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rionaleonhart) wrote2011-11-10 03:21 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2011-11-10 03:21 pm
And Luck Won't Save Them Tonight.
Unexpected but pleasant side-effect of playing Red Dead Redemption: I am now actually capable of playing through the shooty bits in the more difficult Uncharted! Both I and Nathan Drake thank you for teaching me how to aim, John Marston. (Although Red Dead Redemption couldn't prepare me for the Press Circle to Not Die bits, so I picked up Uncharted for the first time since playing Red Dead, cleared the firefight I'd left off at and then impaled myself on a fence, forcing myself to do the firefight all over again, three times in a row.)
I wish I cared more about the characters of Uncharted. Perhaps the caring will come. At the moment, my thoughts are 'quite like Elena, not terribly interested in Nathan'. Although I did laugh out loud when I sent Nathan out for the second time to climb about on the side of a building, far above the sea, and his reaction was 'OH GOD WASN'T I JUST OUT HERE?'
Also, curiously, despite not being massively invested in the characters, I seem to be 'shipping Nathan/Elena a bit. I certainly like Nathan more when he's in her company. (Possibly it's taking me a while to warm to Nathan more for reasons related to the company he keeps than because of anything about Nathan himself; he was with Sully at the beginning of the game, after all, and I was unfond of Sully. I think Elena is a better influence on Nathan.)
Whilst I think this is a pretty great game, a note to whichever Uncharted designer decided it would be a great idea to include a level in which you drive upriver on a jetski whilst people shoot at you and hundreds of explosive barrels float inexplicably downstream: please step forward to receive your punch in the face. You know it's no less than you deserve.
...all right, so I've played a bit more since writing the above and SUDDENLY UNCHARTED DECIDED THAT IT WANTED TO BE A SILENT HILL GAME
I DO NOT WANT YOU TO BE A SILENT HILL GAME, UNCHARTED
OH, I'LL JUST COWER IN THE CORNER, SHALL I? I'LL COMPLETELY FORGET ABOUT AIMING PROPERLY AND JUST RUN AROUND IN CIRCLES, SPRAYING BULLETS IN A PANIC. WOULD YOU LIKE THAT, UNCHARTED? BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GETTING.
unrelatedly I watched Fresh Meat yesterday (episode seven) and there was a bit in which JP, who is an awful awful human being and moreover played by Jack Whitehall (I don't mind Whitehall, but I've never found him even slightly attractive before), sat his geology teacher down to a bribe of a takeaway in an attempt to find out what was to be on the upcoming exam and started going 'oh, but you've already eaten part of it, it's far too late to go back now' like some sort of evil genius and help me it was sort of hot. I think the hotness was based entirely in the sound. Apparently Whitehall does a really good subtly threatening voice.
I wish I cared more about the characters of Uncharted. Perhaps the caring will come. At the moment, my thoughts are 'quite like Elena, not terribly interested in Nathan'. Although I did laugh out loud when I sent Nathan out for the second time to climb about on the side of a building, far above the sea, and his reaction was 'OH GOD WASN'T I JUST OUT HERE?'
Also, curiously, despite not being massively invested in the characters, I seem to be 'shipping Nathan/Elena a bit. I certainly like Nathan more when he's in her company. (Possibly it's taking me a while to warm to Nathan more for reasons related to the company he keeps than because of anything about Nathan himself; he was with Sully at the beginning of the game, after all, and I was unfond of Sully. I think Elena is a better influence on Nathan.)
Whilst I think this is a pretty great game, a note to whichever Uncharted designer decided it would be a great idea to include a level in which you drive upriver on a jetski whilst people shoot at you and hundreds of explosive barrels float inexplicably downstream: please step forward to receive your punch in the face. You know it's no less than you deserve.
...all right, so I've played a bit more since writing the above and SUDDENLY UNCHARTED DECIDED THAT IT WANTED TO BE A SILENT HILL GAME
I DO NOT WANT YOU TO BE A SILENT HILL GAME, UNCHARTED
OH, I'LL JUST COWER IN THE CORNER, SHALL I? I'LL COMPLETELY FORGET ABOUT AIMING PROPERLY AND JUST RUN AROUND IN CIRCLES, SPRAYING BULLETS IN A PANIC. WOULD YOU LIKE THAT, UNCHARTED? BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GETTING.
unrelatedly I watched Fresh Meat yesterday (episode seven) and there was a bit in which JP, who is an awful awful human being and moreover played by Jack Whitehall (I don't mind Whitehall, but I've never found him even slightly attractive before), sat his geology teacher down to a bribe of a takeaway in an attempt to find out what was to be on the upcoming exam and started going 'oh, but you've already eaten part of it, it's far too late to go back now' like some sort of evil genius and help me it was sort of hot. I think the hotness was based entirely in the sound. Apparently Whitehall does a really good subtly threatening voice.