Decay Part 3 (360): But before passing out, I hit up the third part in the best thing currently going on in the Xbox Live Indie gaming vein. Part 3 did not disappoint, and it's all starting to come together. Spoilers, of course - but identities are finally getting verified and clarified.
The world you're in is a horrible spirit world full of death, a place where Oswald the White - the insanely creepy persona mysteriously hinted at in the first game. Your wife and daughter are trapped there, communicating where they can, your daughter through the doll, a gift from her grandfather.
Now, the first game implied you had just woken up from your own suicide, and the second game ends with cliffhanger, a spirit telling you *they* are the person you thought yourself to be. It turns out you, your wife and your daughter were victims of Oswald, who only staged the car accident to cover up his crimes. Your father, aware of this in a way not yet explained, committed suicide to allow you to utilize his physical body in Oswald's world.
The game ends with a creepy visage of Oswald - in the flesh this time, not just some ghostly visage like briefly seen.
From a technical standpoint, my biggest complain with Part 3 is that it utilized locations mostly taken from Part 2. Whereas 2 was bigger, longer and entirely new, 3 relied heavily on re-using existing areas, so it lost a little bit in regards to the exploration aspect. But it made up for it with a much more compelling narrative and reveal than either of the previous two parts!
Stoked for Part 4!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did the Argent Tournament and some Icecrown missions, archaeology and mining, and made some new armor for myself - a neat feeling! Organized the inventory with Cinnaris and Cutpurse, as well and take care of old mail across all my characters. Did some Vashj'ir missions till I learned I couldn't use the underwater mount outside of that zone, hit up Uldum with Tam and did some neat Indiana Jones-referencing quests, and then rolled out to check out some wrasslin' and sleep!
Friday, January 7, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
January 6th, 2010
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Nothing but ringing the bells for free gifts, heheh. Not that I don't have a million samurai helmets already, and that I don't have the skills to make the white and black ones. Oh well!
World of Warcraft (PC): Started the day by doing some mining in Hyjal, then hit up the Argent Tournament area to be ready after Smackdown. After the show, did my Tournament dailies and finished up Gnomeregan, and made my biggest sale ever at 240 gold for a Hardened Obsidium Helm. Finished up a couple quests in the Icecrown/Crystalsong area, bought some glyphs, then moved on to assist Tam in Hyjal quests.
We basically took care of them all, everything from freeing godlike creatures to pretending to be Twilight to eventually defeating them and the boss in a big ol', rather neat fight. Some of the quests were odd, like chucking scared bear cubs from a tree onto a trampoline below, some where annoying, like having to kill Twilight failures, some were cute, like leading around baby turtles (mine died >_<), and some were neat, like one that involved giving a speech by choosing responses based on crowd reaction. There was also dressing up as ogres and flying dragons, so it was pretty varied.
As a side note, Twilight Augurs look cool, and they remind me of Theresa from Fable, particularly the first one, as they wear a bandannas over her eyes.
From there, headed back north, did the new day's Argent dailies (this time for Darnassus), and called it a night, finally!
World of Warcraft (PC): Started the day by doing some mining in Hyjal, then hit up the Argent Tournament area to be ready after Smackdown. After the show, did my Tournament dailies and finished up Gnomeregan, and made my biggest sale ever at 240 gold for a Hardened Obsidium Helm. Finished up a couple quests in the Icecrown/Crystalsong area, bought some glyphs, then moved on to assist Tam in Hyjal quests.
We basically took care of them all, everything from freeing godlike creatures to pretending to be Twilight to eventually defeating them and the boss in a big ol', rather neat fight. Some of the quests were odd, like chucking scared bear cubs from a tree onto a trampoline below, some where annoying, like having to kill Twilight failures, some were cute, like leading around baby turtles (mine died >_<), and some were neat, like one that involved giving a speech by choosing responses based on crowd reaction. There was also dressing up as ogres and flying dragons, so it was pretty varied.
As a side note, Twilight Augurs look cool, and they remind me of Theresa from Fable, particularly the first one, as they wear a bandannas over her eyes.
From there, headed back north, did the new day's Argent dailies (this time for Darnassus), and called it a night, finally!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
January 5th, 2011
Final Fantasy XI (PC): Meanwhile, I think around the Joust-game time, I was multitasking, and somewhat playing XI! Naturally, nothing good happened this Besieged, simply because I was there, I'm sure. Medusa wasn't defeated, nor did we lose the Astral Candescence, two things I'd like to see (particularly the latter, as I've witnessed the former from far). Ah well!
Hopefully I can get more into XI again soon!
Phantasy Star Universe (360): Just did a quick, partial run of the first Icebreak mission! Can't get myself motivated.
Sonic 3 & Knuckles (360): Just played briefly as Sonic into the first couple stages. The graphics look rough at this resolution, but still a fun game! And I looooove the music!
World of Warcraft (PC): Didn't get started till late, and got involved in some ill-fated PvP when a buncha Horde guys were in Goldshire, heheh. Still, we ran them off, even if I was a casualty when all is said and done!
From there, it was back to Hyjal, and after a few quests I was forced to do "A Bird in Hand", one I was trying to avoid. In it, you capture a harpy leader, and are given the option to torture it despite it freely giving you information, and afterward, you can choose to kill or free her. My buddy disgustingly killed her yesterday (even after lamenting things like GTA and an earlier torture quest!), and even worse, it counted for me too, so I had abandoned the quest.
We do enough shady stuff in WoW as it is, I'm NOT gonna straight kill a defenseless person in cold blood. Worse yet, the previous torture quest, where you did NOT kill the guy at the end, caused all sorts of controversy, and nobody's batting an eye at this one. Heck, some people who even refused to do the first torture one, where the guy didn't die, KILLED the victim this time around. Fucked up morals there. <_<
Anyway! From there we went back after Twilight, and did a horrible mission that was an homage to the classic game, Joust. But the mission was painful, and rough for Tam, but at least we got lil mini Jouster companions!
From there, we entered a five man raid, and actually beat the first of two bosses. Took a few tries, but once we had a strategery down, we two-manned it, and I'll post the video to YouTube later.
Before we made our escape, Tam insisted on fighting a random mob, so I let her duke it out, and a took a while, but I certainly wasn't going to help if she wanted to play around and attack mobs who weren't aggroing. x_x
I ended the night doing a bunch of elementium farming. Slowly but surely I'm getting smithing close to cap!
Hopefully I can get more into XI again soon!
Phantasy Star Universe (360): Just did a quick, partial run of the first Icebreak mission! Can't get myself motivated.
Sonic 3 & Knuckles (360): Just played briefly as Sonic into the first couple stages. The graphics look rough at this resolution, but still a fun game! And I looooove the music!
World of Warcraft (PC): Didn't get started till late, and got involved in some ill-fated PvP when a buncha Horde guys were in Goldshire, heheh. Still, we ran them off, even if I was a casualty when all is said and done!
From there, it was back to Hyjal, and after a few quests I was forced to do "A Bird in Hand", one I was trying to avoid. In it, you capture a harpy leader, and are given the option to torture it despite it freely giving you information, and afterward, you can choose to kill or free her. My buddy disgustingly killed her yesterday (even after lamenting things like GTA and an earlier torture quest!), and even worse, it counted for me too, so I had abandoned the quest.
We do enough shady stuff in WoW as it is, I'm NOT gonna straight kill a defenseless person in cold blood. Worse yet, the previous torture quest, where you did NOT kill the guy at the end, caused all sorts of controversy, and nobody's batting an eye at this one. Heck, some people who even refused to do the first torture one, where the guy didn't die, KILLED the victim this time around. Fucked up morals there. <_<
Anyway! From there we went back after Twilight, and did a horrible mission that was an homage to the classic game, Joust. But the mission was painful, and rough for Tam, but at least we got lil mini Jouster companions!
From there, we entered a five man raid, and actually beat the first of two bosses. Took a few tries, but once we had a strategery down, we two-manned it, and I'll post the video to YouTube later.
Before we made our escape, Tam insisted on fighting a random mob, so I let her duke it out, and a took a while, but I certainly wasn't going to help if she wanted to play around and attack mobs who weren't aggroing. x_x
I ended the night doing a bunch of elementium farming. Slowly but surely I'm getting smithing close to cap!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
January 4th, 2011
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Um, rang the New Year's bells for gifts!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did some more exploring, including going through the insect-infested Silithus zone populated by Twilight and Cenarion, the former of which is forceably a bad faction, and the latter of which is one of those not-really-good-hypocritical-type "good guy" factions, yay.
One thing I really dislike about how is how you can only "At War" certain factions. I think the whole Cenarion thing is really shady from the start, from questionable rationale for wholesale racial slaughter ("They're hurting the environment. Somehow we have the technology to know this, and we're also sure it's worth killing hundreds and thousands of people to save this little piece of land from not being what we consider an ideal ecosystem.") to supporting outright eco-terrorism (D.E.H.T.A., a violent terroristic PETA parody that actually scores you rewards and positive reputation for assisting).
And yet, I can't battle with more than half of the Cenarion group, because the one mentioned above you can't "At War" with and attack. So eventually, over time, just by playing I'll gain reputation with them to the point where I'm revered amongst nature-first humanoids-second extremists.
Anyway, we started duoing the Hyjal missions, and they're not bad. Twilight, but at least the faction we're working for I don't dislike. I had brilliant moments, like destroying a camp on foot when the quest name was specifically, "Flames from Above," but that's nothing new. Also lolled at the Twilight guys wearing armor that exposed their abs and sides, remarking that Tam and Twilight must shop at the same place!
Went through some caves with some non-aggro Twilight who of course got tore up till I made it a point to run far ahead, leaving Tam solo. We ended up freeing some slaves, but they and their captor had a crazy fast respawn time, making it hard to get all the drops we needed from them before getting attacked (eventually we just split duties between drops and fighting).
Kristoff Manheim was funny.
I was solo for a bit after that, so I finished up exploring everything I needed for the "Explorer" title, outside of Deepholm, which I can't yet access, then did my Argent Tournament things before returning to Hyjal to do some mining. I had a close call with three Twilight Stormcallers at one point, and escaped without bloodshed... only for Tavia to return, and me realize they were next on our victims list. x_x
We did some dungeons and questing, and eventually got to a "harpy" quest. We took down the first few, then ended up capturing their leader, where we were given the option to "soften her up" or just ask for info. She gave the info freely. And then Tam, the person who wouldn't do a torture quest earlier, had the woman killed instead of freed, despite the option to allow her to go.
So I abandoned since it counted for me, and was pretty displeased with how the whole thing went down. I did some mining, did some archaeology, changed his chair to make Cinnaris more Cinnarisy, and got him to 82, so I finally hit Deepholm and got my first title. "Cinnaris the Explorer" in the house!
I did play around with some WoW and XI model viewers and make a scene of Tam beating up a buncha mobs, heheh, and took a screen from Zangarmarsh, but ended up not using it and making a quicky background. Quite a productive, if at times highly frustrating, day!
World of Warcraft (PC): Did some more exploring, including going through the insect-infested Silithus zone populated by Twilight and Cenarion, the former of which is forceably a bad faction, and the latter of which is one of those not-really-good-hypocritical-type "good guy" factions, yay.
One thing I really dislike about how is how you can only "At War" certain factions. I think the whole Cenarion thing is really shady from the start, from questionable rationale for wholesale racial slaughter ("They're hurting the environment. Somehow we have the technology to know this, and we're also sure it's worth killing hundreds and thousands of people to save this little piece of land from not being what we consider an ideal ecosystem.") to supporting outright eco-terrorism (D.E.H.T.A., a violent terroristic PETA parody that actually scores you rewards and positive reputation for assisting).
And yet, I can't battle with more than half of the Cenarion group, because the one mentioned above you can't "At War" with and attack. So eventually, over time, just by playing I'll gain reputation with them to the point where I'm revered amongst nature-first humanoids-second extremists.
Anyway, we started duoing the Hyjal missions, and they're not bad. Twilight, but at least the faction we're working for I don't dislike. I had brilliant moments, like destroying a camp on foot when the quest name was specifically, "Flames from Above," but that's nothing new. Also lolled at the Twilight guys wearing armor that exposed their abs and sides, remarking that Tam and Twilight must shop at the same place!
Went through some caves with some non-aggro Twilight who of course got tore up till I made it a point to run far ahead, leaving Tam solo. We ended up freeing some slaves, but they and their captor had a crazy fast respawn time, making it hard to get all the drops we needed from them before getting attacked (eventually we just split duties between drops and fighting).
Kristoff Manheim was funny.
I was solo for a bit after that, so I finished up exploring everything I needed for the "Explorer" title, outside of Deepholm, which I can't yet access, then did my Argent Tournament things before returning to Hyjal to do some mining. I had a close call with three Twilight Stormcallers at one point, and escaped without bloodshed... only for Tavia to return, and me realize they were next on our victims list. x_x
We did some dungeons and questing, and eventually got to a "harpy" quest. We took down the first few, then ended up capturing their leader, where we were given the option to "soften her up" or just ask for info. She gave the info freely. And then Tam, the person who wouldn't do a torture quest earlier, had the woman killed instead of freed, despite the option to allow her to go.
So I abandoned since it counted for me, and was pretty displeased with how the whole thing went down. I did some mining, did some archaeology, changed his chair to make Cinnaris more Cinnarisy, and got him to 82, so I finally hit Deepholm and got my first title. "Cinnaris the Explorer" in the house!
I did play around with some WoW and XI model viewers and make a scene of Tam beating up a buncha mobs, heheh, and took a screen from Zangarmarsh, but ended up not using it and making a quicky background. Quite a productive, if at times highly frustrating, day!
Monday, January 3, 2011
January 3rd, 2011
Aaaalmost did some XI, but had to pass up the offer due to current events!
World of Warcraft (PC): Started off with a little mining in the Outlands after yelling at some Alliance player for picking on Shahandana, and then I finished off my Exploring the Outlands achievement. Stopped by Stormwind to do do some smelting and smithing, rudely keeping Tam waiting. Shortly afterward, we did the Argent Tournament dailies, then hit up the nearby Argent Crusade outpost and... got Level 80! From there, Tam had to roll out, so it was back to solo.
After finishing up my Exploring Northrend achievement, I basically broke my bank, dipping below a single gold piece, but Blacksmithing is now up in the 460 range! After getting the last few metals I needed, which included a brief, accidental trip to Kalimdor and then the intended return to Northrend, I did go through the brief openings to Vashj'ir and Hyjal, just because I know T's main character already has them open.
From there, I ran far to the north to handle my exploring achievements up there, leaving only a few places in Kalimdor and the Cataclysm areas to uncover on my way to unlocking "the Explorer" title!
World of Warcraft (PC): Started off with a little mining in the Outlands after yelling at some Alliance player for picking on Shahandana, and then I finished off my Exploring the Outlands achievement. Stopped by Stormwind to do do some smelting and smithing, rudely keeping Tam waiting. Shortly afterward, we did the Argent Tournament dailies, then hit up the nearby Argent Crusade outpost and... got Level 80! From there, Tam had to roll out, so it was back to solo.
After finishing up my Exploring Northrend achievement, I basically broke my bank, dipping below a single gold piece, but Blacksmithing is now up in the 460 range! After getting the last few metals I needed, which included a brief, accidental trip to Kalimdor and then the intended return to Northrend, I did go through the brief openings to Vashj'ir and Hyjal, just because I know T's main character already has them open.
From there, I ran far to the north to handle my exploring achievements up there, leaving only a few places in Kalimdor and the Cataclysm areas to uncover on my way to unlocking "the Explorer" title!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
January 2nd, 2011
World of Warcraft (PC): Not much, just mined briefly and did the Argent dailies! Late, and I gotta get to bed!
Saturday, January 1, 2011
January 1st, 2011
So I slept most of the New Year's, but I totally stayed up and gamed anyway! Naturally!
Resolutions, less gaming, but more quality! Huge console backlog!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Just rang the bells on my characters to get the gift timers started.
World of Warcraft (PC): Did a chunk of blacksmithing, knocked out some Argent dailies (cultists again, argh!), and then did some mining... only to realize Fel Iron Ore and above requires TWO ores to smelt a single bar. Blarg! Gonna take a little longer than I hoped to get blacksmithing done, and I'm almost outta cash! So it goes!
Resolutions, less gaming, but more quality! Huge console backlog!
Final Fantasy XIV (PC): Just rang the bells on my characters to get the gift timers started.
World of Warcraft (PC): Did a chunk of blacksmithing, knocked out some Argent dailies (cultists again, argh!), and then did some mining... only to realize Fel Iron Ore and above requires TWO ores to smelt a single bar. Blarg! Gonna take a little longer than I hoped to get blacksmithing done, and I'm almost outta cash! So it goes!
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