Monday, August 4, 2008

Day Two Hundred and Seventy-Nine - Callsign Dangergirl

So Joseph has this very neat-o joystick set for computer videogame [in the interest of full disclosure he bought one cheap-o one, but has recently upgraded to the kickass instrumentation you see below - it was too expensive for me to officially declare without some embarassment]. The main reason for the presence of such elaborate-ness is because of this Battlestar Galactica game that allows you to be a Viper pilot. It's pretty cool, but I was getting motion sickness just watching Joseph play it and it looked to be very difficult [because Joseph struggles with it and he is good @ videogames], so I didn't have much interest in trying it out, despite my rabid love for all things BSG. But then Joseph pointed out that it could be a cool new thing so this afternoon I played a videogame with a joystick.


As you can see from the photo, it's more than just a joystick - it has like a secondary component to it [yes, all of that wanting to be an astronaut/pilot training really paid off - so much retained knowledge]. As previously thought - the game is incredibly difficult and frustrating - this little task ended up being a much better test of patience than the origami crane. I feel like it took HOURS, but I finally managed to complete the training course and kill some cylon drone things. I didn't feel as motion sick while playing as opposed to watching, but I really reeked it up out there. It's a bit disappointing, really - that I can't be more like my TV role model, Starbuck. I guess I will just have to be more like her in other ways [yknow - all of those bad ways].

[ps - clearly i found earth - it's right there on the right-hand side of the screen!]

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I had no idea there was a BSG video game. Of course, I only have a couple of PC video games:

1) Myst and all it's sequels for playing at home.

2) The Sims and many expansion packs for playing on the road and around the world!

I used to love the Falcon game, but never had a cool joystick setup like that. Unfortunately, all my game-playing time is dedicated to Nintendo, so I won't be tempted!

Sydney said...

There is an official BSG videogame, but it supersucks - I think it's available for most consoles, but you can play a free demo online. The BSG game that we were playing was made by fans - ripped from another videogame called Homeworld. The graphics and feel for flying are very impressive.

I also play Sims, but that's my only PC game. Otherwise it's DS, Wii and PS2 mostly, although we have almost every console except for X-Box.