Every time I come close to thinking I know roughly what I’m going to encounter in the next burnt-out building in Fallout 3, I walk into something like the Gold Ribbon Grocers and shut up.
That’s a baseball pitching machine that triggers the second cascade. The first explosion is a propane tank falling into a bear trap, that burns out the cord on a bunch of dangling grenades, the blast from which ignites the gas that’s been leaking from the oven on the other side of the room, and that ultimately blows the goodies down from out of the loft.
Remnant: Oh SHIT! I'm a twat for not noticing that whole set up. I just looted all the Abraxo Cleaners (1 WG, 10 caps? Yes please!), and stepped around the plate. I figured it was a trap that would kill me and the arrows were taunting the unprepared.
And I set off the bear trap by walking in it. Man, I missed out.
RC-1290'Dreadnought': It is here that you can see the Oblivion things coming back. Funny stuff.
ZomBuster: I liked it when I did that, Clover got blown up.
Max: Haha! This just happened to me yesterday only I didn't notice anything but the boxes. Dominoes! So I shot the one on the end and watched to my amusement! You can only imagine how surprised I was when the other stuff started to happen...
Roadrunner: Something tells me you don't like me commenting on your blog. :D
Treatise of human nature eh? Well instead, i'll write...something more comical!
Maybe i'll write a book on how a communist utopian society would work without the enforcement of secret police.
...yeah. Thats much more easy to comprehend the the Treatise of Human Nature, which I just googled right now.
J-Man: As you're an expert, Tom, how come I haven't seen Mirror's Edge for PC anywhere? I've tried computer exchange and GAME (yes, the capitals are necessary).
Gamer_V: I'm not a Tom but I can tell you the pc-version has been delayed to sometime next year.
Smurfy: Yeah, it's been delayed until January due to AIDS.
Noc: In a similar vein, I was awfully disappointed when I discovered that the one-year-old you did not, in fact, shout "PHYSICS!" when you'd throw your teddy bear around.
I was listening to the latest Rock Paper Shotgun podcast a bit ago, where they were talking with Eric Wolpaw about Left 4 Dead. They were talking at one point on how they tried to get the voice cues for the characters to echo what the player would be feeling at the moment, whether it was "Oh, I hear a Hunter," or "It's too quiet, here," or "Damnit, who set off the car alarm?"
I heartily wish that Bethesda would think about applying a similar design philosophy to their games. Specifically in having the player and NPCs shout "PHYSICS!" when necessary.
LaZodiac: I was WONDERING what the hell caused those explosions.
Newt Pulsifer: Hey Tom,
Patch 2.0 for galciv2 is out there, since the 5th november (remember, remember!). But maybe you already knew it.. sorry than!
Ben Abraham: I like to think that I've played a fair share of F3... and I have absolutely NO idea where this is...
Remnant: Ben Abraham: I believe it's N/NE of Arefu, the Grocer sitting next to one of the Metro entrances.
And yeah, I know what you mean. I've sunk 20+ hours into the game and haven't uncovered anything in the top half of the map.
Chris Livingston: That's great stuff. Haven't been in there, despite putting about 30 hours into the game. I love to think of all the stuff I haven't found yet.
WOOT!
I was slightly bothered by his rant on my kind of person... "tarantulas", and the chauvinism was annoying, but all in all, it's an incredible book.
Now someone just needs to explain it to me. Now moving on to "Beyond Good and Evil"
P.S. should I have posted this on the Nietzsche entry, or is this ok?
Roadrunner: Let me correct you there.
You just finished [reading the simple english wikipedia entry on] Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Now moving on to [the simple english wikipedia entry of] Beyond Good and Evil.
... :D
Smee: Oh my goodness, is that seriously the 3rd person walking animation? It's god-awful, they didn't even try!
Pentadact: That's partly my fault Smee - I'm actually walking and strafing at the same time, so I'm moving 45 degrees from where I'm facing. But yeah, the animation just generally sucks.
I just finished the BOOK of Thus spoke zarathustra, and now I'm moving onto the BOOK of Beyond Good and Evil. I will then, upon completion of the BOOK of Beyond Good and Evil, purchase the BOOK of Gay Science.
Belcher: @J-Man, you forgot your ':D.'
Roadrunner: Yeah, without the ":D" how am I meant to know we're having a lighthearted banter/trade of stupidity? Now i'm just offended.
Pah.
:D
Roadrunner: Whoops, I only just noticed, You were talking to Roarunner.
Weird, cause I thought you we're talking to me, Roadrunner.
;p
Lack_26: I've been playing L4D this morning, it's far harder than the demo made out, on Blood Harvest, even on normal we were getting our arse handed to us on a platter on the 3rd level, we gave up in the end. Although being up at 5 a.m. to play may have been a contributing factor to our failure.
Pentadact: Yeah, the annoying thing about the demo is it's taught most hardcore gamers to play on Expert, which is utterly unrealistic with a full campaign and so little experience. Also, even if you search for a game on 'Normal', it frequently dumps you in an Expert game without telling you.
After about three failures the guys I was playing with came to their senses and voted to downgrade to Normal, which is - and this was the entire point of several YEARS of work - just right.
Remnant: So what -is- the deal with L4D?
I was told it was out in Australia today, 18th. Go to like four different places, and get told it's not out for another few days. THEN after a night of Fallout, I make a quick scan of my friend's list and see people playing it.
Spewin'.
Roadrunner: I ordered L4D off play.com because it was a few pounds cheaper. :D
Yeah, sure the argument stands for Steam that you get it immedietly (I can't spell that word) but in the end i'll get it. (Unless they fuck up like they did with Dead Space and misplace my order, and I have to wait 21 days to get a refund.)
And there's always TF2 :P
I Wonder if L4D will have updates every so often improving it by adding new maps or weapons, like in TF2?
J-Man: Seeing as the next TF2 update is in 2009, the next L4D one will probably be in 2012.
Bad Neighbor: Awww, maaaaan! I thought that it was just an elaborate death trap. I kept following it until the explosion, only to get myself torched and not know that there was more to it. I went around disarming all the traps and thought that was all there was to it.
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And I set off the bear trap by walking in it. Man, I missed out.