Gaming, traveling, and other stuff
最近通了3ds上的mario，总的来说相当失望。个人认为是敷衍之作，跟ds和wii上的mario正统作品比相差太远。
手感应该说还是保持了水准，3d操控方式，视角转换也没什么问题。致命的缺点就是几乎毫无新意。依靠3d特性做出来的机关都相当无聊，关卡里面视觉效果是更加3d了，但玩法没什么变化，感觉就是在玩一个有3d效果的旧mario。而且由于3d的原因画面还没有以前的作品亮丽，我感觉是得不偿失。
再说游戏内容，整个游戏几乎只有狸猫和乌龟两个变身，远逊于ds的巨人和小人变身的乐趣。马银里面奇思妙想的关卡和boss战也不见踪影。更不要提wii上的多人配合。3ds上第一作正统mario只有这个水平实在让人失望。我要考虑把3ds出掉了。
Defeated Gears of War 3 last weekend at normal difficulty. As always, not a very long shooting game. Walkthrough length was about 15 hours. This one put an end to the trilogy story. Frankly, I can hardly remember the story now. This is just a game to shoot monsters, saw them, and watch blood on screen.
The big difference this time, for me, is I finally can fight online… Played versus mode a few times and found I’m not a big fan of CS style games. My kill/death ratio is between 1/5 to 1/10. This is not fun. Then I moved to the Horde mode and really enjoyed it. That’s a mode that players cooperate to survive waves of enemies. Though my best score was only about 20 waves (there are 50 waves in total), it’s much more fun to kill monsters together with ppl.
The best part of GeoW2 in my mind was playing as a sniper. It was super enjoyable to watch monster head blast in the scope sight and hear the crack sound. In GeoW3 enemies are a little bit more clever, so it’s not that easy to snipe them anymore. Assault rifles became obviously strong and I had to use them a lot, which is kinda boring.
Another weird part of GeoW3 is most enemies in ACT 1 are locust. Their blood is golden! For a long time I thought there was some violence setting and googled how to disable it. Until I finally saw some red blood from beast enemies…
Race: Khajit, Level: 50, Main Combat style: archery/sneak, Game time: ~150 hours.
It’s no doubt Game of The Year for 2011. Many many awards. And the “arrow in the knee” meme was a quite unique phenomenon for a video game. I guess most ppl who used this joke never played Skyrim, lol.
This was actually my first time to finish a “sandbox” style game. This game style tries to give player as much freedom as possible. Skyrim did give you FREEDOM. There are 9 cities in the world map, except the first one (Whiterun), you can visit the other 8 cities in any order, any time! And the huge huge world map is full of villages, caves, ruins and tasks. There is an achievement for “discover 100 places” but it was done in a pretty early stage. I guess the total number of places may be around 300! And sometimes I got over 20 open tasks and 4 to 5 story lines going on simultaneously. I’ve never played a game with so many free choices. If you play it in a mood of “finishing tasks quickly”, it would make you anxious and a little bit uncomfortable. But once you stop rushing and begin to wander on this huge land, you will immediately feel the pleasure. Every character has his/her background and small story; numerous and various animals running around; new tasks come in and open tasks are closed like a flow; you’re the hero and resolve every difficulty on this cold continent. It’s a ridiculously addictive experience.
Don’t be too critical to its fighting style. It’s shooting(archery) can’t compare with real shooting game, and its action combat is far from a real action game too. The spirit here is possibilities. Many skills can be combined in any way. Lots of interesting combat style can be created.
The last achievement I got was “Reach level 50”. All other achievements were done at level 43. Then I tried to level fast, by pickpocketing every person I met, enchanting lots of junk weapons, spending money to train skills, etc. The only missable achievement is “Get 15 daedric artifacts”, because you need to choose the right option in every daedric quest. Just remember to follow those evil god’s instructions then you will get all those artifacts.
Btw, I’m going to trade in the game (XBox version) this week. Let me know if anyone wants to buy it…
其实今年最主要的变化还是翻墙。临走的时候卖掉了电视，PS3和XO。来了这边之后买了电视，XO + Kinect和几个游戏，老老实实玩正版好了。
这几天XBox和电视陆续到位了，于是又可以继续玩主机。
Kinect比想象中的好玩，虽然准确度并不是特别特别高，有时候也会感觉稍有一点迟滞。不过也是可以通过游戏设计来掩盖的问题。多人同乐的效果还是很不错的，跟Wii刚出来那会儿的感觉差不多。需要的空间确实挺大，至少到电视得有2~3米的距离，左右还得能站开两个人。推荐的方法就是玩的时候把电视前面的家具搬开……
Dark Souls名不虚传，太自虐了，我就没见过这么虐玩家的游戏。第一个boss在我还没看到它的时候跳起来一棒就把我拍死了。重试了n次终于过了这个之后，我攻击了一个NPC，然后悲剧开始了。这个NPC疯狂的追着我打，我跑出去好远他还追得上来，然后两刀就能把我剁掉。我死了之后一重生他还继续打！在被他砍死十几次之后我愤而退出游戏，读盘再进来他居然还追着打！无奈之下我只好重新开了个存档，然后就小心翼翼的不敢碰任何NPC了。然后在某个地方被一个拖着棒子的小兵两下拍死，回到了一个巨远的存盘点，ORZ。。。然后这游戏不管怎样都不给你暂停，无论是开游戏菜单还是XBox菜单……我决定等想自虐的时候再继续玩这个。
Skyrim就是今年大大大受好评的游戏，也是中箭体的源头。我选了猫族（其实是豹族啦）开始玩了一会儿，发现确实很好玩的样子，潜行+射箭很爽……嗯，虽然之前的Fallout和Vegas什么的我都由于各种原因没玩下去，不过这次的Skyrim看起来是会玩一阵子了。