Teramona's Tasty Teatime Treats (This feels counter intuitive)
Teramona
Consulting Tea Specialist Best Coast! Icrontian
Oh good, I can finish all these games today and still have enough time for tea. Have fun with your competition of pain, everyone else. Cheers.
Bastion
Chrono Trigger
Dan
Half Life 2: Episodes 1 & 2
Half Life 2: Lost Coast
Machinarium
Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis
Iron Grip: Marauders (I actually don't know what this is, or how I'm going to "finish" it)
Torchlight
Trine
Trine 2
World of Goo
Dan
Half Life 2: Episodes 1 & 2
Half Life 2: Lost Coast
Machinarium
Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis
Iron Grip: Marauders (I actually don't know what this is, or how I'm going to "finish" it)
Torchlight
Trine
Trine 2
World of Goo
2
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Also, if Dan decides to do this as well, one of us having very few games to go through will ensure that we will still have time for sex.
"Shut up, bitch, I can still make you juicy while you quell the undead with torpedos."
"GOD DAMMIT"
I will finish Bastion tomorrow. Not just play... finish.
As for right now? Kid just sleeps for a while.
I managed to get out of bed at some point, and then I fucked around with my roommates for 3 hours. Finally I said, "Oh shit, guys. I really have to start playing these video games..." At which point they reminded me how lucky I am that my parents put money in my bank account every month, and congratulated me on a life well done.
I played Bastion for a little bit, and then Dan came home, and I got sidetracked. Then I heard @Canti's voice on the computer, and told him to fuck off, because he's not funny. He laughed, which was unnerving at best. I find myself fearing for the future.
Bastion really is a great game.
After a few hours of teatime and creative brainstorming for a show we plan to write, shoot, and distribute, I realized that I have not applied for a job in 2 days. Luckily, my mom called me just then and told me that my father had just deposited a large sum of money in to my bank account, thus freeing me up to play Bastion for the rest of the night. She also offered to buy me a new computer, but I declined on the grounds that I needed to be more independent. I said, however, that she could give me the money that she would have spent on my computer... So I could just buy a new one myself if I wanted.
Now, back to Bastion. Herein be spoilers.
I finally found the singer. This level was particularly fun to play, because you can hear her song the whole time you're looking for her. In a game like this, at least in my very little experience, when your character is pretty much alone after some kind of end of the world scenario (AKA The Calamity), it's singularly comforting to find new characters along the way.
Singularly comforting, indeed.
This guy ended up being some kind of a dick, though.
I am finding myself getting increasingly more frustrated with the levels as time wears on, but I also find that this makes the completion of each level all the more fulfilling on a psychological level. Hopefully tomorrow will bring with it the ending of this game, and a sense of peace.
In fact, I didn't play Bastion at all today. I kept planning on it, but other things kept getting in the way. Like when one of my roommates came up to me and rubbed copious amounts of lotion all over my hands and forearms. He said it was because he had gotten too much out, but I think it's just because he was looking for a socially acceptable reason to touch me for 3 minutes.
Also, when I posted in Prime's thread about how I wanted a print of that Teapot Cannon poster, no one offered to buy me one as I had initially hoped they would. This left me with one option... which was to draw it myself. So, I'm leaving this here for @Primesuspect. I drew it with my fancy pencils, and tinted it with earl gray tea. This took up a large chunk of my day.
As for Bastion? Tomorrow... Tomorrow.
Day 6: Kid finished Bastion.
I once said that I hoped when I finished Bastion, that I would know peace. Peace? What a silly word in the face of the calamity. We could have peace, sure... but it would be hollow. Which is why I chose not to restore the previous world when I had the choice. No, I decided to go on with Rucks, Zia, and Zulf (who I decided to rescue, even though he turned out to be a douchebag extraordinaire). We care for one another. Rucks is tending to my many wounds, Zulf is learning to cook, and Zia? She just likes to stand outside and let the wind flow through her hair. She never claimed to be useful.
Anyone who's ever said that video games are not art has never played Bastion.
I have so many feels, that I'm not sure what to do with myself. I feel like taking a walk... or writing a poem or something. Or maybe I just need a hug.
What an awesome fucking game.
Before I can officially move on to Chrono Trigger, I have to send Bastion off right. Part of what made the game so great was the phenomenal soundtrack. This is me performing Rucks' song ("Pantheon")... just for you guys. Because I love you.
You're a man now, Terry! (that's your new man name).
You know when you get your first glimpse of something, and you realize that this moment is going to be one of those defining moments of your life? When you realize that you've just started something that is going to change the way you view art, humanity, and the universe? When I powered up Chrono Trigger, it was nothing like that.
I hate this game, and I'll tell you why.
They let me name my own character. There's a default, of course, which is Crono... but they gave me the choice to name him, so I did. I named him Trono, naturally, infusing my name with his... thereby transferring all of the disappointment, bitterness, and self loathing I have for myself to him. He's awaken by his mother in the morning, and I'm wondering why he didn't have the motivation to get himself up. Why isn't he in school, and trying to do something better with his life? Why, furthermore, is he still living with his mother?
One redeeming quality I find so far, is the fact that the dialogue throws in some stark real world realities at you. For instance:
I can only imagine a child who really had that kind of relationship with his dad, while playing through this part, would think to themselves "I'm going to kill everything in this game that stands in my way. And then I'm going to kill my father."
Aside from that, I played through a chunk of the beginning only to die before I reached a save point... At which point I employed Dan's particular set of skills to play through it again to get me back to where I was before. Then I died again while he was at the store... and now I'm here... writing this... waiting for Dan to return, so that he can get me back to where I died again.
I'm really enjoying myself. A lot.