Games, games, and more games

[rathanel]

It's only been about two months since my last entry, so I fear I'm going to be accused of post-whoring, but sometimes you just have to take these things in stride.

Obligatory Stuff That Matters Update: Not much has changed on the real life front. Still employed, still like my job, still like the people I work with.

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[rainawallis]

D&D - MIGHT? We MIGHT survive the experience? Well dang, and here I thought we were doing fairly well. I mean... it wasn't like we were the ones who got those people killed, it was that devil thingy! >.>;

Harry Dresden - I wish I knew you were possibly interested in this series, because I would have urged you to try it earlier. Definitely, the books are much darker than the series, but the way he weaves his story is absolutely fascinating. The later books delve much more deeply iinto his mythology, and he ups the stakes even more than he's already done. Seriously. I love Jim Butcher. *.*

[darkprism]

I'm reading Small Favor right now, actually. My coworker turned me on to the Jim Butcher awesomeness. His fantasy series is pretty good, too.

But I loves me some Harry Dresden. :D

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[shteevie]

We miss you in FFXI! Have you read up anything on FFXIV? Easy to see we have somewhat varying tastes in games, but I really enjoy your short-story retellings of them.

And if you make it to PAX, I'll run a little D&D for any SNs that show up!

[shteevie]

Oh! I can also pass on some player names when BB comes out - there are more than a couple people up here that are hawkishly awaiting the game's release.

[rathanel]

The odds of me going to PAX this year are slim to none. But someday...

More Blood Bowl names would be awesome.

[kaziel_fateseer]

Mirror's Edge: I tried this as a demo (typoed it to demon on the first try... somewhat appropriate?) on my PS3 and I know exactly what you mean when you say "Repeatedly launching myself off a building because I didn't hit some random obstacle at the right angle is also rather irritating." I probably did this a dozen times before I made it through the demo. There are definitely game's I'd rather play

[rathanel]

In the case of WoW, I found myself looking ahead to an endgame that seemed every bit as bad or worse than FFXI's and decided I didn't want any part of it. The easy-mode style of the game didn't help either.

"You may just be one of those players who wants a game to be giving him new storylines and fairly constant progression."

This is quite possible... Most/all open world games have failed to capture my interest, and I generally stick with games not because I find them super-awesome fun, but because I want to know what happens next. The exceptions (BG2, Civ-series/Fall From Heaven, MoO2, and a few others) tend to be pretty deep and have a lot of variance in any given playthrough... or so I imagine.

FF: Figures, I currently own neither a PS3 nor a PSP, and this is unlikely to change any time soon.

[kaziel_fateseer]

I would argue that the endgame in WoW isn't [i]as bad[/i] in one sense, but altogether a billion times worse than it in others

[jushiro]

Gawd, I haven't heard the words 'blood bowl' since 1996. Never played, but the guys playing it constantly cackled maniacally when they played.

[rathanel]

It does lend itself to cackling maniacally. I only played half a dozen games before the beta ended, but I had more than a few of those moments myself.

The one I remember most vividly is getting a random event where someone in the crowd threw a rock onto the field and it ended up flat-out killing my opponent's strongest player. MUAHHAHAHAHAHA

[jushiro]

That's the best thing ever.