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ahahaha oh, geez, I don't pay much attention to these things, but I just noticed that my 1,000th entry was the cat hair apocalypse one. That's beautiful. XD (Well, on LJ. I posted a few unique entries to DW before LJ annoyed me enough to make me import and start crossposting. So I guess on DW it was the last entry from the first Uncharted game. But that's way less hilarious.)
Anyway, here's something I've meant to link for a while! When I went to the Distant Worlds concert in Chicago last summer, I couldn't find one of the songs they played on youtube. But I have since found a copy of the live version of You're Not Alone (from FFIX), and now I have finally put it up for other people. It's pretty fantastic. I recommend listening to it even if you don't play FFIX.
Today was the last day of my surprise three-day weekend. I had plans, but I didn't go through with a single one of them, because sometimes I am pathetic like that. INSTEAD, I spent too much time playing Uncharted 3, and now, to my sorrow, it is over.
So, I had a bit of a brainwave and remembered that, a while back, the album of the day at Amazon was a mix of video game tracks, and I picked it up. Was completely unfamiliar with a fair number of the games on it, but what the hey, I'm a sucker for soundtracks. And WAIT A MINUTE so I pulled that up and it turns out I have that track from the opening screen (or at least the version from the first game, anyway). That was cool.
But now we're back to the game.
CLIMBING INTO BUILDINGS WHEE! And then jumping into guys to kill them. What was I doing, Sully? The tango. What else?
Locked is no excuse! Nate, I can almost shoot it now! If you would just be a little more willing to reach your arm through bars, we could knock that lock off and just go through the door! Come onnn, why are you making us go in the bucket.
… ha. Definitely thought that water was deeper than it turned out to be.
Why are there even other people down here, seriously. I guess they're wise to my ways.
Chloe! Cutter! You're not captured! Good job!
HEY, you got a problem with pre-paid phones, Nate? Those contracts are a complete rip-off!
Blah blah blah 400 year old secret society schemes DULL. I like my idea about Marlowe being 400 years old better, even if it does make less sense.
Hahaha find a way around them hahaha Nate why do you even bother pretending that's ever going to happen.
I found a headless lead horseman!
Tripping over pots and pans. STEALTH!
(I've no idea what they actually are, that area of the screen is too dark due to the current lighting in my room and in the game.)
Also, draping your enemies corpses in windows is the new subtle. I have no idea how I accomplished that, but it's kind of awesome.
AAAA are you kidding?? First they drop a rock on me and now we've gone out the tower completely. XD Meanwhile, the other three just stand around cursing, I guess. Geez. XD
FOR GOD'S SAKE THE NORHT STAR IS RIGHT THERE HOW DO I MAKE YOU LOOK AT IT AEHRJIKGLBDH AHA THERE is a button. JESUS. WAS THAT REALLY SO HARD?
Whoops, that hurt. A lot. SEVERAL TIMES.
And then we don't even get to use the wire. BOOO.
Augh, damn it, get back here. XD You're going to give us away!
Yeah, like that. Graaargh MELEE!!!!
"You're dead!"? Big talk for a man who just had his skull smashed into a rock wall.
… I think what we can conclude, here, is that I really suck at looking through binoculars. There's the spot, and there's the tower, and…. Apparently I am just not hitting the right spot between the two. UP AND DOWN AND UP AND DOWN AND UP AND DOWN AND UP AND DOWN AND FINALLY.
And now we're being attacked by another army. Must be nice for all these bad guys, having so freaking many minions. XD
WHOOO SULLY TO THE RESCUE!
They are way less free with the treasure-finding trophies this game. I think that is only like, the second or third I've received, and I've found plenty of items.
Also, I like the statistics thing. Even if it is a bit silly to have proof that I've killed the most number of enemies via hand-to-hand combat.
Oh, no! While we've all gone around the corner, Charlie's been shot with mind control drugs! Poor guy! Should we – I don't know, should we find a safe place to just lock him up for a while so he doesn't hurt anyone? There was that storage room earlier. He can go keep the brooms company.
Or, you know, sure. Take the balls-tripping claustrophobe into a dark cave system and seal us all in and then force him to squeeze through tiny passages. That'll definitely go over well.
VIOLENCE ENSUES. Damn it, Nate, he told you to stop touching him! Ugh. At least we've got that "press O to shove people away" feature.
… Though that doesn't help when you can't break the choke-hold.
Ah. We weren't supposed to be able to. Okay.
Sorry, Charlie (I have decided to use "Charlie" over "Cutter" for various reasons, none of which are particularly interesting), but when it comes down to it, Sully always chooses Nate. Even when Nate is an obnoxious teenager that he's never really met. I am glad he didn't have to shoot you, though!
Hahaha, Nate is going first now.
… Was that an "Of Mice and Men" reference, Charlie? I am pretty sure that was an "Of Mice and Men" reference. Sully, leave the rabbits out of things. XD
Oh, you are joking. What are these damn things, really, and how are they everywhere I am?
RAR, TORCH-THROWING. Thank goodness this thing can apparently spawn infinite bits of wood, elsewise we'd be in a bit of a mess by now, huh, Nate?
FUCK.
Ugh, at least gravity is a better death than hell spiders.
…. Aaaaand I need to throw the torches again. FUCK.
Oh my god COME ON ALREADY
You would be a sissy, too, Nate, if you knew the dangers that lurk in the water. CHARLIE AND I WILL WAIT HERE. You have fun splashing about and then just, idk, teleport us over to you, okay?
For the record, yes, I did just restart from the checkpoint just so I could try to grab that treasure, because like hell am I playing this chapter again.
THIS GLOBE-SPINNING PUZZLE IS STUPID
I don't like "just like the one in France." "Just like the one in France" means full of hell spiders.
Hahaha, can't trust Nate with it 'cause he got ambushed it, sure, but, dude, you got drugged and handed him your stuff. Give it to Chloe or throw it into a bottomless pit or something.
Aw, how cute! Mr. Evil Suit thinks Charlie's still under mind control! I do wish we hadn't had to toss our guns, though. I keep losing my weapons!
… Never mind that roughly fifty percent of my kills have been hand-to-hand!
Nooo! Jump, man! We'll catch you!
OR DON'T. FINE. GIVE THEM THE OTHER HALF THEN FALL AND BREAK YOUR LEG. I told you to give it to Chloe. Christ.
Er. Did he always have the tarot card, or did they just plant that on him?
Anyway, escorting, whoo.
OH! So that is what they meant in the last game by "running over the riot shield"! AWESOME.
BUS. Put the pedal to the metal, Sully. We gotta get! D:
I'm not trying to prove anything! I am just addicted to treasure hunting. I NEED MY FIX, CHLOE, GOD. Why can’t you just understand that, huh? HUH?!
Who are we calling? Is it your better and more awesome female counterpart? I miss her, she should show up, already.
Or maybe we'll just miraculously run into her once we get there! IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.
IT ISSSS ELENA ELENA HI! :D
Hahaha, and then they actually did hold hands.
SULLY IS NOT GETTING INVOLVED IN THIS. Wise move, sir.
You bloody can't take care of yourself, Nate. You've proven as much SEVERAL TIMES. In this game alone!
RIGHT?! If you get Sully hurt or killed, Elena and I will thrash you. DO NOT EVEN, Nate.
Man, I know you are a bit obtuse in some areas, but seriously, this is shameful.
CHILDREN IN THE BACK, NATE. Mr. Sulking Pants.
Bah. Does Nate not speak Arabic, either? YOU ARE A DISAPPOINTMENT.
I honestly do not understand how I find Elena even more awesome every time she shows up. ELENAAAA. Look at you! You are amazing! Nate is always so lost when you are not around.
… Using ladders counts as being on "best behaviour"… right? At least it is not window sills??
Pretty flowers!
Okay, never mind, now we're entering buildings.
Technically picking up silver beads is not breaking anything. LOOTING!
She knows Charlie? Huh.
NAAATE. Hahaha, Sully's little gesture and head shake.
AMBUSH! THROUGH THE WINDOW!
…NATE DID YOU JUST HIT THAT MAN WITH A FISH
DO IT AGAIN :D :D
WELL. That's certainly convenient! Thank you, Elena! Also thank you for not standing for this bullshit. DEMAND ANSWERS.
Nate, no one loves this as much as you do. You love this more than anything.
Not the right hole. Something inside, anyway, though. MORE SPIDERS, probably.
Been playing this too long, hah. I answered the (Francis) Drake wouldn't mind me drawing on his map before Nate did.
… yeah, this floor panel has a goddamn spider on it. Fuck.
…. I don't like this room. o_@ creepy.
COGS! Much better! Hooray!
Hahaha oops! There's hints and stuff. I've already placed all but the last cog, so that whole bit while I shimmied over to get the last one down was pretty silly. Why are you guys talking about this? We've already got almost everything set already! There's even a pile of reject gears over in the corner, there! The answer was already in the journal!
…. Man, I did those rooms in completely the wrong order, didn't I? XD
Oh, Elena, you are so smart. Of course this is a warning. Nate just does not care. Because he is ridiculous like that.
Heh, she's not even coming into this last room, is she? Just standing back there in the hall.
Nope, guess her curiosity got the better of her, too.
BRAZIER? NO. THAT MEANS DEFINITLY HELL SPIDERS. NO. All their nasty little skittering on their nasty little legs. Ick.
Oh, that's pretty.
Hahaha, given our track record of having our stuff taken? Yeah, I don't recommend writing it down, either.
Uuuugh, here we go again. LESS QUESTIONS, MORE RUNNING AWAY. Stay away from me, you miserably little fucks. I WILL BURN YOU.
Euuugh.
Can we be done with those now? D:
Of course he's going to keep going. Nathan Drake is unreasonable like that. You know this, Elena. But I understand why you need to say it, anyway.
(By the way, Nate, this means she is worried and wants you to stop trying to get everyone killed now. Go tell her you're sorry for being a stupid git.)
Back to the entrance. How the hell are we gonna get out of here, anyway? I wondered when we came in, but figured it'd be one of those things where we never see the entrance again 'cause there's a backdoor or something.
Oh, hell, mind control dart. This'll be fun. (See, Sully, this is why we didn't copy that constellation information down. Geez.)
whoooo woaaahhh wheeeeee
trippy.
And we're awake. Aaaand sitting with Marlowe and Talbot, ugh. Slimy little freaks. Go play with the hell spiders.
Blah blah blah, she thinks she's so clever. Sorry, lady, not buying your act.
Sweetie, you told them that while you were drugged. You know how these drugs work, you saw it with Charlie. Surely you're not surprised.
… If Victor were only in it for Victor, I cannot help but think he'd have jumped ship sometime around the beginning of that that whole El Dorado escapade. And I don't think he got a thing for helping us start the search for Shambala. (Also, uh, 20 years is a hell of a long time to put up with Nate, here, otherwise.)
BUT YOUR EFFORTS ARE CUTE. If also pathetic.
Heee! BEAUTIFUL TABLE FLIPPING!
AND THEN HE GETS AWAY arrrrgh.
… nnnnope, no, sorry, Rameses, I don't remember you at all. Too many blows to the head, I suppose.
Unless you're asking if I remember you as the last guy to deal a blow to my head, in which case, yeah, yeah, definitely remember your sucker punch.
… What? The hell are we? … YES, EXACTLY, NATE.
I have to get in the water again, don't I.
AAAA WHY IS HE MAKING NOISES because it is cold never mind, no sharks, okay.
Okay, that wasn't so bad. The water was actually pretty clear, too, so that helped.
… of course I need to get back in the water.
Ugh, whatever. Nothing's eaten me yet, maybe they're playing nice.
Ooor maybe it's just easier to jump in the lake when you're being shot at by a million guys, because I am having a hell of a time with this now that they're all dead.
Man, it's kind of embarrassing that I've killed myself more times trying to get this treasure than just about anything else has today.
Of course there's nothing working in here. Hello? Ship graveyard? Maintained by pirates? I know, you were hoping anyway. Sorry. Maybe next time.
I, for one, am not going to be surprised in the least if we learn that no one has captured Sully and that they've just been using it to try and get Nate to talk.
God, I wish this chapter would end so I could go to bed.
….. Magic.
OKAY, Chapter 13, here we go.
I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A SAY ABOUT THAT JUMP INTO THE WATER WTF GAME THAT WAS MEAN
AAAA GIANT WAVE OF DEATH
AAAA BOAT CHASE
AAAAA EXPLODING BOATS!
Oh, god, we're not going to make this jump ARE WE AAAAUGH – oh, phew, cutscene. That was thrilling!
So, d'you think they knew exactly what they were getting themselves into when they threatened Sully like that?
WHY ARE THE LIFEBOATS TRYING TO KILL ME?
Nate, how the hell are we going to survive this.
Pulling pins out of enemy's grenades and shoving them away to explode is one of my favourite things. It's evil. I know. I know. But my god it is cathartic.
Ha! Even with no one else around, he cannot help but play Marco Polo in the pool. Poor Nate and his peculiar compulsions.
Haaaaa, called it. There's no one there! What a surprise! Oh, Nate. If you'd had a few hours of proper sleep and a few less concussions, you'd probably have figured that out, too.
I DISLIKE THE NAME OF THIS CHAPTER.
STOP SHOOTING ME. LISTEN TO THE MAN YOU ARE TRYING TO KILL. Let's all run the hell away, yes??
Nate, did you get just in a goddamned elevator. If I weren't so busy trying to not drown, I would throw your ass off a cliff for that.
MOTHER OF GOD, WHY
I have been profusely swearing for the last, what was that, 15 minutes? More? HOWEVER LONG since the boat started sinking. JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW. CHRIST. WHAT THE FUCKING HELL.
Goddamned vulture. Piss off.
Nate, watching you move is making me tired. Find somewhere to hole up and nap for a few hours, okay?
Yes, Elena probably has a place for you to get some rest! GOOD PLAN.
Elena, just push him over, he'll probably fall asleep as soon as his head hits the floor, anyway. Or, yes, inform him of your plan and then tell him to pass out for a while. That's probably better.
…Oh, honey, I hope you didn't try to sleep like that. Your arm is going to be so numb. (Of course, she's probably at least a little bit more rested than Nonstop Nate is, so that's something, anyway.)
Well, if there's one thing good about this massive shoot out in the airfield, it's that something other than that one treasure a few chapters back has the highest deaths count now.
Ah. Apparently I was making it to the last wave before getting myself killed. That's kind of annoying.
Elena, pick up this gun! Please?
Fine, don't. :<
ELENA DOESN'T LISTEN TO YOU, NATE. SHE KNOWS YOU ARE USELESS. Also, don't think I missed that vehicle in the background. She's gonna go hotwire it and save your sorry hide, don't think she won't.
Ah, you even point it out to her! Because yes she has ever stayed behind when you've told her to.
See Nate. See Nate run. Run, Nate, run. Yeah. You chase that plane.
Or, you know. Get shot. Probably about as effective, really.
And here is Elena, saving the day again!
Oh, Nate. Someone didn't think loosening all that stuff up through.
AND NOW EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE.
AND WE'RE GOING DOWN.
AGAIN.
I am here the entire time and yet I still am not entirely sure how all of these things happen to you, Nate. XD
I mean, yeah, the cover kind of gives away that there's gonna be a huge crash in the desert, but geeeeez. XD
And now we're stuck out here with no supplies. Eek!
WEAPON GET
Nate, there's no way there's gonna be water in that well.
You're probably talking to whoever it is you're usually talking to. Yourself? No one? The fourth wall? Hey! Hallucinations! All right!
What's with the narration, man, can't I die of dehydration and exposure in peace? It is really painful to look at the screen right now, though, ugh. Naaaate, this sucks. :(
I am impressed, really. I'd probably have given up and died already. But aaaugh Nate. =( THIS IS TERRIBLE AND HOPELESS AND I AM DISORIENTED AND HELPLESS and all I can do is to make him keep walking even though that is hard and useless thus far and it suuuucks.
BUILDINGS?!
And another empty well.
Nooo, even worse, it has undrinkable water in it. Oooh.
oh my god you are joking really I have to fight more guys?
…wait a second
DOES THIS MEAN WATER?? NATHAN DRAKE AND THE IMPROBABLY SECOND WIND.
Looking for the plane, Nate? Or did you just stumble into right where you need to be again?
He is finally at his wit's end. NO MORE. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. I CAN'T DO THIS.
And then the cavalry arrived! I am not even gonna question it.
Wooo, allies! Allies against the hell spiders!
What? I wasn't gonna shoot. That'd be really dumb. (Nate is really dumb. Never mind, I understand the warning, now.)
I LOVE MY HORSE.
… even if I did up stranded on a vehicle once when the whole lot of them took off without me. Come baaaack!
And we've got Sully back! Yay!
… tsk. Of course we got lost in the sand storm (… not too much of one, thankfully. Probably a magical one to keep people from finding the city). And there go the horses.
Don't rush me, Sully! I'm busy engaging in gravity-defying acts of lunacy!
It looks like there's a ladder on the edge of that door. Hopefully this is a safe assumption!
Woohoo! I'm still alive!
DANCING STATUES
… flowers? Oh! A fountain! … NATE DON'T DRINK THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WTF IS GOING ON WITH THIS FUCKING CITY. Or, er. Nothing seems to have happened, okay. Never mind?
…. And now there's an eclipse, what…?
Shi – Sully? Oh HELL
RAGE!
WTF FIRE?! THESE MEN ARE ON FIRE.
Oh, oh, right. Djinn-relating somehow? Why not. We've had zombies and blue sasquatch costume-wearing ancient guys.
So, anyway, Sully's going to get better, right? RIGHT?! If Marlowe can be 400 years old (… not that we have any proof of that, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it) and Talbot can take bullets straight in the chest like it's nothing, Sully can totally get better.
SPEAKING OF THAT JERK. TALBOT! STOP DRUGGING ME! AARGH!!
I am not convinced these hell spiders aren't just hallucinations, but that is not going to stop me from running the fuck away from them.
AGE REGRESSION
I REFUSE TO SHOOT SULLY, EVEN A HALLUCINATION OF HIM.
thE FloOooOOr iSs mOoViiiInNGgGggg aAaaAuUuGhhh
Naaate, nooo. :( Sully hallucinations are MEAN!
Also this pool is kinda freaking me out. WHY IS MY REFLECTION OVER THERE? OH GOD NOW IT'S ATTACKING ME.
Ugh. At least that drug trip is over. (… OR IS IT?)
SULLY'S BAAAAACK (maybe?) YAY!
He blames the fountain. WHAT DID I TELL YOU, NATE. Unless this is just more hallucination oh god I don't know what's what anymore. Well done, game.
Who cares how it's still standing? It undoubtedly won't be by the time we're through. (Dang, is it pretty, though.)
They always have us outnumbered.
Maybe-Hopefully-Sully and I are splitting up, nooo! Now I can't keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't disappear. I GUESS HE JUST HAS TO BE REAL, THEN. Because this is Uncharted and not Silent Hill, I just forget that sometimes, I guess. (I WAS SO WORRIED! I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE REAL.)
AAAA NO YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DIE NOW THAT WE'VE DETERMINED YOU TO BE REAL AND ALIVE WATER RESCUE TIME GO NATE GO
IT SHOULD NOT BE LEGAL TO SHOOT ME WHEN I'M TRAPPED IN AN ARM-LOCK WITH SOMEONE ELSE.
SINKHOLE! Nate may have tried to rescue you / the ring, but you know what I say? GOODBYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE, MARLOWE. And hopefully also Talbot? Bleh.
NO, NEVER MIND. TALBOT, FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
Thanks for the save, Sully!
SALIM! HORSES! THANK GOODNESS!
And now awkward father-son conversation! And a ring. AND AN ELENA.
Oh! Good, she is coming, too! KEEP HER AROUND THIS TIME, NATE, FOR PETE'S SAKE. I'LL PUNCH YOU AND REFUSE TO HIT TRIANGLE TO ALLOW YOU TO DODGE IT.
OR. SOMETHING.
YAAAAAAY!
Ah, and this time the credits are more interesting. Hurray!
OH, DAMN! I missed one treasure! Better than last game, though, I only got 80-something then. I think I missed a bunch around the time you have to travel up the moving train, I remember thinking it seemed like it had been a while since I found one.
DEATH LIST:
GRAVITY: 20
RPG to the face: 11
Grenade / Launcher: 2
SMOKE EVERYWHERE: 1
Chase failure: 4
Boat graveyard shootout: 2
Boat hopping: 1
Ballroom dancing: 2
Airport Attack: 15
Plane Chase: 2
Village Ruins: 2
Lost in the storm: 5
Grenade misfire: 2 (SHAME)
STOP SHOOTING ME AND RUN: 4
City Escape Failure: 3
Cumulative (ALL TWO PARTS OF IT)
GRAVITY: 29
Failure to Flee: 7
SPIDERS: 1
Shot: 2
TOWER ON HEAD: 1
RPG to the face: 11
Grenade / Launcher: 2
SMOKE EVERYWHERE: 1
Chase failure: 4
Boat graveyard shootout: 2
Boat hopping: 1
Ballroom dancing: 2
Airport Attack: 15
Plane Chase: 2
Village Ruins: 2
Lost in the storm: 5
Grenade misfire: 2 (SHAME)
STOP SHOOTING ME AND RUN: 4
City Escape Failure: 3
TOTAL!: 96
Pretty low this time. Was it a shorter game, or did I just suck less? (Actually, it's not far off from the second game's, just, wow, it is under 100.)
Here's a quick update on my cat. My roommate's sister is having to leave her two cats here with us for a couple weeks starting tonight, and poor trauma kitty's upset all over again. I've moved all her stuff into my room and have been keeping the door shut, but she's spent a lot of time sitting around and growling. Poor thing! Hopefully she adjusts to them. Otherwise this is gonna be a bit rough. Though I... think they'll be gone in time for my weekend out of town later this month, so that'll be good, at least. Oof.
... WELL, NOW WHAT.
Anyway, here's something I've meant to link for a while! When I went to the Distant Worlds concert in Chicago last summer, I couldn't find one of the songs they played on youtube. But I have since found a copy of the live version of You're Not Alone (from FFIX), and now I have finally put it up for other people. It's pretty fantastic. I recommend listening to it even if you don't play FFIX.
Today was the last day of my surprise three-day weekend. I had plans, but I didn't go through with a single one of them, because sometimes I am pathetic like that. INSTEAD, I spent too much time playing Uncharted 3, and now, to my sorrow, it is over.
So, I had a bit of a brainwave and remembered that, a while back, the album of the day at Amazon was a mix of video game tracks, and I picked it up. Was completely unfamiliar with a fair number of the games on it, but what the hey, I'm a sucker for soundtracks. And WAIT A MINUTE so I pulled that up and it turns out I have that track from the opening screen (or at least the version from the first game, anyway). That was cool.
But now we're back to the game.
CLIMBING INTO BUILDINGS WHEE! And then jumping into guys to kill them. What was I doing, Sully? The tango. What else?
Locked is no excuse! Nate, I can almost shoot it now! If you would just be a little more willing to reach your arm through bars, we could knock that lock off and just go through the door! Come onnn, why are you making us go in the bucket.
… ha. Definitely thought that water was deeper than it turned out to be.
Why are there even other people down here, seriously. I guess they're wise to my ways.
Chloe! Cutter! You're not captured! Good job!
HEY, you got a problem with pre-paid phones, Nate? Those contracts are a complete rip-off!
Blah blah blah 400 year old secret society schemes DULL. I like my idea about Marlowe being 400 years old better, even if it does make less sense.
Hahaha find a way around them hahaha Nate why do you even bother pretending that's ever going to happen.
I found a headless lead horseman!
Tripping over pots and pans. STEALTH!
(I've no idea what they actually are, that area of the screen is too dark due to the current lighting in my room and in the game.)
Also, draping your enemies corpses in windows is the new subtle. I have no idea how I accomplished that, but it's kind of awesome.
AAAA are you kidding?? First they drop a rock on me and now we've gone out the tower completely. XD Meanwhile, the other three just stand around cursing, I guess. Geez. XD
FOR GOD'S SAKE THE NORHT STAR IS RIGHT THERE HOW DO I MAKE YOU LOOK AT IT AEHRJIKGLBDH AHA THERE is a button. JESUS. WAS THAT REALLY SO HARD?
Whoops, that hurt. A lot. SEVERAL TIMES.
And then we don't even get to use the wire. BOOO.
Augh, damn it, get back here. XD You're going to give us away!
Yeah, like that. Graaargh MELEE!!!!
"You're dead!"? Big talk for a man who just had his skull smashed into a rock wall.
… I think what we can conclude, here, is that I really suck at looking through binoculars. There's the spot, and there's the tower, and…. Apparently I am just not hitting the right spot between the two. UP AND DOWN AND UP AND DOWN AND UP AND DOWN AND UP AND DOWN AND FINALLY.
And now we're being attacked by another army. Must be nice for all these bad guys, having so freaking many minions. XD
WHOOO SULLY TO THE RESCUE!
They are way less free with the treasure-finding trophies this game. I think that is only like, the second or third I've received, and I've found plenty of items.
Also, I like the statistics thing. Even if it is a bit silly to have proof that I've killed the most number of enemies via hand-to-hand combat.
Oh, no! While we've all gone around the corner, Charlie's been shot with mind control drugs! Poor guy! Should we – I don't know, should we find a safe place to just lock him up for a while so he doesn't hurt anyone? There was that storage room earlier. He can go keep the brooms company.
Or, you know, sure. Take the balls-tripping claustrophobe into a dark cave system and seal us all in and then force him to squeeze through tiny passages. That'll definitely go over well.
VIOLENCE ENSUES. Damn it, Nate, he told you to stop touching him! Ugh. At least we've got that "press O to shove people away" feature.
… Though that doesn't help when you can't break the choke-hold.
Ah. We weren't supposed to be able to. Okay.
Sorry, Charlie (I have decided to use "Charlie" over "Cutter" for various reasons, none of which are particularly interesting), but when it comes down to it, Sully always chooses Nate. Even when Nate is an obnoxious teenager that he's never really met. I am glad he didn't have to shoot you, though!
Hahaha, Nate is going first now.
… Was that an "Of Mice and Men" reference, Charlie? I am pretty sure that was an "Of Mice and Men" reference. Sully, leave the rabbits out of things. XD
Oh, you are joking. What are these damn things, really, and how are they everywhere I am?
RAR, TORCH-THROWING. Thank goodness this thing can apparently spawn infinite bits of wood, elsewise we'd be in a bit of a mess by now, huh, Nate?
FUCK.
Ugh, at least gravity is a better death than hell spiders.
…. Aaaaand I need to throw the torches again. FUCK.
Oh my god COME ON ALREADY
You would be a sissy, too, Nate, if you knew the dangers that lurk in the water. CHARLIE AND I WILL WAIT HERE. You have fun splashing about and then just, idk, teleport us over to you, okay?
For the record, yes, I did just restart from the checkpoint just so I could try to grab that treasure, because like hell am I playing this chapter again.
THIS GLOBE-SPINNING PUZZLE IS STUPID
I don't like "just like the one in France." "Just like the one in France" means full of hell spiders.
Hahaha, can't trust Nate with it 'cause he got ambushed it, sure, but, dude, you got drugged and handed him your stuff. Give it to Chloe or throw it into a bottomless pit or something.
Aw, how cute! Mr. Evil Suit thinks Charlie's still under mind control! I do wish we hadn't had to toss our guns, though. I keep losing my weapons!
… Never mind that roughly fifty percent of my kills have been hand-to-hand!
Nooo! Jump, man! We'll catch you!
OR DON'T. FINE. GIVE THEM THE OTHER HALF THEN FALL AND BREAK YOUR LEG. I told you to give it to Chloe. Christ.
Er. Did he always have the tarot card, or did they just plant that on him?
Anyway, escorting, whoo.
OH! So that is what they meant in the last game by "running over the riot shield"! AWESOME.
BUS. Put the pedal to the metal, Sully. We gotta get! D:
I'm not trying to prove anything! I am just addicted to treasure hunting. I NEED MY FIX, CHLOE, GOD. Why can’t you just understand that, huh? HUH?!
Who are we calling? Is it your better and more awesome female counterpart? I miss her, she should show up, already.
Or maybe we'll just miraculously run into her once we get there! IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.
IT ISSSS ELENA ELENA HI! :D
Hahaha, and then they actually did hold hands.
SULLY IS NOT GETTING INVOLVED IN THIS. Wise move, sir.
You bloody can't take care of yourself, Nate. You've proven as much SEVERAL TIMES. In this game alone!
RIGHT?! If you get Sully hurt or killed, Elena and I will thrash you. DO NOT EVEN, Nate.
Man, I know you are a bit obtuse in some areas, but seriously, this is shameful.
CHILDREN IN THE BACK, NATE. Mr. Sulking Pants.
Bah. Does Nate not speak Arabic, either? YOU ARE A DISAPPOINTMENT.
I honestly do not understand how I find Elena even more awesome every time she shows up. ELENAAAA. Look at you! You are amazing! Nate is always so lost when you are not around.
… Using ladders counts as being on "best behaviour"… right? At least it is not window sills??
Pretty flowers!
Okay, never mind, now we're entering buildings.
Technically picking up silver beads is not breaking anything. LOOTING!
She knows Charlie? Huh.
NAAATE. Hahaha, Sully's little gesture and head shake.
AMBUSH! THROUGH THE WINDOW!
…NATE DID YOU JUST HIT THAT MAN WITH A FISH
DO IT AGAIN :D :D
WELL. That's certainly convenient! Thank you, Elena! Also thank you for not standing for this bullshit. DEMAND ANSWERS.
Nate, no one loves this as much as you do. You love this more than anything.
Not the right hole. Something inside, anyway, though. MORE SPIDERS, probably.
Been playing this too long, hah. I answered the (Francis) Drake wouldn't mind me drawing on his map before Nate did.
… yeah, this floor panel has a goddamn spider on it. Fuck.
…. I don't like this room. o_@ creepy.
COGS! Much better! Hooray!
Hahaha oops! There's hints and stuff. I've already placed all but the last cog, so that whole bit while I shimmied over to get the last one down was pretty silly. Why are you guys talking about this? We've already got almost everything set already! There's even a pile of reject gears over in the corner, there! The answer was already in the journal!
…. Man, I did those rooms in completely the wrong order, didn't I? XD
Oh, Elena, you are so smart. Of course this is a warning. Nate just does not care. Because he is ridiculous like that.
Heh, she's not even coming into this last room, is she? Just standing back there in the hall.
Nope, guess her curiosity got the better of her, too.
BRAZIER? NO. THAT MEANS DEFINITLY HELL SPIDERS. NO. All their nasty little skittering on their nasty little legs. Ick.
Oh, that's pretty.
Hahaha, given our track record of having our stuff taken? Yeah, I don't recommend writing it down, either.
Uuuugh, here we go again. LESS QUESTIONS, MORE RUNNING AWAY. Stay away from me, you miserably little fucks. I WILL BURN YOU.
Euuugh.
Can we be done with those now? D:
Of course he's going to keep going. Nathan Drake is unreasonable like that. You know this, Elena. But I understand why you need to say it, anyway.
(By the way, Nate, this means she is worried and wants you to stop trying to get everyone killed now. Go tell her you're sorry for being a stupid git.)
Back to the entrance. How the hell are we gonna get out of here, anyway? I wondered when we came in, but figured it'd be one of those things where we never see the entrance again 'cause there's a backdoor or something.
Oh, hell, mind control dart. This'll be fun. (See, Sully, this is why we didn't copy that constellation information down. Geez.)
whoooo woaaahhh wheeeeee
trippy.
And we're awake. Aaaand sitting with Marlowe and Talbot, ugh. Slimy little freaks. Go play with the hell spiders.
Blah blah blah, she thinks she's so clever. Sorry, lady, not buying your act.
Sweetie, you told them that while you were drugged. You know how these drugs work, you saw it with Charlie. Surely you're not surprised.
… If Victor were only in it for Victor, I cannot help but think he'd have jumped ship sometime around the beginning of that that whole El Dorado escapade. And I don't think he got a thing for helping us start the search for Shambala. (Also, uh, 20 years is a hell of a long time to put up with Nate, here, otherwise.)
BUT YOUR EFFORTS ARE CUTE. If also pathetic.
Heee! BEAUTIFUL TABLE FLIPPING!
AND THEN HE GETS AWAY arrrrgh.
… nnnnope, no, sorry, Rameses, I don't remember you at all. Too many blows to the head, I suppose.
Unless you're asking if I remember you as the last guy to deal a blow to my head, in which case, yeah, yeah, definitely remember your sucker punch.
… What? The hell are we? … YES, EXACTLY, NATE.
I have to get in the water again, don't I.
AAAA WHY IS HE MAKING NOISES because it is cold never mind, no sharks, okay.
Okay, that wasn't so bad. The water was actually pretty clear, too, so that helped.
… of course I need to get back in the water.
Ugh, whatever. Nothing's eaten me yet, maybe they're playing nice.
Ooor maybe it's just easier to jump in the lake when you're being shot at by a million guys, because I am having a hell of a time with this now that they're all dead.
Man, it's kind of embarrassing that I've killed myself more times trying to get this treasure than just about anything else has today.
Of course there's nothing working in here. Hello? Ship graveyard? Maintained by pirates? I know, you were hoping anyway. Sorry. Maybe next time.
I, for one, am not going to be surprised in the least if we learn that no one has captured Sully and that they've just been using it to try and get Nate to talk.
God, I wish this chapter would end so I could go to bed.
….. Magic.
OKAY, Chapter 13, here we go.
I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A SAY ABOUT THAT JUMP INTO THE WATER WTF GAME THAT WAS MEAN
AAAA GIANT WAVE OF DEATH
AAAA BOAT CHASE
AAAAA EXPLODING BOATS!
Oh, god, we're not going to make this jump ARE WE AAAAUGH – oh, phew, cutscene. That was thrilling!
So, d'you think they knew exactly what they were getting themselves into when they threatened Sully like that?
WHY ARE THE LIFEBOATS TRYING TO KILL ME?
Nate, how the hell are we going to survive this.
Pulling pins out of enemy's grenades and shoving them away to explode is one of my favourite things. It's evil. I know. I know. But my god it is cathartic.
Ha! Even with no one else around, he cannot help but play Marco Polo in the pool. Poor Nate and his peculiar compulsions.
Haaaaa, called it. There's no one there! What a surprise! Oh, Nate. If you'd had a few hours of proper sleep and a few less concussions, you'd probably have figured that out, too.
I DISLIKE THE NAME OF THIS CHAPTER.
STOP SHOOTING ME. LISTEN TO THE MAN YOU ARE TRYING TO KILL. Let's all run the hell away, yes??
Nate, did you get just in a goddamned elevator. If I weren't so busy trying to not drown, I would throw your ass off a cliff for that.
MOTHER OF GOD, WHY
I have been profusely swearing for the last, what was that, 15 minutes? More? HOWEVER LONG since the boat started sinking. JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW. CHRIST. WHAT THE FUCKING HELL.
Goddamned vulture. Piss off.
Nate, watching you move is making me tired. Find somewhere to hole up and nap for a few hours, okay?
Yes, Elena probably has a place for you to get some rest! GOOD PLAN.
Elena, just push him over, he'll probably fall asleep as soon as his head hits the floor, anyway. Or, yes, inform him of your plan and then tell him to pass out for a while. That's probably better.
…Oh, honey, I hope you didn't try to sleep like that. Your arm is going to be so numb. (Of course, she's probably at least a little bit more rested than Nonstop Nate is, so that's something, anyway.)
Well, if there's one thing good about this massive shoot out in the airfield, it's that something other than that one treasure a few chapters back has the highest deaths count now.
Ah. Apparently I was making it to the last wave before getting myself killed. That's kind of annoying.
Elena, pick up this gun! Please?
Fine, don't. :<
ELENA DOESN'T LISTEN TO YOU, NATE. SHE KNOWS YOU ARE USELESS. Also, don't think I missed that vehicle in the background. She's gonna go hotwire it and save your sorry hide, don't think she won't.
Ah, you even point it out to her! Because yes she has ever stayed behind when you've told her to.
See Nate. See Nate run. Run, Nate, run. Yeah. You chase that plane.
Or, you know. Get shot. Probably about as effective, really.
And here is Elena, saving the day again!
Oh, Nate. Someone didn't think loosening all that stuff up through.
AND NOW EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE.
AND WE'RE GOING DOWN.
AGAIN.
I am here the entire time and yet I still am not entirely sure how all of these things happen to you, Nate. XD
I mean, yeah, the cover kind of gives away that there's gonna be a huge crash in the desert, but geeeeez. XD
And now we're stuck out here with no supplies. Eek!
WEAPON GET
Nate, there's no way there's gonna be water in that well.
You're probably talking to whoever it is you're usually talking to. Yourself? No one? The fourth wall? Hey! Hallucinations! All right!
What's with the narration, man, can't I die of dehydration and exposure in peace? It is really painful to look at the screen right now, though, ugh. Naaaate, this sucks. :(
I am impressed, really. I'd probably have given up and died already. But aaaugh Nate. =( THIS IS TERRIBLE AND HOPELESS AND I AM DISORIENTED AND HELPLESS and all I can do is to make him keep walking even though that is hard and useless thus far and it suuuucks.
BUILDINGS?!
And another empty well.
Nooo, even worse, it has undrinkable water in it. Oooh.
oh my god you are joking really I have to fight more guys?
…wait a second
DOES THIS MEAN WATER?? NATHAN DRAKE AND THE IMPROBABLY SECOND WIND.
Looking for the plane, Nate? Or did you just stumble into right where you need to be again?
He is finally at his wit's end. NO MORE. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. I CAN'T DO THIS.
And then the cavalry arrived! I am not even gonna question it.
Wooo, allies! Allies against the hell spiders!
What? I wasn't gonna shoot. That'd be really dumb. (Nate is really dumb. Never mind, I understand the warning, now.)
I LOVE MY HORSE.
… even if I did up stranded on a vehicle once when the whole lot of them took off without me. Come baaaack!
And we've got Sully back! Yay!
… tsk. Of course we got lost in the sand storm (… not too much of one, thankfully. Probably a magical one to keep people from finding the city). And there go the horses.
Don't rush me, Sully! I'm busy engaging in gravity-defying acts of lunacy!
It looks like there's a ladder on the edge of that door. Hopefully this is a safe assumption!
Woohoo! I'm still alive!
DANCING STATUES
… flowers? Oh! A fountain! … NATE DON'T DRINK THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WTF IS GOING ON WITH THIS FUCKING CITY. Or, er. Nothing seems to have happened, okay. Never mind?
…. And now there's an eclipse, what…?
Shi – Sully? Oh HELL
RAGE!
WTF FIRE?! THESE MEN ARE ON FIRE.
Oh, oh, right. Djinn-relating somehow? Why not. We've had zombies and blue sasquatch costume-wearing ancient guys.
So, anyway, Sully's going to get better, right? RIGHT?! If Marlowe can be 400 years old (… not that we have any proof of that, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it) and Talbot can take bullets straight in the chest like it's nothing, Sully can totally get better.
SPEAKING OF THAT JERK. TALBOT! STOP DRUGGING ME! AARGH!!
I am not convinced these hell spiders aren't just hallucinations, but that is not going to stop me from running the fuck away from them.
AGE REGRESSION
I REFUSE TO SHOOT SULLY, EVEN A HALLUCINATION OF HIM.
thE FloOooOOr iSs mOoViiiInNGgGggg aAaaAuUuGhhh
Naaate, nooo. :( Sully hallucinations are MEAN!
Also this pool is kinda freaking me out. WHY IS MY REFLECTION OVER THERE? OH GOD NOW IT'S ATTACKING ME.
Ugh. At least that drug trip is over. (… OR IS IT?)
SULLY'S BAAAAACK (maybe?) YAY!
He blames the fountain. WHAT DID I TELL YOU, NATE. Unless this is just more hallucination oh god I don't know what's what anymore. Well done, game.
Who cares how it's still standing? It undoubtedly won't be by the time we're through. (Dang, is it pretty, though.)
They always have us outnumbered.
Maybe-Hopefully-Sully and I are splitting up, nooo! Now I can't keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't disappear. I GUESS HE JUST HAS TO BE REAL, THEN. Because this is Uncharted and not Silent Hill, I just forget that sometimes, I guess. (I WAS SO WORRIED! I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE REAL.)
AAAA NO YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DIE NOW THAT WE'VE DETERMINED YOU TO BE REAL AND ALIVE WATER RESCUE TIME GO NATE GO
IT SHOULD NOT BE LEGAL TO SHOOT ME WHEN I'M TRAPPED IN AN ARM-LOCK WITH SOMEONE ELSE.
SINKHOLE! Nate may have tried to rescue you / the ring, but you know what I say? GOODBYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE, MARLOWE. And hopefully also Talbot? Bleh.
NO, NEVER MIND. TALBOT, FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
Thanks for the save, Sully!
SALIM! HORSES! THANK GOODNESS!
And now awkward father-son conversation! And a ring. AND AN ELENA.
Oh! Good, she is coming, too! KEEP HER AROUND THIS TIME, NATE, FOR PETE'S SAKE. I'LL PUNCH YOU AND REFUSE TO HIT TRIANGLE TO ALLOW YOU TO DODGE IT.
OR. SOMETHING.
YAAAAAAY!
Ah, and this time the credits are more interesting. Hurray!
OH, DAMN! I missed one treasure! Better than last game, though, I only got 80-something then. I think I missed a bunch around the time you have to travel up the moving train, I remember thinking it seemed like it had been a while since I found one.
DEATH LIST:
GRAVITY: 20
RPG to the face: 11
Grenade / Launcher: 2
SMOKE EVERYWHERE: 1
Chase failure: 4
Boat graveyard shootout: 2
Boat hopping: 1
Ballroom dancing: 2
Airport Attack: 15
Plane Chase: 2
Village Ruins: 2
Lost in the storm: 5
Grenade misfire: 2 (SHAME)
STOP SHOOTING ME AND RUN: 4
City Escape Failure: 3
Cumulative (ALL TWO PARTS OF IT)
GRAVITY: 29
Failure to Flee: 7
SPIDERS: 1
Shot: 2
TOWER ON HEAD: 1
RPG to the face: 11
Grenade / Launcher: 2
SMOKE EVERYWHERE: 1
Chase failure: 4
Boat graveyard shootout: 2
Boat hopping: 1
Ballroom dancing: 2
Airport Attack: 15
Plane Chase: 2
Village Ruins: 2
Lost in the storm: 5
Grenade misfire: 2 (SHAME)
STOP SHOOTING ME AND RUN: 4
City Escape Failure: 3
TOTAL!: 96
Pretty low this time. Was it a shorter game, or did I just suck less? (Actually, it's not far off from the second game's, just, wow, it is under 100.)
Here's a quick update on my cat. My roommate's sister is having to leave her two cats here with us for a couple weeks starting tonight, and poor trauma kitty's upset all over again. I've moved all her stuff into my room and have been keeping the door shut, but she's spent a lot of time sitting around and growling. Poor thing! Hopefully she adjusts to them. Otherwise this is gonna be a bit rough. Though I... think they'll be gone in time for my weekend out of town later this month, so that'll be good, at least. Oof.
... WELL, NOW WHAT.
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(Fear death by water? No, fear death by what is in the damn water!) Just an artistic choice or not, it was certainly very fitting for the circumstance.
The flaming skeleton heads were AWESOME, oh, man! Once I got past the initial WHAT THE HELL reaction, I actually started looking forward to fighting more of them. YEAH! HEADS ON FIRE!
(They are rather sadistic jerks. It wouldn't surprise me if the hell spiders were in there only to make us scream.)
Also I started Skyrim yesterday and was sort of not seeing what the big deal is, but then I glanced at the time and noticed I'd been playing nonstop for six hours without realising it, so, er. Oh, dear. (Just... one... more... dungeon...!)
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Naturally, on learning about the Tarot motif I was struck with a feverish need to assign each Uncharted character to a Major Arcana. Nate makes an excellent case for being The Fool (beginnings, luck, infinite potential, tricksters and idiots and those that combine the two); Elena's Strength (self-control overcoming brute force, gentleness, courage, virtue); Chloe could be represented by The Lovers (different meanings depending on the deck, but the two most famous are the need for decisions and romantic relationships); Charlie could be The Hanged Man (sacrifices for knowledge, traps, between-places) and Sully's probably The Wheel of Fortune (opportunities, the fickle nature of luck, windfalls and disasters in equal measure). I learned a little about it from New Vegas, which has some clever and rather more subtle Tarot symbolism just as part of the general gambling overtones ('cause...Vegas).
Since I'd chosen Argonian as my race, when I was allowed to go running off into Skyrim at large I promptly dove into the first river I saw and swam around admiring waterfalls and mountains and ice floes and stuff going "gawsh it's so pretty :D". I bought the game at least a month ago and I only bothered to finish the main quest two days ago, so...yeah. It is a time sink.