Gaming

Uh-oh! I'm back in the character creation tool again.



Hmmm, now that's the kind of dark-eyed creepiness I wanted for my wizard but at the time I didn't understand how to move the tattoos around.
But I'm not starting again.
I just didn't have enough time for playing last night so I spent ten minutes pushing faces around instead.

This is Black Desert Online.
It was free to get at the end of last month, which is the only reason I have it, and it's supported by Geforce Now, which is the only reason I can play it.
The base game is still relatively cheap, which is a plus, but it really doesn't do much to help you to understand all the options and cluttered interface. I've spent far too long researching YouTube videos and I still don't understand most of what's going on. But maybe that's just my ignorance of MMOs.

Yes, I never understand all that talk of "builds".
I quite liked the way Morrowind dealt with all that by giving you a weird questionnaire like a psychological test. Fallout had something similar too. But when I'm just faced with categories and numbers to punch in then I often do it in a vague, random way and then just pick a class that I like the look of in the shallowest way possible.
And just like you, when the game starts it's just... BASH, BASH, BASH!

There is a much repeated Skyrim joke that everyone ends up playing as a stealth archer, but not me. Those characters just don't have enough BASH!

Yep, gotta have those pets!

I've just had a rather long return to Skyrim.
"A new hand touches the beacon."



...and that was a tough quest, well the end bit was. Just BASHING wasn't quite good enough. I had to resort to magic and summoning "things" along with a lot of that very special spell: Quicksave/Reload.
So many bodies at the end of it!
It was absolute carnage!

...AND (I forgot to mention this) I've now hunted enough bears for that woman with the funny name, but during my hunting attacks those bears had apparently infected me with TWO different diseases without me realising.
I only noticed when I was leveling up and saw that my stamina was lower than usual and coloured red! I'll now have to try and remember where I've stored my "cure" potions.
I'm sure one of my horses is carrying them.
*whistles*
*whistles for a different horse*
*whistles for the third horse*

Oh, dear. There I am sneaking round Old London Town, minding my own business and the pesky rozzers start to interfere!
OK, I realise that "my own business" is actually killing people and that it may not go down well with The Old Bill but I've enough people to kill without the police getting involved!



"You'll never take me alive, Copper!"
And he didn't. He took me dead instead after repeatedly clubbing me about the head with his truncheon!

LATER EDIT:

Meanwhile in the other game I've made my way to a village at the coast where I found a huge fishing crowd.... Gotta queue for that fish!



...and a cat!!



But not mine.
I should try and research how to get pet follower things, because there were loads of people with them in that village. And I even saw someone riding what looked like a camel!

Anyway... bed now. *yawn*