Chippy180

I can honestly say that the end of Jerry's post choked me up a bit, and I'm not much of an emotional type. Rest in Peace duder.

Without a shadow of a doubt, I have to say that Resident Evil 2 gave me the biggest fright of my life and while many games have terrified me over the years(That one part in Dead Space 2, amirite?), none could match the 5 minutes I spent with Resident Evil when it had first been released.

I was 7 at the time and had owned a Playstation since it's release in Europe. I was far from masterful in my play-style, but I could handle myself in Crash and was fine with most other games. That was, until I purchased the latest demo from the Official Playstation Magazine U.K and made the biggest mistake of my young life. Breaking the seal, shrouded in naïveté much like Pandora, I chose the first game on the list - Resident Evil 2. As luck would have it, I left the room in time for the scary openings and came back just in time for the "Press start" option to put up. Paying no heed to what I had unleashed, nor the scary man's rendition of "Resident Evil" I jumped in.

Seconds later I was swimming in some of the nicest polygons I could imagine(I was 7, everything looked PHENOMENAL) as the flames from the burning bus blared in the background. Unbeknownst to my young self you could interact with the obviously placed door and instead played around with the ultra-friendly tank controls. While I helplessly meandered back and forth in an effort to escape the converging zombies, my heart began to pulsate further and further, to the point where more oxygen was leaving my body than was entering. Then came the biting, as my past shook the controller in a fervour to no avail.

Eventually Leon collapsed to the ground, I was shaking and the T.V was blaring. What happened next was truly terrifying to my 7 year old self as I watched my protagonist beset upon a dozen zombies as "GAME OVER" scrawled it's way onto the screen. I used to escape to a fantastical dreamworld each night in bed. Not that night. Most nights return a black abyss with no recollection of the events that took place over the course of my sleep since then. In fact I can count on my hands the number of good dreams I've had over the past 13 years.

In closing, fuck Resident Evil 2, that shit stole my dreams. My precious, precious dreams.

As other posters' have mentioned, getting to rank 2 of the covenant(By giving the spider lady 30 humanity) opens a secret path to Lost Izalith. What others' neglected to mention is that the only way to save Solaire from man-eating centipedes is to open that path and kill all 9 of the centipedes before reaching the end. Saving Brolaire results in having the ability to summon him for the final fight against Boss Numero Uno at the end of the game.

I thought it was only right to save him after finding this image which made me praise the sun:

Edit : Also you should get that egg/maggot off of your head soon. It increases damage taken from fire, disables your kick animation in place of a maggot swipe and disables your headgear. Eating an egg vermifuge will remove it completely and can be bought from Einygi(The spider-lady's servant) or as a drop from forest tree-snakes, as well as a rare drop from hostile spider-servants.

@Riboflavin: Ah grand job, I might head back when the need dictates.

Is it worthwhile jumping down to fight those guys'? I didn't bother/screamed like a bitch whenever I fell down there and just bashed my way past that area.

Did you buy the Orange Soap Stone from him? I'm not sure whether you can buy that off other merchants and it's pretty handy. Other merchants sell arrows, like the crazy lady in the aquaduct.

This is just more of an incentive to buy Trackmania, I'm already drowning in games to play! Fantastic job! Anime Vice's vinyl is under the bonnet yeah?

@AlisterCat said:

The live show is more to show the spirit of whiskey media, and what they are all about. I support for supports sake (and small stuff like the mobile site, HD video etc). Some users want them to make money through ads. They don't want that and neither do I. Keep the ads low and selective, and I'll pay to show I enjoy and approve of what they do.

This. I don't have a tendency to edit the Wiki much as a result of other people capable of doing a far better job than I could, and while I thoroughly enjoy the Happy Hour I could live without it. I like the idea of being able to keep the Whiskey Media sites highly independent.

On the BLLSL : I was in chat from the beginning(Then migrated to Tested when the chat broke) and saw mostly positive remarks from the chatters, there was a relatively good buzz from everybody in the chat throughout each segment, with the usual "Har har Comic Vine gotta take a piss". The entire day was energetic and around the 3 hour point I was more than willing to re-up my subscription on the 12th. Supporting a quality series of websites for $50 is a small price to pay for the enjoyment I receive from them each week, I just won't buy FIFA 12 this year.

@Burglarize: Oh man, it does and all! I never read past the first sentence and assumed they hadn't made the confirmation yet, thanks for pointing it out!