...and that's enough of that

[jethrien]

I'm slowly and painfully making my way through Portal--my video game reflexes are crap so the simple act of jumping onto a platform instead of falling into acid is a bit of a problem. Also, I get really tense when I keep dying.

And I just hit the level with the live fire robots who are actively trying to kill you. Holy crap, my heartrate feels faster than it did when I was running earlier today. If I just managed to spike my adrenaline again this week, I'm going to have to have words with my adrenal glands. Words, I tell you.

I think I'm going to back away from the computer now and try to convince my body that really, there's no bear going to eat me in hopes that I might sleep sometime tonight.

Comments

[esprit-du-tigre.livejournal.com]

are you still there? ...there you are

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!Kill it with fire!!!!

[qiika.livejournal.com]

Wow! You must really get into first-person games!

I know I had more than a bit of trouble with acid pools and laser-shooting robots, but I can't remember the last time I really lost myself in a game like you describe. I'm actually a little jealous. :)

Seriously, I'd love to hear more of your take on that game.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I do not, as a rule, play first-person shooters. I've got bad aim and crap gaming reflexes and I'm naturally anxious to begin with. (When I first played Portal, on a friend's video game system, I managed to get myself stuck dropping in and out of a portal in the floor and couldn't get out because I couldn't control the camera angle. Made the entire roomful of people nauseated. I'm doing a lot better on the PC.) Chuckro also doesn't play FPS--he tends to prefer JRPGs and the occasional beat-em-up. So this getting shot at directly thing is not something I'm used to, or am handling particularly well.

My imagination is...overactive. I have been known to produce tears on command during role-playing games.

Anyway, I really like the puzzle-solving aspects of Portal--most of the video games I've enjoyed have been puzzle games. And GLADoS is hilarious and brilliant. But I'm not sure how I'm going to make it through this level without having a heart attack.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Every time the turrets shoot at your character, I jump a foot off the couch. Loved Portal, but, yeah, not so good for the blood pressure. Also, I get really agitated and have to walk away from the game when I can see what to do but cannot make it work no matter what controls I jiggle. Balls to that.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I finally figured out the secret to the acid level with the zig-zagging platforms--I have to save every single time I make a new portal, so that when I inevitably fall off the platform randomly again, I don't have to do the entire segment over.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I really need to play Portal, but I'm pants at video games - my reflexes are awful with them, unless I'm playing the Wii, and I have serious issues with seeing polygons. Dunno why - I just can't SEE most games the way they're supposed to be seen, so I flail a lot.

But Portal keeps beckoning to me....

Probably shouldn't play on the adrenaline overload I've got going lately, though, eh?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

No. Absolutely not. It seems innocuous, at first--oh, puzzles! But then the puzzles start trying to kill you.

It's a really cool game, worth playing, but wait until the stress level comes down a bit.

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

...in light of our other conversation on horror movies, do not ever play Amnesia: the Dark Descent.

You will be missing one of the finest, most atmospheric horror games every made (with very little visible gore, in fact), but at the very first squeaky floor sound when you go to sleep, you will choke your hubby's life force out in terror.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I need that life force to live!