Some Games Just Piss Me Off !
I have been playing “Tony Hawk Project 8″ a lot lately and have been getting rather pissed off about two things..
Firstly, there are “chalk” activities all around the gaming world for you to attempt such as a long grind. These activities have four colour markings for the beginning and the three levels of competence which are placed further and further away. Now sometimes these can be very far away to a point where youre left wondering how the hell youre surposed to figure this out … it makes no sense at all! They could have at least showed the way! Anyways …
Secondly, there are activities where you must follow someone holding a camera and do whatever tricks they call out, which is fine. Imagine you are aiming for the “ultimate” level of competence for this trick, where most of the routine are done from memory and not following the camera persons queue, and you stack off your board … ok so you lose a second or two crom the crash / recovery, not too bad… but for some stupid reason you are put back on your board in the wrong place and facing away from the camera person! but you dont know that until you start skating away and the screen goes a gright wite color like you have been flashbang’ed with a message saying “too far”. CMON! so anyways thats another three or four seconds wasted, before youre telelported near to your camera person, who is normally nowhere near a place where you can do your next trick, which sets you off even more! ffs this is something that SOMEONE must have mentioned during QA testing??
