Veridi, Final Fantasy XIV, MiniMetro, Regency Solitaire, Final Fantasy VII, SpaceChem, The Walking Dead: Season Two,
I've been slacking! So let's just...go ahead and skip ahead to today, shall we? Who cares when exactly when I played a thing, just freestyle this.
There's a cute little game about growing a tiny little pot of succulents, Veridi, and it's cute! That's about it! The pot grows in real time, so...there's not much to talk about, really. There's a snail that crawls around the pot, that's adorable.
I've been playing Final Fantasy XIV like it's going out of style, just plugging away at the storymode. I found myself an airship, and then I did a series of bullshit missions in which I'm trying to find a corrupted crystal, and I get lead around a variety of interesting locales in which I harvest crystals only to discover that they AREN'T the type of crystal I need. I eventually get the right crystal, and then I fly off to fight another primal, Garuda. Garuda is a tough fight and I hate it. It took us a good eight tries before we got it right, just because Garuda just refuses to play fair. You spend the first half of the fight hiding behind pillars, and then halfway through the fight, she destroys all the pillars. Jerk.
So after she does this, there's a cutscene in which the big bad Garlean jackass shows up and tries to kill everyone, and then a few more primals show up, and then a giant evil robot that looks a lot like Bahamut shows up and kills all of them, stealing their power! This is quite bad! So you realize that you got to finally handle the Garlean threat and so it's time to rescue your kidnapped friends. To Mor Dhona, which I have been anxiously waiting to go to!
I also played MiniMetro, it almost has music! Any day now! MiniMetro.
I played a few rounds of Regency Solitaire, it continues to be a solitaire game in which various regency things are happening around it. It turns out that the cute guy is going to fight for the honor of the girl! Huzzah!
I booted up Final Fantasy VII to make sure I still had my save. I do. I am stuck at the point where you have to wrangle a chocobo. I played one fight and then quit. Sorry FF7.
I also booted up SpaceChem, because I saw that the designer had released another game that is apparently at the same level of involvedness, and before just buying that on a whim, and confirmed with myself that this game is way too smart for me! I don't like thinking outside the box!
Oh, I guess I also played the first episode of The Walking Dead: Season Two already, because it's time to get that out of the way. Let's...chat:
When we last left Clementine, we were pretending that her life was going to be okay. We were wrong. First we find out that Omid dies and Christa loses her baby. Remember how we had a lot of hope for them! Yeah, nope, Omid dies for no reason and Christa becomes a bitter husk of a human being. I can see why this franchise is so popular, it just makes everyone feel so good.
So it's a year and a half later, and it's raining and everything is shit, and Christa goes into the woods to get some wood while Clementine is forced to burn one of her most precious mementos of her past to keep the fire going. Then, after this happens, a bunch of jackoffs show up and chase Clementine and she falls into a river and watches up on shore, alone and away from everything she knows.
So she walks into the woods, and meets a friendly dog! She finds an abandoned camp with a zombie tied to a tree (whatever) and plays frisbee with the dog and she eventually finds a can of food to eat! Things aren't so bad. So she opens up the can and starts eating, and the poor doggy is looking on all sad. That won't do. Here you go dog, have a little food. No, no, a little food! You can't have to the whole can! Ah, fuck, no! YOU BIT THE SHIT OUT OF MY ARM! And then I kicked you into some tent spikes and you died. Jesus Christ did that series of events seem unnecessary.
So, Clementine is now severely injured, and stumbling through the woods, and she is saved by a couple of dudes, because of one thing is common in the Walking Dead universe, it is that running into other survivors is surprisingly common! Even what has to be a full two years after the initial infection! Seriously, what are the odds? They save Clementine, but then start freaking out because she has a hugeass bite wound on her arm, so they think that a zombie got her. They at the very least take her back to their homebase, where she almost gets shot in the head, and is forced to stay in the shed overnight, with the assumption that if she hasn't turned by morning, she probably wasn't bitten by a zombie.
Only problem is that the dog bite is going to kill her anyway, so it's a moot point. So she finds some medical supplies by sneaking into the house, and hears a whole bunch of secrets because she is sneaky, and manages to successfully stitch up her arm all by herself. It's an uncomfortable scene! Then, after that's taken care of, of course a zombie breaks into the shed through the same hole she escaped from, and she has to kill it, because that frequently happens in the Walking Dead universe as well. She kills the zombie, and the whole crew comes running in and finally lets her into the house and gives her real medical attention and some food.
Then it's the morning, and she has to go fishing with a couple of dudes, and it turns out there's a bunch of corpses there, and then the zombies show up, and Clementine needs to choose which of the two character she will help, because we hadn't had one of those moments yet, and then the episode is over.
OOOOF this was kind of a dog. It's just...shocking for the sake of shocking. The first series was really good because it did a lot of things that we hadn't seen before, but that starts to mean nothing when I've played through two and a half of these style of Telltale games already. This feels like bad shit is happening to literally torture the characters involved, much like the Game of Thrones one does. The Wolf Amongst Us just felt much better because bad things weren't just happening for no reason; you play a detective, and there's a vast conspiracy in place here. There's a reason bad things are happening in the Wolf Amongst Us; in the Walking Dead it just seems that the entire idea of the universe prevents good things from happening. Things just aren't allowed to go well, probably by the will of a vengeful god, i.e., the authors, who hate us and want us to feel pain.
I don't know, that's just how it feels. There is an inkling of a conspiracy in this; there's some guy people keep talking about in whispers, so...maybe this is going somewhere? Maybe not. I will suffer through it, though, because that is the only option available to me.
I've been slacking! So let's just...go ahead and skip ahead to today, shall we? Who cares when exactly when I played a thing, just freestyle this.
There's a cute little game about growing a tiny little pot of succulents, Veridi, and it's cute! That's about it! The pot grows in real time, so...there's not much to talk about, really. There's a snail that crawls around the pot, that's adorable.
I've been playing Final Fantasy XIV like it's going out of style, just plugging away at the storymode. I found myself an airship, and then I did a series of bullshit missions in which I'm trying to find a corrupted crystal, and I get lead around a variety of interesting locales in which I harvest crystals only to discover that they AREN'T the type of crystal I need. I eventually get the right crystal, and then I fly off to fight another primal, Garuda. Garuda is a tough fight and I hate it. It took us a good eight tries before we got it right, just because Garuda just refuses to play fair. You spend the first half of the fight hiding behind pillars, and then halfway through the fight, she destroys all the pillars. Jerk.
So after she does this, there's a cutscene in which the big bad Garlean jackass shows up and tries to kill everyone, and then a few more primals show up, and then a giant evil robot that looks a lot like Bahamut shows up and kills all of them, stealing their power! This is quite bad! So you realize that you got to finally handle the Garlean threat and so it's time to rescue your kidnapped friends. To Mor Dhona, which I have been anxiously waiting to go to!
I also played MiniMetro, it almost has music! Any day now! MiniMetro.
I played a few rounds of Regency Solitaire, it continues to be a solitaire game in which various regency things are happening around it. It turns out that the cute guy is going to fight for the honor of the girl! Huzzah!
I booted up Final Fantasy VII to make sure I still had my save. I do. I am stuck at the point where you have to wrangle a chocobo. I played one fight and then quit. Sorry FF7.
I also booted up SpaceChem, because I saw that the designer had released another game that is apparently at the same level of involvedness, and before just buying that on a whim, and confirmed with myself that this game is way too smart for me! I don't like thinking outside the box!
Oh, I guess I also played the first episode of The Walking Dead: Season Two already, because it's time to get that out of the way. Let's...chat:
When we last left Clementine, we were pretending that her life was going to be okay. We were wrong. First we find out that Omid dies and Christa loses her baby. Remember how we had a lot of hope for them! Yeah, nope, Omid dies for no reason and Christa becomes a bitter husk of a human being. I can see why this franchise is so popular, it just makes everyone feel so good.
So it's a year and a half later, and it's raining and everything is shit, and Christa goes into the woods to get some wood while Clementine is forced to burn one of her most precious mementos of her past to keep the fire going. Then, after this happens, a bunch of jackoffs show up and chase Clementine and she falls into a river and watches up on shore, alone and away from everything she knows.
So she walks into the woods, and meets a friendly dog! She finds an abandoned camp with a zombie tied to a tree (whatever) and plays frisbee with the dog and she eventually finds a can of food to eat! Things aren't so bad. So she opens up the can and starts eating, and the poor doggy is looking on all sad. That won't do. Here you go dog, have a little food. No, no, a little food! You can't have to the whole can! Ah, fuck, no! YOU BIT THE SHIT OUT OF MY ARM! And then I kicked you into some tent spikes and you died. Jesus Christ did that series of events seem unnecessary.
So, Clementine is now severely injured, and stumbling through the woods, and she is saved by a couple of dudes, because of one thing is common in the Walking Dead universe, it is that running into other survivors is surprisingly common! Even what has to be a full two years after the initial infection! Seriously, what are the odds? They save Clementine, but then start freaking out because she has a hugeass bite wound on her arm, so they think that a zombie got her. They at the very least take her back to their homebase, where she almost gets shot in the head, and is forced to stay in the shed overnight, with the assumption that if she hasn't turned by morning, she probably wasn't bitten by a zombie.
Only problem is that the dog bite is going to kill her anyway, so it's a moot point. So she finds some medical supplies by sneaking into the house, and hears a whole bunch of secrets because she is sneaky, and manages to successfully stitch up her arm all by herself. It's an uncomfortable scene! Then, after that's taken care of, of course a zombie breaks into the shed through the same hole she escaped from, and she has to kill it, because that frequently happens in the Walking Dead universe as well. She kills the zombie, and the whole crew comes running in and finally lets her into the house and gives her real medical attention and some food.
Then it's the morning, and she has to go fishing with a couple of dudes, and it turns out there's a bunch of corpses there, and then the zombies show up, and Clementine needs to choose which of the two character she will help, because we hadn't had one of those moments yet, and then the episode is over.
OOOOF this was kind of a dog. It's just...shocking for the sake of shocking. The first series was really good because it did a lot of things that we hadn't seen before, but that starts to mean nothing when I've played through two and a half of these style of Telltale games already. This feels like bad shit is happening to literally torture the characters involved, much like the Game of Thrones one does. The Wolf Amongst Us just felt much better because bad things weren't just happening for no reason; you play a detective, and there's a vast conspiracy in place here. There's a reason bad things are happening in the Wolf Amongst Us; in the Walking Dead it just seems that the entire idea of the universe prevents good things from happening. Things just aren't allowed to go well, probably by the will of a vengeful god, i.e., the authors, who hate us and want us to feel pain.
I don't know, that's just how it feels. There is an inkling of a conspiracy in this; there's some guy people keep talking about in whispers, so...maybe this is going somewhere? Maybe not. I will suffer through it, though, because that is the only option available to me.
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