söndag 6 november 2011

Lord of Terror

Guess what? After having Diablo for 15 years I finally finished it for the first time, took me 3 days of just playing. About does cheating Balrogs? I outsmarted them by doing a fast maneuver they didn't see coming... I ran. I went down a level, leveled once and then teleported back to town and then descended through the short cut into hell where they did once again run toward me and I was able to take down the first two after using all my potions and then fled up to the surface again, restock and reenter to give the final strike toward the last ones. Deader then dead. It felt so good. Then of course it was going even deeper, but who's your enemies? F***ing Succubus who only fires from a distance and when you get closer runs away. Some I was chasing over the whole damn floor before I was able to strike them down. And then it's f***ing Mages. Same MO, but this time they teleport. More annoying then ever, just stand still so I can cleave you with my sword. Finally, after hunting the damn Archbishop Lazarus around for 10 minutes I finally corners him and hack him to death and it's time to duke it out with Diablo... after fighting even more mages to open up his room. And then the Lord of Terror himself hides together with his Knights and mages waiting to kill me, but I got him, I finally got him. Take that demons of my past nightmares.

Yeah, it was fun and spooky, pretty fitting for the week we remember the dead. And it is really a good looking game for an almost 20 year old game, even the cinematics are pretty decent, the people's faces looks a little blocky and the raven in the beginning seems to have scales instead of feathers (compared to the opening cinematic for Blizzard's Warcraft 3), but overall really nice. Overall game graphics fill its parts, but it is a little bit devoid of color, and then we have the problem with that I can't see behind the walls or a hard time seeing what's on the floor from my fallen enemies. Sometimes they pile up so much that there's seems to be nothing else than a pool of blood and body parts, but it hides an armory. Music fits the mood as well, but it can be repetitive when it loops around and around, what are there, five tracks overall? Finally we have the awesome backstory which just fills me with awe. The war between angels and demons are a really interesting read in the manual that don't appear that detailed in the game, but it's almost makes it better. It's just small tidbits here and there, for example one creature log in the manual describe the arrogance and vanity of the angel Inarius (apparently they changed the backstory later on) that sees himself above all others and attacks the demons alone with only his followers. The demons retribution is how they capture him and pull his wings and eyelids of, mutilates him and throw him to a prison with only mirrors so he always will see what he have become. No pictures, nothing, instead my imagination sets in and probably creates to me the most awesome (although horrible) picture of that event. Really, by being that scared when I was younger I only reached level 2 or 3 before I chickened out (and not knowing about the restart option) I spent much more time reading the manual and instead imagining the story... Hmm, might have been all those scary images I created that stopped me.

Talking about terrifying, or just an interesting thought. This video is from a pension agency (or whatever it is called) trying to campaigning so that people decides for more ethical pension collective investment schemes (that is, they are campaigning for not as profitable, but more easier for you conscious or if you are a religious time, your afterlife) so that we all strive for a better world. It means no companies associated with weapons, oil, dictatorship and so on. All that altruistic goodness for a better world so that the future generation will grow up in a better tomorrow. My question is, why would we want that when the children attacks a random person dressed in a polar suit? F***ing bastards, why should we help them if they act like that? Let them burn, I will gladly call upon Diablo himself if I don't have to deal with children that annoying. It probably would be a much quicker destruction then what will happen when they take over.

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