Computer game c**k-ups (should have read the manual)
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Howdy y'awl.
Gaming is mainly a male hobby, and one trait of many many men is that we dont read the manuals and booklets that come with stuff, and sometimes, just occasionally, it comes back to bite us on the butt.
(But ladies, not often enough to make us change our ways, it is still more efficient to not read 100 manuals, then on the 1 in 100 chance we mess up, we waste some time getting it wrong, waste some more time finding the manual, then more time reading it. It's more efficient our way!)
In relation to computer and console games, this can sometime leave us vulnerable, for me it was on Rise of the Argonauts on Xbox 360. I played it, I enjoyed it but I just wasnt getting any god powers, I eventually finished it but bloooooooooody hell some parts were hard to do, in particular 1 bloke who sends evil things your way much too fast to avoid them all and he took such killing.
That was a while back, but I decided to play it again recently, and once again I was getting so few aspect points and god powers it was pissing me off!
Read manual and .. oh... all those tasks I did such as 'kill 10 enemies' and 'recruited Hercules' etc... you have to dedicate those to the god of your choice and you get aspect points... oh hell...
By now I was near the end of the game and had many many maaaaany aspect points to use up, enough to buy nearly everything. Suddenly things were much easier, doh!
I'm not the only, am I?
Gaming is mainly a male hobby, and one trait of many many men is that we dont read the manuals and booklets that come with stuff, and sometimes, just occasionally, it comes back to bite us on the butt.
(But ladies, not often enough to make us change our ways, it is still more efficient to not read 100 manuals, then on the 1 in 100 chance we mess up, we waste some time getting it wrong, waste some more time finding the manual, then more time reading it. It's more efficient our way!)
In relation to computer and console games, this can sometime leave us vulnerable, for me it was on Rise of the Argonauts on Xbox 360. I played it, I enjoyed it but I just wasnt getting any god powers, I eventually finished it but bloooooooooody hell some parts were hard to do, in particular 1 bloke who sends evil things your way much too fast to avoid them all and he took such killing.
That was a while back, but I decided to play it again recently, and once again I was getting so few aspect points and god powers it was pissing me off!
Read manual and .. oh... all those tasks I did such as 'kill 10 enemies' and 'recruited Hercules' etc... you have to dedicate those to the god of your choice and you get aspect points... oh hell...
By now I was near the end of the game and had many many maaaaany aspect points to use up, enough to buy nearly everything. Suddenly things were much easier, doh!
I'm not the only, am I?
y282 said:
on a completwly different and unrelated note i'm considering throwing red dead in the f**King bin as i still cant get the hang of shooting things.
Played this at a pal's, found it v dull at the start as that woman kept telling me to follow her here, do this, do that, got bored. Inevitably started trying to shoot her but it prevents you from doing it despite my best efforts.So, got on a horse and rode over top of her. Game Over.
Yeah enough of that, next game...
Sometimes ya dont have access to the manual, how many times have ya been at a pal's house and they stick on the latest driving or fighting games and don't tell you all the buttons.
Thank god the xbox 360 has a screen on most games labelling the buttons.
Worst contender I know for this is a chap called Lee, also known as the 'armchair ninja'
Every fighting game he will never mention if there is a 'block' or not, wrestling game he wont tell you how to bounce off ropes, pin or climb ropes etc, driving games tend to be simpler but you can forget knowing what the hand brake buton is. Of course you can find them given time, but by the time you even start to suss out which button might be block he's already pressed right up right right down X A B B Y and his character has performed the unblockable death somersault-kick and removed my player's spine.
GIVE ME THE f
kING MANUAL!!!
Thank god the xbox 360 has a screen on most games labelling the buttons.
Worst contender I know for this is a chap called Lee, also known as the 'armchair ninja'
Every fighting game he will never mention if there is a 'block' or not, wrestling game he wont tell you how to bounce off ropes, pin or climb ropes etc, driving games tend to be simpler but you can forget knowing what the hand brake buton is. Of course you can find them given time, but by the time you even start to suss out which button might be block he's already pressed right up right right down X A B B Y and his character has performed the unblockable death somersault-kick and removed my player's spine.
GIVE ME THE f
kING MANUAL!!!Gassing Station | Video Games | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff