reminding myself
Mar. 13th, 2005 01:02 amSo to get away from the temptation of reloading DA's messages page and watching bigger and bigger numbers pop up every time I went out for a walk. A little cloudy and cold; summer's not quite here yet.
Somehow I ended up in a video game store. And on a whim, I got something. I kinda thought I'd never buy a video game again, but there I was plunking down bucks for used copies of Legacy of Kain: Defiance and Beyond Good And Evil. BG&E appealed to me when I saw it at E3 a couple years back, I didn't hear anything bad about it, and it's just cute, and it stars a sleek-designed girl with green lips, while LoK:D is the newest installment in a series I've been amused by for a while.
I've just been weird and prickly and rollercoastery this week. Some reasons I know, some I don't, some I only suspect. I figured retreating into a videogame for a bit might be a good random urge to give in to. Surely I got something out of all that time spent on the things?
I'm about halfway through LoK:D and realizing that, no, I'm not really missing that much by having given up on big pretty story games. It's got its moments but, honestly, the peak point of the series were the two Soul Reaver games - the original Kane was horribly flawed due to terrible load times, the second one was a snoozefest, and this one is really, really repetitious and has an aggressively bad camera that has me cursing it. Luckily I can now put down the controller and go do something else for a bit to get away from it, instead of feeling like I have to keep bashing at it. This one has me really hoping it wraps up all the plot threads that arced through Soul Reaver !&2 so I don't have a narrative desire for another one.
Which is a shame, because, look, I like monsters, I like fantasy violence video-games, I like jumping and exploring, and I like vampires, and time-travel is cool, and the two stars of this series are (a) a vampire who chose destroying the world rather than killing it, and reigned over a couple thousand years of wasted earth, and (b) another vampire who was killed, then resurrected by a tentacular Old One as a soul-sucking guy with no lower jaw, and a soul-devouring blade that turns out to actually be him due to a bunch of improbable accidents with time machines. These two Lost Souls run around the realm of Nosgoth, for crying out loud, delivering these over-the-top cutscenes where they trade snarky banter with each other and their various adversaries, and angst about being pawns, and Destiny-with-a-capital-D, and their Horrible Fates. And it's just wallowing in GOFNESS. I laugh delightedly at these games sometimes.
But man, the only reason I'm playing this sucker is because I only paid fourteen bucks for it, and I want to find out what horrible angsty fate Raziel gets to whine about. He's so monstery-cute and angsty, I just wanna hold his cold blue decaying flesh next to me and kiss his black eyelids and ruffle the nasty little tuft of hair he's got left and tell him, no Raziel, you can escape your Destiny, you can be happy, it'll all be alright, shhh, shh, everything's fine, and then throw him into the Pit of Endless Angst or something because he's so cute when he whines.
I'll play this, maybe play BG&E all the way through maybe not, and probably not really worry about buying new games for a half a year, at least.
Somehow I ended up in a video game store. And on a whim, I got something. I kinda thought I'd never buy a video game again, but there I was plunking down bucks for used copies of Legacy of Kain: Defiance and Beyond Good And Evil. BG&E appealed to me when I saw it at E3 a couple years back, I didn't hear anything bad about it, and it's just cute, and it stars a sleek-designed girl with green lips, while LoK:D is the newest installment in a series I've been amused by for a while.
I've just been weird and prickly and rollercoastery this week. Some reasons I know, some I don't, some I only suspect. I figured retreating into a videogame for a bit might be a good random urge to give in to. Surely I got something out of all that time spent on the things?
I'm about halfway through LoK:D and realizing that, no, I'm not really missing that much by having given up on big pretty story games. It's got its moments but, honestly, the peak point of the series were the two Soul Reaver games - the original Kane was horribly flawed due to terrible load times, the second one was a snoozefest, and this one is really, really repetitious and has an aggressively bad camera that has me cursing it. Luckily I can now put down the controller and go do something else for a bit to get away from it, instead of feeling like I have to keep bashing at it. This one has me really hoping it wraps up all the plot threads that arced through Soul Reaver !&2 so I don't have a narrative desire for another one.
Which is a shame, because, look, I like monsters, I like fantasy violence video-games, I like jumping and exploring, and I like vampires, and time-travel is cool, and the two stars of this series are (a) a vampire who chose destroying the world rather than killing it, and reigned over a couple thousand years of wasted earth, and (b) another vampire who was killed, then resurrected by a tentacular Old One as a soul-sucking guy with no lower jaw, and a soul-devouring blade that turns out to actually be him due to a bunch of improbable accidents with time machines. These two Lost Souls run around the realm of Nosgoth, for crying out loud, delivering these over-the-top cutscenes where they trade snarky banter with each other and their various adversaries, and angst about being pawns, and Destiny-with-a-capital-D, and their Horrible Fates. And it's just wallowing in GOFNESS. I laugh delightedly at these games sometimes.
But man, the only reason I'm playing this sucker is because I only paid fourteen bucks for it, and I want to find out what horrible angsty fate Raziel gets to whine about. He's so monstery-cute and angsty, I just wanna hold his cold blue decaying flesh next to me and kiss his black eyelids and ruffle the nasty little tuft of hair he's got left and tell him, no Raziel, you can escape your Destiny, you can be happy, it'll all be alright, shhh, shh, everything's fine, and then throw him into the Pit of Endless Angst or something because he's so cute when he whines.
I'll play this, maybe play BG&E all the way through maybe not, and probably not really worry about buying new games for a half a year, at least.