Matthew Kendora ([info]mkendora) wrote,
@ 2007-09-17 06:11:00
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Victory is MINE!
After who the hell KNOWS how many years, I finally managed to beat Septerra COre (on my third attempt to go through the game, each one on a different PC, no less).

I must say that while the ending is a bit too New Age for me, it's actually quite a piece of writing. Hell, that's why I loved the game so much. It's things like Corgan and Robin arguing religion, Araym and Robin discussing (literally) whose ass the bounty hunters chase, Maya admonishing Araym about what is and is not a business, and Led calling Oasis a junk heap, and then admitting that's why she loves it that make the game so entertaining. It's not usually that you HAVE to go revisit places with different people, but that you wonder what kind of interaction a different character will have with each NPC...

So, anyway, it's a damn good ending, because it uses earlier plot points to bring about the totally unexpected.

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[info]sgibbons
2007-09-17 03:32 pm UTC (link)
I can never finish that damn game, as it keeps freezing on me... Though from what I played so far, I enjoy it... plus I got it at EB for 1 Canadian penny, as nobody would buy it.

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[info]mkendora
2007-09-18 06:08 am UTC (link)
That's exactly why I quit playing on my mom's PC last time: I was fighting Connor and Big Bang crashed the program under XP.

Oddly enough, Vista 64-bit is far more tolerant of the particular fault, and SC has crashed about 4 times in the entire game for me, costing me maybe 75 minutes total of play time. That's a lot easier to recover from than losing a nearly-won boss battle to a crash twice (the other time, it was either Black Hole or Destroyer that crashed the game, also on Connor)

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[info]sgibbons
2007-09-18 09:34 pm UTC (link)
I seem to recall the thing that stopped me from doing it was I'd hafta restart the puter when it froze... that annoyed me greatly. Same thing happens with fallout 2 and some other game I forgot the name of. Bastards!

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[info]mkendora
2007-09-19 01:54 am UTC (link)
That sounds like a serious driver problem. No modern OS should go down that easily, unless the display driver dies with the game.

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[info]kuroichi
2007-09-21 08:17 pm UTC (link)
Sugoi!

I really need to sit down and play that more. When my lappy arrives I can play that during break at school on Tues/Thurs instead of screw off in the arcade/game store pricing (and often acquiring) old game systems and messing with that stuff.

I think my Core 2 T7500 (2.2ghz) with Vista will run it alright. I had it trip out a number of times with my other systems as you mention up there and so I quit playing.

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