Confessions of a wuss

[mousme]

My colleague Excitable!Puppy lent me Resident Evil 4, and I decided to put it into the PS2 tonight when I got home from work.

After chasing after my AV cable, and then puzzling through the friendly manual, I decided to have a go at it. After all, I figured, I might get used to the game play just by bopping around.

HAH!

The game starts off with the main character, Leon Kennedy, being dropped off right outside an old abandoned shack in the middle of the woods in a remote location. My immediate thought? OMGZOMBIESI'MGONNADIEAAAAAAH!

Yeah.

So I manage to get him to the door, and I'm still having difficulty with the controls (they're not the same as the other two games I've played on the PS2), and oh God I just know there's a zombie RIGHTBEHINDTHEDOOR and I haven't even started the game and my heart is currently residing in my mouth. Okay. No zombies. There's a live person who instead attacks me with an axe. I likely use too many bullets dispatching him, and realize that I can't aim for sh*t (how am I supposed to go for the head if I can't aim? The zombies are GONNA EAT ME!).

Then I get "instructions" from my "contact" to go into the rest of the totally abandoned village.

Uh, yeah. Screw that noise. I'm not doing this at midnight. Nuh-uh. My zombie street cred is ruined forever, but I'm willing to live with the shame, just so long as I don't end up freaking myself out for the rest of my ever-lovin' life.

Yes, I'm a wuss.

Comments

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

We will have to introduce you to Left 4 Dead when you're out here :)

[tcaptain.livejournal.com]

Seconded...Left 4 Dead is teh awesome!

J has already stated she won't play it (despite being a fan of FPS) because it freaks her out too much just watching me.

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

We should try playing sometime; Steam userid is the same as my LJ name...

[tcaptain.livejournal.com]

I'll have to get a PC copy. :( I'm not on Steam I'm on X-Box Live

However, hope is not lost as I might just decide to get a PC copy as well.

I just gotta say...

[le-maistre-e.livejournal.com]

... that with all the running away from zombies (so the right plan, BTW) and the talking to Jesus Christ (see your previous post), you are one cool chick.

:-)

Re: I just gotta say...

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Seconded!

Thirded, and damn straight.

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

Among others, she's capable of more than running.

[chibipunkdemon.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about the controls. Everyone complains about the controls.

I made it into the village before giving up in frustration.

[toughlovemuse.livejournal.com]

Wait... You put a Resident Evil game in your PS2, and you *weren't* expecting terrifying things with Zombies?

*quirks an eyebrow at you*

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, I was expecting terrifying things with zombies... I just didn't quite think through the implications of putting on a new game late at night.

1- I get stupidly stressed by new things I don't quite understand.

2- It was late at night.

3- There were terrifying things with zombies.

I can deal with each of these things separately with no problem. All together? Baaaaad. :P

I think I may have to play the first part of the game with someone here to metaphorically hold my hand. ;)