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Gaming and Randomness
May. 8th, 2012 05:08 pmSo, still playing Gotham City Impostors, but annoyed that they've recently gone the route of "pay more to get different weapons than you can acquire from the game alone". I don't mind selling the cosmetic things like costumes or calling cards or mascots. I don't even really mind selling weapons as long as you can acquire them in-game through completing feats or something. But when you start selling advantages, I want to play less and less. Every time someone uses one of the new weapons or advantages, I think "%!%!ing cheaters," because in my worldview, that's what they're doing.
I also decided to try out the Walking Dead video game. Well... it's more of an 'interactive story' than a game. Sure, there are game-like elements, but really... it's pretty simplistic and the plot is very, very linear (at least, the first chapter).
Game play's okay, I guess, a little like a point and click adventure, but sometimes it's not clear exactly where you're meant to click to do something, and some of the characters are almost comically stupid. (spoilers behind cut) ( Read more... )
I know it sounds like a lot of complaints, and it's certainly a very imperfect experience, but I kind of liked it just the same. It's fun to make certain tough choices and have it affect how they react to you, or have different dialog options to partly choose your way through the story. And it's surprisingly affecting to have your character having to take care of, and comfort through dialog, a kid he's found who's parents are almost certainly dead (but far away, so you have the option to lying to her).
It's a series of 5 chapters, each sold separately (on some platforms you might be able to subscribe to all of them in advance for a discount, but not on XBL apparently), and only the first has been released so far. Right now I think I might try the second, but unless it really wows me, I don't think I'll go beyond that (well, maybe I'll see if I can... acquire it, through... magic, somewhere down the line). Because $30 for the whole thing feels a bit steep for something that's, at this point, feeling a little like a railroad (I don't get the impression that anything you can do can get you to avoid ending up in the same locations in part one, for example, or fail to save certain characters who are in danger, because the plot just won't let you progress until you complete the task where ( Read more... )... and I'll be very surprised if #5 doesn't take place in the same locations no matter what you choose to do in any previous chapter, just maybe with some different people).
Anyway, in other news, I decided to order The Sunless Countries (book 4 of the Virga series), now that it's out in TPB format, and also Catching Fire because, well, I needed to get my order over $25 for free shipping, and that was the one I chose to do that. Also got a new computer chair... well, old one, but new to me, and for free. Had two choices... I think in retrospect I chose the wrong one. Oh well, it's still not bad, just I think the other one would have fit into my space better and been a little more comfortable.
Also today seems to be a weird one for meeting women from my building. Normally the most interaction I have is an occasional hallway nod, but today 3 different women in the laundry room with a hello, one woman who was locked outside and knocked on the laundry room window to ask if i could let her in, and, when I took the elevator up with my new chair, shared it with somebody I'd never met but who apparently lived on my floor on a bike (that is, she got on the elevator on a bike, I assume she doesn't live on my floor on a bike) and had a brief conversation with her (and exchanged apartment numbers, though not names). I'm not reading anything into it, it's just weird it all happening on the same day considering the otherwise relative anonymity of my apartment experience.
What else to talk about? Internet has been infuriatingly spotty these last couple weeks but especially in the last day or two. Somebody's coming in (again!) on Thursday, hope whatever's wrong gets fixed.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, I did not leave reality the other day.
I also decided to try out the Walking Dead video game. Well... it's more of an 'interactive story' than a game. Sure, there are game-like elements, but really... it's pretty simplistic and the plot is very, very linear (at least, the first chapter).
Game play's okay, I guess, a little like a point and click adventure, but sometimes it's not clear exactly where you're meant to click to do something, and some of the characters are almost comically stupid. (spoilers behind cut) ( Read more... )
I know it sounds like a lot of complaints, and it's certainly a very imperfect experience, but I kind of liked it just the same. It's fun to make certain tough choices and have it affect how they react to you, or have different dialog options to partly choose your way through the story. And it's surprisingly affecting to have your character having to take care of, and comfort through dialog, a kid he's found who's parents are almost certainly dead (but far away, so you have the option to lying to her).
It's a series of 5 chapters, each sold separately (on some platforms you might be able to subscribe to all of them in advance for a discount, but not on XBL apparently), and only the first has been released so far. Right now I think I might try the second, but unless it really wows me, I don't think I'll go beyond that (well, maybe I'll see if I can... acquire it, through... magic, somewhere down the line). Because $30 for the whole thing feels a bit steep for something that's, at this point, feeling a little like a railroad (I don't get the impression that anything you can do can get you to avoid ending up in the same locations in part one, for example, or fail to save certain characters who are in danger, because the plot just won't let you progress until you complete the task where ( Read more... )... and I'll be very surprised if #5 doesn't take place in the same locations no matter what you choose to do in any previous chapter, just maybe with some different people).
Anyway, in other news, I decided to order The Sunless Countries (book 4 of the Virga series), now that it's out in TPB format, and also Catching Fire because, well, I needed to get my order over $25 for free shipping, and that was the one I chose to do that. Also got a new computer chair... well, old one, but new to me, and for free. Had two choices... I think in retrospect I chose the wrong one. Oh well, it's still not bad, just I think the other one would have fit into my space better and been a little more comfortable.
Also today seems to be a weird one for meeting women from my building. Normally the most interaction I have is an occasional hallway nod, but today 3 different women in the laundry room with a hello, one woman who was locked outside and knocked on the laundry room window to ask if i could let her in, and, when I took the elevator up with my new chair, shared it with somebody I'd never met but who apparently lived on my floor on a bike (that is, she got on the elevator on a bike, I assume she doesn't live on my floor on a bike) and had a brief conversation with her (and exchanged apartment numbers, though not names). I'm not reading anything into it, it's just weird it all happening on the same day considering the otherwise relative anonymity of my apartment experience.
What else to talk about? Internet has been infuriatingly spotty these last couple weeks but especially in the last day or two. Somebody's coming in (again!) on Thursday, hope whatever's wrong gets fixed.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, I did not leave reality the other day.
