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I am inputting notes into Musescore and getting music out, so I guess I'm doing something right? (It's nothing I've written, it's stuff I've already got in books/on the computer*). I am also revising/learning new music theory on the internet, and wow intervals are confusing**. I'm going to have to look at them again.
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I played some Dragon's Dogma for the first time in a week. I am still mad about that wight fight. However, I loaded myself (and my pawn) up with arrows, and am off to slay a dragon. I didn't get very far, because I am partially an idiot, and all I have done is talk to the Dragonforged. He gave me some armour, so I guess he's not all bad (I can't equip the silver bangles, though, because I lose more than I gain from them. I suppose I could leg it back to Gran Soren (as I'll be going that way anyway) and level them up at the armourer's???)
WHATEVER.
I am level thirty six (out of 200) I think I've done one of the side quests (saving them for the next save file). I can kill a chimera in five minutes as opposed to fifteen now! (Cyclopes are still causing me a major, major pain in the arse every time whhhhhhhhhy however they should be easier by now you encounter them firrrrrsttttt).
Also I am unable to make my Arisen jump on anything or climb up it. I think she clung to a Cyclops' leg once, but never since. I think I play this game with the RPG equivalent of button bashing, and nobody is surprised, right.
Undecided what to play after this. Do I finish FFIX, or do I have a bash at Breath of Fire? (Realistically it should be BoF, because it's not my game but really IDK).
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*I will have to have a day of The Printening. Because swapping between windows is doing my nut.
**I came away from school with THE most basic music theory, since I didn't do GCSE music (I wish I had). Though as I went through later lessons, it occurred to me that I did pick up a bunch of stuff from the multitudinous guitar books I read as a teenager \o/
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I played some Dragon's Dogma for the first time in a week. I am still mad about that wight fight. However, I loaded myself (and my pawn) up with arrows, and am off to slay a dragon. I didn't get very far, because I am partially an idiot, and all I have done is talk to the Dragonforged. He gave me some armour, so I guess he's not all bad (I can't equip the silver bangles, though, because I lose more than I gain from them. I suppose I could leg it back to Gran Soren (as I'll be going that way anyway) and level them up at the armourer's???)
WHATEVER.
I am level thirty six (out of 200) I think I've done one of the side quests (saving them for the next save file). I can kill a chimera in five minutes as opposed to fifteen now! (Cyclopes are still causing me a major, major pain in the arse every time whhhhhhhhhy however they should be easier by now you encounter them firrrrrsttttt).
Also I am unable to make my Arisen jump on anything or climb up it. I think she clung to a Cyclops' leg once, but never since. I think I play this game with the RPG equivalent of button bashing, and nobody is surprised, right.
Undecided what to play after this. Do I finish FFIX, or do I have a bash at Breath of Fire? (Realistically it should be BoF, because it's not my game but really IDK).
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*I will have to have a day of The Printening. Because swapping between windows is doing my nut.
**I came away from school with THE most basic music theory, since I didn't do GCSE music (I wish I had). Though as I went through later lessons, it occurred to me that I did pick up a bunch of stuff from the multitudinous guitar books I read as a teenager \o/
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**I came away from school with THE most basic music theory, since I didn't do GCSE music (I wish I had). Though as I went through later lessons, it occurred to me that I did pick up a bunch of stuff from the multitudinous guitar books I read as a teenager \o/
Yeah, I mean I did do music GCSE, and I had cello lessons for ten years (though I admit I was always a reluctant jerk about learning the theory), AND I had community arts centre group guitar lessons with a guy who was into improv jazz and so actively tried to teach us about chord structures and stuff (again I was sort of oblivious) and I STILL feel like I need a serious, deep refresher on all this stuff. I've gotten one of those "for dummies" books but I only just got it so I can't comment on how good it is yet...
K is still bugging me to play Dragon's Dogma but I haven't had the time to get into it yet. I keep meaning to go back to Skyrim cus I haven't finished that yet, and I only have space for one epic timesink game at a time. I've played about 200 hours of that and I'm still only, I dunno, a third of the way through the main quest lines because I keep getting sidetracked by the side quests and huge DLC things and buying and renovating EVERY HOUSE and becoming a master blacksmith and master runesmith and just randomly exploring tracts of that enormous world. It's not my favourite game narratively or in terms of gameplay perhaps but as someone who's generally just overwhelmed by open world games I've never experienced anything so immersive...
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I kind of want to play Skyrim, but I didn't get on well with Oblivion, so I'm thinking they're similar enough that it might get on my nerves? But everyone seems to have so much fun in it!
I wouldn't really say DD *is* a time sink. I can see how it would look that way, especially if you do sidequests, but there don't seem to be that many to me (I could be wrong though because, as I've said, I pretty much ignored them). Also I didn't explore much outside of where you're meant to go because ARGH CHIMERA (and/or GRIFFIN) happens a lot of the time off-road. What takes the time for me is travelling everywhere by foot (there is a teleportation system but in the vanilla game you don't get access to it until fairly late on; I don't know about Dark Arisen).
I get overwhelmed by open world games, too. It's nice to explore buuut I don't mind the game telling me where to go (so to speak!)