Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:45:01
Stuff. And things.
- Would you like to see someone turn themselves from a normal person into a freak? Someone who isn’t Jenna Jameson, that is? Well, here you go (neither link is really safe for work). By the way, I don’t call Jenna a freak because she had her massive jubblies reduced to pre-implant status. I call her a freak for what she has done (through surgery) to her face and skin and body and just oh my God what a national tragedy she’s turned out to be.
- I haven’t been mentioning the whole diet/exercise issue lately because I’m just chugging along. I’ve settled into a pound-to-two-pounds a week loss. My workouts have increased in intensity and my back pain is much lower than it used to be. There are days when my right elbow (arthritis) hurts a lot more than my back.
- Anyone want a box of Molto Tanzania Peaberry coffee pods? I didn’t realize I bought two, and I will not suffer through another one. I also have a full box of Baronet French Vanilla pods you can have if you’re interested. I’ll mail them to you. It’s either that or I throw them out.
- Bioshock has managed to piss me off but good. SPOILERS AHEAD!
OK, so a long time ago, back in the days of the Playstation, when there was no PS1 or 2 or 3, just Playstation, I played one of the Final Fantasy games. I don’t remember which one. One night I played it for about 10 hours straight. Whereupon I came to some event for which I needed a special item. Said item was passed up about 6 and a half hours earlier and now UNATTAINABLE. Without this item I could not proceed. And there was no way to go back and get it that didn’t take another ten hours.
I never played another Final Fantasy game again. That shit pisses me RIGHT off. Well, Bioshock has a moment like that. It happens in the wharf area.
So you’re bopping around the Upper and Lower Wharf, and the guy in your ear says “Go see this dude at the fishery. My fams is all in a hidden sub in the basement of that place.” Only when you get there, the cranky prick at the door doesn’t want to let you in quite yet until you do him a solid...he don’t trust you. You need to go collect a research camera for him, and then take pictures of three spider splicers. One is located in the Upper Wharf, one in the post office and one in the bar area. Well, in traipsing around the Upper Wharf I find a room with a broken window. I step through, jump down onto a tin roof, then another, then some boxes, then the floor. To find myself trapped on the other side of a locked gate with no way of getting back to the Upper Wharf. Your character can’t jump very high, and against all pretense of physics, or bioengineered ability, cannot use his hands to climb. PISS-POOR GAME DESIGN. I should not be allowed to lock myself out of an area that I need to be in. If I can, there should be a hard-but-do-able way to get back. I have to take these pictures or I don’t advance. Period. Now I can’t. Since I was saving over the same save point, I lost the ability to backtrack before I went out the window. I was, to put it simply, screwed.
So I started from the end of the previous level. Which sucks. I will not walk through that window until I have photographed the god-damned spider splicer in this area, you can bet on that.
The rest of the game is so good that I am not going to put it down forever, but I am sorely disappointed in this kind of glaring flaw.
Scratch everything I wrote. I’m the idiot. I found a room that I did not see before, that led to another, and lo and behold, the spider splicer came after me. I photographed it and then killed it, and when I eventually backtracked to the blocked area, it was open. My humble apologies, Mr. Ken Levine. I apologize for doubting your level design. :)
- Lastly, I thought this was hysterical:
Posted by JimK at 03:45 PM on August 23, 2007
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#2 Posted by JimK 
on 08/24 at 12:26 AM -
Dude that’s fucked up. I have been getting random freeze-ups lately, off Tiger Woods and Bioshock. This is my second.
By the way they are predicting anywhere from one to six weeks for repair. :(
#3 Posted by Harley W Daugherty on 08/24 at 10:13 PM -
i got bioshock demo on my PC, had to install the new Nvidia drivers.. that cleared up teh Crash to desktop…
vislauy the game looks great! Oh man seeing the party goeers teh first time WOW!! not that is inspiration!! WOOT!
#4 Posted by miguelito on 08/25 at 04:54 AM -
Bioshock is the first game to totally suck me into the story since HL-2. I’m playing on the 360.
I did find a way to completely screw myself in the game though. In the dental area where you had to use the telekenesis to get the key.. I accidentally let go of the trigger instead of hitting A to get the get and it launched back into the room in some way that I couldn’t see it anymore and hence couldn’t get it. Luckily I had saved just a few minutes before so I barely had to backtrack.
Let me tell ya, on the 360 with a 65” HD TV, and a high-end HT setup with a kickass subwoofer… and holy crap does the game have a hell of an experience. The thunderous footsteps of the Big Daddies (the added rumble is a nice touch too) makes fighting those guys that much more intense.
#5 Posted by Christian on 08/25 at 11:31 AM -
No no no...the man at microsoft told me that it would only take 3 weeks. Only 3.
He wouldn’t lie to me, would he?
#6 Posted by miguelito on 08/25 at 02:25 PM -
Hah.. I just watched the video… hilarious and yet deeply disturbing at the same time.
#7 Posted by Harley W Daugherty on 08/25 at 02:45 PM -
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Bioshock killed my Xbox. Downloaded the demo, now it freezes up every time i start to play anything, not just it. But, its fully under warranty, so I am sending it in.
But it betta be back by Sept. 25, or someone gets hurt.
And that was some funny shit.