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jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-02-12 08:28 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-02-12 08:28 pm
Exploding Zoomers, ahoy!
I have literally nothing to do on Mondays. I walked the dog, did my homework, and then... played more video games. I'm really rather glad I'm busy most other days, really, because I imagine I'd be rather insane were this the entirety of my life.
'Nother gun course. Then we go back to Krew! ... they're asking me to race. Asking me. To RACE. This can only end in pain.
Seven mission failures later, Jecca decides she doesn't really want to play this racing game any longer, leaves, and goes to talk to Torn again, instead. (She might be hoping to either get a better idea of the layout of the city or to find some new shortcuts or get some more passcards or something.) The failures are still included in the total tally.
Ooh, more killing? Much better.
... Why are there Heartless in a big pool of Nothingness here? I didn't swap games somehow, did I? (No, seriously, what are those big, black, yellow-glowy-spot-possessing things sitting in the Dark Eco?)
(haha! Oh, now I've got a deranged Metal Heads / Nobodies thing going on in my head, on top of the Mako-thing. Oops.)
These things are really hard to see at night after you've killed them once already, hence removing the glowing yellow blob on their heads.
...! VIN! He's trying to kill me and he is insane and twitchy! ohmigosh I love him already.
He is completely neurotic! Also Daxter makes great faces (Jak's are still better)!
... saving random girl at the pumping station place earns me a yellow pass!! Oh, joy! Back to trying the race-thing!
First, though, I detour to the new location indicated on the map! (I like the map-indicator now. It is only in the city, and if it were not, I very, very strongly suspect I would still be trying to find Torn after fighting the guards way back in the beginning after my escape.)
Tent. ...the monkey-bird-hybrid-thing's name is Pecker.
HEY MAYBE I NEED TO KNOW WHAT CRAZY NON-TALKING PERSON IS SAYING, MONEY-BIRD-HYBRID-THING. STOP SUMMARIZING.
... oh, whatever.
Race winning! Yay! ... HEY GIRL BEHIND THE CURTAIN. YOUR NAME ISN'T, SAY, KEIRA BY ANY CHANCE?
ARG WHY DON'T ANY OF YOU RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER?
SO WHAT IF IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS AND AT LEAST ONE OF YOU SPENT THAT TIME BEING A SCIENCE EXPERIMENT. SHUT UP THAT IS NO EXCUSE.
AUGH.
It's the talking, isn't it? If I were making questionably interpretable hand gestures and faces and leaving Daxter to narrate, you'd recognize us, wouldn't you?!
...hey, don't you gimme that, Daxter. I saw how you were acting around that Ashelin person.
And now how you're acting around this Tess-bartender-person.
He's drunk?! Oh, god, he's singing. I am dying of laughter!
.... oh, slag, I just completely missed whatever Krew was telling me I had to go do for him.
... Zoomer... I'm flying around collecting the things in giant glowing circles. Okay! (Oooh, it was money collection. Well, hey, I got a gun upgrade, so no complaints here!)
Now, mountain place for those three (not two, not four. Three) things.
Ack, you know, much as I like having a gun (range is such a nice thing), I kind of don't like that it's impossible to fight most everything melee-style. Try that on most of these Metal Heads and they barely even have to look up from their card game, or newspaper, or whatever, before killing you with a flick of their, uh, claws or something. Jerks.
Puzzle boxes are evil. They would be less evil if I could turn the camera to see ahead, so I didn't have to just kind of guess where the next box is! At least I'm not throwing myself repeatedly into the Dark Ecoyet?
AUGH! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?! BOULDERS! BOULDERS RAINING FOREVER! Still, this is a pretty area.
Ooh, we have to go talk to Vin again! Joy! ...ooh! We get to blow things up and run from the guards! Double joy! :D
I absolutely love that you can actually hide from these guys. *perches under a walkway and watches the guards all run by overhead*
So, uh, exploding Zoomers trying to kill me aside, that was fun! I have entirely too much fun running from the authorities. Possibly Jak's attitude adjustment is somewhat contagious. Though I still cannot bring myself to knock people off their Zoomers unless I am in the process of running for my life. I go for parked ones or I just roll-jump everywhere.
SO UP INTO THE TOWER. WHERE IS THE TOWER? I am lost!
Map marker! Unlost! .... waaah we are high up! Pretty view! Hey, I've been to some of those scenery-places! Neat! So I am easily entertained. SO WHAT!?
OH GOD THERE ARE BIRDS UNDER ME. askfedhgj,n flippy bars not safe going to fall and die. Also, there is a thunder storm, and of course the best place to be for that is on top of the huge, gigantic building. Lightening never strikes high points at all.
Laser cannon. Ow! Health packs = yay!
...So I jump further along, ready to run between the spinning blue blade-kill-me-dead-thingies and, surprise! It's sloping! FALL TO YOUR DEATH, JAK. FAAAAALL!!!
But we managed to fall off to the right and catch the edge of the platform and live! That is... very surprising! o_O
... and then the collapsing floor on the other side drops us, anyway. It was inevitable, I suppose. Doh.
Y'know, as I watch those two spin around a little bar, waiting to be propelled onto the next platform, really, the only thought I have is that it's kind of surprising Daxter doesn't complain about this more. One wrong move on Jak's part and he's going to be just as dead, just as fast. Maybe he doesn't want to be distracting.
...what is that thing? It's... weird looking. I mean, okay, I know it's supposed to be the Metal Head guy, it just... looks weird (I mean, not the transparency thing, either. Just its head is weird).
OH YEAH DAXTER SNEEZE AND BLOW OUR COVER. GOOD JOB. I ROLL MY EYES AT YOU. ... SO DOES JAK.
*is a ninja on the roof!*
... it's always AMMO. ARG! WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET SOME HEALTH?! AMMO AMMO AMMO DARK ECO AMMO AMMO OH LOOK I AM DEAD BECAUSE THERE IS NEVER ANY HEALTH. EVEN THE MONSTERS ONLY DROP ECO! AWLKIHSFKEDGNMFKN GRARG. I hate everything.
Okay, listen, guy-who's-weapon-suit-I-just-blew-up (AKA the Baron). I dunno where you're getting the idea that I needed Special Dark Eco Power to do that. I didn't use the Dark Eco. I used a gun. Poorly, at that. It is not my fault you cannot aim. It is my fault I can't make Jak walk in a straight line, and that certainly contributed to your lack of aim, but it is not entirely to blame. So, uh...
Stop giving all the credit to yourself. :D
You can, however, take credit for being a shoddy pilot, because I had no impact on your driving skills. ...Though, I'm thankful for it, because if you were not, I can assure you I would have never actually hit you.
WHAT. I am back outside. Now I am disoriented. Wasn't I just way high up? Merg.
Okay, the door to the Underground looks way different than I remember it looking. In that it's not a door but just a hole in the wall, but then inside it slides open by splitting in the middle and going up / down. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DOORS? Don't do these things to me, game!
Haha, oh, bugger, I ticked off Torn again. Now I have to run escort duty. What a pain.
I have also been keeping a Death List for this game. I... currently seem to be dying a whole lot less, but this is probably because there are no islands of never-ending mist everywhere for me to fall into and die. Plus, there's still (probably) plenty of time to catch up. (I am actually enjoying keeping these Death Lists. I wonder if they're going to become a part of my game play, like the Ramblings have.)
Falling forever: 26
Metal Heads: 19
Zoomer Go BOOM: 2
Mud: 1
Fallingforever into Mud: 2
Dark Eco Pit: 2
Water-Surveillance Missile: 1
Security Tank: 4
Security System: 1
Sewer Gun: 3
Boulder to the head: 1
Tower Defenses: 1
Baron (on the Roof): 2
MISSION FAILED: 48
-- racing through purple rings: 31
-- protect Sig!!: 3
-- 3 minutes to race track: 7
-- collect moneybags: 3
-- destroy the Turbo Cannons: 4
I got a package in the mail today from some friends over in California! They offered to pick up the Target-exclusive Ultra Magnus and Skywarp two-park for me (since there are no Targets in this state), and it came! Skywarp is... very, very pretty. Magnus is nice, too, of course, but I really love the jet-mold they have, and black and purple just look great together. mm, pretty. ^_^
We are supposed to get a huge storm either tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm hoping it comes in either Tuesday evening after I am home or Wednesday evening after I am home, because either way that allows plenty of time for the snowplows and sand trucks to get out before I have to try to drive in it all.
'Nother gun course. Then we go back to Krew! ... they're asking me to race. Asking me. To RACE. This can only end in pain.
Seven mission failures later, Jecca decides she doesn't really want to play this racing game any longer, leaves, and goes to talk to Torn again, instead. (She might be hoping to either get a better idea of the layout of the city or to find some new shortcuts or get some more passcards or something.) The failures are still included in the total tally.
Ooh, more killing? Much better.
... Why are there Heartless in a big pool of Nothingness here? I didn't swap games somehow, did I? (No, seriously, what are those big, black, yellow-glowy-spot-possessing things sitting in the Dark Eco?)
(haha! Oh, now I've got a deranged Metal Heads / Nobodies thing going on in my head, on top of the Mako-thing. Oops.)
These things are really hard to see at night after you've killed them once already, hence removing the glowing yellow blob on their heads.
...! VIN! He's trying to kill me and he is insane and twitchy! ohmigosh I love him already.
He is completely neurotic! Also Daxter makes great faces (Jak's are still better)!
... saving random girl at the pumping station place earns me a yellow pass!! Oh, joy! Back to trying the race-thing!
First, though, I detour to the new location indicated on the map! (I like the map-indicator now. It is only in the city, and if it were not, I very, very strongly suspect I would still be trying to find Torn after fighting the guards way back in the beginning after my escape.)
Tent. ...the monkey-bird-hybrid-thing's name is Pecker.
HEY MAYBE I NEED TO KNOW WHAT CRAZY NON-TALKING PERSON IS SAYING, MONEY-BIRD-HYBRID-THING. STOP SUMMARIZING.
... oh, whatever.
Race winning! Yay! ... HEY GIRL BEHIND THE CURTAIN. YOUR NAME ISN'T, SAY, KEIRA BY ANY CHANCE?
ARG WHY DON'T ANY OF YOU RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER?
SO WHAT IF IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS AND AT LEAST ONE OF YOU SPENT THAT TIME BEING A SCIENCE EXPERIMENT. SHUT UP THAT IS NO EXCUSE.
AUGH.
It's the talking, isn't it? If I were making questionably interpretable hand gestures and faces and leaving Daxter to narrate, you'd recognize us, wouldn't you?!
...hey, don't you gimme that, Daxter. I saw how you were acting around that Ashelin person.
And now how you're acting around this Tess-bartender-person.
He's drunk?! Oh, god, he's singing. I am dying of laughter!
.... oh, slag, I just completely missed whatever Krew was telling me I had to go do for him.
... Zoomer... I'm flying around collecting the things in giant glowing circles. Okay! (Oooh, it was money collection. Well, hey, I got a gun upgrade, so no complaints here!)
Now, mountain place for those three (not two, not four. Three) things.
Ack, you know, much as I like having a gun (range is such a nice thing), I kind of don't like that it's impossible to fight most everything melee-style. Try that on most of these Metal Heads and they barely even have to look up from their card game, or newspaper, or whatever, before killing you with a flick of their, uh, claws or something. Jerks.
Puzzle boxes are evil. They would be less evil if I could turn the camera to see ahead, so I didn't have to just kind of guess where the next box is! At least I'm not throwing myself repeatedly into the Dark Eco
AUGH! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?! BOULDERS! BOULDERS RAINING FOREVER! Still, this is a pretty area.
Ooh, we have to go talk to Vin again! Joy! ...ooh! We get to blow things up and run from the guards! Double joy! :D
I absolutely love that you can actually hide from these guys. *perches under a walkway and watches the guards all run by overhead*
So, uh, exploding Zoomers trying to kill me aside, that was fun! I have entirely too much fun running from the authorities. Possibly Jak's attitude adjustment is somewhat contagious. Though I still cannot bring myself to knock people off their Zoomers unless I am in the process of running for my life. I go for parked ones or I just roll-jump everywhere.
SO UP INTO THE TOWER. WHERE IS THE TOWER? I am lost!
Map marker! Unlost! .... waaah we are high up! Pretty view! Hey, I've been to some of those scenery-places! Neat! So I am easily entertained. SO WHAT!?
OH GOD THERE ARE BIRDS UNDER ME. askfedhgj,n flippy bars not safe going to fall and die. Also, there is a thunder storm, and of course the best place to be for that is on top of the huge, gigantic building. Lightening never strikes high points at all.
Laser cannon. Ow! Health packs = yay!
...So I jump further along, ready to run between the spinning blue blade-kill-me-dead-thingies and, surprise! It's sloping! FALL TO YOUR DEATH, JAK. FAAAAALL!!!
But we managed to fall off to the right and catch the edge of the platform and live! That is... very surprising! o_O
... and then the collapsing floor on the other side drops us, anyway. It was inevitable, I suppose. Doh.
Y'know, as I watch those two spin around a little bar, waiting to be propelled onto the next platform, really, the only thought I have is that it's kind of surprising Daxter doesn't complain about this more. One wrong move on Jak's part and he's going to be just as dead, just as fast. Maybe he doesn't want to be distracting.
...what is that thing? It's... weird looking. I mean, okay, I know it's supposed to be the Metal Head guy, it just... looks weird (I mean, not the transparency thing, either. Just its head is weird).
OH YEAH DAXTER SNEEZE AND BLOW OUR COVER. GOOD JOB. I ROLL MY EYES AT YOU. ... SO DOES JAK.
*is a ninja on the roof!*
... it's always AMMO. ARG! WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET SOME HEALTH?! AMMO AMMO AMMO DARK ECO AMMO AMMO OH LOOK I AM DEAD BECAUSE THERE IS NEVER ANY HEALTH. EVEN THE MONSTERS ONLY DROP ECO! AWLKIHSFKEDGNMFKN GRARG. I hate everything.
Okay, listen, guy-who's-weapon-suit-I-just-blew-up (AKA the Baron). I dunno where you're getting the idea that I needed Special Dark Eco Power to do that. I didn't use the Dark Eco. I used a gun. Poorly, at that. It is not my fault you cannot aim. It is my fault I can't make Jak walk in a straight line, and that certainly contributed to your lack of aim, but it is not entirely to blame. So, uh...
Stop giving all the credit to yourself. :D
You can, however, take credit for being a shoddy pilot, because I had no impact on your driving skills. ...Though, I'm thankful for it, because if you were not, I can assure you I would have never actually hit you.
WHAT. I am back outside. Now I am disoriented. Wasn't I just way high up? Merg.
Okay, the door to the Underground looks way different than I remember it looking. In that it's not a door but just a hole in the wall, but then inside it slides open by splitting in the middle and going up / down. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DOORS? Don't do these things to me, game!
Haha, oh, bugger, I ticked off Torn again. Now I have to run escort duty. What a pain.
I have also been keeping a Death List for this game. I... currently seem to be dying a whole lot less, but this is probably because there are no islands of never-ending mist everywhere for me to fall into and die. Plus, there's still (probably) plenty of time to catch up. (I am actually enjoying keeping these Death Lists. I wonder if they're going to become a part of my game play, like the Ramblings have.)
Falling forever: 26
Metal Heads: 19
Zoomer Go BOOM: 2
Mud: 1
Falling
Dark Eco Pit: 2
Water-Surveillance Missile: 1
Security Tank: 4
Security System: 1
Sewer Gun: 3
Boulder to the head: 1
Tower Defenses: 1
Baron (on the Roof): 2
MISSION FAILED: 48
-- racing through purple rings: 31
-- protect Sig!!: 3
-- 3 minutes to race track: 7
-- collect moneybags: 3
-- destroy the Turbo Cannons: 4
I got a package in the mail today from some friends over in California! They offered to pick up the Target-exclusive Ultra Magnus and Skywarp two-park for me (since there are no Targets in this state), and it came! Skywarp is... very, very pretty. Magnus is nice, too, of course, but I really love the jet-mold they have, and black and purple just look great together. mm, pretty. ^_^
We are supposed to get a huge storm either tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm hoping it comes in either Tuesday evening after I am home or Wednesday evening after I am home, because either way that allows plenty of time for the snowplows and sand trucks to get out before I have to try to drive in it all.
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I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU ONLY DIED TWICE IN THE FIGHT WITH THE BARON. THAT MISSION TOOK ME FOR EVER.
But ahahaha, oh dear, if you're already having trouble with the race challenges I hate to think of what it'll be like when you actually get into the Official Races. YOU ARE TRAVELLING SO FAST THAT YOU IMMEDIATELY EXPLODE IF YOU HIT ALMOST ANYTHING.
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evertwo years (even if it's not valid)! What excuse do the other two have? "Oh, sorry, I was too busy assuming you were both slimy morons to pay any actual attention to you!"?HE ONLY KILLED ME TWICE, BUT IT TOOK ME OVER AN HOUR TO BEAT HIM. It is because I cannot hold still or steer and so, in this fight, could not be hit. (It's not always a bad thing!)
...I KNEW THE LOW DEATH COUNT WOULDN'T LAST. CAN YOU SAY "SKYROCKET"? (Alternately, "Jecca, a blind elephant could pilot better than you do.") Do the racing things there are least turn better than the Zoomers around town do? Probably not.