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After deciding against sleep last night, I spent a little while on an internet chess thing. Call it homework for the forum match :^)
Being completely new, I had the low starting rating. When I beat someone who clearly considered himself pretty good, as his ego-massaging rating supported (I was a bit lucky - I was playing overly offensively, just cos it's more interesting (yep, chess, interesting. Odd one.), and it didn't go horribly wrong), he tried to accuse me of cheating. Exactly how it's possible to cheat when the computer restricts everything you do is beyond me, I'm pretty sure he was just a very sore loser.
The I played a couple more people who were quite offensive (nasty personality, not chess style) too.
I don't like these strange chat forum nerds
;^)
I think they place too much of their self-esteem in being better at chess than the last random stranger they met...
Anyway, leaving the chess field (?) I picked up Eternal Darkness. It's been around for a couple of weeks, but with Tonty Hawk's 4 and exams, it hadn't got a look in. Not a single play. Hadn't even registered the pin (and no, you're not having it :^P ).
After Resi disappointed me I wasn't expecting all that much from ED.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
That game rules.
The controls, especially attack controls, felt a bit awkward at first, still do when it takes more than one or two hits to kill an enemy, but it must have been balanced into the game difficulty I think.
Other than that, the gameplay is supurb. Can't fault it. Maybe the puzzles could get a little 'zelda' - ie, you spend a week trying to figure one thing out, then you see the solution, and it was all so obvious... - but it hasn't yet.
But the insanity effects... Damn. That. Game. Is. Good.
Entering rooms and finding myself somewhere I didn't expect, I'm still not sure if one of those was insanity or actually me getting lost...
The knocking on the doors also got inside my head, as did the statue head for that matter.
Still, without spoiling anything, the bit in the bathroom was *the Daddy* of gaming moments. I spent the next five minutes wincing whenever I pressed B :^)
Clocked up 2 1/2 hours so far, and completed 3 chapters. I have the next one waiting for when it goes dark tomorrow night :^)
Being completely new, I had the low starting rating. When I beat someone who clearly considered himself pretty good, as his ego-massaging rating supported (I was a bit lucky - I was playing overly offensively, just cos it's more interesting (yep, chess, interesting. Odd one.), and it didn't go horribly wrong), he tried to accuse me of cheating. Exactly how it's possible to cheat when the computer restricts everything you do is beyond me, I'm pretty sure he was just a very sore loser.
The I played a couple more people who were quite offensive (nasty personality, not chess style) too.
I don't like these strange chat forum nerds
;^)
I think they place too much of their self-esteem in being better at chess than the last random stranger they met...
Anyway, leaving the chess field (?) I picked up Eternal Darkness. It's been around for a couple of weeks, but with Tonty Hawk's 4 and exams, it hadn't got a look in. Not a single play. Hadn't even registered the pin (and no, you're not having it :^P ).
After Resi disappointed me I wasn't expecting all that much from ED.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
That game rules.
The controls, especially attack controls, felt a bit awkward at first, still do when it takes more than one or two hits to kill an enemy, but it must have been balanced into the game difficulty I think.
Other than that, the gameplay is supurb. Can't fault it. Maybe the puzzles could get a little 'zelda' - ie, you spend a week trying to figure one thing out, then you see the solution, and it was all so obvious... - but it hasn't yet.
But the insanity effects... Damn. That. Game. Is. Good.
Entering rooms and finding myself somewhere I didn't expect, I'm still not sure if one of those was insanity or actually me getting lost...
The knocking on the doors also got inside my head, as did the statue head for that matter.
Still, without spoiling anything, the bit in the bathroom was *the Daddy* of gaming moments. I spent the next five minutes wincing whenever I pressed B :^)
Clocked up 2 1/2 hours so far, and completed 3 chapters. I have the next one waiting for when it goes dark tomorrow night :^)
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MMMM Yes! What a load of old tripe!!! Jesus get out more!
It is in some ways but overall I much preffered Resi Evil.
Don't even try and tell me that Eternal Darkness is better than Res Evil.
I am now on the 3rd chapter of the fourth play through, green path this time, because I really liked the battle sequences.
(I don't care if you can view them in the video replay part of the Main menu)
(I don't care if you can view them in the video replay part of the Main menu)
Foreman wrote:
> I've just got passed the part where you fight 6 or 7 waves of zombies.
> The part where a red seethrough part blocks you from running past.
That's called an energy barrier.
> I've just got passed the part where you fight 6 or 7 waves of zombies.
> The part where a red seethrough part blocks you from running past.
That's called an energy barrier.
There's no such thing as Eternal Mode
I cried for days
I cried for days
I got really annoyed with the black guardian first time round, but now its really easy. I've nearly completed it for the third time, so I can't wait to try out eternal mode. Has anyone tried the 'jump to game' option yet? Does it just do that chapter, or that chapter and then the rest of the game?
Think about it.
Some journalist or monk ain't exactly going to know Karate or anything are they.
They just hack and slash the best they can.
The levels are quite linear, but the atmosphere and story make up for it.
You wait until WW1 at Amiens.....
Some journalist or monk ain't exactly going to know Karate or anything are they.
They just hack and slash the best they can.
The levels are quite linear, but the atmosphere and story make up for it.
You wait until WW1 at Amiens.....
I received the game last Friday from SR (thanks SR) and so far I haven't really settled into the game and I haven't played it enough to warrant a comment. First impressions did suggest to me that the game wouldn't be as good as Resident Evil, however I carried on and began to enjoy it more. I completed the first chapter with Pios Agustus and then went on to complete the other chapter with the girl. The fighting is rather repetitive and it would be nice if characters had more than one finisher and with only one set of combos for each opponent I felt a bit Disappointed. The story has so far been outstanding and one of the best I have seen in a video game to date.
I read a review that stated that the pleyer would only properly get into the game after around 5 hours of play and I suspect this is the reason why I feel out of touch with the story. Not being a fan of Shakespear doesn't help because the story is told in the form of a 'Shakesperean riddle' which at times I have found hard to follow. One question I would like to ask though is, how linear is the game later on because so far I seem to be going down endless corridors hacking away at Zombies and what not?
I chose the red statue at the beginning but I will play through with all 3. So far I have encountered 2 insanity effects, 1 was the quick sand when walking down a corridor and the other was a slight tilt on the screen before the whole screen went pitch black and a deep voice started laughing, after that the screen returned to normal. I have just finished the girls story and done the candle puzzle back at the mansion. The puzzle revealed a scroll in a tube which turns out to be another page for the Tome of Eternal Darkness and I saved it at the point.
Does the game become less linear? Can new combos be learned or does each character only have one? Any additional information about later episodes of the game (without spoilers of course) would be appreciated. Thanks.
I read a review that stated that the pleyer would only properly get into the game after around 5 hours of play and I suspect this is the reason why I feel out of touch with the story. Not being a fan of Shakespear doesn't help because the story is told in the form of a 'Shakesperean riddle' which at times I have found hard to follow. One question I would like to ask though is, how linear is the game later on because so far I seem to be going down endless corridors hacking away at Zombies and what not?
I chose the red statue at the beginning but I will play through with all 3. So far I have encountered 2 insanity effects, 1 was the quick sand when walking down a corridor and the other was a slight tilt on the screen before the whole screen went pitch black and a deep voice started laughing, after that the screen returned to normal. I have just finished the girls story and done the candle puzzle back at the mansion. The puzzle revealed a scroll in a tube which turns out to be another page for the Tome of Eternal Darkness and I saved it at the point.
Does the game become less linear? Can new combos be learned or does each character only have one? Any additional information about later episodes of the game (without spoilers of course) would be appreciated. Thanks.
Yay, another ED player. Bathroom moment is one of the scariest, the funnyest part so far, is when your the bible monk dude and you dont have any weapons, I was beating one of those things with big claws and you gotta chop its head off, with a torch. Lol, the noises it made, funning great.
:o)
:o)
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