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Doom, Gloom, Death, and Destruction
Apr. 27th, 2003 07:20 pmYesterday was not a very good day. In AC2 Speckles couldn't play until late, so I checked back late, and -- well, we got killed over and over and over and over and totally failed to make any progress. Obviously, to do anything on Linvak takes a group of more than two. Unfortunately, all anyone on Linvak ever wants to do ever is hunt dillos to powerlevel so that they can get to 50 really quickly then complain that all the content is for people of lower levels.
Omishan was the same, but at least there Flyken and Terra could usually do what they wanted as a duo... Gah. They can blame Turbine all they want, but it's the fricking powerleveling freak-ass players that are killing AC2.
I also tried to play Xenosaga, but MY GOD. I'd heard the game had a lot of cutscenes, but it's impossible to overstate how freakishly long and annoying the cutscenes are. Walk through a door, cutscene. Talk to someone, cutscene. Walk down a hallway, cutscene. Be watching a long, annoying cutscene, cutscene. No, really, the cutscenes have cutscenes! Aieeee!
They aren't even *pretty* cutscenes -- they're polyganal characters of PSX quality with bad, poorly synced voice acting. Two hours into the game (having racked up a total of maybe 5 minutes of actual play) I was screaming at the console to STOP WITH THE FRICKING CUTSCENES. "Run! Just RUN AWAY! You aren't armed and the enemies are invincible, and you don't even KNOW these people! Why are you sticking around? NOOO, not more speeches, run you idiot!"
Other than that, it seems like a pretty good game.
Today was Tom's Sunday D+D game, but before we could get to it Tom had to talk about how his boss at work was basically torpedoing his career so he could look good 'cutting deadwood'. Tom went on to talk about how his employer (which everyone else at the game also works at) has all these draconic policies that, well, I've never heard of or seen in action. I think it might just be his group, unless it's just not my group.
But then we finally got to the game, and somewhat to my surprise, I didn't die. Lots of other people did die, though, as well as both my animal companions.
( game summary, spoilers for Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil )
Dave, who plays Darien, was really really angry that a bunch of people had died and we'd basically failed the mission, and wanted to end the game instantly on the spot. No one else agreed with him, though -- we've been playing this module for more than a year, and by god we're at LEAST going to all die trying to finish it.
Omishan was the same, but at least there Flyken and Terra could usually do what they wanted as a duo... Gah. They can blame Turbine all they want, but it's the fricking powerleveling freak-ass players that are killing AC2.
I also tried to play Xenosaga, but MY GOD. I'd heard the game had a lot of cutscenes, but it's impossible to overstate how freakishly long and annoying the cutscenes are. Walk through a door, cutscene. Talk to someone, cutscene. Walk down a hallway, cutscene. Be watching a long, annoying cutscene, cutscene. No, really, the cutscenes have cutscenes! Aieeee!
They aren't even *pretty* cutscenes -- they're polyganal characters of PSX quality with bad, poorly synced voice acting. Two hours into the game (having racked up a total of maybe 5 minutes of actual play) I was screaming at the console to STOP WITH THE FRICKING CUTSCENES. "Run! Just RUN AWAY! You aren't armed and the enemies are invincible, and you don't even KNOW these people! Why are you sticking around? NOOO, not more speeches, run you idiot!"
Other than that, it seems like a pretty good game.
Today was Tom's Sunday D+D game, but before we could get to it Tom had to talk about how his boss at work was basically torpedoing his career so he could look good 'cutting deadwood'. Tom went on to talk about how his employer (which everyone else at the game also works at) has all these draconic policies that, well, I've never heard of or seen in action. I think it might just be his group, unless it's just not my group.
But then we finally got to the game, and somewhat to my surprise, I didn't die. Lots of other people did die, though, as well as both my animal companions.
( game summary, spoilers for Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil )
Dave, who plays Darien, was really really angry that a bunch of people had died and we'd basically failed the mission, and wanted to end the game instantly on the spot. No one else agreed with him, though -- we've been playing this module for more than a year, and by god we're at LEAST going to all die trying to finish it.
