“Haven’t you heard of the “Quick Save” function, boy?” You may ask me that question but who the heck remembers to press the proper function key while you are busy (trying to) execute the demise of NOD/the Soviets/those darn Protoss/etc etc. The penalty is often just an XP/gold dock and you get resurrected from the point where your character was slain. Games like Torchlight and Diablo made it easier to get back into the game despite the time invested, simply because they don’t set you back by much. More recently, mid-campaign engagement with the Tau in Dawn of War 2 was enough to put me off the game entirely, simply because their long-range lasers questioned my commitment to heavy bolters. It wasn’t uncommon for me to take a two week break from Red Alert 2 after a particularly tough final level engagement with the Reds (damn that Iron Curtain).
#Starcraft 2 campaign quicksave series
The Command and Conquer franchise, the Heroes of Might & Magic series and StarCraft to name a few and depending on the amount of time invested, the longer it took me to get back into a game whenever I got pwned in a level. I used to play a lot of strategy games back when I was in college. Probably my substantial hours on Last_Defender still isn’t enough for me to not get pwned (or probably the sheer lack of talent for TD games), but this brings us to the next question, what do you do having gone through the jaws of defeat? Some folks may say that “practice makes perfect”, but having played the game a lot since my daughter’s birth, I had to ask myself: “Hey man, it’s just a one day break and you are getting the crap kicked out of you?”.Ĭase in my point, if I were to have a pick-up game of badminton with my mum now, who played at state and national level when she was younger, I’m still gonna get creamed despite her not picking up the racquet in YEARS. I missed playing Last_Defender, a Tower Defense title that I reviewed recently for just one day (review here), and I got creamed within the first 20 waves of creeps in my first attempt this morning.