Eyes... watering... brain... numb...

[xyzzysqrl]

I haven't finished the first set of Space Giraffe levels. My high score is around 60,000,000 but I've never gotten past roughly level 35. There are 100 levels.

When the PC version is released, there will be 100 MORE levels. Okay. I am a massive Space Giraffe fanboy, so I'm thinking... MORE LEVELS YAAAY!

But I can't justify buying MORE levels if there's like 60+ I haven't seen yet, can I?

... I have been up all night playing Space Giraffe. Headphones on, widescreen resolution cranked, mind blank but for whirling colors and sounds. I have still not gotten past level 35. My brain is singing to me in Welsh and Latin and I think Atlantian. I think I want to hug Jeff Minter and then punch him, or possibly the other way around.

I have STILL NOT GOTTEN PAST LEVEL 35.

At this point it's not so much a feeling of dedication as it is a vaguely psychotic need. I'm going to BEAT you, game. I'm going to beat you and your shiny shiny colors and your whirling lights and your mooing and baaing. And then I will buy more levels for you. And beat those. While laughing. And on fire. But first I am going to fricking SLEEP.

...

Maybe if I could bring myself to use the "continue" function instead of trying to Long March the game from stage 1 every go.

Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

When I got it for the 360, I played for a while. I'd continue, I was still trying to understand the game.

Then one day I was playing it and I got into the groove, and made it from level 1 to level fifty-something in one go. I... haven't really had the desire to play it since, as I know it's a day-long commitment. Because it's the kind of game where continuing feels like failing. And starting from a high level makes it hard to get into the groove.

Hell, how much did you pay for SG; how much would you have paid? $5 was a pittance. I paid $20 for Portal and will maybe go back to it once or twice; I definitely got more fun out of SG. Buy the PC version and put it away; you're just finishing paying what you should have in the first place.

Also, laughing while saying "Jeff, you bastard!" is a pretty common experience during SG for me. Um. Now I want to boot it up and have a go...

[xyzzysqrl]

Yeah, I fully intend to buy both Space Giraffe PC and Gridrunner ++(+?) solely on the basis of "JEFF MINTER NEEDS MORE MONEYS", and I admit I'm not so much complaining as going "DAAAAAMN YOOOOOU" in a theatrical, fists-to-the-sky way.

But I have no trouble with day-long, week-long, month-long commitments to games, I just get distracted and wander all over the place gamewise much too often to really "beat" a game in like ever, so I feel that posts like this motivate me to do so.

[katrus.livejournal.com]

I've seen him mention the PC version on his own LJ, and it's something I've been looking forward to, as I don't have a 360. Soon, I hope. And preferably, via Steam.