“A man creates. A
parasite asks, ‘where’s my share?’”
I’ve started this post three different times, and every time
I feel ready to post you guys bring up something else I want to address. So let me start with the obvious.
Joker, about your rescue stories, I’m pretty sure the
pattern is every three sisters. And I
only know this because I’ve rescued six total.
But how the hell did I do this?
Between the Medical facility and Neptune’s bounty it should only have
been five sisters?
Turns out I activated a glitch in the game by accident. I looked up the Wiki; just to be sure I
wasn’t crazy. (POSSIBLE SPOILERS, but the one in reference
should be at the top of the page)
Before I found out that I had started this glitch, what was
driving me nuts (and probably cost me another hour and a half of playing time)
was the sheer worry that I missed saving a sister. Every time I tried to enter Fontaine
Fisheries and battle Peachy it kept issuing a warning that I missed a
sister. Which prompted me to go back
through the entire level AGAIN to make sure I got them all. Three good things did come out of this:
- I’ve gotten a hell of a lot better at battling Big Daddies. I fought an extra three battles by mistake thinking that a sister would come out.
- The Shotgun is my fucking jam. The frag grenade/proximity mines being a very close second.
- I love crowd control. I made all my money back that I spent in the stores/ammo shops since Big Daddies (or Rosies… whoever the hell they are) drop about 60-70 bucks a pop.
Another annoying glitch I found was when I get killed. If I’m in the middle of firing a gun, and I
get killed while pulling the trigger – the entire clip empties if I don’t
switch the gun. Either way you still
lose a few bullets because you can’t switch until you completely revitalize at
the vita-chamber. Such bullshit.
Now, for my real notes about this thing:
Joker, I finally share your love for hacking things – that
is, once I got the slow-flow upgrade plasmid.
I now hack everything in sight, and it makes the security cameras a
complete joke.
My plasmid use is mainly Electro Bolt, Telekinesis, and
Winter Blast currently. I did swap WB
for Incinerate when I went to battle Peachy.
That fucker deserved to fry.
Especially when I found out that after I deposited my weapons, the
people he sent after me used my own ammo against me. Once I recollected my weapons, my ammo was
almost exactly halved. I immediately
walked back to his body and lit him on fire again.
I also love how different all of us are in our approaches to
battles. I manipulate surroundings to do
most of my fighting, and you absolutely have to in order to limit Big Daddy
damage. Spacing is critical, and setting
traps has evolved into my favorite pastime in this game. First time I laid a satisfying trap was after
I killed Steinman, and all the splicers start running down the hall at
you. I backed up, lit a wall of oil on
fire as they crossed, and all of them died instantly. There has been a different way to get around
obstacles while saving your health packs, and you feel so much smarter when you
find a new way to do so. This loops back
to my wasted time looking for a little sister that didn’t exist. I battled the Big Daddy in the bar by laying
three proximity mines across the floor he was standing – and watched him walk
into all my mines. He was dead within 60
seconds. Telekinesis is also vital when
battling them – if you catch his own mines and throw them back at him you save
ammo and get such a larger sense of satisfaction knowing his own weapon killed
him. And I just realized I love playing
hot potato with Big Daddy.
Photography is acceptable.
If it helps raise my damage against what I photo, I’ll keep doing
it. Finding more film seems easy enough
so far. It gave me a free upgrade
plasmid too.
This game doesn’t scare me much, but it sure as hell creeps
me out. That laughter at the Circus of
Value machine still gives me shivers.
Especially if you pause while it’s running – the laughter just trails
off into silence. Yeesh.
The audio diaries continue to be fantastic. You can feel the sheer hatred between Ryan
and Fontaine in their tapes. Another one
I found equally entertaining was the audio diary of Sullivan while he was
‘interrogating’ a suspect in the locked room outside the fishery. You just hear the guy getting shocked while
he was talking, a nice dose of old school mob behavior.
So excited for a new checkpoint – See you guys in Arcadia.
(Side note: have any of you played Skies of Arcadia? AWESOME GAME.)
SBG
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