| Sep. 23rd, 2008 @ 10:50 pm Thoughts on various things |
|---|
Current Mood: Random
I simply can't handle Sonic the Hedgehog, the 2006 XBox360 version. I've been stuck on the Crisis City stage (it's in THE FUTURE!) for the past two days, thanks to various things:
- Bad luck
- Overly touchy controls
- A camera that decides to randomly look behind me instead of in front of me
- Sonic not jumping when I press A
- Running straight off the freeway when the Goal Ring was just in sight
- Sonic deciding to jump into the lava instead of doing a Homing Attack on the enemy I was clearly pointing towards
- Sonic deciding to jump into the lava when all I was trying to do was speed up
- My reflexes not being what they used to be
- Me apparently deciding I don't like Sonic's high-speed style anymore
The way things were going, what with the touchy controls, my bad luck, and my lack of reflexes, if I'd actually made it to the Goal Ring I probably would have run straight past it and into the lava.
That was just this stage. A lot of other things had been annoying me, including the attempt at Grand Theft:Sonic, and the loading screens. Oh god the loading screens. There are SO MANY of them. (Including four in the Crisis City stage.)
I've had enough of this game.
---
I saw Episode 13 and part of Episode 14 of Code Geass R2 on the weekend. A Certain Something happens to a Certain Someone. Sadly, I'd been spoiled and knew the Certain Something was coming, and was pissed off about it. I wanted to see the episode to see how it happened, and how Lelouche and other characters reacted to it.
So the Certain Something happened. A reason was given for it. Lelouche reacted in one way, and then another later. Maybe the later raction was the more genuine one. Yeah well, who knows what Lelouche is ever really thinking.
He can go die in a fire. I've had enough of this show now.
---
I prefer to not be fired for blogging about my job, so I will make this post about me and merely say that changes instituted this week, combined with a few other factors, are kicking my ass.
Fun trivia note. I either:
- Have some form of Asperger's Syndrome
- Or am just resistant-to-change-and-process-oriented-and-bad-at-and-scared-of-communicating-and-have-exhibited-a-few-other-symptoms-of-Asperger's-over-my-lifetime
Seeing as the solution to either seems to be much the same, I've never bothered to get an official diagnosis. Plus, you know, the scared-of-communication bit. It makes talking to strange doctors difficult.
Anyway, that "resistant to change" bit is not helping this week.
---
I recently caught a few minutes of a show on ABC2 called The Hacker Half-Hour (I think that's what it was called, anyway). This week it was talking about the stuff we put online, and how it can jeopardise our future, and how our possible future employers might look at us. I'm looking at what I wrote above and am wondering if I should really post it. Is it a good idea to publicly announce that I am potentially screwed up in the head? But even if I am, I actually do pretty well at work. And if memory serves I think I've put much more incriminating stuff on the net already, and I've been using my real name on it since the year dot.
---
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword on the DS is absolutely awesome. (See, this is a game that also requires high speed and reflexes, yet I do fine on this one.) The only flaw is that it goes on a little too long.
Then there is more awesomeness during the ending sequence, when you see Ryu without his ninja hood. And he's SMILING. This one bit helps show that he's more than just a super badass ninja, more than any other part in any other game he's in.
Well, more than any other part in any other game that I've seen. Those last three words count. I never saw much of the original NG games, or DoA1.
I went back and tried beating the Chapter 1 Boss. When you play through normally, you almost certainly die against this boss. He does a huge amount of damage to you, is one of the few enemies that damages you even if you block, and your hits against him do piddling damage. But that's okay, the boss is designed to kill you, and the game continues anyway when you eventually, inevitably, die.
If you beat the Chapter 1 Boss, you get a special bonus.
After trying to fight the Chapter 1 Boss (and failing) for something like three hours, I think I'll just have to do without the special bonus.
---
Saw the playable demo for Force Unleashed at an EB, and had a go. It was... OK, I guess, but it didn't feel all that awesome.
Now, the Jedi Knight games, *those* were awesome. |
|  |
pleased
curious
angry![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}