More from the world of Lionhead studios
2006-Feb-04, Saturday 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Aggravated
Holy Quadrupeds! I just went on another Black&White 2 binge. Holy Clucking Cow! I swear my eyes wont stop crossing. I tried to draw a road with my hand on my desk! It’s that bad!
I started playing around 11:30 this morning, and I didn’t look up till 6:30. Yeah! That’s how time consuming it is. I started a new game yesterday. I got Island 1 and 2 down. They’re both a piece of cake compared to Island 3! It’s really funny, because you have objectives that you have to do on each island that are interesting and sometimes fun. Sometimes they’re a serious pain in the ass. So, once I got to land 3 I checked out the objectives. As usual, creature has to collect certain things, build certain things; villagers have to do the same. Then I read one of the final objectives.
O.O...!
I was wondering why in the world anyone would want to do that. I mean what purpose could it possibly serve?....I know now. Yup, I fully understand. It’s because when you hit island three, it takes so damn long to do anything...that you just about want to kill every living thing (including your creature) by the time you’ve finished.
I’ve taken over just about ¾ of the island. The only other objectives are to build a Wonder of my choice (the Siren wonder is the cheapest, but I really really want a hurricane wonder. Problem is it costs 600,000 tribute and I’ve only got about 259,000...Sadness), Increase my town’s impressiveness by 30,000 (and I’m at 29,438 so that should take too long) and of course wind the land. I was hoping I could accomplish all the other objectives before I start killing people. I just now recruited a huge army and I’m debating on whether I want to just go out and attack the Japanese settlement, or just try to win them over peacefully...Of course my good conscience would love it if I just kept building an impressive town and just won the Japanese over. But my Creature and my Devil would love to just stomp all over the Japs. /sigh What to do...what to do. Granted it’d be easier to just wage war. Probably wouldn’t take half as long either. But that Japs have a Siren Wonder, so I’d have to send a small group of troupes out first to get zapped by her. Then I could go with the bigger army. After all, it takes time to fuel up a wonder...if they fry five guys it’ll be better than them frying my whole army!
Oh, and I love the interactions between my Angel and my Devil. So much so, that I’ve started taking pictures. Here’ they are!
Here’s the tutorial island. Yup they’re already at odds. Here, they’re telling you that you’ll have to choose a creature, and in true Baddy fashion, the little devil gets right in your face and whispers “Hey, let’s go and choose one!” while Goody sits back, offended that Baddy would invade your personal space like that. Forget that he’s your conscience!
I’ve kinda already showed this one, but it’s worth revisiting. It occurs on the tutorial island where they teach you how to do stuff. There’s a guy who wants you to move a rock out of his garden. I moved it and Goody (my Angel) was all happy, but Baddy (my Devil) plopped right down in Goody’s lap when he was talking and was like “Is this how it’s gonna be, Boss? Wining the hearts of this worlds people? /mutter mutter.”
Ok, here’s the official land one! Right after you’ve saved your people Goody comes up in the background twirling about and shouting joyously “Look at the people you’ve saved! Marvelous!” without realizing that Baddy’s making fun of him...again.
Here we are again, Goody’s trying to tell you about “God-Building” and up in the corner, Baddy’s pretending to slowly die from Goody’s over-bearing smarminess.
Here we are on the second land (the Norse land). You’ve just come out of the portal to the island, and Goody flies in to tell you...whatever it is he was gonna tell you. However, he interrupted Baddy and Baddy’s giving him a ‘WTF, mate?’ expression.
Ok, that’s all I have of Goody and Baddy, but be assured! I have plenty more.
Here’s a scene of the destruction of the Greek capitol by the Aztecs/Volcano. The ape creature in the background cast two volcanoes. Even though it is kinda depressing (at least from the game perspective), I still thought it was a beautiful shot.
Ok, here we are in Land 1, and I’ve made my first official platoon of swordsmen. Here they come marching across the grass!
Baddy quickly teaches you how to take over a town, by taking your army’s flag and attaching it to another town’s center. Here we see what happens when you soldiers start taking over a town. A storm always comes and lighting is always flashing till the green light finally swirls and I have influence in that area. The people at Lionhead are such drama queens.
Ah yes, the paternity suit. On land 1, a man tells you that his daughter has fallen pregnant and says that no man has ever touched her. He says that it’s my fault. Unbeknownst to him, his daughter is making out with some unknown guy in the background. Then he demands a dowry of 1,000 wood...Now, far be it from me to remind this guy that if I married his daughter and got her pregnant, he’d owe me a dowry, or to even get into the idea of demanding anything from your deity in such a brazen manner. But anyway. The thing is, you have to follow his daughter as she waddles down the road to her lovers house. Then she goes in his house saying, “hello, handsome!” and they precede to...cuddle. Well, I grabed the ditzy dad and I followed the girl...but I couldn’t help but point out that this dude’s name is Andreas Putz…... With a name like Putz, should I really be surprised? Anyway, I dropped dad off on the front lawn of the house the girl went into...he kinda taps his foot on the ground angrily and shakes his head then he apologizes. Man...what a putz.
Ohh! The Rooster challenge. Well, just after you learn how to control the sun (go from day to night to morning to afternoon and all that) a silver reward scroll pops up. This guys’s just sleeping soundly and the roster crows waking him up. He tells you that he needs help because he can’t sleep with the stupid rooster crowing all the time. So, you turn the sky from day to night and then to sun rise, the rooster crows, then to night, then to sun rise, the rooster crows, then to night, then to sunrise again and the rooster crows. Then it shows they guy again and the rooster is coughing and cant crow. And the guy rolls over and goes back to sleep. The end. That is for land 1.
Land 2! And my first picture is of my well-established town. Ain’t it purddy!
Here’s a picture by my wall. It’s my soldiers just hanging out (bitchin’ about the cold and wishin for some action JK), and my creature is trying to raise their moral by growling and showing off how big and tough he is. Typical male stuff.
Chickens! Those little thingies are chickens! They’re cute!...Uh, yeah...never mind.
I had just won the land in this shot and I was building stuff while I waited for the migrants to get to my walls so they could ask to be admitted.
OMG! The funniest silver reward scroll yet! The Nut Oil thingy! These Norse brothers live on the other side of the island and they make ‘nut oil’. But each one has a certain thing he puts into it. The problem is they all live on little mini-islands that are separated by...well a lot of water. So the first brother dances around and sings that he wants me to throw a barrel to his brother on the other island. It quickly becomes a huge dance number with each brother asking you to throw the barrel to another island. Then once it’s done they all drink and salute you by dancing about the barrel. I loved the song so much, I went into the files and copied it to my music and put it on it’s own Winamp thingy so I could listen to it whenever. I think I’ll listen to it again!
Oooh. The Ghost Army! The second coolest reward scroll thingy. At least, it would be really cool if I would’ve noticed it before I won the land! After you win the land there’s no one to fight, and no need for an army. But anyway, you go over to this skull rock thingy and there are these five torches around it. Each torch has a date of when someone died. If click on the torches in the order that the people died (from earliest year to latest year) you’ll gain access to a ghost army! And look how limber they are! Sweet! Now I know how Aragorn felt when he went through that whole paths of the dead thing! Surreal!
On to Island 3, and the first wacky Reward challenge. I call it this one the Chi thing because the older monk is telling the younger monk to break these huge boulders using only his ‘chi’. Very Dragon Ball Z-ish. You have to use ‘hand forcing’ to help the monk break the blocks, which involves you making swift jabs at the rocks waiting for him to hit it. It’s not very interesting, but it teaches you about Hand forcing and gives you some tribute.
Behold! My creature building houses! And He’s gotten so good at it! You can tell he actually enjoys what he’s doing. Look! He’s smiling!
My creature knows two miracle. One is water. It helps for when he’s helping around my towns. He can water crops and make fields grow. This is the second miracle I bought him. It’s the lightning miracle. I hate seeing him get hurt in battle (and he really seems to enjoy ‘stomping all over platoons’. So I got the lightning miracle for him so he would stand a better chance...he seems to enjoy using that too. One spell cast and those little guys that are poking him around his feet are totally fried. Oh and here you can see the objectives menu has ‘Kill Every Living Thing’ on it See! I wasn’t lying!
And the final shot, here we have the huge zoom-out of island 3. The big mountain to the far right is where the Japanese village is. I look at it this way, the main jap village is near that big mountain, and I’m stationed (at first) on the other side of the island by the other mountain. I’ve now conquered everything from my mountain all the way to the peninsula right in front of the opposing mountain. I really don’t know what else I have to do to gain the favor of these japs, but I don’t want to expand too much...Always gotta worry about that Siren Wonder...
And that’s it. I know, I know that was huge. It took me how long to type the damn thing up? Jeeze. I really need to get a life. Whatever.
I just sent an e-mail to Lionhead because I remembered that I never did claim my Tiger creature. I had preordered B&W2 long ago, but I couldn’t play it cause we were on old Irene. And now I don’t have the e-mail that gave me the link to the Tiger creature, so I don’t know how to go about down loading it. So I sent an e-mail to them and asked if they could help in any way.
I am now off to go take my shower. Tomorrow will be early, as it always is.
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PS: Oh yeah, on another note. I couldn’t get anyone at Bell South to help me with the CoH thing, so I asked CoH if they could just give me a refund and let that be that. No one could ever really resolve the issue and I don’t want to pay for a month of a game I can’t play. /sigh So disappointing. I need to look into bypassing the router anyway in case EQ or any other game I want to play in the future has the same problems. Maybe I’ll figure it out on my own and play CoH later. Oh well. I just really wanted to play now. That’s life I guess.