Until Your Rapture Falls To Pieces
Jul. 24th, 2017 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickYes, finally started playing Bioshock today! Though Steam didn't make it easy -- had to go through multiple updates when I first tried to boot the game up, then the game didn't actually start, then Steam was running so jerkily I decided I was going to watch YouTube videos instead, and then I had to go through one more update before I could FINALLY get the game to properly launch. Ugh -- makes me wish I'd just found a disc copy.
Game itself plays fine, though. I'm about an hour into it, past a lot of the opening tutorial bits and slowly navigating my way through the underwater city. Which still looks pretty cool for a game about -- 15 years old now? *checks* Nope, 10! Released for Windows and XBox August 2007. So hey, I'm actually starting this series in time for the 10th anniversary. Cool. :D There's actually a Remastered version out now that updates the graphics that I could download for free through Steam, but I went looking online and -- apparently it looks a bit prettier, but it's a glitchy mess. I'll stick with Classic Less Glitchy Mess, thanks. It does still look cool. I'm still getting used to the controls, though -- they're not that dissimilar to the "Alice" games, but I'm having a bit of trouble coordinating my current plasmid and my weapons -- you switch with the right mouse button and attack with the left, and I tend to just hit whichever button I pressed immediately beforehand. Running through the EVE like a leaky faucet right now. The game does come with support for an XBox 360 controller, which I bought (or, well, I had my parents buy me for Christmas one year) for A:MR -- I might change over next play session and see if that works any better. (It has the vibrate feature too, which I love. :D Nothing to sell the immersion of smacking something like a rumbly controller.)
Other things that I accomplished:
-->Some heavy editing on an AU snippet that I ended up queuing for Thursday on my tumblr -- ended up getting a LOT longer than expected. At least I'm being productive? On things other people would want to see, no less?
-->Watched the latest AT4W episode, of a silly manga about an adventuring party that decide to become monster gourmets while on a quest to save the main character's sister from death inside a dragon's belly. Review was fun, but the storyline segment -- holy HELL! D: It's -- just go watch the episode, or look up a transcript, or something. You thought the shit had hit the fan last week? It's splattering all over a WINDMILL this week! Eeeep. . .
-->Watched my final Helloween sets -- The Illusion of Gaia, a SNES RPG that deals with mythology and legend in a semi-educational and surprisingly-dark way. Two sets in and already we've been confronted by a ghost ship, and one of the main character's friends has been eaten alive by a monster fish. Also the hero nearly starved to death while adrift at sea for a month with a runaway princess. It's heavy stuff. But fun, especially with Helloween's commentary. I'm looking forward to seeing more of it.
-->Watched one of The Sim Supply's Parenthood sets -- The One Where James Is Constantly Yelling At His Sims For Being Stupid. XD His own fault for being determined that Max have siblings! This family is such a hot mess, I swear -- at least he's doing a good job of ruining Max's childhood. I wanted to watch the next one in line, but simply ran out of time. It's a half-hour long -- maybe I can sneak it in tomorrow? We'll see. . .
And that's about it. I'm feeling reasonably caught up on YouTube now, and some other things that I wanted to do. Tumblr queue is all set until the beginning of Friday, and I already have an idea for what I want to do past that, so -- yeah, in a good spot, I think. Pretty good Monday, all told, even if the weather was miserable.
I do have work tomorrow, though, so I kinda have to wrap it up here. Night all, sleep tight!
Game itself plays fine, though. I'm about an hour into it, past a lot of the opening tutorial bits and slowly navigating my way through the underwater city. Which still looks pretty cool for a game about -- 15 years old now? *checks* Nope, 10! Released for Windows and XBox August 2007. So hey, I'm actually starting this series in time for the 10th anniversary. Cool. :D There's actually a Remastered version out now that updates the graphics that I could download for free through Steam, but I went looking online and -- apparently it looks a bit prettier, but it's a glitchy mess. I'll stick with Classic Less Glitchy Mess, thanks. It does still look cool. I'm still getting used to the controls, though -- they're not that dissimilar to the "Alice" games, but I'm having a bit of trouble coordinating my current plasmid and my weapons -- you switch with the right mouse button and attack with the left, and I tend to just hit whichever button I pressed immediately beforehand. Running through the EVE like a leaky faucet right now. The game does come with support for an XBox 360 controller, which I bought (or, well, I had my parents buy me for Christmas one year) for A:MR -- I might change over next play session and see if that works any better. (It has the vibrate feature too, which I love. :D Nothing to sell the immersion of smacking something like a rumbly controller.)
Other things that I accomplished:
-->Some heavy editing on an AU snippet that I ended up queuing for Thursday on my tumblr -- ended up getting a LOT longer than expected. At least I'm being productive? On things other people would want to see, no less?
-->Watched the latest AT4W episode, of a silly manga about an adventuring party that decide to become monster gourmets while on a quest to save the main character's sister from death inside a dragon's belly. Review was fun, but the storyline segment -- holy HELL! D: It's -- just go watch the episode, or look up a transcript, or something. You thought the shit had hit the fan last week? It's splattering all over a WINDMILL this week! Eeeep. . .
-->Watched my final Helloween sets -- The Illusion of Gaia, a SNES RPG that deals with mythology and legend in a semi-educational and surprisingly-dark way. Two sets in and already we've been confronted by a ghost ship, and one of the main character's friends has been eaten alive by a monster fish. Also the hero nearly starved to death while adrift at sea for a month with a runaway princess. It's heavy stuff. But fun, especially with Helloween's commentary. I'm looking forward to seeing more of it.
-->Watched one of The Sim Supply's Parenthood sets -- The One Where James Is Constantly Yelling At His Sims For Being Stupid. XD His own fault for being determined that Max have siblings! This family is such a hot mess, I swear -- at least he's doing a good job of ruining Max's childhood. I wanted to watch the next one in line, but simply ran out of time. It's a half-hour long -- maybe I can sneak it in tomorrow? We'll see. . .
And that's about it. I'm feeling reasonably caught up on YouTube now, and some other things that I wanted to do. Tumblr queue is all set until the beginning of Friday, and I already have an idea for what I want to do past that, so -- yeah, in a good spot, I think. Pretty good Monday, all told, even if the weather was miserable.
I do have work tomorrow, though, so I kinda have to wrap it up here. Night all, sleep tight!
