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narcasseMaybe it’s the fact that Warrior Within finally gave into its inherent bugginess last night, maybe it’s due to the godawful headache I woke up with this morning, maybe it’s even the product of the fact that I woke up at some point last night part-way through a dream that seemed to involve Warrior Within’s Wraith standing around uselessly but I do suspect that this morning I am not in the best of moods. And as such when I’m not feeling terribly well disposed towards the world I tend to poke at things. Today for instance I’ve actually decided to start addressing the business of filthy icon thieving head on with what I may keep in reserve as a form letter for handling the matter which goes to the tune of:
While it’s always lovely to discover that somebody appreciates my icon-making, I would have really preferred that you'd have asked my permission to use something I’d created first or at least have credited me for the endeavour.
Now I just need to sit back and wait to see what manner of response that will garner since I’ve dispatched one necessary pm this morning, though to be entirely fair I’d actually be quite pleased if people would own up to the matter and offer some kind of sensible response rather than slink off with their tails between their legs.
In other news, alas, after fostering a long and protracted impending sense of failure; Bob of Arabia 2 has finally crashed. Or rather it hasn’t crashed exactly but it has somehow fallen prey to a rather bizarre bug that current makes the section of the game I’m on impossible or as near as and may later on make the game completely unplayable. It’s a bug I’d heard about before so it wasn’t a huge spoiler for me but suffice to say that while it’s charming enough to be able to have a look at the Wraith up close at this early stage in the game; I’m not meant to have the required Wraithness yet and the fact that he seems to be prey to a constant energy depletion really isn’t helpful since I suspect that there’s simply no way that I can make it through the requisite section until the next water fountain fast enough. Even if I do spend my days throwing assassin women off ledges as rapidly as possible.
I’m not even sure that I care to try it anyway which is really quite similar to my response to Vampire: the Masquerade – Redemption. The fact that Redemption was touted as giving you a wide variety of choices/not being utter trash aside, I got as far as the fight with Azhra before being killed and simply deciding to uninstall the game which really proves just how attached to the gameplay or storyline I was. Usually, a sudden death is a sort of prompt to either go make a cup of tea and think about battle tactics, rest my hands or just pay more attention but in Redemption’s case I just couldn’t care less hence the quick uninstall and then selling the game some days later. I kept the game manual because it sported some rather fetching artwork but other than that there really hadn’t been much by way of value about the game and somehow I can’t help but feel the same way about Bob 2.
It’s a combination of issues really, encompassing problems such as the extremely dark environments which necessitated turning up my monitor’s brightness to the occasional problem with camera controls and excessive combos. The gameplay wasn’t terrible certainly but it also wasn’t overtly engaging either and having had to kill what had quickly become my favourite character early on, combined with the lack of useful camera panning which did serve a purpose in the first game in showing you the route that you ought to take; there really hasn’t been much left to persuade me that starting again sans bug will be at all worth my while. And as charming as the lead villain may be, though why protecting the timeline is dubbed villainous in the first place I don’t know; I just can’t find it in myself to care. But since I do know the details of the plot I can just skip to the third game and hope that that’s not equally filled with bugs. It does do away with the bizarrely irritating version of the Empress from the second game and reintroduce Farah after all so hopefully it’ll be rather more worth my time.
While it’s always lovely to discover that somebody appreciates my icon-making, I would have really preferred that you'd have asked my permission to use something I’d created first or at least have credited me for the endeavour.
Now I just need to sit back and wait to see what manner of response that will garner since I’ve dispatched one necessary pm this morning, though to be entirely fair I’d actually be quite pleased if people would own up to the matter and offer some kind of sensible response rather than slink off with their tails between their legs.
In other news, alas, after fostering a long and protracted impending sense of failure; Bob of Arabia 2 has finally crashed. Or rather it hasn’t crashed exactly but it has somehow fallen prey to a rather bizarre bug that current makes the section of the game I’m on impossible or as near as and may later on make the game completely unplayable. It’s a bug I’d heard about before so it wasn’t a huge spoiler for me but suffice to say that while it’s charming enough to be able to have a look at the Wraith up close at this early stage in the game; I’m not meant to have the required Wraithness yet and the fact that he seems to be prey to a constant energy depletion really isn’t helpful since I suspect that there’s simply no way that I can make it through the requisite section until the next water fountain fast enough. Even if I do spend my days throwing assassin women off ledges as rapidly as possible.
I’m not even sure that I care to try it anyway which is really quite similar to my response to Vampire: the Masquerade – Redemption. The fact that Redemption was touted as giving you a wide variety of choices/not being utter trash aside, I got as far as the fight with Azhra before being killed and simply deciding to uninstall the game which really proves just how attached to the gameplay or storyline I was. Usually, a sudden death is a sort of prompt to either go make a cup of tea and think about battle tactics, rest my hands or just pay more attention but in Redemption’s case I just couldn’t care less hence the quick uninstall and then selling the game some days later. I kept the game manual because it sported some rather fetching artwork but other than that there really hadn’t been much by way of value about the game and somehow I can’t help but feel the same way about Bob 2.
It’s a combination of issues really, encompassing problems such as the extremely dark environments which necessitated turning up my monitor’s brightness to the occasional problem with camera controls and excessive combos. The gameplay wasn’t terrible certainly but it also wasn’t overtly engaging either and having had to kill what had quickly become my favourite character early on, combined with the lack of useful camera panning which did serve a purpose in the first game in showing you the route that you ought to take; there really hasn’t been much left to persuade me that starting again sans bug will be at all worth my while. And as charming as the lead villain may be, though why protecting the timeline is dubbed villainous in the first place I don’t know; I just can’t find it in myself to care. But since I do know the details of the plot I can just skip to the third game and hope that that’s not equally filled with bugs. It does do away with the bizarrely irritating version of the Empress from the second game and reintroduce Farah after all so hopefully it’ll be rather more worth my time.
