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Self-Declared Oddball Gamer

Listen (in a text-only, reading sort of way) to the deranged rantings of a man who is probably pretentious. Oh, yeah, and he also self-criticizes a lot. There's another thing wrong with him.
Dec 01
2009

On the Fine Art of Broken Bridges

Posted by: GourdCaptain

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While recently playing Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story,  I ran into a stumbling block that stumped me for an hour. (The rest of this may contain spoilers for the game depending on your definition of spoiler. And your definition of may.)

 

When the game sent me to look for the third sage with a star cure, I ran through the area known as the Dimble Woods with Mario and Luigi. After encountering the first attack piece in the area, I figured, "Hey, new special attack", and started collecting them. After gathering six of the ten pieces needed to get the attack, I wander into an area where a Wiggler instructs me that due to the recent traumatic events in the forest, I can't go into this area.

 

Why this particular area, I don't know. Having explored every other area of the forest, I figure the remaining pieces are past Wiggler. He isn't that tall, so I try to jump over him. Unfortunately, he has an impenetrable sky-tall force field he is carrying on his back. He can't be dug under, and although I beat the ever-loving crud out of a Wiggler much earlier in the game, I can't declare Mortal Kombat on him. As such, I am stumped, and spend an hour looking around the woods for a means to bypass him.

 

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Dec 01
2009

Introductions

Posted by: GourdCaptain

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As someone who probably spends too much time ranting about insane little things in games to his friends, I figured I was qualified to start writing a blog about insane little things in games to random people online. (This may be in fact due to the complete lack of required qualifications).

Anyway, I'm a college freshman who is way too into video games, sci-fi, anime, and depressing non-typical fiction in general. I figure what sets me apart from 90% of serious gamers currently is my complete inability to play FPS's. Seriously, Modern Warfare 2 gives me massive, massive headaches. And not of the "bad game design" sort, but of the actual, brain-hurting kind. Plus, my inability to hit the broad side of a barn with a shotgun while five feet away from it with the gun tied to the building and a trained team of snipers coaching me through the shot has something to do with it too.

Also, I tend to play games in a roughly Dr. Manhattan non-linear time sense. As such, I will play the game that was hot three years ago, or some little game no-one has ever heard of. I think I played a game from 2020 once, but that may just have been the result of an intense fever hallucination.

Like most people who begin blogging online, I will probably post one or two posts, forget all about this, and go back. Stating this now proves three purposes.

  1. If it is true, well, at least I admitted it.
  2. If it is not, in a year from now, we can all look back on this and laugh.
  3. If I should be heavily injured tommorow in a bizarre accident involving rubber bands, twelve pounds of provolone cheese and a turkey baster, well, it should make for interesting evidence at the hearing.

So, anyway, here I am. Rock you like a.. hey.

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