I forgot how tedious the fishing mini-game is in Ocarina of Time. I need to get the Golden Scale, but I'm pretty sure I can beat Ganondorf with 19 hearts.
So I was feeling depressed tonight and thought "Hey... didn't you just get To The Moon? You've been wanting to play that for awhile now. Maybe that'll help lighten the mood..."
Jesus christ! I was crying through half the game. I haven't played something with such emotional impact since the finale of Telltale Presents The Walking Dead Season 1. It's the sappiest... most suspenseful... most romantic thing I've ever seen. The fact that they are giving it away for like $6 right now is a crime. I'd have easily payed $20 had I known it would be that amazing.
Spoiler Free version: Buy To The Moon. Yes, it looks like it was made with RPGMaker (and it was) but it's worth every penny. Get it cheap alongside some other great games in the Humble Weekly Bundle.
Jesus christ! I was crying through half the game. I haven't played something with such emotional impact since the finale of Telltale Presents The Walking Dead Season 1. It's the sappiest... most suspenseful... most romantic thing I've ever seen. The fact that they are giving it away for like $6 right now is a crime. I'd have easily payed $20 had I known it would be that amazing.
Spoiler Free version: Buy To The Moon. Yes, it looks like it was made with RPGMaker (and it was) but it's worth every penny. Get it cheap alongside some other great games in the Humble Weekly Bundle.
I cried like a baby. Tears of sorrow. Tears of anger. Tears of joy. Truly a beautiful experience, wonderful storytelling, great characters, and a great representation of games as art.
And there will supposedly be a sequel! Hopefully... maybe...
They released a minisode for free on their website back in December. It deals with the office Christmas party at Sigmund and a few issues they really don't talk about in the game.
Here it is!
It's only about 10-15 minutes.
My number one complaint about the game?
Why didn't they have the balls to just come out and say River had autism/Aspergers? They don't have a problem showing a little boy get killed but apparently it's taboo to mention a main character's disability?
Oh yeah, I've beaten it with fewer hearts than this and then gone about collecting them, but I had the intention of getting them all. I just don't know how long I really want to spend trying to get the Golden Scale. Why can't that guy just be impressed with my iron boots?
Also, looking at the list of heart pieces, I should have all but one, and yet I'm missing two. Which means I think I got one of them and actually didn't. Which means going to any I'm not 100% certain about. Fun times.
EDIT: It was the cow cage one, AND I got the Golden Scale. Just have to change out of these lousy blue clothes into the red ones and I'm all set for Ganondorf.
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So ends The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the I-have-no-idea-th time. Despite how many times I've played through this, the final battle always gets me excited and the ending always puts a big smile on my face. It's one of my favorite games, one of the few from my childhood that hasn't lost its luster or been tainted in some way. Much as I pine for a Majora's Mask remake/re-release, I largely only played that game during a specific time period and used it as an escape from dealing with my brother's death, so though I'd like to play it again, I have no idea what repressed shit it would dredge up by association.
Ocarina of Time just purely makes me happy. Even the frustration with the Water Temple or the stupid fishing game, flaws and all, it makes me feel good.
Ocarina of Time just purely makes me happy. Even the frustration with the Water Temple or the stupid fishing game, flaws and all, it makes me feel good.
The color coding for water levels is helpful, but the best improvement for the Water Temple was making the iron boots an item you can turn on and off instead of making you go into the gear menu every time.
You know, that's actually kind of meta for the theme of the game.
So, spent some time with Heroes of the Storm. It's pretty much Smite light, which is League of Legends light, which is DOTA light. It's to the MOBA genre as Hearthstone is to the CCG genre. Which means it will probably be insanely popular. It's easily accessible but has some really cool map variations. One of the best features that I hope sticks around is the ability to test drive heroes before purchase.
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Saints Row 2.
It's hard, I'll give it that. That's actually a breath of fresh air, because all these games are so ridiculously easy these days. It's still pretty brain dead, though. Voice acting is good, and music is interesting. It feels to me like a better GTA with a more coherent story that I actually care about. Still, it is repetitive and some of the activities are frustrating. Especially on PC, because the driving controls were clearly set up for a console (a little thumb joystick even pops up in the tutorial text).
It's hard, I'll give it that. That's actually a breath of fresh air, because all these games are so ridiculously easy these days. It's still pretty brain dead, though. Voice acting is good, and music is interesting. It feels to me like a better GTA with a more coherent story that I actually care about. Still, it is repetitive and some of the activities are frustrating. Especially on PC, because the driving controls were clearly set up for a console (a little thumb joystick even pops up in the tutorial text).
It's a notoriously bad 3rd party port. Get the Gentlemen of the Row mod from here. It helps with a lot of it.
Still working on FFX. Man, I don't know why I always forget that Auron goes fucking Beastmode not long before Calm Lands. He hits for double my second strongest character, and once he's done with his part of the Sphere Grid I'm going to send him through Tidus' area. All that power with Tidus' rocket speed should be interesting.
Though now that I think of it, maybe I should let him gather up all of Rikku's Agility/Evasion spheres instead...
Though now that I think of it, maybe I should let him gather up all of Rikku's Agility/Evasion spheres instead...
The Sphere Grid is a nice balance of giving characters their own unique skills, but also allowing those skills to overlap. You can really abuse some of the physical characters' potential.
Especially in the HD version with the Expert Grid. There's a lot more open pathways to cross to other areas without using up those precious Key Spheres.
Hopefully this isn't much of a spoiler, but I hear the final boss is an EXACT COPY from one of the boss fights in Arkham City.
I just finished it. It's similar to in mechanics, but it is not an exact copy at all.
The driving controls in SR3 and SR4 are pretty good, actually.
I've been playing a modded out New Vegas again. I'm going through the DLCs again. I'd forgotten how much I fucking hate Dead Money. It's so unbelievably shitty it makes the Alaska corridor shooter DLC from Fallout 3 look playable and fun.
Step, step, beep, beep, beep, beep. The fucking gas everywhere. UGH.
Step, step, beep, beep, beep, beep. The fucking gas everywhere. UGH.
See. I think Dead Money is the best because it's the only one that has any kind of coherent story. Old World Blues and Honest Hearts are just excuses to add new zones and Lonesome Road is just as much of a tunnel as Dead Money, except without the compelling story.
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Yeah I'm looking forward to trying them. I got the three pack from amazon's digital deal. But I want to finish 2 first.
The story is fine, it's the identical looking everything (even every building you go inside is almost the same) and the incredibly stunted and tedious pace of it due to the gas and the radios and speakers everywhere. Not to mention if you aren't always staring straight down or haven't taken the light step perk (which I did, thank Christ) you're probably going to set off anywhere from 10 to 10 trillion bear traps. Everything about it makes you take the whole thing at a snail's pace.
And while the narrative isn't as strong in the other DLC's, they have a much better balance and don't end up being the most tedious things I've ever done.
Having a grand old time in FFX HD, then Seymour Flux has to come along and fucking ruin everything.
Alternatively, you can bring God with you and take advantage of his perk that does the same thing as Light Step. I think you can even get him to teach it to you like Dog's perk where he can kill guys dead.
For 3 & 4, I recommend some of the "challenge" tweak mods. The Cyber-Trailblazing activity is sadistic at Hard level, the mod just gives you 60 seconds instead of 30. Makes it significantly less frustrating to get the Wraith car and Tron lightcycle.
there is huge tone shift between 2 and the sequels - 2 is pretty dark, but 3 and 4 are more like parodies of GTA while still having all the fun.
So I sat down today thinking "okay, one shot at Seymour Flux, if he kills me again I'll do some grinding and stomp his face in."
Wiped the floor with him on the first attempt.
I was honestly surprised I had an easier time with
but you get so much free grinding on the way there I was able to slam Ultimas and Auron's 9999 non-crit attacks in her face.
Wiped the floor with him on the first attempt.
I was honestly surprised I had an easier time with
Yunalesca,
Either I need to retire Weapon Shop de Omasse or keep careful track of whether there's anything on my touch screen, because it's somehow caused more scratches than playing Kid Icarus Uprising. Probably because it's straight up and down repetitive movements as opposed to sliding the stylus as-needed.
Been diving back into my Lego games lately. I tried picking up Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars again. That game commits the one cardinal sin of any Lego game. It's boring as all hell. There's this half assed base building mechanic which is just terrible, and it's on almost every freaking mission.
Lego Marvel Super Heroes, on the other hand, continues to be just goddamn delightful, charming, and fun.
I still need to get Lego The Hobbit and The Lego Movie Game to round out my collection.
Lego Marvel Super Heroes, on the other hand, continues to be just goddamn delightful, charming, and fun.
I still need to get Lego The Hobbit and The Lego Movie Game to round out my collection.