It was my birthday the other day, and OH BOY was it a not fun one.
Like, it wasn't the worst birthday I've ever had, but it was far from the best. I didn't sleep well the previous night, but I thought I felt okay. Early on in the day, I was in a pretty good mood, and thought the day would be all right, in spite of being in work for some of it. And then I nearly accidentally missed my bus to get there, so I only had fifteen minutes to get ready and out the door, and that really threw me off for the rest of the day.
Anyway, I am now another year older, and I do not feel it.
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I started playing Horizon Zero Dawn, and I think it is not my type of game. I'm not good at action games, and I find some of the controls counter-intuitive, and a lot of the things you can interact with downright frustrating. I want a contextual pop-up, damnit, not a "click here and see how many times you fail it before you give up". I already gave up on a side quest because of that.
I also really, really do not like the facial animations - they feel really weird to me. And the way everyone's constantly moving their heads around. Although that makes me think of the weird head animations in Mass Effect, and I am fond of those (now), and then I realised I'd straight up rather be playing Mass Effect. (So I'm going to go and see if I can snag a copy of the Legendary Edition tomorrow when I am near a CEX).
I feel like I'm being very nitpicky with HZD, and I don't want to be, but also I am old and tired and IDK. I want to like it because it sounds like the story might be interesting but I really don't know right now.
Oooh, one thing I do like, though, is that the descriptors of the difficulty levels aren't patronising! I'm playing on Story Mode because honestly I can't be arsed, and I'm glad that it doesn't say it's for babies or whatever [*side-eyes Halo Reach HARD*] I know more games aren't shitty about your choices these days but it still grates me that this wasn't always the case.
Anyway, I will stop writing about this now because I'm being overly negative (I feel), and I will go away and do something else instead!
Like, it wasn't the worst birthday I've ever had, but it was far from the best. I didn't sleep well the previous night, but I thought I felt okay. Early on in the day, I was in a pretty good mood, and thought the day would be all right, in spite of being in work for some of it. And then I nearly accidentally missed my bus to get there, so I only had fifteen minutes to get ready and out the door, and that really threw me off for the rest of the day.
Anyway, I am now another year older, and I do not feel it.
~
I started playing Horizon Zero Dawn, and I think it is not my type of game. I'm not good at action games, and I find some of the controls counter-intuitive, and a lot of the things you can interact with downright frustrating. I want a contextual pop-up, damnit, not a "click here and see how many times you fail it before you give up". I already gave up on a side quest because of that.
I also really, really do not like the facial animations - they feel really weird to me. And the way everyone's constantly moving their heads around. Although that makes me think of the weird head animations in Mass Effect, and I am fond of those (now), and then I realised I'd straight up rather be playing Mass Effect. (So I'm going to go and see if I can snag a copy of the Legendary Edition tomorrow when I am near a CEX).
I feel like I'm being very nitpicky with HZD, and I don't want to be, but also I am old and tired and IDK. I want to like it because it sounds like the story might be interesting but I really don't know right now.
Oooh, one thing I do like, though, is that the descriptors of the difficulty levels aren't patronising! I'm playing on Story Mode because honestly I can't be arsed, and I'm glad that it doesn't say it's for babies or whatever [*side-eyes Halo Reach HARD*] I know more games aren't shitty about your choices these days but it still grates me that this wasn't always the case.
Anyway, I will stop writing about this now because I'm being overly negative (I feel), and I will go away and do something else instead!
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