Day 6
10,084/50,000. Actually, I haven't done my 2k a day yet today. Yesterday was busy as I decided to spent the morning NaNoWriMo time doing my last minute homework, spent a while after school babysitting, and I hit upon some writer's block. It just took a while to get out the 2k, which I always find a bit challenging if I don't have the pressure of having to go to school to encourage me. I'll get to writing after this post.
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As a kid, I was barely interested in gaming. The only gaming consoles I had were the portable Nintendo ones, and it was just so I could play Pokemon (See? That game does sell consoles!). It wasn't till I got a DS that I finally expanded beyond Pokemon. But beforehand, I did play/watch my brother play a bunch of PC games. I remember my Dad got me a Nancy Drew game, specifically 'Nancy Drew - Stay Tuned for Danger'. I distinctly recall sucking at that game. I recall getting as far as some toy puzzle in a chest, but I never got to it. I even recall getting a game over when I (or my brother, he may have wanted to try something) pulled the fire alarm. Eventually I gave up on the game and never went that far. Not that I minded, I preferred exploring and walking around the areas instead of solving the puzzles (I was a scardey-cat gamer as a kid). And now that I've seen some videos of the possible deaths and endings in the game, I'm actually relieved I never got to the end of the game. If it did, I would have to solve an annoying puzzle within a time limit. I. Hate. Time. Limits. Especially as a kid, I hated them. I hate it when the game puts so much pressure on you going OH CRAP OH CRAP DO THIS FAST OR ITS A GAME OVER MAN and if this popped up in an intense sequence, I'm just so freaked out and instead of facing the challenge I just get up from the computer, grab my brother, and pace around him looking away from the screen as my brother tries to solve it for me. I didn't even have to be playing the game as a kid to get freaked out by the time sequences. If I was just watching my brother play some of his own games and things got intense, I'd get up from my chair and pace back and forth behind him, or look at an entirely differently thing. Now from what I found out, the particular Nancy Drew game I had has a time-based puzzle at the very end. If you don't solve it, then the bad guy gets you and it's a game over. Check out the game over sequence (it's the second death in this video):
If I had actually reached that puzzle in the game, I'm pretty sure I would have panicked, get a game over, and stay far, far away from this game because it freaked me out so much. Maybe I would even have a nightmare or think of that scene when I'm all alone in the dark and get paranoid. As I've said earlier, thank God I gave up early in the game!
In looking at the Nancy Drew death scenes from her various games (youtube has a good amount of videos for the Nancy Drew computer games, including Let's Plays, by the way), I found this amazing image in one of them:
Wisdom for the ages.
-Puffy
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As a kid, I was barely interested in gaming. The only gaming consoles I had were the portable Nintendo ones, and it was just so I could play Pokemon (See? That game does sell consoles!). It wasn't till I got a DS that I finally expanded beyond Pokemon. But beforehand, I did play/watch my brother play a bunch of PC games. I remember my Dad got me a Nancy Drew game, specifically 'Nancy Drew - Stay Tuned for Danger'. I distinctly recall sucking at that game. I recall getting as far as some toy puzzle in a chest, but I never got to it. I even recall getting a game over when I (or my brother, he may have wanted to try something) pulled the fire alarm. Eventually I gave up on the game and never went that far. Not that I minded, I preferred exploring and walking around the areas instead of solving the puzzles (I was a scardey-cat gamer as a kid). And now that I've seen some videos of the possible deaths and endings in the game, I'm actually relieved I never got to the end of the game. If it did, I would have to solve an annoying puzzle within a time limit. I. Hate. Time. Limits. Especially as a kid, I hated them. I hate it when the game puts so much pressure on you going OH CRAP OH CRAP DO THIS FAST OR ITS A GAME OVER MAN and if this popped up in an intense sequence, I'm just so freaked out and instead of facing the challenge I just get up from the computer, grab my brother, and pace around him looking away from the screen as my brother tries to solve it for me. I didn't even have to be playing the game as a kid to get freaked out by the time sequences. If I was just watching my brother play some of his own games and things got intense, I'd get up from my chair and pace back and forth behind him, or look at an entirely differently thing. Now from what I found out, the particular Nancy Drew game I had has a time-based puzzle at the very end. If you don't solve it, then the bad guy gets you and it's a game over. Check out the game over sequence (it's the second death in this video):
Click to viewIf I had actually reached that puzzle in the game, I'm pretty sure I would have panicked, get a game over, and stay far, far away from this game because it freaked me out so much. Maybe I would even have a nightmare or think of that scene when I'm all alone in the dark and get paranoid. As I've said earlier, thank God I gave up early in the game!
In looking at the Nancy Drew death scenes from her various games (youtube has a good amount of videos for the Nancy Drew computer games, including Let's Plays, by the way), I found this amazing image in one of them:
Wisdom for the ages.
-Puffy