Holidays
Ah, 3 days off work where I accomplish nothing of import. Bliss :)
Anyways, let's do what I do. Life-wise, things are ok. Various hospital appointments of amusing stature up and coming. Toe's still infected. Bought a new Desk and chair. Played a bit too much Warcraft.
So:
Batman: Arkham Asylum - Finished this one last night. Still a perfectly good game and worth playing if you haven't already, but not without its faults. The Boss Battles are relatively uninspiring, considering you've got some of the most colourful characters in Batman's world. Some of the later combat sections where you bounce around several groups of people just trudges on repetitively as wave after wave of mindless goons march towards you. Gave up trying to find all the secrets too when the game decided I'd reached a point that I couldn't continue finding 'em. Fail.
Holy Invasion Of Privacy Badman: HIOPB:WDIDTDT, as I'll now refer to it as, is a strange game. A Cross between Dig Dug, Dungeon Keeper and Ecology Simulation. Mine a shaft from below your evil castle and carve out a dungeon. Certain tiles with nutrients will spawn green blobs when dug. These blobs then eat and deposit nutrients around your dungeon, and large amounts of nutrients will create a new tile which, when dug, creates the next level of creature that eats the blobs. This goes on, with higher levels of creature being more powerful but requiring a delecately balanced ecosystem to keep them alive and healthy. Eventually, a squad of heroes come to capture your Overlord and depending on your creatures and your dungeon design, they'll succeed or they'll die and you win.
It's fairly basic, but also completely chaotic. Balancing dungeon design with resource gathering is more or less impossible and you'll end up with large empty rooms where you just dug out a field of blobs. Since you create new creatures by digging, it's difficult to keep a decent shape of dungeon so when heroes come a'knocking it'll be sufficiently maze like to reach optimum Tower-Defense status. The Pathfinding is also a bit random at times too, and you've no direct control over anything but where to dig.
An interesting game, but wouldn't invest much more in it.
Professor Layton and the Box with Many Names is out today, among other things. I'll be getting that!
I'm Out.
Anyways, let's do what I do. Life-wise, things are ok. Various hospital appointments of amusing stature up and coming. Toe's still infected. Bought a new Desk and chair. Played a bit too much Warcraft.
So:
Batman: Arkham Asylum - Finished this one last night. Still a perfectly good game and worth playing if you haven't already, but not without its faults. The Boss Battles are relatively uninspiring, considering you've got some of the most colourful characters in Batman's world. Some of the later combat sections where you bounce around several groups of people just trudges on repetitively as wave after wave of mindless goons march towards you. Gave up trying to find all the secrets too when the game decided I'd reached a point that I couldn't continue finding 'em. Fail.
Holy Invasion Of Privacy Badman: HIOPB:WDIDTDT, as I'll now refer to it as, is a strange game. A Cross between Dig Dug, Dungeon Keeper and Ecology Simulation. Mine a shaft from below your evil castle and carve out a dungeon. Certain tiles with nutrients will spawn green blobs when dug. These blobs then eat and deposit nutrients around your dungeon, and large amounts of nutrients will create a new tile which, when dug, creates the next level of creature that eats the blobs. This goes on, with higher levels of creature being more powerful but requiring a delecately balanced ecosystem to keep them alive and healthy. Eventually, a squad of heroes come to capture your Overlord and depending on your creatures and your dungeon design, they'll succeed or they'll die and you win.
It's fairly basic, but also completely chaotic. Balancing dungeon design with resource gathering is more or less impossible and you'll end up with large empty rooms where you just dug out a field of blobs. Since you create new creatures by digging, it's difficult to keep a decent shape of dungeon so when heroes come a'knocking it'll be sufficiently maze like to reach optimum Tower-Defense status. The Pathfinding is also a bit random at times too, and you've no direct control over anything but where to dig.
An interesting game, but wouldn't invest much more in it.
Professor Layton and the Box with Many Names is out today, among other things. I'll be getting that!
I'm Out.