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Stupid, Stupid Orc Creatures
May 21, 2004
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I usually actually try to avoid making gaming-exclusive jokes in my comic, but today's moves into that area. It's really honestly just moving things along - a "plot comic" if you will (come on, folks, they can't all be winners, just as this comic can't be called "I'm Booger" because THEN Nintendo would send out their assassins right quick) - but there is a bit of humor in there if you know how to look for it. Anyhow. I will enlighten the Gaming Impaired with these bits of knowledge:
- being "swarmed" is basically to be surrounded/covered by enemies. It's what it sounds like. This can happen a lot in games (i.e. ZERG RUSH!), and Blizzard's Diablo and Diablo II are certainly no exception.
- Orcs are stupid. They just are. There is a reason a half-orc character in D&D 3rd edition needs to take a racial modifer of -2 to Intelligence, and it ISN'T because of their human side (unless their dad was George W. Bush. ZINGGGG! Heh.)
- When I say something is "half-fiendish" is the same thing that I mean when I say "half-orc," only that instead of orc + a human parent, it's orc + a FIEND parent, i.e. the orcs got some demonic blood in 'em. This doesn't make them, like, SATAN'S kids or anything dumb like that - there'z a lot of demon-y creatures in D&D - but it does give them things like resistance to fire attacks and damage reduction for non-magical weapons and so on. Basically, it makes them a wee bit tougher but a bigger bitch to kill. So there you go.
- One prime way to survive enemy swarms in Diablo that I found in the past - and I KNOW I'm not alone in this - was simply to stand behind a door and attack any enemies who might come through. Didn't matter if you were entering a room or they were: all you had to do was stay on the safe side of the door and kill any enemy who tried to come through, and you were in the clear. You'd only have to deal with one at a time - they couldn't squeeze through and surround you - and inevitably, they'd ALL try to keep coming through, like lemmings off of a cliff. Worked like a charm! Diablo II had more intelligent enemies (better AI, or, for my mom who might be reading this, more advanced Artificial Intelligence that governs the enemies' actions), as well as more open dungeon areas, and so couldn't fall into this same trap. But I tellya, it worked wonders back on the original Diablo.
Anyhow. There you go. Hope all that helps. ::wink::
Everybody real quick: wish Web Guy Josiah buckets and buckets of luck, for today is the day that he (and our friend/Dungeon Master/helper for T3H FUNN4Y) (oh, and wish HIM luck TOO!) take the dreaded Phase 2 Exam, which basically gives them a Masters degree and lets them get PhDs when they do enough research. They're studied and pumped for this thing, and certainly need no foolish huuuuman LUCK, but I say we wish them plenty anyway. ::grin:: It's always nice to know someone's got your back, so to speak.
Well, that's it for me for tonight: and because I like "stirring the pot" (whatever that really means), I'm going to be soliciting some guest comics from those who feel they would like to make some or whatever. Not because I need them, no sir, but because I am MAD WITH POWER and desire some anyway. Sort of. Hee. But yes. We likes the guest comics, yes. And as is the thing with these, draw Blue and her friends in your own style, don't try to reproduce mine. Not because I don't think you CAN, mind you (HA! Like my hackery would be difficult to mime! HAH I SAY!), but because I see that all the time and I'd rather look at the newness that you all have to offer. Anywhoo. Just a mere thought. Be well.
The Horsewoman of Sponge Cake,
Annie "Blue" C
I guess it's too late now
To tell you anything at all
- Girl Repellent
"My Trip To Ohio"
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