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Oct. 12th, 2012 08:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynWell, I'm awake and I'm at work, and while I'm still wheezing and coughing, I feel much better than I did earlier this week. It's all good.
I've played Transformers: Fall of Cybertron recently and will probably play it again a few times just to poke around the world and follow a strategy guide. It's the first game I've played in a long time where I didn't consult some form of walkthrough (except for exactly once, when I had spent ten minutes in a given spot and couldn't figure out how to get my circumstances to change, but all I had to read was 'Follow the prompt and change Grimlock to dino mode or the enemies will never stop coming' and then I closed down the page immediately). I kind of died a lot as a result and missed a lot of the extra material lying around the world. That's fine, though. I made it through in the end. Overall I was pretty pleased with the game. I've got X-Com coming up next week, once I get paid; I adored that game in college and wanna play it on the 360 now. Hopefully it'll be good. I've avoided any exposure to the new version other than a brief glance at about two minutes of a ten minute gameplay video, so I know nothing about the new port.
I'll resume Notes From New Vegas next week, though. I've got the notes for the next section on my new PC (had to replace the old one after a water spill) and should be able to coax something out of them soon, so I'll get back into swing on that. Might take some time off to visit the Capital Wasteland, though. As much as I admit that Fallout: New Vegas is a less buggy and probably better-written game with more compelling characters, I really rather liked FO3 better overall. Possibly because of the desolation. New Vegas has a certain amount of 'well, this COULD be post-apocalyptic, or this COULD just be that the economy went to pot' about it- it's not that human civilization in the area was destroyed so much as the desert shrugged a little harder than usual and man had to back down in the face of it. FO3? 'Man brought this on himself. Big time. One hundred per cent. What're you gonna do about it?'. That, and... well, in FO3, your story line ultimately amounts to 'save all of humanity, or a significant portion of humanity, from total extinction'. In New Vegas? It's 'settle a political struggle'. Not really the same stakes. I dunno, maybe it's just me.
Anyway, that's not gonna stop me, there's gonna be Notes From New Vegas again soon. And then, who knows?
I've played Transformers: Fall of Cybertron recently and will probably play it again a few times just to poke around the world and follow a strategy guide. It's the first game I've played in a long time where I didn't consult some form of walkthrough (except for exactly once, when I had spent ten minutes in a given spot and couldn't figure out how to get my circumstances to change, but all I had to read was 'Follow the prompt and change Grimlock to dino mode or the enemies will never stop coming' and then I closed down the page immediately). I kind of died a lot as a result and missed a lot of the extra material lying around the world. That's fine, though. I made it through in the end. Overall I was pretty pleased with the game. I've got X-Com coming up next week, once I get paid; I adored that game in college and wanna play it on the 360 now. Hopefully it'll be good. I've avoided any exposure to the new version other than a brief glance at about two minutes of a ten minute gameplay video, so I know nothing about the new port.
I'll resume Notes From New Vegas next week, though. I've got the notes for the next section on my new PC (had to replace the old one after a water spill) and should be able to coax something out of them soon, so I'll get back into swing on that. Might take some time off to visit the Capital Wasteland, though. As much as I admit that Fallout: New Vegas is a less buggy and probably better-written game with more compelling characters, I really rather liked FO3 better overall. Possibly because of the desolation. New Vegas has a certain amount of 'well, this COULD be post-apocalyptic, or this COULD just be that the economy went to pot' about it- it's not that human civilization in the area was destroyed so much as the desert shrugged a little harder than usual and man had to back down in the face of it. FO3? 'Man brought this on himself. Big time. One hundred per cent. What're you gonna do about it?'. That, and... well, in FO3, your story line ultimately amounts to 'save all of humanity, or a significant portion of humanity, from total extinction'. In New Vegas? It's 'settle a political struggle'. Not really the same stakes. I dunno, maybe it's just me.
Anyway, that's not gonna stop me, there's gonna be Notes From New Vegas again soon. And then, who knows?
