TranceQuina

@sparky_buzzsaw: Sorry 'bout that. :(

Thanks for the help, I did put on some headphones and listening for it isn't so bad.

But then it got me from two different overhead vents as I just happened to be moving under them. Then I finally made it to the medbay where there was an explosion, I had to climb a ladder and suddenly died for no reason. Then I eventually made it to the medbay again (because I still had to load from the last save) and instead of the new objective loading up like before, I got a game over screen.

Then I turned it off.

I can't tell all that well when it's walking around and when it's in the vents. Hiding in lockers gets annoying and hardly ever works; when it walks right up to me and I have to lean back and hold my breath, I start running out of air, and even when it has walked out of the room, something very sudden happens: either Amanda gasps and opens the locker on her own, or the alien somehow still found me and suddenly rips it open. I can't tell what's going on, it all happens very quickly.

I've started from the same save point so many times, I'm not even scared anymore but just pissed off. I need to get this keycard back to a doctor but I have to backtrack through this entire area it's been stalking me through.

Will it EVER just give up and crawl through the vents to some other part of the station? Is there something very obvious I'm missing? How am I supposed to avoid this thing that I can't reliably track and that always finds me while I'm waiting for it wander far enough away for me to walk down a single damn hallway?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I was really enjoying this game until, ya know, the alien stuff.

@hh: Okami HD is a current prime example of a game that I can tell is good and would be good to check off my list, but is just not keepings its hooks in me. I'm probably about halfway through it and I just fell off of it, so now it's just sitting on my hard drive, like so many others. Time to either play it or delete it.

I have a habit of pushing through games that I only moderately enjoy, for the sake of finishing it and the hope that it will get better/grow on me.

Similarly to putting a book down once you know it isn't for you, how do you know when to stop playing a game? Is there a time limit or some other hard rule you go by?

You're amazing, Patrick. I actually play this game and I don't get this kind of inside look anywhere else.

King's Field, Deus Ex Human Revolution Director's Cut, Etrian Odyssey IV.

I will put all of them down when Bravely Default releases.

As a kid I played so much of Shatterhand on the NES, a kick-ass action/platformer with Megaman-style level selection, choices of playstyle, and all the good music. I feel like no one but me has ever played it.

If I got a second I might bust out Uniracers for the SNES, but I don't know how well it's aged.

So what game(s) would you show off?

Since Demon's Souls I've done my first runthrough as a magician/sorcerer. Vicious bosses, here comes another glass cannon!

It's gonna be great/bullshit.

I was under the worst spell for awhile of "Sell everything, need those nickels!" Over time I slowly bought back all the stuff I never should have sold.

But now Gitaroo Man is in a plain black box. What a fool am I.