Stolen Pixels #205: The Bullet Massage

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A major no-nary in a game where you can narrow in stealing and surprise takedowns: Nonvoluntary brag battles.

In my number one run at this game, I dumped everything into concealed and lockpicking, with just a few supernumerary points in shooting iron use. My plan was to ghost my way through the game, sneaking about and backstabbing anyone I couldn't avert. This plan fell divided about three hours in when I met the first boss fight down and accomplished the game hoped-for me to fight down a guy in the open, on a bridge, surrounded by henchmen, in broad daylight, with no more possibility for a surprisal attack. Also, he had an assault gun. And an OMGillion hit points.

I actually ran out of bullets shooting him.

I started over and created a dull scattergun-wielding lunkhead with to a greater extent hitpoints than Intelligence quotient points. It's not a very interesting way to fun the game, but it's better than giving myself a concussion from slamming my head against the forced-bossfight paries. And yet even with maxed-out shotgun skills and the best shotgun money could buy, Omen Deng (Mr "You're in over your headway") took an insane number of shots to the bean before he eventually decided to fall over permanently. At the end, the cutscene showed him every last injured. He should have looked like a six-substructure pile of bird shot with some bits of meat protruding.

This could have been the side by side Deus Ex, only it feels Serious Sam.

Shamus Preteen is the guy behind Twenty Sided, Diabetes mellitus of the Rings, and Purloined Pixels, Sherlock Plays, and Spoiler Dissuasive. And none of that is his day job.

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