After this week of holiday slavery, I decided to kick off my weekend by having a bit of playtime instead of tearing back into video production… I think I’ve earned it. I pulled out my controller and continued playing Tomb Raider III under Proton. Running it under Linux out of the box with only cutscenes being a real issue. It actually gives me fewer problems under Linux than under Windows, though there is a way to get it working properly under there too, its just that there’s more work involved.
Tomb Raider III was a hard one for me to obtain when it first came out. I couldn’t find it locally, there was no way for me to obtain it over the internet unless I pirated it, and places like Steam and GOG didn’t exist yet. So my only option for playing the game was to either go over to a friend’s house and watch them play it, or stick in one of my Pizza Hut CD’s into my PS1 and play the demo through to fruition. Technical issues prevented me from investing as much time into it as I have with its predecessors, and now I can at least enjoy the game play aspect until I decide to go under Windows and patch the game to run on a newer version of Direct3D so that I can have proper support for my Steam Controller (and take sweet screenshots).
I’ve left off at level three. I remember with each release of a Tomb Raider game they always added new features and obstacles to keep things interesting. This was the first game to introduce crouching and sprinting, tiny baboons that will slowly rape your ankles, random green crystals that give you health (and save points on the PS1 version), and you can get poisoned by darts and snakes… oh god the fucking snakes. I forgot all about them until tonight, managed to get poisoned a few times and had to backtrack. I was kinda surprised when the baboons turned into little ankle fuckers in level two; I went the entire first level being careful not to shoot any of them, then suddenly they wanted to get intimate with my lower parts, but not those lower parts. :v:
Speaking of legs, mine feel like jello right now… this was a rough week. I came home yesterday and basically read for awhile and inevitably passed out in bed basically until my alarm went off this morning. I never ate yesterday, in fact I still haven’t… well, an actual meal. I’ve just snacked here or there. I just haven’t had much of an appetite for anything since Thanksgiving, and its not like I’m bored of Turkey and the trimmings on the third day… I just can’t put my finger on it.