erastes

As you may know, been playing Deus Ex Human Revolution these past few days, for some reason it’s insanely cheap on Ebay and suchlike places so I got a new copy a lot earlier than I normally would, and it will keep me going until Assassin’s Creed: Please don’t go, Ezio comes along next month.

I’m not great at DE: HR, but that won’t surprise anyone. I may be a fervent gamer, but I’m not terribly good at them. I tend to get spotted a LOT, even though I hide behind every box and wall. Probably my big english Arse sticking out, those walls aren’t very big.

However, I made a complete TIT of myself on the second level. One of the quests involved getting into the Police Station (when I really wasn’t flavour of the month over there) and getting unauthorised access to the Morgue to inspect a corpse. (It’s complicated) Soooo—I assumed, as I wasn’t exactly Man of the Month with the Detroit PD, the only way to get in and get the job done was to break in, either through the sewers or the through the roof access. I went through the roof access, because – as I needed to get to the basement, I didn’t want to make it TOO BLOODY EASY for myself did I? It involved several real time hours of creeping along like a tortoise (and still getting spotted and having to hide in wall-ducts for ages) and eventually I got down to the lobby which was crawling with cops. As far as I can see this section was impossible via stealth so I just legged it to the toilets, luckily found another wall duct and hid there until they stopped searching. Luckily, they are stupid and if they see you go into a duct they forget where you went.

After that I crept across the hall to an office where I found (to my surprise) that the cop in the chair had a “Talk To” option…So I talked to him. Turns out he was my ex-partner, and after a little bit of a chin wag where I mopped his girly tears and told him he was a Decent Guy even though he shot a Kid, he allowed me access to the morgue, and no-one shot at me any more.

It was at this point that I realised he was the fucking Desk Sargent and I could have WALKED IN THE FRONT DOOR AND JUST SPOKEN TO HIM.

Sometimes, the stealthy path is not the easiest.

And MAY I JUST SAY “ARGH??”