Is it dark in here...
Apr. 9th, 2009 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixen...or is it just me? And by "me" I mean "Richard B. Riddick."
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feiran and darkling1 awesomely got me The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for my birthday. It, equally awesomely, comes with The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, which was originally for the XBOX (as opposed to the 360). This is all so amazingly awesome because A) well, duh, two games for the price of one!; B) I get achievements for the old game now!; and C) I've wanted to play Escape from Butcher Bay for like, ever. Also, shut up, everything having to do with Richard B. Riddick, escaped convict, murderer is awesome. I even don't mind the movie of The Chronicles of Riddick, for all that it is infinitely inferior to Pitch Black.
Anyway, needless to say, I've been playing the first game (don't want to be spoiled for the new one!) for hours now, and I've discovered two things: 1) Vin Diesel should do more voice work because his voice is amazing; and 2) This game was designed to be played by someone who doesn't suck at video games, i.e. not me.
There was a tutorial sort of level that began before the actual Butcher Bay part, and that took me 40 minutes to get through. I just kept dying a million times and I hadn't even got to the weapons-having part. (Not even a shiv!) I spent at least that much time tonight trying to beat one area. Yeesh, I'm bad at this. It also doesn't have many permanent save spots. It auto-saves only, and it saves in stages between major checkpoints. If you turn off the game, you don't seem to resume from the saved stage but from the checkpoint. I kept going for the better part of hours just to get to a checkpoint. Because I was not doing that one part again. No sir.
Okay, all that aside? I GET TO BE RIDDICK AND I'M ZOMG-ING ALL OVER THE PLACE. I'm half ready to throw the controller through the TV screen through the parts that I keep having to redo and redo and redo. But they almost always make it worth the while. I had to juggle throwing flares and shooting mutants in the dark and died every five minutes only to have to do it all over again. But when I beat it? EYE SHINE. I CAN SEE IN THE DARK. ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG.
Bring on the third Riddick movie already!
feiran and darkling1 awesomely got me The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for my birthday. It, equally awesomely, comes with The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, which was originally for the XBOX (as opposed to the 360). This is all so amazingly awesome because A) well, duh, two games for the price of one!; B) I get achievements for the old game now!; and C) I've wanted to play Escape from Butcher Bay for like, ever. Also, shut up, everything having to do with Richard B. Riddick, escaped convict, murderer is awesome. I even don't mind the movie of The Chronicles of Riddick, for all that it is infinitely inferior to Pitch Black.Anyway, needless to say, I've been playing the first game (don't want to be spoiled for the new one!) for hours now, and I've discovered two things: 1) Vin Diesel should do more voice work because his voice is amazing; and 2) This game was designed to be played by someone who doesn't suck at video games, i.e. not me.
There was a tutorial sort of level that began before the actual Butcher Bay part, and that took me 40 minutes to get through. I just kept dying a million times and I hadn't even got to the weapons-having part. (Not even a shiv!) I spent at least that much time tonight trying to beat one area. Yeesh, I'm bad at this. It also doesn't have many permanent save spots. It auto-saves only, and it saves in stages between major checkpoints. If you turn off the game, you don't seem to resume from the saved stage but from the checkpoint. I kept going for the better part of hours just to get to a checkpoint. Because I was not doing that one part again. No sir.
Okay, all that aside? I GET TO BE RIDDICK AND I'M ZOMG-ING ALL OVER THE PLACE. I'm half ready to throw the controller through the TV screen through the parts that I keep having to redo and redo and redo. But they almost always make it worth the while. I had to juggle throwing flares and shooting mutants in the dark and died every five minutes only to have to do it all over again. But when I beat it? EYE SHINE. I CAN SEE IN THE DARK. ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG.
Bring on the third Riddick movie already!
