Homicidal Evil Space Chicken Report
Mar. 27th, 2008 05:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynAs I mentioned a few posts ago, I've been playing Half-Life lately. I'm really not good at first person shooters, and even worse at FPS games that have jumping puzzles, because the perspective graphics almost inevitably leave me over- or under-estimating my abilities. There's a couple of elevator shafts at Black Mesa that're pretty much paved with skull fragments right now, not to mention the Room of the Hanging Boxes, I Mean Seriously, What The Hell.
Apparently at least one of the architects behind the Black Mesa complex was a Knight of the First Crusade, because there's one part in the game segment I finished last night where you have to take a running jump across a freight elevator shaft, climb a ladder, inch around the inside of the shaft, climb another ladder, inch again, climb a third ladder, watch a scientist fall screaming to his death (the walkthroughs say you can't save him, alas)... and then, from a ledge that is narrower than the length of your feet, jump halfway across the elevator shaft again and climb up a ladder on the outside of the elevator. I tried, man. Believe me, I tried. I tried every jumping technique I could think of. I tried squinching backwards for some kind of forward momentum in my jumps. It did not work. The squelches of my character hitting the bottom of the shaft forty or fifty feet below kept getting longer and wetter. So, finally, I gave up and just pressed the joystick forward in the 'walk, dammit' mode....
... and apparently WALKED ACROSS THE EMPTY OPEN ELEVATOR SHAFT right to the ladder.
Seriously. We got us a leap from the lion's mouth here, people. WTF.
Apparently at least one of the architects behind the Black Mesa complex was a Knight of the First Crusade, because there's one part in the game segment I finished last night where you have to take a running jump across a freight elevator shaft, climb a ladder, inch around the inside of the shaft, climb another ladder, inch again, climb a third ladder, watch a scientist fall screaming to his death (the walkthroughs say you can't save him, alas)... and then, from a ledge that is narrower than the length of your feet, jump halfway across the elevator shaft again and climb up a ladder on the outside of the elevator. I tried, man. Believe me, I tried. I tried every jumping technique I could think of. I tried squinching backwards for some kind of forward momentum in my jumps. It did not work. The squelches of my character hitting the bottom of the shaft forty or fifty feet below kept getting longer and wetter. So, finally, I gave up and just pressed the joystick forward in the 'walk, dammit' mode....
... and apparently WALKED ACROSS THE EMPTY OPEN ELEVATOR SHAFT right to the ladder.
Seriously. We got us a leap from the lion's mouth here, people. WTF.
