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[twilit_wanderer]

ahahaha oh, geez, I don't pay much attention to these things, but I just noticed that my 1,000th entry was the cat hair apocalypse one. That's beautiful. XD (Well, on LJ. I posted a few unique entries to DW before LJ annoyed me enough to make me import and start crossposting. So I guess on DW it was the last entry from the first Uncharted game. But

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[nano_moose]

SKYRIM

Did you know I am arachnophobic? Because Uncharted 3 reminded me. REALLY HARD. "Hey Nano, you're afraid of spiders, aren't you? That's dreadful! You know what would fix that? MORE SPIDERS! WAVES AND WAVES OF SPIDERS! CHASING YOU! WHEEEEEE!"

I love how you've learned predict Nate's reactions to things, like precisely when and how he's going to fuck up and have to be rescued by Elena. (Also: D'awwww. And he did apologise for his stupid! So cute.) And I loved the entire plane crashing sequence because, honestly, Nate was not trying to crash the plane. It was not his idea! But it happened because that's what happens around Nathan Drake. (That's Marlowe reciting T. S. Eliot while Nate was dying in the desert, by the way. The poem's called "The Wasteland". And the Tarot card was the Tower Arcana, representing violent, sudden change; Talbot put it inside Cutter's coat just after he drugged him, sort of as a calling card and a warning, you know?)

[twilit_wanderer]

YES. I'm hoping to start it Sunday evening (I work mornings this weekend, else I'd probably have kicked it up already).

WASN'T THAT NICE OF THEM? GOD. WHY? When you have to shoot them off and they're just... moving in waves and I don't even aaaaugh. (I still don't understand where the hell spiders were coming from - besides hell, I mean. We didn't really get an explanation for those, did we? Though I guess hell spiders don't need a reason, eiher for existing or, presumably, being able to make people decay super fast.) (Or maybe I zombied my way through a few cutscenes. That could have happened, too, I did go kind of crazy playing this one.)

He is a simply man, that Nate. Oh, geez, though, I had to laugh at the plane crashing. Of course it caught on fire and went down

[nano_moose]

They had to explain a lot of this in the official forums, actually! One issue I had with the writing is that the nature of Marlowe's organisation isn't very clear, but the long and short is that they're sort of a British secret agency dating back a long time, and they specialise in fear and obfuscation. Rather than give the enemy something tangible to fight, they'll build themselves up as a shadowy, possibly supernatural force with limitless resources and means. They want to make you think they know everything about you, while you know nothing about them

[twilit_wanderer]

Haha, oh! Knowing they had to explain a lot of it in the official forums makes me feel both less and more stupid... Poor Marlowe, though. Mostly she and her ilk just confused me. Fear was never really on the board. (I guess that's to be expected, though, in a game series featuring Surprise! Zombies!, demon Sasquatches, and - MOST IMPORTANTLY - hell spiders.) (Also, bullet-proof vest confirmation is really boring. Silly Talbot!) Though the stuff with the Tarot cards is really interesting and clever.

(Fear death by water? No, fear death by what is in the damn water!) Just an artistic choice or not, it was certainly very fitting for the circumstance.

The flaming skeleton heads were AWESOME, oh, man! Once I got past the initial WHAT THE HELL reaction, I actually started looking forward to fighting more of them. YEAH! HEADS ON FIRE!

(They are rather sadistic jerks. It wouldn't surprise me if the hell spiders were in there only to make us scream.)

Also I started Skyrim yesterday and was sort of not seeing what the big deal is, but then