While casually browsing what I like to refer to as the ‘internets’, I was reminded of two things that I prefer to not be reminded of.
The first of which was GTA4. Dear god, April 29 is so close, yet so far away. I’ve been avoiding coverage as best as I can, I know that Rockstar is gonna pull it through and set another bar for open-world games.
The other was Starcraft II, which will be released god-knows-when (fingers crossed by year’s end!). And it reminded me of how much I suck at RTS; I think I’ve figured out why, I truly have no idea how to micromanage nor multitask the multitude of different things that are can be happening at any given part of the battlefield at any given time.
It wasn’t for a lack of trying either. This past weekend I started up Company of Heroes and Command and Conquer 3. And wow, these are two completely different animals; Company of Heroes is very tactical and strategy based rather than a strict rock, paper, scissors balance. Which is pretty much the opposite of what Command and Conquer 3 is — don’t get me wrong, it still requires strategy for high-level play, but in comparison to CoH, it’s much more attrition based.
So yeah, I started the campaign’s for both games in hopes of getting a bearing on things. And I’m not gonna laugh at the FMV sequences in C&C3, not because I like them, but because they’ve gotten enough of that.
The whole bearing-grabbing thing didn’t work out so well. I got stuck about 4-5 missions in for both games. I’m gonna try really hard to not get discouraged and hope that something in my head will ‘click’ and I’ll magically become a decent RTS player. Mostly since it’s really easy to get discouraged, since a 45 minute to multi-hour long games will be rendered useless in a matter of seconds. Naturally you’ll think “Well, what the fuck? What was I doing all that time?” I’ll try and tough it out, though.
Following up from last week, I think I’m nearing the climax and it’s still consistently scaring the hell out of me. This game absolutely gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies, I’m considering playing through F.E.A.R., or S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl because although these acronym’s of game titles may not be as visceral as the hand-to-hand combat in Condemned 2: Bloodshot, I hear they’re pretty damn scary.
And since I’m still a total wuss, I’m sure I can be the judge of that. But I think like Nick Suttner something to the effect of, “I just don’t generally like the feeling of tension while playing games.” on the 3/21 1UP Yours — I can’t say disagree.
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