Okay, after some disc cleaning and testing it looks like my Assassin's Creed disc is not readable . . . for the first mission anyway. I borrowed by brothers disc and downloaded the game to my hard drive. Since then it's been smooth sailing . . . at least for the disc.
My playing style in these free-roaming games is to rob and steal everything I can and make as much mayhem as possible. Either intentionally or unintentionally. Well, Assassin's Creed is a game to played completely differently. You have to walk, not run. Put your head down and be meek, not shove everyone out of your way. You have to watch out for guards and Courageous Citizens, not kill everyone who gets in your way. It's hard.
I'm finding myself doing a lot of other things instead. Like climbing up to roofs and jump . . . or dance around. Doing the "eagle eye" thing while up there is nice too but it's not showing me very much. But then again I'm only on my second mission (the first being the training).
I find these types of games enjoyable but I always have a hard time playing them because I don't conform to how the game should be played. Just the other night I had a Pickpocket side quest pop up. I was excited. Finally something up my alley. But . . . since I knew Assassin's Creed is about stealth and not bludgeoning someone to death I tried to find a nice quiet way to relieve this guy of his throwing knives. Except I bumped him to hard and he drew his sword (my character's got nothing at this point) and chased after me. This caused other characters to join in the fight as well. There was no amount of wall climbing, roof hopping I could do to get away from this guy or anyone who was helping him. I eventually jumped off a building when my health was low so I'd die. I wasn't going to give that the satisfaction of killing me.
I spent the rest of the night looking through the strategy guide trying to find tips and hints of how to be cautious, silent, unnoticed and deadly instead of my usual ogre pounding approach. And I read up on how to deftly remove some knives from their owner's satchel. Hopefully I can put that in to practice.
I really want to plan this game. Everyone says it's a good series and I really want to play some of my older games. The only achievement I had was the achievement for finishing the training. And I got that back in November 2007. I figure it's time to play these older games and see what they're like.
I'm also trying to play Halo: Anniversary but I'm having a hard time with the checkpoints and dying all the time for what seems like no apparent reason. I know people have said I should just start playing Halo 3 or Assassin's Creed II, but I like to start at the beginning. No matter how long ago that was. I will eventually finish these games. There might be another generation of consoles out by then, but it will happen. Of course I'm sure I'll be playing catch up on those systems as well.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Monday, January 6, 2014
New Year, new game (not)
No, I'm not dead. I'm still playing online. I've gotten my kill/death ration in Black Ops II up to .88 (it was at .87 before I got sick then it dipped to .83 while sick). I have been playing and I wanted to start a new game (new to me at least) on New Year's Day but I ran into problems.
The disc is scratched and I could barely got out of training. Now I can't start the first mission. The game is Assassin's Creed. Yep, that's right. It's the first one. I got the achievement for finishing the training back in November 2007. I'm pretty sure that's about the time the game came out. Before I never really got much further than the training. I'm going to try buffing the disc and see if that helps. If not I'll see if I can borrow my brother's disc to play until I get back the point where the scratch is. Happy New Year to me.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Technical Difficulties . . . please stand by
No I haven't fallen off the face of the planet. I've just been having technical difficulties with my blog of late. And this time it's not a "carbon based error".
It seems that Blogger only supports the most current version of Internet Explorer and the version just before that. Which means if you're using IE 8 (which I am on all my computers) you can add format your posts, add pictures and do other stuff you're use to doing. Luckily I have Google Chrome on my laptop as well as IE8 but I'm not use to using my laptop and and I've been sharing it with a friend so I don't always have access to it when I want.
I really like to type my posts up on my work computer after I've logged out of work for the day. After staring at a computer screen all day, as soon as I turn the computer off the last thing I'm thinking about is turning another one and getting online. The last post I typed on my work computer and saved as a draft. I had to go in and change the formating to make it acceptable to post. I hope I fixed everything. I also hate typing on my laptop's keyboard.
The only way I think of to get around this problem is to upgrade my IE or to change my blog. Since I always seem to have problems when I upgrade anything I'm not all that excited to rush out and do that.
What I have been thinking about a lot lately is moving my blog to WordPress and get my own domain name. Instead of having the ".blogspot" part in the name it would be only "lifeofagamergirl.com" (unless someone else has registered that name. There is a cost involve but I don't think it would be too much to handle.
Except now my account has revert to silver because I don't have the money to comfortably renew my Xbox Live to gold at the moment. I'm hoping to be able to go back to gold by the middle of November. If not it might have to wait until Christmas. It makes shopping for an xmas gift for me easy.
It seems that Blogger only supports the most current version of Internet Explorer and the version just before that. Which means if you're using IE 8 (which I am on all my computers) you can add format your posts, add pictures and do other stuff you're use to doing. Luckily I have Google Chrome on my laptop as well as IE8 but I'm not use to using my laptop and and I've been sharing it with a friend so I don't always have access to it when I want.
I really like to type my posts up on my work computer after I've logged out of work for the day. After staring at a computer screen all day, as soon as I turn the computer off the last thing I'm thinking about is turning another one and getting online. The last post I typed on my work computer and saved as a draft. I had to go in and change the formating to make it acceptable to post. I hope I fixed everything. I also hate typing on my laptop's keyboard.
The only way I think of to get around this problem is to upgrade my IE or to change my blog. Since I always seem to have problems when I upgrade anything I'm not all that excited to rush out and do that.
What I have been thinking about a lot lately is moving my blog to WordPress and get my own domain name. Instead of having the ".blogspot" part in the name it would be only "lifeofagamergirl.com" (unless someone else has registered that name. There is a cost involve but I don't think it would be too much to handle.
Except now my account has revert to silver because I don't have the money to comfortably renew my Xbox Live to gold at the moment. I'm hoping to be able to go back to gold by the middle of November. If not it might have to wait until Christmas. It makes shopping for an xmas gift for me easy.
Friday, September 20, 2013
150 points of Zombie killin'
So a long lost friend of mine (I'm looking at you HellWeasel) came back to gaming recently and we got together to play something . . . anything. We settled on Left 4 Dead. You know the first one. The one released in 2008. Yep. That one.
I had only played through the first campaign and thought I should give that game a go. Since I have a tendency to not know where I need to go in that game unless I'm playing with someone who actually knows what they are doing it was nice to have someone actually want to play with me in an old game. We played through all of the missions I hadn't done, or should I say finished, because of those missions looked very familiar. At the end of the night I had earned 150 Gamerpoints some of which were things I had done not related to finishing the mission.
I had to wait until we were done playing before I could look at them to see what I got because there's just so many zombies coming at you that you really do have to fight for your life. And if you're Weasell that means every special infected comes straight for you. I could be standing next to a spitter but they would attack Weasell. Made things a little easier for me but not for him. The good news was I was able to revive him a few times which counts towards another achievement. I figure if I play with him a few more times I'll have that one in the bag.
I'm thinking about trying some multiplayer action in that game (once I can get my account gold again). Anyone up for some head bashing, gut busting, zombie killing, friendly fights? If so just hit me up . . . unless we're on the same team.
I had only played through the first campaign and thought I should give that game a go. Since I have a tendency to not know where I need to go in that game unless I'm playing with someone who actually knows what they are doing it was nice to have someone actually want to play with me in an old game. We played through all of the missions I hadn't done, or should I say finished, because of those missions looked very familiar. At the end of the night I had earned 150 Gamerpoints some of which were things I had done not related to finishing the mission.
I had to wait until we were done playing before I could look at them to see what I got because there's just so many zombies coming at you that you really do have to fight for your life. And if you're Weasell that means every special infected comes straight for you. I could be standing next to a spitter but they would attack Weasell. Made things a little easier for me but not for him. The good news was I was able to revive him a few times which counts towards another achievement. I figure if I play with him a few more times I'll have that one in the bag.
I'm thinking about trying some multiplayer action in that game (once I can get my account gold again). Anyone up for some head bashing, gut busting, zombie killing, friendly fights? If so just hit me up . . . unless we're on the same team.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
I've found Paradise . . .
On Tuesday, as a thank you to our department, our Director took us all out to lunch at Dave and Buster's. An adult Chuck-E-Cheese complete with bowling alley, billiards and lots of arcade games. I loved it.
We had lunch (average food) and then we were off to play games. We were divided into 2 teams and given a list of 4 games we had to play. Each team would pick their top score and try to out score the other team. The team that had the most high scores would win.
My team won.
Because of me.
I'm a very competitive person. You say something can't be done and I'll prove to you that it can. You make a bet and I'll take you up on it. There was no way I was going to let the other team win even if I would have to get the highest score for all the games.
The first game we tried was Skeeball. I got a 170, but another person on my team got a 200. I tried again for a higher score but the game only gave me 8 balls instead of 9. I went up to the guy at the counter to see if he could do anything about it but all they did was reset the game which meant I lost that last ball. I had 180 up until then. Our high scorer tried again and got a 230 on the second time. The other team only got a 200.
Another game we had to play was Need for Speed Carbon. My time (and the fastest of my group) was 3:18. That included one very stupid crash where I ran into the end of a median divider and had to wait for my car to be reset. The other team came in with a time of 2:48. They didn't beat me by much.
The next game we played I can't remember the exact name. Raizing Storm or something. It's a 1st person shooter. Oh, you should have seen how big my eyes got when they mentioned that. Everybody else on the team was excited for me to play but I had someone else go before me so I could watch and figure everything out (especially the timing of the enemy). They were horrible. I was the second one to play and I got about 60,000 points before I died. The other two people on my team played and I don't think any of them got more than 20,000 points, if that. The last person on my team watched everybody play so he had a really good understanding of the rhythm of the game and where and when enemies would come out. He played and scored 69,000 points. (Not to be deterred, after we had finished all of the games we needed to play I went back and played again and got 76,000 that time. Our scores were already submitted, but take that anyway.) My team had the highest score for this game as well. Even if that guy hadn't have beaten my score we still would have had the higher score.
The last game we had to play was Galaga. I laughed when that was announced. When everyone asked I told them I had that game. Granted, I haven't played it in a long time and playing it on a stand up cabinet would be a lot different than playing it on my comfortable couch and TV but the game's the same in any event. I let everybody else play first while I wandered around and looked at all the other games available. I played a game like a touch screen slot. Three rows and columns of fruit spin around like a slot machine and when they stop you're suppose to touch the screen of any three fruit (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) that are the same. The faster you do it the more tickets you get. I got a lot of tickers for my team (who then went and traded those in for a lot of sour candy that I don't like).
When my turn finally came for Galaga I swiped my card, sat (awkwardly) on the stool and started the game. I scored 19,400 points. I was rusty. The highest score the other team had was 13,360. Smoked it.
My team won and we got to pick first out of the prizes my director brought. They were all the same ($25 gift cards to various places) and the losers got to pick as well . . . just after all of us winners got the good ones.
It was fun and nice to get away from work and have fun with people that are usually crabby and ornery to be around. We all loosened up and had a good time. AND I GOT TO PLAY GAMES!!!! I still have points left on the cards they gave us and I kept it because I will definitely be going back there some day soon.
Walking through that arcade was like reliving moments of my childhood. There was a HUGE arcade by where we lived but my family didn't have the money to go often and it was too far to go on my own. I remember going a couple of times when we could afford it and it was always a magically place to me, made even more so with high infrequency at which I got to go there. The first cabinet arcade game I every played was Star Wars. It was just lines on a screen but it was wonderful. Casino's might have more bells and whistles in their games. But an arcade with cabinets old and new is paradise to me.
We had lunch (average food) and then we were off to play games. We were divided into 2 teams and given a list of 4 games we had to play. Each team would pick their top score and try to out score the other team. The team that had the most high scores would win.
My team won.
Because of me.
I'm a very competitive person. You say something can't be done and I'll prove to you that it can. You make a bet and I'll take you up on it. There was no way I was going to let the other team win even if I would have to get the highest score for all the games.
The first game we tried was Skeeball. I got a 170, but another person on my team got a 200. I tried again for a higher score but the game only gave me 8 balls instead of 9. I went up to the guy at the counter to see if he could do anything about it but all they did was reset the game which meant I lost that last ball. I had 180 up until then. Our high scorer tried again and got a 230 on the second time. The other team only got a 200.
Another game we had to play was Need for Speed Carbon. My time (and the fastest of my group) was 3:18. That included one very stupid crash where I ran into the end of a median divider and had to wait for my car to be reset. The other team came in with a time of 2:48. They didn't beat me by much.
The next game we played I can't remember the exact name. Raizing Storm or something. It's a 1st person shooter. Oh, you should have seen how big my eyes got when they mentioned that. Everybody else on the team was excited for me to play but I had someone else go before me so I could watch and figure everything out (especially the timing of the enemy). They were horrible. I was the second one to play and I got about 60,000 points before I died. The other two people on my team played and I don't think any of them got more than 20,000 points, if that. The last person on my team watched everybody play so he had a really good understanding of the rhythm of the game and where and when enemies would come out. He played and scored 69,000 points. (Not to be deterred, after we had finished all of the games we needed to play I went back and played again and got 76,000 that time. Our scores were already submitted, but take that anyway.) My team had the highest score for this game as well. Even if that guy hadn't have beaten my score we still would have had the higher score.
The last game we had to play was Galaga. I laughed when that was announced. When everyone asked I told them I had that game. Granted, I haven't played it in a long time and playing it on a stand up cabinet would be a lot different than playing it on my comfortable couch and TV but the game's the same in any event. I let everybody else play first while I wandered around and looked at all the other games available. I played a game like a touch screen slot. Three rows and columns of fruit spin around like a slot machine and when they stop you're suppose to touch the screen of any three fruit (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) that are the same. The faster you do it the more tickets you get. I got a lot of tickers for my team (who then went and traded those in for a lot of sour candy that I don't like).
When my turn finally came for Galaga I swiped my card, sat (awkwardly) on the stool and started the game. I scored 19,400 points. I was rusty. The highest score the other team had was 13,360. Smoked it.
My team won and we got to pick first out of the prizes my director brought. They were all the same ($25 gift cards to various places) and the losers got to pick as well . . . just after all of us winners got the good ones.
It was fun and nice to get away from work and have fun with people that are usually crabby and ornery to be around. We all loosened up and had a good time. AND I GOT TO PLAY GAMES!!!! I still have points left on the cards they gave us and I kept it because I will definitely be going back there some day soon.
Walking through that arcade was like reliving moments of my childhood. There was a HUGE arcade by where we lived but my family didn't have the money to go often and it was too far to go on my own. I remember going a couple of times when we could afford it and it was always a magically place to me, made even more so with high infrequency at which I got to go there. The first cabinet arcade game I every played was Star Wars. It was just lines on a screen but it was wonderful. Casino's might have more bells and whistles in their games. But an arcade with cabinets old and new is paradise to me.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Finally . . . and finally again!
I"m a completionist at heart. I know I've mentioned that before but it needs to be repeated. If I can pick up every item in a game; I'll look for it. If it mean exploring every nook and cranny; I'll be there. If it means getting every achievement in a game; by golly I'll do it.
There have been 2 games that have an achievement in them that has alluded me for many months. The first game was Battlefield 1942. When the arcade game came out my friends and I played it a bunch. I wasn't very good and wasn't enjoying the game, but I still played because I enjoyed the time spent with friends. There's an achievement for playing 100 matches and my friends seemed to get this one pretty easily. Remember when I said I was a completionist? That's where the nagging feeling of not having earned everything I could in the game comes in. I needed to play a bunch of matches but I didn't know how many.
The problem with playing that game is it's not that fun without my friends. But they had moved on. I was left to get this achievement on my own. So, whenever I couldn't concentrate on other games and I had no one else to play with I would start this game and try to play a couple of matches before calling it a night. I did this for months. And then FINALLY I finished a match and I hear that wonderful little beep that told me I had a message . . . or a friend just came online . . . or heaven help me AN ACHIEVEMENT!
I think it was almost 4 years after my previous achievement before I finally got the one for playing 100 matches. Now I can say I've done everything in that game and I could move one.
And what I decided to move on to was Borderlands.
Maybe the feeling of euphoria at having finally completed a game I decided that tackle an achievement (and a mission) that has dogged me for several months. The Braaaaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnnnsss achievement (or whatever it's called).
When I started playing Jacob's Cove DLC in Borderlands I was forewarned about this mission and the achievement that goes with it. Get head shots. Collect their brains. I was doing that throughout the area only to find out that I had to accept the mission first in order for all those brains to count. But silly me I left that mission to the very end before accepting it and going for the head shots. With no other missions to do I was left to wander around all those dark and dreary places looking for zombies to kill. Not very exciting. And not very fun when I discovered how many levels there were to the mission and how many head shots I had to get.
When the final 250count level was unlocked I couldn't do it any more. I was tired of the game and I never wanted to see Pandora again. But . . . energized by completing Battlefield 1942 I put this game back in and started roaming the paths of Jacob's Cove. Grand Theft Auto has nothing on one pissed off vault hunter looking form 250 brains.
I was able to get a lot of brains in fits and spurts. When I got to 170ish all of a sudden I couldn't get a head shot of there was a string tied from my bullet to their brains. And I wiped out everybody in so many areas that it was taking forever for zombies to respawn. So close and yet so far.
I stuck with it and FINALLY got that last head shot, picked up that last squishy brain and made a beeline to turn the mission in. I thought it was the most tedious mission (partly because I didn't get it right away) but I could finally say I have completed the Jacob's Cove DLC for Borderlands.
I love playing games. They are an escape from the drudgery of life and a fertile ground for my imagination. But when trying achieve things in a game turns into something similar to the drudgery of life it ceases to be fun any more. Unfortunately for me my Completionist Devil rears his ugly head and says "YOU MUST FINISH THIS!" And who am I to argue with the only real man in my life.
There have been 2 games that have an achievement in them that has alluded me for many months. The first game was Battlefield 1942. When the arcade game came out my friends and I played it a bunch. I wasn't very good and wasn't enjoying the game, but I still played because I enjoyed the time spent with friends. There's an achievement for playing 100 matches and my friends seemed to get this one pretty easily. Remember when I said I was a completionist? That's where the nagging feeling of not having earned everything I could in the game comes in. I needed to play a bunch of matches but I didn't know how many.
The problem with playing that game is it's not that fun without my friends. But they had moved on. I was left to get this achievement on my own. So, whenever I couldn't concentrate on other games and I had no one else to play with I would start this game and try to play a couple of matches before calling it a night. I did this for months. And then FINALLY I finished a match and I hear that wonderful little beep that told me I had a message . . . or a friend just came online . . . or heaven help me AN ACHIEVEMENT!
I think it was almost 4 years after my previous achievement before I finally got the one for playing 100 matches. Now I can say I've done everything in that game and I could move one.
And what I decided to move on to was Borderlands.
Maybe the feeling of euphoria at having finally completed a game I decided that tackle an achievement (and a mission) that has dogged me for several months. The Braaaaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnnnsss achievement (or whatever it's called).
When I started playing Jacob's Cove DLC in Borderlands I was forewarned about this mission and the achievement that goes with it. Get head shots. Collect their brains. I was doing that throughout the area only to find out that I had to accept the mission first in order for all those brains to count. But silly me I left that mission to the very end before accepting it and going for the head shots. With no other missions to do I was left to wander around all those dark and dreary places looking for zombies to kill. Not very exciting. And not very fun when I discovered how many levels there were to the mission and how many head shots I had to get.
When the final 250count level was unlocked I couldn't do it any more. I was tired of the game and I never wanted to see Pandora again. But . . . energized by completing Battlefield 1942 I put this game back in and started roaming the paths of Jacob's Cove. Grand Theft Auto has nothing on one pissed off vault hunter looking form 250 brains.
I was able to get a lot of brains in fits and spurts. When I got to 170ish all of a sudden I couldn't get a head shot of there was a string tied from my bullet to their brains. And I wiped out everybody in so many areas that it was taking forever for zombies to respawn. So close and yet so far.
I stuck with it and FINALLY got that last head shot, picked up that last squishy brain and made a beeline to turn the mission in. I thought it was the most tedious mission (partly because I didn't get it right away) but I could finally say I have completed the Jacob's Cove DLC for Borderlands.
I love playing games. They are an escape from the drudgery of life and a fertile ground for my imagination. But when trying achieve things in a game turns into something similar to the drudgery of life it ceases to be fun any more. Unfortunately for me my Completionist Devil rears his ugly head and says "YOU MUST FINISH THIS!" And who am I to argue with the only real man in my life.
Monday, March 18, 2013
I have wonderful friends!
Just when I think everything has gone to crap I'm reminded that I have wonderful friends. Since I had to go "silver" on Xbox Live due to some severe financial constraints (that hopefully will get fixed within the next couple of weeks) I've had 3 friends step up and offer me codes to go "Gold" for a total of 4 months. That will definitely help and I CAN PLAY ONLINE AGAIN!!!!!!
Their kindness and generosity will not go unnoticed as I have a "thank you" planned for each of them. It won't be much but it will be heartfelt and hopefully worth it to them. Stay tuned for more on that later. Even though my mother doesn't think I can be friends with people I've never met, I'm reminded that it's not their face that makes them a friend . . . but their hearts. Thank you!
Their kindness and generosity will not go unnoticed as I have a "thank you" planned for each of them. It won't be much but it will be heartfelt and hopefully worth it to them. Stay tuned for more on that later. Even though my mother doesn't think I can be friends with people I've never met, I'm reminded that it's not their face that makes them a friend . . . but their hearts. Thank you!
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