 I am a Light Cycle.
I drive fast, I turn fast, I do everything fast. I even breakfast. I tend to confuse people with my sudden changes of heart. Sometimes I even confuse myself, which tends to cause problems. What Video Game Character Are You? |
In a word: Punishing.
You die? You start over. You do a level, no, a part of a level, 100 times and you like it. There is no starting over where you die. You start at the beginning, every time.
Everything is based on souls. They are your currency and your leveling up. You buy equipment with souls, but you don’t sell the equipment, you kill more. If you die, you lose all your souls. Had 3000 souls? Well you just got one shotted and now you are dead and have none.
Also, you spend most of the game in soul form. That means you have half your life, most of the time. You only get your body back when you kill a level boss, which always look impossible.
But, it’s not all this bad. First, after you kill the first boss anyway, you can sink your souls in to levels. So you can do part of a level that you know how to do, over and over, and accumulate souls. Then you can run back to the beginning of the level and power up. Now you can get the same souls, but easier, and press further in. All the guys come back and attack in exactly the same way. So you end up memorizing levels as you do them, over and over.
Did I say after you kill the first boss you get to level up? Ya… so… you just kinda have to accept that your starting character is how you are going to play the first 2-3 hours of the game. If you are having a hell of a time, you suck at that kind of character… or… maybe there is a better choice of starting character. For instance, if you want to be a mage type character, the magician sounds like a reasonable choice right? Well, no, actually you want the Royal. The magician can’t regen mana yet. That means to beat the first stage, you have to carry probably 20 mana restoring things. Well, those cost 350 souls, which take about 20 minutes to collect… so.. ugh.. that blows. I restarted as a Royal and it was way way easier… easier meaning perhaps possible.
So then about the character class. It really only affects before you defeat the first demon. It’s your starting equipment and stats. After that, you can spend souls however you want and get any of the starting equipment pretty easily in the first stages of the next worlds.
And back to dying. Yes, you die and lose all your souls. But if you can fight back to where you died you can get them all back. If you die before you get there, then those souls are lost and your new current soul count is what you have. So getting “scared out of pushing forward” is a common thing.
The game is multiplayer, but in the sense that you see wispy apparitions running around doing about the same thing you are doing (only 1 at a time, it’s definitely not annoying) so you can kinda watch them and see where they go and how they move around the level. You can also leave stock notes to each other. Like “watch out ahead!” and stuff like that. You can also team up and PVP in to other worlds and kill, but I haven’t done those yet.
Even though it’s really tough, I really dig it. It’s a real challenge. I feel bad that I restarted as a Royal… seems a little like giving up, but it’s really fun now. I had been reading online a little, but I gotta stop that… the exploration and the dying over and over is all part of the fun 
so I got Tattooine and Jedi Academy dlc’s for Force Unleashed together for about $20.. I played through both of them in about as much time as it took to install them. They were fun and interesting, but there really just needs to be a part 2. Which there is… coming out this year!
What’s a jip is that the force unleashed ultimate sith edition has both the Tattooine and Jedi Academy campains AND another campain that takes place on Hoth in the parallel universe where Starkiller kills Darth Vader and basically does all his stuff… so I’m kinda out the $20 and not gonna spend another $30 or $40 just for a 1 hr expansion level to kill Luke… I probably just need to find a youtube video
also, before all this, I got up to the Emperor and was getting in to the swing of how to kill him.. so then he knocks me off the platform outside the blue force field, then I die finally and I start fighting Vader.. gah… so I killed Vader just because, again, and then it start me back in the tie fighter factory… so I didn’t get to beat him again
oh well… anway.. I think I’m totally done with the game now and will move on to something else… it’s still a blast.. one of the best I’ve played.. it’s a big deal to replay a game and still have fun… I think that’s the only game I have that I really want to replay.
I went through on the game Sith Lord difficulty since it had trophies now.. this time dark side… the gear you get is pretty cool looking.. even though the dark side ending leaves you feeling “man, I really should have gone the other way” … and official cannon says Starkiller did go light side … so I’ll probably beat it, again, the light side way and get the trophies with my dark side costume… anyway.. that felt fast.. it was like 10 days playing some nights and mornings.
there are some expansions for it… I might have to get those…
my new S&W M&P15 after I field stripped and cleaned it for the first time…
we’re gonna have some fun on Thanksgiving at Dad’s
I’m gonna put an Eotech 512 on it, so it’ll basically be like a video game, only of course it works fer realskies
I have some regular sights coming for it too.. magpul mbus things.. 400 rounds of ammo coming friday.. sooooo… I’ll probably have to squeeze 1 or 2 off this weekend
there are SO many things you can do to a gun like this… it’s like DIY dream.. only it SHOOTS.. so even better
woot
I think this one is next. Looks like I can get it for about $930 + shipping + FFL fees.. so like.. $1000 … then I’d only need 1 more gun.. and parts for my shotgun… lol.. maybe it never ends.
I probably can’t go buying it until after the first of the year tho…. awww
in a 16 ounce glass:
I came to this magic after about 3 tries.. the first couple either had too much soda or too little simple syrup or both. I still pounded them.. didn’t want to waste it! Then 4 and 5 were awesome.
WARNING: don’t drink 5 of them.. that’s about half a 1/5 of rum… I priased the porcelin god so you don’t have to. Beware!
after visiting the gaping maw of Lawful Good righteousness known as the Jackson County Courthouse (the one downtown.. yes… the hardcore one), I can now notarize the shit outta shit
I bet I do it like 10 times.. ever
I bought Shannon and I a new bed from Hawn bedding. Got to test drive it last night.. if you know what I mean.. that’s right.. I slept great! (ha ha)
So it’s a kind of latex (rubber) mattress on a box spring. It’s like rubber out of the rubber tree rubber. I had no idea they’d be comfy. I guess it’s part to do with the box spring too.. that they can make it harder or softer depending on what it’s sitting on. Total was about $1300 .. 15 year warranty… and they moved the old bed downstairs and put this one in for $15… so nice.
Anyway.. Dad has one, Todd has one, and now I have one
Now I just need a AR15… and a CCWable gun… and a million dollars.
well, a little bit of goo and dead shit.. oh and I am batshit insane talking to my dead girlfriend and all.. but .. hey.. I blew up that planet, so fuck ‘em
… Dead Space annihilated over the trip up NORTH
next is Mass Effect for the PC .. I’m downloading it over Steam right now.
I’m on a roll beating all these games.. Jon would be so proud… even though I still haven’t beaten Oblivion or Bioshock
I almost got Fallout 3 next.. but then I realized that Bethseda and I really don’t get along since their Elder Scrolls and Oblivion really haven’t done it for me… so I steered clear.