First World Problems

[jetpack_monkey]

So I'm prevented from playing any farther through Deus Ex: Human Revolution because I'm currently ahead of where echan is in the game and ze is a spoilerphobe. Every time ze comes into the room and there's plot (and I'm at a point where it's almost all plot or plot-adjacent), hands go to ears and ze goes "Lalalalala." If I remember to warn zir, which I rarely do.

So I have to wait for Echan to catch up.

Echan, I should mention, is a slow, methodical player in a game that rewards slow, methodical players.

This wouldn't really be a problem if the game wasn't so damn good. I kind of feel like I'm in the middle of a cyberpunk novel. 

The Deus Ex series: consuming my every waking, non-working minute for the second time in seven years. Dammit.

Comments

[milly.livejournal.com]

LOL. That sound exactly like what went on last week. bradcpu came home from work, noticed I was ahead of him in Deus Ex and going through a conversation that was plot-heavy, and walked into the kitchen, making as much noise as possible to cover the sound of the game until I was done, then asked me to stop playing :P

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

We're clearly terrible people for being ahead like that. *nods solemnly*

[steinba.livejournal.com]

I'm not very far, but when I tried to be a slow, methodical player, some guy screamed at me over the comm that something terrible was going to happen. Does it reward slow methodicalness later on?

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I forgot about that. But yes, it rewards being slow and methodical for most of the game.

[echan (from livejournal.com)]

For most of the game, there are XP bonuses for being sneaky, and also for stunning or knocking out enemies (vs killing them). But there are a couple places where you can achieve something extra if you kill everyone fast enough.

[steinba.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK. This was like the first hub, I was exploring and such and then I got yelled at over the comms, and in the first mission the [REDACTED] got [REDACTED].

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Totally frustrating, right? I really wanted the [redacted] to stay [redacted] instead.