Minecraft - No sense of orientation

First of all I think I have to apologize for not writing something recently – at least to the very few people that might actually read my crap.

The fact is I've been away on a long long trip that was occasionally interrupted by the insanity of some of the stupidest people I know. The place where I have been is called Minecraft and I was trapped there for an impressive amount of time if you consider that I actually had important stuff to do in the real world because somehow a few people that I have to be acquainted with decided to lose their minds.

I really enjoy my new computer and all the nice stuff that I can do with it – and the Steam sales where I can't hold it when a game just costs about 3€. You might say now that I could have played Minecraft all along because it doesn't take much resources and I could have played it on my old notebook. Shut up. My notebook takes 10 minutes to start and about 5 minutes to open an office document. And it doesn't have a functioning keyboard anymore so I had to use a kind of shitty usb-keyboard since I was too cheap to buy a proper one. I still have to fix that thing but I have been too lazy for that.

this is me ... yup

Anyway – Minecraft got me now. Actually it's not so bad anymore because I started playing some other games in the last couple of days again. I will write about that some other time I guess.

Until I find somebody that might want to play with me, I am playing alone in Survival Mode on my own single player map. When I first started I died almost every ten minutes until I found out how to bury yourself in the night and mine and craft properly because I wanted to do everything without looking into the wiki-page. I built my first house with some wood and then went on to find more crafting materials. When it turned night again I could not find my house anymore. 

So I just buried myself and waited for the sun to rise. Then I embarked on an almost endless journey through deserts and jungles and after realizing that I maybe should mine some more and gather materials, I decided to build a second house on the foot of a huge mountain. 

I decorated it with red roses and even had a small terrace facing the ocean. It was really nice and I actually built my first chest there and stored some stuff before going outside again to find more wood for attempting to build a door. 

When I stepped outside I fell into a hole in the ground. I lived for some reason but now I was trapped in a cave and did not have much stuff yet to defend myself properly. So I started to dig my way out. When I finally reached the surface I went back to my house and closed the hole that I fell into. And when I finally took a few steps to the mountain where I wanted to dig my mineshaft, I fell into a hole again. But this time there was no way out because it was just too deep and well I actually don't know anymore. I was really pissed off so I just decided to explore the cave because I happened to have some torches with me and well I wanted to mine anyway. 

So when I dug my way out of this cave again, I did not know where the hell I was. I think I looked around for hours and hours before finally deciding to build my final house besides a beautiful mountain ridge and a big lake. And I stayed there and dug my own mineshaft in the back of my house all the way down to bedrock and built a tower with torches at the top so I could find my house more easily. And I had a bed which meant that my spawn point was now in my house. When I finally mined some redstone, nothing was a problem anymore because I now had a compass and after some exploring I realized that my original spawn point was just on the other side of the mountain ridge. That was actually the point where I eventually built my nether portal, too, so I could find it easily. Well and there was my first house, too. But I did not need this one anymore since it was just plain walls.

So this is my "house" now

with one of my cats derping around. the other 1230953245345 are in the cat house... yup... I said it... I got a cat house

So now I almost have everything right beside my house – chicken, sheep, pigs, cows, eight dogs, uncountable cats and a huge mineshaft with everything you would need. But I still like to explore the map some more since I now can find my way back without problems. So when I went on an adventure some time ago, I actually managed to find my second house again. Which should actually be next to impossible because the map is just too huge. Dam dam daaaaaam ^^

there it is... the bitch O_o

 

like it was waiting for me the whole time... it could have been awesome there... meh

But Survival Mode gets kind of boring now since I have everything and I am playing alone. So I started building some weird things like roller coasters and other redstone stuff in creative mode. But as it turns out playing alone is addicting at first but after a while of extensive playing you can escape from this addiction. I mean, its still awesome and a lot of fun but I can actually go to the toilet again before I am in intense pain and eat other stuff than food that only takes 2 minutes to prepare. 

And I can play some other stuff again too which I kind of have to since I recently bought Assassins Creed 3 and still have to finish the shitty Revelations before I am allowed to play (self proposed agony … ugh). I am actually not looking forward to the 3^rd part anymore because I heard that it is unsatisfying and because Revelations was one of the worst games I ever played and I might actually have lost my faith in the whole franchise by now. But the 4^th part is announced now (you should have heard that by now) and it has f-ing pirates. Pirates!!! *_* 

Plus I am still waiting to be able to finally play The Elder Scrolls Online! My social life is doomed. 

Dooooooomed!


 

I have been very productive today ^^ my sense of productivity however seems to be kind of weird

To The Moon: Right in the Feels

Got it without any spoilers - YAY!

It's been a long time since I was really touched by a game and especially a game's ending. Don't get me wrong, there were some awesome games and game endings I was able to witness. But nothing kind of reached the epicness and touchiness of say... the death of Aerith in Final Fantasy VII. Seriously - nothing does. Even bringing this up does not really help my point. It was the most "wtf omg arghhh"-moment of my whole lifetime gaming experience. And I think it is for a lot of people. 

As I said I came across a lot of awesome stories and stuff and one of it was Heavy Rain. Yep... I liked the story of Heavy Rain – a lot. (Actually I did not play myself and instead just watched but that really does not matter that much with this game.)

What most people criticize is that it is not really a game in the conventional sense. It is more like a film where you get to press a few buttons once in a while and can interact more than while watching a movie. Well that is actually what makes it more awesome for me. It is a really good film where you get even more sucked into the story because you can interact yourself and in the case of Heavy Rain even change the course of the story.

But this post is not about Heavy Rain. It is about a game that I recently bought on steam and at first did not even install for a long time. 

The game is called To The Moon and I finally played it a few days ago because I was bored. And when I started playing I actually could not stop before having it finished because I really wanted to know how the story would progress. This “game” as you might or might not call it exactly falls into the category that I explained earlier. I can see why some people might not like this game because there is nothing left of real interaction. 

You can go around a small confined area and explore and every once in a while you get to solve an insanely easy puzzle in order to progress. I can understand why people would not like that. But I did not see it this way. It was more like an alternative way of passing along the story. It's like an interactive film more than a game and if you see it this way it is doing a very awesome job.

The story is breathtaking. It has absolutely everything from very fun moments (and a lot of references including Street Fighter, Pokemon, How I met your Mother and what not) to very sad or very creepy moments. And I loved all of it.

Well yeah... fun moments... or is it just my way too immature self?

Whoever wrote this story deserves all kinds of respect. You are a genius!

And the music! The f***ing music is so awesome that it had me from the first note. The piano theme is not only catchy but also very beautiful and complements the storyline so well that I think it played a very big role in making me love this game the way I did. I'm not only a self-titled graphics-whore but also a story and music whore. You can get me with this stuff all the time. That is why I still adore The Lion King and the Kung Fu Panda movies. Yep... I said it. I think I have to go kill something now to redeem my manliness that I did not even have from the start... Haaahhhh penis envy.

Yup...

Actually in the end To The Moon made me feel a little bit too girly for my comfort because I could not stop crying for about half an hour after finishing. But does that really matter? This game could make a bear cry!

It would be nothing for all you guys that rate gameplay over story (which is not a bad thing but in some cases it just does not even matter) but I f***ing loved this game and it's story and if you got maybe up to two days or however long this game takes which I can't remember now (I would actually have to check how long I played now but I am way to lazy) of boredom left I absolutely would recommend playing this game or more experiencing this awesome shortstory for yourself.

Seriously – try it. You won't have to tell anyone if you cried at the end like I did. But I am officially allowed to do that because I unfortunately got a vagina. BAM!

Bastard Tetris: My new nemesis

I moved into a new appartment today so I am kind of exhausted. So I thought: Why not play a little game of Tetris to calm my nerves (yeah right). I actually wanted to play Mario Kart on my SNES Emulator but since I had to install Linux all over again on my Netbook I don't have it installed yet and did not really want to bother much. I needed something instant so I just had a quick look into the Software-Center and searched for Tetris. I chose the one with the funny name.
It is called Bastard Tetris and it is called that for a reason.

Oh look, I built a skyscraper O_o

On the Tetris Wiki I read (after playing angrily for a long time) that this game chooses the blocks exactly based on what you need or can fit in the least. So I was right you SCHEISS BEHINDERTES ARSCHLOCHSPIEL!!!! (<- yay for German swearing)
After a while of extensive swearing I thought that this game might be worth it to write about on here. Especially since I don't have much else to write about now because I had to move and could and can not play anything that needs a bigger screen than my netbook has for at least some days now. Plus I still need Internet in my new appartment. Assassins Creed Revelations sucks by the way but that's a different story... and I can't play it anyway because my PS3 and my TV are sleeping in their pretty little boxes waiting to be unpacked once again... Same with every game that I bought on steam so far for my PC. Soon my little friends - soon you will be free again.
Until then I will be lying here playing f-ing Bastard Tetris and swearing my head off because I'm hating it so much. Actually I always kind of sucked at playing Tetris... but this is insane. F*ck you Bastard Tetris >:-(

and f*ck you white blocks!!!

Graaaarghhhh!!!

My personal Summary of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

A summary will kind of contain spoilers... duh

I think Skyrim is the game that I spent most time on since I spent a fair share of my teen years trading cowhides in the desert place on Runescape. Well that might actually not be quite true but it's a neat introduction sentence.

"I'd like to have half a litre of beer" - derpface

Turns out I kind of finished Skyrim a few days ago. Well the fact is I still didn't really finish this game because it's so... massive – I just finished most of the quests that were of my interest and of course the main quest. There were times when I just mounted one of my countless horses and rode towards the horizon – and there always was something new and exciting to find. Like this one time when I rode past a cave entrance and there was this wounded guy that asked me for help. So I spared one of my countless healing potions and then we went into the cave together to revenge his fallen comrades and we just straightforward killed every living thing that was left in there.

pictured: the bloodbath

I've played more than 150 hours now – did all the DLC-quests (well at least as much as I was allowed to -.-” you may read something on here about that sometime) – and I still didn't do many of the interesting quests that there are. I still didn't do the College of Winterhold questline (mostly because I hate mages) or the Companion questline and there are a lot of Daedra quests still waiting.

As a matter of fact I decided that I would skip most minor quests like clearing out random dungeons because I just have no space for more loot. I got a full set of Daedric Armor and Weapons, my follower (currently Serana, the vampire lady from the Dawnguard DLC...) is fully suited up for a major battle and what the hell man I just built a whole house with all kinds of furniture in it and I give my children 1000 gold as allowance. I've got so many horses that I started to lose track of the total number. And you know what? I don't even need them anymore because I can ride on dragons now. “But you would have to find a dragon first” you might say. Well no problem because they are f***ing everywhere.

This is one of the for me few flaws in Skyrim. You just get overpowered really fast. In some dungeons I just stand there in masses of draugr death overlords and don't even have to block... just press the attack button casually – everything will be fine. And even if the enemy is kind of strong, I as an alchemist have my countless healing potions to win the fight for me. Now with my greenhouse I even have constant supply of ingredients for my potions. And because I don't have to loot anymore (which is kind of difficult because I usually just can't leave anything of value in a dungeon -.-”) I can just pack myself full of potions. Oh and you never get limited on dragon souls either. You encounter a dragon almost every five minutes and after a while of playing they get insanely easy to kill.

beware of my insanely good drawing skills

Well my point is – it really gets way too easy way too fast. But actually I did not even care that much because it's just really fun to explore the world and going on adventures. I had so many fun moments and there were so many times when I stood there and just looked around and the scenery was great and awwww... There is so much to find even in places that are not really important. You should really go watch THIS video. And there are so many more interesting places and things to find. You can spend hours just riding along and picking flowers and catching butterflies. Well I can... because usually I find the most interesting adventures on my way.

But Bethesda – I really really used to curse you a lot. Some parts of the game are really buggy – and the worst part for me was of course that I could not finish the Dragonborn DLC. I will write something on that soon. That really pissed me off. Usually bugs don't really get to me like this but this one f***ed the whole DLC up for me. Thanks for that. Go patch this sh*t and go patch it so I can still finish it without having to start the whole f***ing quest again because I actually don't have a save before starting it. Big mistake, I know, but it was not intentional and I'm seriously pissed of at myself, too. But I will write something about that later.

Hermaeus mora my ass

Conclusion: I kind of played a fair share of time and I did not see most of the things I know from watching videos on youtube. I kind of missed out on the headless horseman and the bugs in jars and so many other things. I still want to see and do so many things in Skyrim – and I will spend much more hours going on adventures. Bugs and rage aside I really loved and do still love the sh*t out of this game and I will keep playing it in the future. But right now Assassins Creed is desperately waiting for me. And so is the new computer that I will be buying... and Minecraft... and umm... yeah still so many games to play :) But I'll play Skyrim again!!! And again and again and again. At least until The Elder Scrolls Online is released. Then I might have to drop out of university.