December 2009

14:26 - 19/12/2009 - Mayhem - How I Love

21:52 - 06/12/2009 - Torch Light

In other news, I've been playing Torchlight quite a bit in the free time that I do have. Well worth the small price tag, it's an 'action rpg' but I won't try too hard to explain it as the trailers on its site give you a fair impression if you're interested. All the items seem to be generated randomly, even the 'rare' and 'unique' ones, which gives quite a lot of items completely mismatched stats, making some rare items far far better than others.

I started by playing 'Vanquisher', one because I wanted to be rogue like, and second because it was the only female character! However even having never played a game like this before it was ridiculously easy on normal so I started again with the Masochist difficultly setting, which actually is still fairly easy if you make sure you have a good weapon and put your skill points into the obviously best skills, mainly because as vanquisher you can just kite everything. It gets a little difficult when there's just too many things to aim at moving around like a small child given coke for the first time.

Growing a little bored by just kiting everything constantly - and annoyed when I started any of the later levels with 100 monsters right by the entrance and no room to kite - I decided to do something a bit different, being able to do so because you can completely choose what attributes (strength / dexterity / magic / defence) to upgrade each level and there being some interesting knockback / charge skills in the vanquisher's skill panes... The difference was, I choose Vanquisher but then proceeded to kit and skill them like a tank. I did do it on hard though, what with the fact if I'd tried to melee anything to death on Masochist I'd have just got raped repeatedly before I could afford any kit.

19:43 - 06/12/2009 - Sigh

This is what I just spent over the last hour of my life doing...

*sigh*