Each time on Monday, when my colleagues ask me how my weekend is, a quick answer from me is "dying" -- Digitally because of Psycho Break AKUMU.
For so many times after doing a "should-be-no-problem-on-normal" sequence with lots of deaths, I just yelled "CHECKPOINT PLEASE!!" xDD
For so many times after doing a "should-be-no-problem-on-normal" sequence with lots of deaths, I just yelled "CHECKPOINT PLEASE!!" xDD
It is stressful, although it's fun or I'm never trying. Yet, I decided to switch gear by running another fresh round of biohazard 4 professional mode.
So that fresh means starting from zero without any stuff inherited. My first time pro round was largely helped by the second costume which made Ashley invincible. I personally thought it was quite a good start for people new in pro. Yet this time, besides that I wanted to get rid of that less professional help, I don't like Leon's 2nd costume at all. As I had over 10 rounds of bio2 playing experience, nothing would be better than his RPD uniform.
And this round took me nearly a whole day totally, in which I died 179 times (I tried not to "retry" too much so I could see the real number of death)! lol
So that fresh means starting from zero without any stuff inherited. My first time pro round was largely helped by the second costume which made Ashley invincible. I personally thought it was quite a good start for people new in pro. Yet this time, besides that I wanted to get rid of that less professional help, I don't like Leon's 2nd costume at all. As I had over 10 rounds of bio2 playing experience, nothing would be better than his RPD uniform.
And this round took me nearly a whole day totally, in which I died 179 times (I tried not to "retry" too much so I could see the real number of death)! lol
Because I'm already so familiar with locations of all the treasures, money wasn't a problem at all for me, and I can always keep my pace with the progress of weapon upgrades.
At about the last 2 or 3 merchant point, I've pretty done maxed my weapon sets:
Red9 - People said it has aiming issues to be unstable, but I didn't feel it, perhaps I've forgotten how blacktail aims long time ago. Any way, I love the sound of Red9, so it'll become my main handgun forever!
Riot gun - It does look better than any other shotguns. So I'm okay to not think about the 100 capacity in the semi-auto. Although the only bad thing is it can't deal with a wide angle, while my playing skill can easily get myself in a bad situation being surrounded by zombies... ^^;
Rifle - I mean the initial old school rifle. I'm aware of that you'll have a bolt-action after each fire, but the bolt-action is especially what I love to see (No specific reason and I just think it looks cool)! Plus, after maxing it, the fire power is a sweet 50!
I basically like to aim and shoot, so I'd rather keep my distance with machine guns or assault rifles. Furthermore, those have generally weak fire-power and bad aiming accuracy. Also, no mine thrower, because I had bad experience with it in bio3. Regarding to the special weapons, like the infinite rocket launcher or the triple-shot handgun (forgot its name...) or Chicago typewriter. Current weapons satisfying me a lot, that it's just fun to use different weapons depending on the situation. I'm never a speed runner, so I don't really care about those super weapons that take the 1 shoot kill. Although I'm planning to still buy them and have a try.
At about the last 2 or 3 merchant point, I've pretty done maxed my weapon sets:
Red9 - People said it has aiming issues to be unstable, but I didn't feel it, perhaps I've forgotten how blacktail aims long time ago. Any way, I love the sound of Red9, so it'll become my main handgun forever!
Riot gun - It does look better than any other shotguns. So I'm okay to not think about the 100 capacity in the semi-auto. Although the only bad thing is it can't deal with a wide angle, while my playing skill can easily get myself in a bad situation being surrounded by zombies... ^^;
Rifle - I mean the initial old school rifle. I'm aware of that you'll have a bolt-action after each fire, but the bolt-action is especially what I love to see (No specific reason and I just think it looks cool)! Plus, after maxing it, the fire power is a sweet 50!
I basically like to aim and shoot, so I'd rather keep my distance with machine guns or assault rifles. Furthermore, those have generally weak fire-power and bad aiming accuracy. Also, no mine thrower, because I had bad experience with it in bio3. Regarding to the special weapons, like the infinite rocket launcher or the triple-shot handgun (forgot its name...) or Chicago typewriter. Current weapons satisfying me a lot, that it's just fun to use different weapons depending on the situation. I'm never a speed runner, so I don't really care about those super weapons that take the 1 shoot kill. Although I'm planning to still buy them and have a try.
Maybe next round of fresh run I can die less. I indeed learned from my failures a lot in terms of stradegy. I also found that Ashley isn't that annoying really (I'm NOT saying when she speaks nor when she asks you to catch her even though a ladder is available). In most scenes when she's beside, there's always a hiding point or handy checkpoints (I mean the green doors). And thus those more challenging scenes with her would be: [1] she turns the cranks and you'll have to knock the black-robes down while fighting some rushing toward you. [2] while controlling the giant metal ball (don't know what it's called) to smash the wall, as there're always bad islanders coming from everywhere!
The rest scenes are super doable even without a trash bin for hiding: In the village she can go to the clock tower, before the king's grail she can stay in the hallway with the lion statue, etc...
And by Leon himself, I find it's hard at the first time for a few scenes:
- the beginning survival moment in the village blended with one or two chainsaw fights, "hit and away" and shotgun + gernades is important.
- the second (?) survival stage with Luis = a big mess and the hardest to me.
- the big cheese boss fight, I still don't have a good way to fight but I kind of think rifle is the way out.
- the water poll (?) stage that right before Ashley goes up and turns two cranks, I had no good way but kept using the door-checkpoint after killing a few numbers without damage.
- the king grail stage, I know I can head-shot each of them and burst out the bugs, but I'm bad at head shooting... ._.
- the right hand escape or fight, if you don't use the free rocket launcher of course.I need to confess that I missed the rocket shot and had to retry... >_> -- the Salazar boss fight is nothing. I got him down in a minute!
- Jack Krauser fight. I learned from my ~50 deaths, that you can take him quick with the knife, while PUSHING ALL L1/L2/□/✕ BUTTONS AT THE SAME TIME for the QTE, so you don't have to think about what to push.
- The 3 Gatling towers stage. I even though I was going to be stuck, but, the point is to silence the middle one, and then rifle the two on the side.
- The final boss fight... It's questionable. My first time pro run was hard, because I had no grenades left (so I had to go and buy a mine thrower). But this time, I got 7 in my box. and it became a little (he still hurts) easier.
The rest scenes are super doable even without a trash bin for hiding: In the village she can go to the clock tower, before the king's grail she can stay in the hallway with the lion statue, etc...
And by Leon himself, I find it's hard at the first time for a few scenes:
- the beginning survival moment in the village blended with one or two chainsaw fights, "hit and away" and shotgun + gernades is important.
- the second (?) survival stage with Luis = a big mess and the hardest to me.
- the big cheese boss fight, I still don't have a good way to fight but I kind of think rifle is the way out.
- the water poll (?) stage that right before Ashley goes up and turns two cranks, I had no good way but kept using the door-checkpoint after killing a few numbers without damage.
- the king grail stage, I know I can head-shot each of them and burst out the bugs, but I'm bad at head shooting... ._.
- the right hand escape or fight, if you don't use the free rocket launcher of course.
- Jack Krauser fight. I learned from my ~50 deaths, that you can take him quick with the knife, while PUSHING ALL L1/L2/□/✕ BUTTONS AT THE SAME TIME for the QTE, so you don't have to think about what to push.
- The 3 Gatling towers stage. I even though I was going to be stuck, but, the point is to silence the middle one, and then rifle the two on the side.
- The final boss fight... It's questionable. My first time pro run was hard, because I had no grenades left (so I had to go and buy a mine thrower). But this time, I got 7 in my box. and it became a little (he still hurts) easier.
Finally, let me declare:
1. the winner in bio4 weapons should be the little knife! As long as you're in a high position with a ladder and your back is safe, you can knife all of them and enjoy the pleasant sound when they fall off. -- Am I the real evil one?!
2. I love Red9 and Uncle Merchant (I like Luis too but sadly he dies too quick)!
3. I believe another reason for bio4 to be so successful is all the mishearing of Spanish? xDD
1. the winner in bio4 weapons should be the little knife! As long as you're in a high position with a ladder and your back is safe, you can knife all of them and enjoy the pleasant sound when they fall off. -- Am I the real evil one?!
2. I love Red9 and Uncle Merchant (I like Luis too but sadly he dies too quick)!
3. I believe another reason for bio4 to be so successful is all the mishearing of Spanish? xDD
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I happened to see the new publish of Furtwängler conducts Beethoven with a super decent price (previously I mainly hit for some past releases with stupidly high prices), so I got it without hesitation. Together with it, it's a 10 CD set of Tchaikovsky's orchestra works. The Beethoven set would be no surprising as I know how it sounds like. But the latter was indeed "interesting". There's no booklet, and thus I had no clue how these recordings were selected and put together into the 10 disks. For a quick look, things are inconsistent: How could a 199x recording being put with a 195x one, and they are performed by completely different artists! Generally, it's like $2-3 each disk so I was kind of aware of such "abnormalities" and have no complaints. I'd even say I bought this "suspicious" CD box only because of its low price -- just another "weird" yet "great (most performers were the big names)" set of mono recordings into my collection~!