雖說FFXIII占據了我大部份玩遊戲的時間, 但只限家中遊玩. 上班休息時進行的攻略在這兩個星期內也進展不少:
Call of Duty Classic (XBLA)
我都不知道為何我會有veteran難度全破的能耐, 只記得有太多次我氣得退出遊戲回到360的dashboard, 然後差點在菜單中選擇’Delete Game’.
Veteran難度屈機, 相信大家已經聽過我說無數次了. 正如我說, 我也不知道自己為何有如此被虐傾向.. 明明玩到完全不像一個以玩遊戲來放鬆身心的情況, 卻不玩不行. 雷射眼AI+每版只有一條能源(第一代沒有Halo式自動補血)也沒有補血包+checkpoints saving經常出錯.
強橫的AI經常暗算我, 我走快兩步也立刻會被遠距離以輕機槍headshot. 最後, 我沒辦法了, 你做初一..
話說Sony Playstation部門有個新點子, 就是以reality show形式來挑選遊戲測試人員. 剛公佈的那一天, 公司討論版已經出現嘲笑的留言. 前兩日看到一些trailers和節目的細節, 更加忍不住要講句該show甚至整個構思都實在是「柒到無朋友」
My room in the new house, before anything done. As seen here the new sofa is confusingly placed.
Eule log burning on every available monitor at work starting from weeks before Christmas.
上一次的Work and Play是在上年九月寫的.. 所以說這個blog人流少得可憐我也沒有投訴的份兒.
由於搬屋的關係, 當有時間和精神開機的時候都不免要用幾分鐘思考一下自己最想玩哪隻遊戲 – 時間實在太寶貴了! 經統計後發現, 從十一月起開動過的遊戲一隻手可以數盡:
Silent Hill Origins (PSP)
Happy New Year!
For the past 20 days or so I was off work, but there wasn’t a moment where my hands weren’t full. Moving is an ass fusioned with a biatch, I’ll just say it out in the beginning. After moving four times over the past 8 years, my family has finally decided to settle down (for a relatively longer period of time anyway) in a nice little townhouse in Richmond.
While the new place looks promising and ready to be occupied by its new owners, we aren’t. The “big moving day” which involved a moving company was on my last day of work before the break (18 Dec), and I just finished transferring the last of my stuff from the old place to the new one about five days ago. Major reasons for the slow progress are 1) That moving company my dad hired brought a truck the size of a clown car which of course was only able to move the major pieces even after two runs, leaving a bunch of smaller items that we thought “can pick them up ourselves over the next few days”. 2) The fact that we are stuck with renting the old place until February 2010 due to a stale contract makes us all lazy and unmotivated. Not one moving experience was ever pleasant to me, but at least in previous moves the process had to get done within a day or two no matter how ugly, because we had to return the keys to the building manager. 3) My mom always come visit in December, and this time her and my aunt arranged a three-day ski trip to Whistler and a day trip to Seattle over the break. The first trip annihilated my lower back/upper butt area (first time snow-boarding) and the second trip was just twisting the blade.
While I’m extremely glad that the move is almost finalized now that I have to get back to work, I feel that the vacation passed by without me being able to lay down to relax and just truly enjoy the break for a few hours. Almost no movies watched and no video games played in my new room which is still half empty (I was able to finally watch one of my favorite Christmas movies “Home Alone” last night while waiting my cat to dry off after a bath). I was excited to get Final Fantasy XIII in the mail on the 29th but so far I was only logging about 2-3 hours in the game, a LOT less than I would’ve liked. I’m sure if I choose to, I can drop everything else and just start enjoying my new room by cruising on the new sofa, but the unsettling feeling that the shelves and closets are empty bothers me so much that I must unpack and arrange everything before I can sit comfortably and explore the world of FFXIII while watching “Home Alone 2″.
Also apparently I wasn’t able to write in my blog a lot, given that half the time during the break I didn’t even have internet in the house (kudos to the Telus tech guy doing a great job installing cable and leaving his card on my desk even though I was not able to be there during installation, the guy from Shaw who’s supposed to come and install TV just came and left a “we missed you” note on the door even though everyone was in the house at the time. We miss your dumb ass too, so come quick and this time knock on the door instead of whispering outside the building while writing up your little “we missed you” card, you lazy son of a bitch).
Cleaning the old place and changing a bunch of addresses still have to be done, but I’m sure things will get back on track within a few decades, eventually. For now here’s a bunch of photos taken during the break:
Before the Christmas break, as a thank-you everybody in the team was given a nicely framed pledge. This is my first full-time job since graduation and also the first item of gratitude that I received since joining the team (they did let me pick two games to take home, but no personal touch there). As a contractor this brings a nice sense of belonging to the team for me, even though I understand there is still quite the distance between my current status and that of a “true” employee.
It has been a great experience working for this team so far, and I was pleasantly surprised when they handed me this on the last day of work. However that excitement was quickly withdrawn and kept to myself when I noticed that everybody else had the “ugh, this again” look on their faces while holding the pledge.
This is one step closer towards having my name on a game’s credits list.
Happy New Year!
終於收到了! 不過由於最近搬屋還有各類慶祝活動/陪親友等節目, 就連自己房間也只是在收拾中. 今天玩不了, 現在也只能寫這麼多. Stay tuned for updates!
下午看過FFXIII OST日本的零晨launch party的live feed. 再看看各討論區從大家爭相交換訂FFXII/取game心得, 再看過很多入手照片後(很多人買了同梱版!), 現在那些討論區都寂靜了..相信不說也知道為何
看到Elixir的廣告, 很正
看看倒數, 雖然不代表完畢一刻立即玩到, 但畢竟這個13代真是足足等了三年才來, 12/17/09是眾RPG迷的大日子啊!
有入手圖了 :D 不過好像目前還是只有日本開始發賣. 香港的朋友仍像熱鍋上的螞蟻
從FFX開始, 通常等待推出前最後一個星期是最興奮的時間, 因為那個時候在網上討論區已經認識了一班志同道合的朋友, 大家爭取轉載第一手消息的機會. 最期待是看到能確認遊戲準時到貨甚至偷跑的照片(目前只看到遊戲片段, 未有「開盒禮」呢).
Game Center CX的有野課長第一手試玩報告, 怎麼背景和那些巨大生物令我想起Monster Hunter系列?!
