Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Cabela's Alaskan Adventures = DONE

This game is absolute, certified shit. The worst game I've ever played by far. I can't even begin to describe all the ways this glitchy piece of shit sucks, but I'll try, it bulleted form:
  • Squirrels take something like 8 shots from a shotgun to kill. Bears, one.
  • You can shoot an animal, listen to the guide say "Now finish him off", shoot him again, and get penalized.
  • There's a stamina meter, which I guess is accurate, but is unfair because: a) It drains at walking speed and b) you need to walk across huge maps sometimes.
  • Fishing employs ridiculously inaccurate mechanics and requires you to move a joystick with an accuracy of literally 2-3 degrees.
  • When the game says "Shoot 3 bears" it sometimes means "Shoot 3 male adult bears" and there's no way of finding this out until after you kill a bear and get penalized.
  • There's no way of being able to determine the gender of most of the animals until after you kill it and get penalized for killing the wrong gender.
  • You need to adjust for wind and bullet arcs for shots as short as 3 yards. No, really, 3.
  • An animal can pounce at you from 10 feet and damage you without coming close to you at all.
  • Sometimes, the game you need to hunt will run to a cabin and you can't kill it because you can't shoot a gun within 50 yards of an occupied building, regardless of the fact that the building isn't fucking occupied.
And blogspot has a scheduled outage in about half an hour, so I'm going to stop for now. If the glitch to use radar on Simulation mode didn't exist, I probably would have hung myself by now.

I'm still keeping Gears 2 on hold, and my new goal is to get GTA IV done before I start Gears. So far, I've done 11 races in about 5 total hours. Wanted seems like it'll be more time-consuming, but infinitely more straight-forward. For now, I've just been doing AWP with Sajaa and doing the campaign again for Chain Reaction during downtime.

I still stand by "SR2 > SR1 > GTA IV". Hell, I'd rather play Superman Returns than GTA for 100 hours.

2 comments:

Max Limitz said...

Thanks for the warning. I have too many games with only a few achievements (I use my time in multiplayer matches) and I've been thinking of getting more of them in some of my games (maybe finish King Kong or something).

jackanape said...

HA - you think you had it rough. I didn't know there was a cheat to use the radar on Simulation difficulty. So I did the entire thing without it. Now that is PAIN.