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girlofprey) wrote2019-01-01 10:41 pm
girlofprey) wrote2019-01-01 10:41 pm
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I just tried Borderlands 2 VR, because I love Borderlands, and it made me feel sick, but it was still pretty good.
Red Dead Redemption 2 has gotten me into orchids and horses. Which is interesting. I don't really have the time to invest in either at the moment, though. In Red Dead Redemption 2 itself, I'm still mostly avoiding the story, because a) it's a downer at the moment, and b) I find it quite boring. I still love the characters and the voice-acting and the dialogue, but I know that every mission will be Talk to the Person, Ride to the Place, Maybe You Won't Have To Shoot A Bunch of People, But Surprise No You Do, Use Your 'Slow Time To Shoot' Power a Lot, Try To Get Headshots and Do It Quickly Because the 'Mission Score' Likes it When You Do That, The Main Character Gets Angry They Had To Shoot A Bunch of People, End Scene, Probably While The Main Character Looks Moodily Off Into the Distance Wondering What Has Happened To His Gang These Days. And that's basically it. I'm doing a lot of side-missions and challenges, but now even those have started asking you to do stuff that I'm pretty sure you can only do in a part of the map that's currently not accessible - so I will have to progress with the story in order to get to that area to do those, and see the outcome of the side missions. So I guess I will move forward with the story! If I must.
I know that the main character of RDR1 died at the end of the game, even though I've not played it, so I was kind of expecting them to kill the main character of this game off as well, since I didn't think they'd be anymore original than "redemption through death" again. But then I also thought, given that anyone who played RDR1 would know that that happened at the end of that game, that they might also do a fake-out and make it look like the character was going to die, but then he suddenly doesn't, and redemption can come from living your life or just getting to live too. But then the man at work told me "apparently the epilogue is massive", and I don't know how they can have an epilogue if the main character dies at the end of the story, which convinced me for a little while that he wouldn't - but then they could have the epilogue star another character, who takes over after our current man dies. The main character (Arthur Morgan) currently has tuberculosis, which seems pretty final, but then he also seems to be hallucinating things a lot too - like a stag on city streets, in a weird yellow haze. So maybe he just hallucinated being diagnosed with tuberculosis? I'm most worried that they'll have him cured by Native American Magic, but I also don't really think they'd go that far (although you never know). But now I'm mostly concerned that the main character is going to die at the end of this story, and then I'm going to have to play a whole (massive) epilogue as another character I haven't spent 10s of hours getting attached to. I also know from spoilers that there's a whole section of the map you don't get to look at until after the story's finished, so I'm also concerned I'm only going to get a conclusion to a bunch of these side missions with a different character I'm not attached to, and it'll all be very Meaningful and about Passing the Torch, but I just won't care. So that's not motivating me to get to the end of the story either. But there is no way I'm going to know if that happens or not, or the conclusion to the side missions whatever it may be, unless I make progress with the story. So I'm going to do that I guess. Grumble grumble nothing is perfect grumble grumble.
The children are here and we have all survived, but my dad is working in the morning and I have to go to work by 11 as well, and I don't know what time my sister's getting back and picking up her kids, so I feel quite sorry for my mother.
ETA: Also we went to my aunt's the other day to drop off her birthday card, and she lives with her daughter who has a rottweiler, and we met the rottweiler and it was big and lovely, and now I want a rottweiler or a mastiff so badly it hurts.
Red Dead Redemption 2 has gotten me into orchids and horses. Which is interesting. I don't really have the time to invest in either at the moment, though. In Red Dead Redemption 2 itself, I'm still mostly avoiding the story, because a) it's a downer at the moment, and b) I find it quite boring. I still love the characters and the voice-acting and the dialogue, but I know that every mission will be Talk to the Person, Ride to the Place, Maybe You Won't Have To Shoot A Bunch of People, But Surprise No You Do, Use Your 'Slow Time To Shoot' Power a Lot, Try To Get Headshots and Do It Quickly Because the 'Mission Score' Likes it When You Do That, The Main Character Gets Angry They Had To Shoot A Bunch of People, End Scene, Probably While The Main Character Looks Moodily Off Into the Distance Wondering What Has Happened To His Gang These Days. And that's basically it. I'm doing a lot of side-missions and challenges, but now even those have started asking you to do stuff that I'm pretty sure you can only do in a part of the map that's currently not accessible - so I will have to progress with the story in order to get to that area to do those, and see the outcome of the side missions. So I guess I will move forward with the story! If I must.
I know that the main character of RDR1 died at the end of the game, even though I've not played it, so I was kind of expecting them to kill the main character of this game off as well, since I didn't think they'd be anymore original than "redemption through death" again. But then I also thought, given that anyone who played RDR1 would know that that happened at the end of that game, that they might also do a fake-out and make it look like the character was going to die, but then he suddenly doesn't, and redemption can come from living your life or just getting to live too. But then the man at work told me "apparently the epilogue is massive", and I don't know how they can have an epilogue if the main character dies at the end of the story, which convinced me for a little while that he wouldn't - but then they could have the epilogue star another character, who takes over after our current man dies. The main character (Arthur Morgan) currently has tuberculosis, which seems pretty final, but then he also seems to be hallucinating things a lot too - like a stag on city streets, in a weird yellow haze. So maybe he just hallucinated being diagnosed with tuberculosis? I'm most worried that they'll have him cured by Native American Magic, but I also don't really think they'd go that far (although you never know). But now I'm mostly concerned that the main character is going to die at the end of this story, and then I'm going to have to play a whole (massive) epilogue as another character I haven't spent 10s of hours getting attached to. I also know from spoilers that there's a whole section of the map you don't get to look at until after the story's finished, so I'm also concerned I'm only going to get a conclusion to a bunch of these side missions with a different character I'm not attached to, and it'll all be very Meaningful and about Passing the Torch, but I just won't care. So that's not motivating me to get to the end of the story either. But there is no way I'm going to know if that happens or not, or the conclusion to the side missions whatever it may be, unless I make progress with the story. So I'm going to do that I guess. Grumble grumble nothing is perfect grumble grumble.
The children are here and we have all survived, but my dad is working in the morning and I have to go to work by 11 as well, and I don't know what time my sister's getting back and picking up her kids, so I feel quite sorry for my mother.
ETA: Also we went to my aunt's the other day to drop off her birthday card, and she lives with her daughter who has a rottweiler, and we met the rottweiler and it was big and lovely, and now I want a rottweiler or a mastiff so badly it hurts.