Day 17 - Stand Off At The Ferris Wheel

 

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it's a goat thing that sells chocolate in Japan : Go watch the video of this advert now, its amazing.	it's a place in Russia called Pripyat: I have spent 7 of the most depressing hours of my life in Pripyat Quoted from a forum - "Pripyat was a fairly new city, being populated only 9 years before the accident (but founded in 1970. The city was built because of Chernobyl). The city was a playground for architects and was supposed to have top notch buildings (well, according to USSR standards). The amusement park (with the famous ferris wheel) was supposed to open 5 days after the accident so no one ever got to ride any rides. And one of the most toxic places on earth is Pripyat cemetery, nicknamed Ghost Town Cemetery."	Stand Off At The Ferris Wheel 1:06 So I have an Xbox 360, I play on it a lot. It has this stupid system called "achievements" essentially I can look at all my friends achievements on line and see what they have accomplished in there games, I can then gain a self gratifying sense of awesomeness when I know I have got further in a game or beaten harder challenged in a game than they have. This is my curse, and I am going to share it with you now. So I got the new "call of duty 4" game, and took a look at which achievements were available. There are a lot of them for beating the game on the super-hardcore difficultly level. Me being a man, I decided to skip all the easy crap and jump straight in on super-hard and start racking up the "achievements", the reason of course is so my friends can look at my profile online and wallow in self pity, cowering away from my superiority when compared to their pathetic "achievement". Level 1 was a walk in the park, level 2 a little more tricky. Eventually it started getting pretty damned difficult, but I was still getting through feeling like a real gamer. Then level 11 came down on me like a fucking breeze block thrown from the top of the space needle. Each level is broken in to checkpoints, so when you start again you can resume from somewhere around where you left off, these checkpoints are part of the game design, and are predetermined. The first bit of this level see you running past a seemingly endless parade of enemies with better firepower and infinite grenades, after 2 hours I cracked it and hit the first checkpoint. after about 4 hours I made it to the levels final checkpoint, just before the end. The level is set in russia, and is a faithful recreation of the photographs on the left, in the game I have to lie under that ferris wheel and await rescue from a helicopter. I have no ammo left, and there is a constant tidal wave of enemies intent on fucking me up. After 4 hours of trying this I decided to cheat. I found a place to hide where they don't ever seem to find me, so now I just wait for the chopper. Chopper arrives, but because I haven't been killing people the six meter jog to safety is impossible. I suspect I have been at this for 7 hours now getting killed what must be hundreds of fucking times and so I feel pretty fucking pathetic about it (seeing as when looking through my friends achievements, quite a few of them have managed to complete this seemingly impossible task, making me feel somewhat less less of a game-lord than I'd like) Anyway this song is about this checkpoint, under the Ferris wheel, the checkpoint I am still to get past - it's OK, I can take putting 7 hours + 4 hours in to a level of a game and not getting any sense of satisfaction out of it. Fuck that, this is annoying the shit out of me. Killing "Gears of War's" "general Ramm" on super-hard was impossible, until I did it.