn't mean what I thought it meant

  10. Posted

    So, you can either:

     

    Live with your decisions, whether they turn out to be good decisions or bad, and see how far you can get. 

     

    Or, restart the game and make different choices, and then either live with those or not, depending again on whether or not they work.

     

    (There's a hidden third choice which involves reading about builds that work and just copying them exactly, but that sounds like it would be really boring)

     

    I've not played enough to know, but what's the likelihood of getting completely stumped in PoE because you've made poor choices? Bearing in mind, it is possible to take your time making choices to deal with the situation at hand, and then later on encounter something radically different which stops you dead in your tracks.

  12. Posted

    Far Cry 2 indeed! I've not played much of it, really, but what I have played I've enjoyed. There was a particularly exciting moment when I was pinned down by a sniper whilst crossing a bridge. I had a sniper rifle too, but he was better than me. I'm gunned down, and then rescued by my pal, who it seems is only a mercenary in occupational terms. He takes charge, barking at me to take cover and firing on the sniper. 

     

    It was beautiful. A seemingly chaotic, unique scenario, which felt as thrilling as any heavily scripted moment I've experienced this year.

     

     I don't like how frequently guard posts regenerate tho. Driving around is enough of a hassle without constantly getting your car shot to bits and having to pinch another one.

  13. Posted

    I played 5 hours of this, a few months back, then grew fatigued at the idea of how much time I'd have to put in to get anywhere and stopped completely. I quite admire the graphics and sound design, and appreciated the loot/trading system they have, but it seemed a very shallow experience. I might try a hardcore character; sounds like that'd be a good way to grow more invested in the game, and my character.

     

    Although, there's no respec is there? I could pour hours into one build only to completely hit a wall and have to start over. No. No, I don't think so. 

  16. Posted

    It's just a disturbing insight into the mentality of people faced with zombie apocalypse. Even after a charming and entertaining show, survival comes first and one will not hesitate to blow open someone's skull if it means improving one's chances of making it out alive. It would most likely play out fairly similarly in real life.

     

    In the parlance of DayZ, you're marked as KoS when the inevitable happens.

  17. Posted

    Just looked it up on Reddit. A lot of people downvoting them for killing the Wigglers, which is fair enough, but then saying things like "it's faggots like you that ruin this game", for which they are upvoted. Is this an example of the kind of people playing DayZ, then, or just reddit being reddit?

  21. Posted

    Also for whatever reason the dialogue in Toonstruck is incredibly long and drawn out. 

     

    This is true, I can't even deny it. I personally thought that much of the dialogue was very funny, and was happy to listen to more of it, but there is always the option to skip lines of dialogue if you're fed up of someone, or simply stop "melting the ice" and just get on with beating the game.

  24. Posted

    I still really enjoy dumb, goofy humor 

     

    Me too! Give Toonstruck a whirl if you haven't already. It's pretty dumb and extremely goofy, occasionally annoying but also studded with slapstick jokes, withering put-downs and a bit of S&M in the unlikeliest of places.