Recently I’ve been ill. Not dying of a horrible plague type sick, but enough to mean a week in bed with my life grinding to a halt. So I did what any normal person, okay, scrap that, normal gamer (if there is such a thing) would do and spent the time clearing up my backlog of games. Only I didn’t just clear the pile but started playing on hard or above on a few games I am particularly enjoying. It’s been a long time since I’ve played a game with difficulty options that has been unique enough to make me want to play it through repetitively. There’s either been no difficulty settings or once I’ve completed the game I want to move onto something fresh and exciting… but I’ve been missing the challenge.
I’m not going to pretend to be some sort of god’s gift to gaming but I do tend to pick up games quickly and plough through them due to the number I’ve played. I’ve been piling up the achievements on normal but at the end of the day I wanted something to stretch my abilities a little bit further and make me have to work for it… so when I was poorly, it was blatantly the right time to do it (if you live in the world of my logic).
So, I have spent the last week completing WET on normal, hard and golden bullets difficulty (1 shot kills basically) and had it wrestled away from me before my fingers bled from ultra hard. Then I went back to Arkham Asylum to play through that on hard – word to the wise, it IS hard. With Arkham Asylum now almost complete on hard mode I actually feel a sense of achievement I’ve not felt in quite a while. I’ve stopped resting on my laurels and playing normal just because it’s the default, and kicked myself back up into the next gear. Okay, maybe I didn’t pick the best time to take up the challenge but if I can conquer hard modes whilst ill then now I’m better I say bring it on!
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