Update
My lack of updates have been fourfold:
- Entertaining company in real life. This happens once every 2-3 years, but it meant I couldn't continue Metroid: Other M, which is what I'm trying to finish for backlog and scripting purposes. The good news is that I have to have it done by next Tuesday, when Dragon Age II comes out. I also need to play the last 5 minutes of Trauma Team and actually finish it.
- Above-mentioned company also made me discover the pure joy of playing Minecraft on a dedicated server with close friends. I am the material-bitch, who spends all their time digging in mines so everyone else has enough cobblestone to build awesome things.
- RIFT. I cancelled my World of Warcraft account (sorry, Jacquelle), which doesn't say much because I've cancelled it about 10 times in the 2 years I've been on-and-off playing. Even so, RIFT has completely blown me away. I'll probably write something up on it in the future when I get a better grasp on things, but it's so fun. It's also not so much of a timesink; I'm not sure how they did it, but it always feels like you're doing something awesome, even if you can only play a couple hours at a time. In WoW, I would stare unmoving and unaware at the screen for 14 hours and then see that all I did was craft a pair of pants. In RIFT, during a couple hour session playing with my friend, we did a few entire quest threads, explored a mountain area, got a few artifacts, sealed 3 large Rifts and fought back a full-scale invasion of our hometown. It also links in to Twitter, so if you're so inclined to see all my picture updates (I try to only take interesting ones), you can check it out here.
- This has nothing to do with anything, but I haven't been so excited for any video game in recent memory as I have been for Catherine. Words cannot express how much I want to play this, and the fact that Atlus is actually releasing it in the US at the end of July brings me so much joy...I was expecting at least a late-year release, but I guess there's a lot less to translate in a 10 hour puzzle-game than a 200 hour RPG like Persona.
- Bonus - The fact that I can't listen to this while playing a game makes it hard to play anything, since that's all I've been doing.
WoW: Polaroids from Azeroth 5
Part 5 in a series of scavenged pictures and notes that describe the life of a woman called Jacquelle, who comes from a far off land.
On a happy note: I learned how to cook! This is kind of ill-timed, since I've started wanting all my steaks bloody and raw and have no interest in cooking anything. But I feel like I've accomplished something, anyway. I baked bread!
WoW: Polaroids from Azeroth 4
Someone needs to fire their sculptor. At least he lives up to his name, 'Sir Craps-a-lot'
WoW: Polaroids from Azeroth 3
My mother always told me you can tell the class of a place is from how many lines of laundry they have running out the windows. I think it's pretty obvious my escape didn't take me through the best areas.
WoW: Polaroids from Azeroth 2
After helping out the guards, I got a new cape! It's probably the ugliest thing I've ever seen, but who wants to offend edgy people armed to the teeth? Besides, I think I heard that puke colors are in.
WoW: Polaroids from Azeroth 1
A few years ago outside a small village in Tunisia, an ancient book was unearthed. Inside were countless photographs of the life of a woman who lived in a time long ago, in a place far, far away. Each picture bore her handwritten notes, which have been translated and enclosed. This is the first set.
World of Warcraft
I've played WoW a couple times in the past couple of years (I generally play for a month, get sick of not playing any other games, and stop). It's a fun game, though I resent being forced to socialize; if they offered this offline, I would play non-stop. I hate having to deal with the griefing and trolling and immature players, and I haven't found enough good players to balance it all out. Generally, I play inside my own little bubble, but in order to write about it, I am going to try all kinds of crazy things. So yes, I will even try to talk in General Chat.
