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dejadrewI am trying to branch out from adventure gaming, which is my home and native genre. I don't have the bandwidth allowance to play World of Warcraft without ridiculously hefty tithes to my provider, so I am tentatively trying my hand at some bargain-bin single-player RPGs my sister sent me. The transition is... difficult. I have all the finely honed combat skills of an earthworm. Even the earthworm might do better at some parts of the game than me. We sold worms for bait at one of my places of business, and many times have I witnessed the +5 boost to persuasion they get from their Pathetic Accusatory Wiggling skill. My character can manage the pathetic and the wiggling parts, but it never seems to have much effect on my digital enemies as I try to remember what the hell key I need to hit to draw my weapon while a wolf is cheerfully gnawing on my butt.
Looting comes a bit more naturally. One thing RPGs and adventure games seem to have in common is that if it ain't nailed down, take it, so I'm quite cheerfully picking corpses clean and gathering herbs like there's no tomorrow. But it won't let me pick up the rope. This is... FOREIGN to me. The one item in every adventure game you will ALWAYS find a use for, that you will ALWAYS need! If I don't pick up the rope, I'll regret it! I'll have to climb something or tie someone up or there will be a, a, a character who will only talk to us if we prove our worth by demonstrating our skills at knot-tying, I DON'T KNOW! It's ROPE! You don't pass up rope! But in this game, not only do you pass up rope, you don't even see rope! You walk right by rope without even acknowledging that it's there! This feels somehow sacriligious.
Sigh. I shall keep trying. The rest of the gaming world seems to think this sort of thing is the tops, and I did enjoy Warcraft during the brief time I was able to try playing it. (World of Warcraft! Combat so easy, earthworms can play! And possibly participate in guild chat, which would explain some of the spelling.)
And I AM enjoying the herb gathering. ("Oooh! Pretty plant!")
But right now, the demo for A Vampyre Story has finished downloading, and I believe I shall give that a try. It involves an opera singing vampiress, and puzzles, and perhaps, maybe, possibly, even rope. Much more my speed.
Looting comes a bit more naturally. One thing RPGs and adventure games seem to have in common is that if it ain't nailed down, take it, so I'm quite cheerfully picking corpses clean and gathering herbs like there's no tomorrow. But it won't let me pick up the rope. This is... FOREIGN to me. The one item in every adventure game you will ALWAYS find a use for, that you will ALWAYS need! If I don't pick up the rope, I'll regret it! I'll have to climb something or tie someone up or there will be a, a, a character who will only talk to us if we prove our worth by demonstrating our skills at knot-tying, I DON'T KNOW! It's ROPE! You don't pass up rope! But in this game, not only do you pass up rope, you don't even see rope! You walk right by rope without even acknowledging that it's there! This feels somehow sacriligious.
Sigh. I shall keep trying. The rest of the gaming world seems to think this sort of thing is the tops, and I did enjoy Warcraft during the brief time I was able to try playing it. (World of Warcraft! Combat so easy, earthworms can play! And possibly participate in guild chat, which would explain some of the spelling.)
And I AM enjoying the herb gathering. ("Oooh! Pretty plant!")
But right now, the demo for A Vampyre Story has finished downloading, and I believe I shall give that a try. It involves an opera singing vampiress, and puzzles, and perhaps, maybe, possibly, even rope. Much more my speed.
