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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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That bit with the bath was so damn good. I was in the house on my own with all the lights off and then that happened, I just froze on the spot.
Best. Scary. Thingy. Ever.
Best. Scary. Thingy. Ever.
At the start, when you chose a.. thing, with Pious at the end of his chapter, that affects the story a bit doesn't it?
Hence the three play-throughs?
Hence the three play-throughs?
Couldn't agree more - Eternal Darkness is great
I've done the lot - completed the game three times - and I loved every sec.
Obviously the game is easier 2nd and 3rd time around but still very enjoyable
Hope they come up with ED2
I've done the lot - completed the game three times - and I loved every sec.
Obviously the game is easier 2nd and 3rd time around but still very enjoyable
Hope they come up with ED2
Couldn't agree more - Eternal Darkness is great
I've done the lot - completed the game three times - and I loved every sec.
Obviously the game is easier 2nd and 3rd time around but still very enjoyable
Hope they come up with ED2
I've done the lot - completed the game three times - and I loved every sec.
Obviously the game is easier 2nd and 3rd time around but still very enjoyable
Hope they come up with ED2
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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