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Jan 24 2009

hammerfall game walkthrough

Published by bozoplay under GameStuff Edit This

Yep, that’s how you do it.

That was a Google, or other search engine, request that I found funny.

It’s also a hint at why the game won’t appeal to everyone because it requires patience, choices and you retrace your path in the game a fair bit. It is isn’t about shoot-em-up only and you can play it that way too. I prefer not to because you waste your stamina points attacking others and all you get back is gold. The prize in this game is the adventure. The graphics never fail to astound me.

Sometimes it gets a little tedious but it eventually rewards persistence. It is a good lesson in life. Things that are worthwhile don’t come that easily. I haven’t found any way insideĀ  this game to use imaginary credit cards. Everything has a price tag and you must earn that price through patience or performing various tasks and deciding on better options based on your current state of health and energy level. Not much different in real life.

You can speed up play by using your real credit card or Paypal account to visit the Sage. The game offers you that option in many different places. It is a good idea to take part in that once in a while because it helps to pay for more ram. The game is becoming more popular and it will start to play more slowly if we don’t assist in the ram fund.

Use the Legends menu to view others’ performance, particularly your friends, to see what they have acquired and it will give you a hint to what you may have missed or will have upcoming in the future. You can ask them how they did that but I think that just destroys the magic in this game.

This game is set up in such a way that the designers can keep adding to it instead of having to start all over with version 2. I look forward to another adventure from the makers of Hammerfall RPG, whatever and whenever that will happen.

I hope they keep it in the spirit of this game and make it something that had a romantic feel to it. Like World War I or II flying aces, Christopher Columbus, Neil Armstrong & the whole space race,the Old West. We’ll see.

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Jan 24 2009

You Put The Scorekeeper In Charge Of The Game

ernie.jpgCFO’s should not have been put in charge of the game in big business. I think that is one of the major reasons why we are in the world wide pickle that we now face. The Chief Financial Officer is really nothing more than the head scorekeeper in the game of business.

He is very much like that kid who played in the local pick up game that everybody picked last. He wasn’t very skilled at the game but he knew all the rules and all the terminology. He just sucked at the game. So if you let him have the ball he wouldn’t give it back and he made a lot of stupid moves with it while he had it.

I really don’t see any difference between this childhood playground scenario and what the big bosses have done in the commercial business world. So stop blaming everything else on your poor decision to let Ernie the accountant try and throw a touchdown or hit a home run or sink any basket at all. He doesn’t know how to do that.

He can only tell you how many times he shot, how many times he missed, how many times somebody else was at fault for his inability to score a point. He’s perfect in his mind. Ernie is an accountant and not a gladiator of the game.

I think the CEO’s need to get out of their over-upholstered executive offices and start looking for the gladiators in their organizations that will provide new and productive ideas on how to make their business a force in the world market. We need new plays, new game plans, new formations, new offensive and defensive strategies. We don’t need Ernie to remind us that we are losing this game. It is already painfully obvious.

It’s time for a comeback. Let the real players show you how the game is played. It’s really quite simple. Just ask them what they think could be done to improve the team’s performance. Just don’t be surprised that you will be hearing a lot of things you didn’t think of before.

Ernie was good at another thing—blocking.

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