Anniversary - The Centaurs!

External Since: May 26, 2007 Posts: 8

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:55:05 +0000, J.H. wrote:

> news.blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
>> Okay.....I guess I'm not the only person stuck at this part right now.
>> Believe me this made the T-Rex seem easy...although I must say when I made
>> my earlier post I omitted to say i'd started the game in "Hard" mode...that
>> was an idiot thing to do and should only be done after completing it in Easy
>> and Medium modes first! I went back and re-started in "easy" and whilst the
>> puzzles are just as challenging (my favoutite parts) the baddies aren't as
>> hard to kill and I murdered the T-Rex in next to no time due to my practice
>> at it during my "Hard" training.
>> The centaurs though still evade me...I know "what" to do but keep running
>> out of medpacks before I complete it. Its all Rage Attack/Adrenalin Dodge
>> stuff again followed by some quick grapple work but I just dont seem to have
>> enough fingers to make it all pull together on a PC keyboard. I can imagine
>> on a Playstayion it would be a piece of cake. On a PC I need both mouse
>> buttons held down (intermittently), the shift key (again intermittently) and
>> the direction controls. As if that isn't hard enough and believe me you
>> gotta be very dextrous in the finger work you've also gotta concentrate on
>> the action and depress each key at EXACTLY the right time. (I even taped the
>> right mouse (target) button down with masking tape!!!).To make matters worse
>> there ARE bugs. Freezing the centaur at the wrong moment (bad luck I guess)
>> means you can't take his shield..so after a twenty minutes work just getting
>> hold of ONE of the shields you get your ass kicked by a damn game bug trying
>> to take the other! And no damn checkpoints when you need them! I really miss
>> the early TR Games when at least I could save when and where I wanted after
>> a difficult bit.
>> I've tried all of the available save games on the net right now to get me
>> past this point but they are all made using the press release (read hacked)
>> version of the game and are not compatible with the actual "real" version.
>> The game throws an error if you try to load the files. I await Stella's
>> magnificent TR site to provide a working save game file as I'm about to give
>> up on the damn Centaurs Sad

>>
>> Baz
>>
>>
>
> i don't even wanna think about it. i got to that point last night and
> haven't cared less since.
>
> some levels make or break a game all by themselves.
>
> in pop:ttt it was the level with the hammer/axe guys. never played past
> that.
>
> this could be the level i uninstall anniversary at.

that's what i've done.

i don't want to spend HOURS mastering keyboard and mouse skills,
repeatedly dying and starting over; who has that kind of time to spend
stuck in one place? not me. i want to make progress by solving
problems with intelligence.

as i recall, in the original tomb raider game, it was possible to play
through the whole game without dying. when you *did* die, you felt it was
your own fault, that you could have avoided it if you'd been more careful
or more clever.

in most games, including this mess, it's virtually impossible to avoid
dying many times, because you're thrown into an impossible (and
implausible) situation. particularly irritating are the sort of "trapped
in a bowl with a giant monster" scenarios, like the t-rex and the centaurs
in TRA.

oh, well; i suppose that gamers who prefer cerebral gameplay to
button-mashing shooting fests are in the minority to the extent that there
may never be another game for us.

maybe it's for the best - with no games to play, i won't need to run
windows at all any more. sayonara!

dr. sarcasto
--
it's all right; i'm a doctor.

External Since: Jan 01, 2007 Posts: 61

"dr. sarcasto" <s RemoveThis @rcas.to> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.06.09.16.45.53.209423@rcas.to...
> On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:55:05 +0000, J.H. wrote:
>
>> news.blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
>>> Okay.....I guess I'm not the only person stuck at this part right now.
>>> Believe me this made the T-Rex seem easy...although I must say when I
>>> made
>>> my earlier post I omitted to say i'd started the game in "Hard"
>>> mode...that
>>> was an idiot thing to do and should only be done after completing it in
>>> Easy
>>> and Medium modes first! I went back and re-started in "easy" and whilst
>>> the
>>> puzzles are just as challenging (my favoutite parts) the baddies aren't
>>> as
>>> hard to kill and I murdered the T-Rex in next to no time due to my
>>> practice
>>> at it during my "Hard" training.
>>> The centaurs though still evade me...I know "what" to do but keep
>>> running
>>> out of medpacks before I complete it. Its all Rage Attack/Adrenalin
>>> Dodge
>>> stuff again followed by some quick grapple work but I just dont seem to
>>> have
>>> enough fingers to make it all pull together on a PC keyboard. I can
>>> imagine
>>> on a Playstayion it would be a piece of cake. On a PC I need both mouse
>>> buttons held down (intermittently), the shift key (again intermittently)
>>> and
>>> the direction controls. As if that isn't hard enough and believe me you
>>> gotta be very dextrous in the finger work you've also gotta concentrate
>>> on
>>> the action and depress each key at EXACTLY the right time. (I even taped
>>> the
>>> right mouse (target) button down with masking tape!!!).To make matters
>>> worse
>>> there ARE bugs. Freezing the centaur at the wrong moment (bad luck I
>>> guess)
>>> means you can't take his shield..so after a twenty minutes work just
>>> getting
>>> hold of ONE of the shields you get your ass kicked by a damn game bug
>>> trying
>>> to take the other! And no damn checkpoints when you need them! I really
>>> miss
>>> the early TR Games when at least I could save when and where I wanted
>>> after
>>> a difficult bit.
>>> I've tried all of the available save games on the net right now to get
>>> me
>>> past this point but they are all made using the press release (read
>>> hacked)
>>> version of the game and are not compatible with the actual "real"
>>> version.
>>> The game throws an error if you try to load the files. I await Stella's
>>> magnificent TR site to provide a working save game file as I'm about to
>>> give
>>> up on the damn Centaurs Sad

>>>
>>> Baz
>>>
>>>
>>
>> i don't even wanna think about it. i got to that point last night and
>> haven't cared less since.
>>
>> some levels make or break a game all by themselves.
>>
>> in pop:ttt it was the level with the hammer/axe guys. never played past
>> that.
>>
>> this could be the level i uninstall anniversary at.
>
>
> that's what i've done.
>
> i don't want to spend HOURS mastering keyboard and mouse skills,
> repeatedly dying and starting over; who has that kind of time to spend
> stuck in one place? not me. i want to make progress by solving
> problems with intelligence.
>
> as i recall, in the original tomb raider game, it was possible to play
> through the whole game without dying. when you *did* die, you felt it was
> your own fault, that you could have avoided it if you'd been more careful
> or more clever.
>
> in most games, including this mess, it's virtually impossible to avoid
> dying many times, because you're thrown into an impossible (and
> implausible) situation. particularly irritating are the sort of "trapped
> in a bowl with a giant monster" scenarios, like the t-rex and the centaurs
> in TRA.
>
> oh, well; i suppose that gamers who prefer cerebral gameplay to
> button-mashing shooting fests are in the minority to the extent that there
> may never be another game for us.
>
> maybe it's for the best - with no games to play, i won't need to run
> windows at all any more. sayonara!
>
>
> dr. sarcasto
> --
> it's all right; i'm a doctor.
>
Well, as I recall, this is exactly the same as the earlier Tombraider games.
I spent many an unhappy hour stuck with Willard the spider, and Natla and a
few others.

I fell to my death many times because I did not have the keyboard skills
required. I don't see the difference.

Mary