i'm going through a gaming phase right now. it's kind of weird. i guess it really started back in the fall with Dungeon Siege 2, and interspersed that with a little Legend of Zelda: Windwaker. then, having beaten neither of them, i went on to DOSbox and Darklands. it was somewhere in there that i realized i was using my athlon64 3500+, geforce6800gs, and 1gb ram to play a game that came out in 1992. so instead of going back to the final boss battle in DS2, i bought Morrowind GOTY edition, and now i've purchased Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles.
do i like RPGs? maybe.
what's funny is about this time last year was when we actually bought the gamecube and a bunch of games for it, which i haven't beaten either (pikmin, pikmin2...)... i wonder what it is about winter that sends me headlong into the comforting arms of interactive electronic entertainment. the really funny thing is that the downstairs is always cold in winter, so we went and bought the gamecube and then didn't use it for like 6 weeks until the weather warmed up and we could sit in the living room without wrapping up in the blanket.
videogames are, i guess, pretty task-oriented, which makes them different from reading in that the unfolding of the story is incumbent on the player for progression. there's a fair difference between solving a problem or whacking away at enemies and turning a page. maybe there's something about the effort involved that makes videogames more distracting than books.
Friday, February 24, 2006
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I know what you mean. Sometimes you want more of a challenge than passively reading (or in my case watching television most of the time).
There's nothing wrong with playing Darklands in the 21st century tho. A very 'Warhammer Fantasy' inspired world, it was underappreciated in its time. There never has quite been anything like it, before or since.
I found Crystal Chronicles a bit too repetative for me, so I did not get too far into it.
I got pretty far into Morrowind. Played it on XBOX. Loved it, but quest management became a mess. When they chose not to include the neat quest management upgrade in the XBOX GOTY update I lost interest. Should have been so simple to implement, but apparently was unfeasible. What do I know?
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