Gaming Dialog

Consider this more of a narrative review of some form.

Legend of Grimrock.

To start I vied after this game after playing about 40 hours of Class of Heroes and looking for something along a similar vein. This harks back to some old school RPGs and was a must buy courtesy of a very generous steam sale.

Hour one begins with the standard fair following prompts and creating a party. As I'm super creative after a long day of work, I had a human warrior named Leader, a minotaur warrior named MooMoo, a Lizard rogue named Lizzie and an insectoid mage named....Buzz? Splat? Memory fails me in the current moment. Being the stereotypical guy reading of the instructions/tutorial neglected. After about five minutes tutorial was referenced as necessary to figure out how to attack the giant slug like thing that appeared before me. Party of four (eaten? melted by mutant snail slime?) to death.

Restart.

First puzzle of the Dungeon.

.Spoiler.

Confusing and frustrating as hell without clear guidance.

After backtracking through previous progress x4, guide consulted, solution for puzzle was actually in the vicinity of initial puzzle rather than in the immediate space in which said party existed. Frustration abated.

File saved. Off to play Motorstorm RC on Vita.

Motorstorm RC

After mandatory tutorial (can't skip unfortunately) races broken down into micro segments in which primary focus was to earn 3 medals per race, per map. Most of the races I played consisted of various types of RC (That's remote controlled) cars that varied in size, shape and color, but little in the way the cars felt to handle. 24 medals down, 3 achieve-no- trophies later... I got to a particular map involving passing a set number of opponent cars in 40 seconds. Obscured vision, opponents getting in the way and ice resulted in much user frustration with a potential for crying. Doctor recommended prescription: Time away from racing, possibly watching Lydia writhe in pain from walking into the same trap over and over again. Plus beer. But that's downstairs and I'm in no mood for the spiral staircase of doom.

Skyrim

Steam booted up to play Skyrim, but Lego Batman 2 caught attention.

Lego Batman 2

Running Robin in the Batmobile over and over again is hilarious.

Half an hour wasted, nothing accomplished to progress through game/whoring of achievements(steam version).

Skyrim

After wasting time, I booted up Rim of the Sky along with a few great mods that need to be mentioned. First and foremost is the Master of Time and Space which allows the user, Dovahkiin <----nerd speak for main character....in other words, you. Or me? Us... but not at the same time. I might add that upon release of Skyrim (11.11.11) any parents who named their child Dovahkiin (okay, okay it really means "Dragon Born") won free games from BethSoft for life. I think. Anywho, Master of time and space allows the main character to slow down time to an incredible degree while retaining the ability to move at standard speed. The other mod, involves a bow that upon firing an arrow, the enemy (BAD BAD GUYS!) go flying. In a sense, kind of like Icarus trying to reach the sun. Or that whole, what goes up must come down sciencey thing. If you haven't noticed, I digress just a bit. For those of you that haven't put it together, slowing down time and firing a dozen and a half arrow at a particular bystander (Riften thief anyone?) watching the arrows creep closer, and then toggle speed to real time makes for quite the entertaining exit for the thief. Perhaps he landed on the Death Star moon mod. (That's no moon....)

Alas, bed calls for no particular reason. More to come? We shall see.