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Jan. 16th, 2011 11:19 pmToday I discovered that my Mario Kart skillz translate into Mass Effect. Which is to say I repeatedly drove the Mako into lava. And then there was the time I managed to flip it over and it got stuck on its back like a turtle and I couldn't get it back upright.
After that, I managed to get to the next part of the plot. It turns out I'm even worse at aiming the Mako's gun than I am at aiming Shepard's pistol. I like this game, but I'm really not very good at it. I'm much more suited to games where yous shoot things by selecting "shoot" from a menu and the bad guys wait their turn. :p But despite all this I'm still having fun, so I shall keep going and... hopefully get better at aiming. And turn the combat difficulty down to Casual. :p
Speaking of games where I don't have to aim and the enemies wait their turn... I finally realized that the reason I felt the urge to play Avernum this weekend is probably that this week's Glaxcin post uses most of the low level Avernum enemies. THere aren't any brigands and Nephilim, since human enemies don't really fit the tone and Nephilim are a bit too distinctive, but there are goblins, rodents of unusual size, giant spiders and dungeon bats. :p
The fact that the goblins are not in fact hostile has absolutely nothing to do with any webcomic, I don't know where you would get such a notion. :p
Of course, I wasn't actually going up against any of the low level monsters, since I'm at the point of the game where a lot of the wandering monsters will result in a popup message basically saying that they went "Oh, it's you, nevermind!" We call these smart wandering monsters. :p
After that, I managed to get to the next part of the plot. It turns out I'm even worse at aiming the Mako's gun than I am at aiming Shepard's pistol. I like this game, but I'm really not very good at it. I'm much more suited to games where yous shoot things by selecting "shoot" from a menu and the bad guys wait their turn. :p But despite all this I'm still having fun, so I shall keep going and... hopefully get better at aiming. And turn the combat difficulty down to Casual. :p
Speaking of games where I don't have to aim and the enemies wait their turn... I finally realized that the reason I felt the urge to play Avernum this weekend is probably that this week's Glaxcin post uses most of the low level Avernum enemies. THere aren't any brigands and Nephilim, since human enemies don't really fit the tone and Nephilim are a bit too distinctive, but there are goblins, rodents of unusual size, giant spiders and dungeon bats. :p
The fact that the goblins are not in fact hostile has absolutely nothing to do with any webcomic, I don't know where you would get such a notion. :p
Of course, I wasn't actually going up against any of the low level monsters, since I'm at the point of the game where a lot of the wandering monsters will result in a popup message basically saying that they went "Oh, it's you, nevermind!" We call these smart wandering monsters. :p
