Gaming

The best thing Morrowind ever did was to teach me to not rely too much on quest markers and main story lines. If it wasn't for that experience I'd play all these games very differently indeed.

But I have noticed that quest order thing in my Witcher game too. I had to reload a few times to get Coleman's dialogue/quests right. If you did them the wrong way round you ended up with loose ends that couldn't be completed.

I'm now captain of the ship in Mass Effect!
I've travelled to new star sytems, landed on new planets and driven around in that Mako buggy thing. The controls are almost as fiddly as those Halo Warthogs. I'm bouncing it around in a way that can't be good for the squad but they've yet to complain about the ridiculous G-forces that I'm putting them through.
And I've found a crashed probe that I'd better salvage and recover....

[ELECTRONIC SKILL TOO LOW]

That'll teach me not to "Auto Level Up".
I even switched my squad to the tech experts but it's still not good enough. Perhaps I'll go to another planet and come back to this one after I've leveled some electronic skills.

After a few days of trying to do Witcher quests in the right order I thought I was overdue some Skyrim time.
I delivered the weapon, as asked, then beat up some thugs who'd taken over a mine and with that done, I thought I'd make my way home again. I've been away too long, investigating conspiracies, getting locked up, killing some legendary dead guy etc. Yeah, just have a nice long ride back home and see what random things might happen on the way...

Of course. It's a man walking his painted cow!
Just normal Skyrim things.


I stopped to have a chat. 'Twas an offering to the giants.


I offered to help him out but he didn't need it so I went on my way. Found an outdoor drunken party and had a mead with the boys (oh, must try and do something with my challenge picture. Mead! Thanks for reminding me, Skyrim!) then I saw M'aiq again. He wanted to tell me something about beards.
Then there was a woman walking her dog on a pilgrimage to a sanctuary. Some Alik'r harrassing another poor Redguard woman. I think it's time I finally sorted them out, but not just yet cos I'm almost home and I can see Dragonsreach in the distance...



Almost home. Almost....

You're not home until the cat says so!

That moment when you are locked in a fight for a couple of hours with half a dozen midgets that are 14 levels higher than you and pretty much one shot you when they hit you while also being built like tanks. They regretted ambushing me in the end, oh yes

Also, note to self... cut scenes do not create save points

Quicksave, Banj. Quicksave.
I have a special finger that's always ready to hit F5.

One of the nice things about the Tomb Raider games is the way it plays a little chiming sound when you hit a savepoint so you always know that you're safe. And then they go and annoy you by making manual saves revert to the last checkpoint and not that actual point that you save.

I save manually fairly often, but I expected it to automatically save after things like ending a conversation, checking off completion of a section of a quest... and many other moments that would make sense. The stupid thing is it does it after some cut scenes but not others, hence the never ending midget fight.

Having a whale of a time, wish you were here!

So we can enjoy the stench together?
And Banj, DID YOU KILL THAT GUY by the chest? Or are there two of them? I can't quite tell...

Oh sure, every dead body in er, wherever we are is my fault

including the whale....