another forty-eight hours down the drain

[egypturnash]

Things done this weekend:

• Finally created a character on 'There', connecting via Ashy's computer. My impressions of it watching over her shoulder were only confirmed by actual play: the design of the game coerces conversations into being shallow because there's so little of them displayed onscreen at once; exploring is both fascinating and boring at the same time, and the whole landscape has become absolutely littered with billboards containing either grafitti or ads for ugly clothing.
  
• Played lots of 'Tales of Phantasia'. I've gotten to the point where you go into the future. Whee.
  
• Went out to eat twice, once with Ken, once with Ashy.
  
• Dabbled with low-poly modelling. If I really want to fool around with that I need to acquire the latest version of Maya. Or something.
  
• Played more 'Tales of Phantasia'. Had to redo an annoying amount of story at one point due to being lazy with saves and emulator snapshots and getting cocky in a combat; bye bye a half hour's worth of play. Which went faster the second time around, but still.
  
• Saw a manniquin that was dressed like White Delirium. I shall have to borrow a digital camera to photograph this mad vision.
  
• Had iJournal crash twice while writing this entry, and decided to do it via the web interface instead. Bleah. I hate trying to type in at tiny little box.
  
• Laundry. I did lots of laundry Sunday. Three loads. Three and a half hours. This time was mostly spent playing a videogame; one guess which one.
  
• Did not draw. Anything. Feh.
  
• Did not go see X-Men 2. I didn't see the first one; I never cared for the comics, especially when they metastasized into half of Marvel's monthly output.
  

[ Also, I did not shower, and am now sticky and foul-feeling. Ugh, and ugh again.)

Comments

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

I'm not far past the part where you get the flying things (as seen in the opening demo). I should pick up Phantasia again. And then play Destiny and Eternia.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I think I'm about to get them. I got to see them on the ground, and then got tasked with going out to find the Spirit of Electricity so I can force the poor bastard to put enough juice in the things to get them off the ground. So, unless I delve into the dungeon only to be told 'oh, before you can do this, you have to go halfway across the world and do this other thing', I'll have them. Whee.

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

I hate gofer quests!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah. There was one earlier on in the game: Moonglum the Wizard tells me to go to the desert area because his buddy might know how to fix something. So I go there. And his buddy won't talk to me until I get five basilisk eggs. And then the guy can't help me, but he tells me Moonglum knows something that might help, so I go BACK to him. And want to punch him in the face for not telling me this in the first place, but the game doesn't give me this sort of choice...

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

You know, none of that rings a bell at all. Maybe that's a sign I should start the game over. ;)

[ilthuain.livejournal.com]

Fuck Maya. Max is more useful, if you want to do games. Well, indie games (there are other games?).

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

This may be true, but it's also true that Maya has a Mac version, while Mac does not.

Re:

[ilthuain.livejournal.com]

*Shudders*

Gaming on a Mac? Wow.

*this Mac dis was done for the benefit of my dear sweet husband, who will no doubt read this entry*

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

The only gaming I do on my Mac is to run emulators. The game mentioned above is a Super Nintendo game; I don't have a physical SNES, and the game never had a physical release in English anyway - this is a fan-translated version. Most of my video game playing is done with my butt on the couch in front of the stack-o-consoles.

I can't defend Macs as game platforms because, well, I have no idea of their suitability for such things!

[wolphyn.livejournal.com]

I tired of There rather quickly. I saw so much more potential in it than would ever be utilized. Oh well.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, There has a lot of potential, but it's doubtful it will actually happen. Instead it's turning into a parody of capitalist society, acted out by an unusually large percentage of people with numbers at the end of their names. You don't realize that mu*s are post-scarcity reputation-economy societies until you run into a virtual world that carefully crafts a capitalist society... you can't even get a free drink There.

(And as I contemplate segueing into the rant about the creative bankruptcy of people who voluntarily choose to be 'Bobby83612' when entering a brand new world, the sequential playing of my music collection starts Add (N) To X's 'Large Number'. '2 4 9 1 0 6 4, Large number')

[mutleyjames.livejournal.com]

Attempted to try and start FFIX for the fourth and final time this weekend.
Aborted by too many "what are you doing?" phonecalls that wouldn't understand that it was the fourth and final time I would try an RPG.
Your absence noted.

[paka.livejournal.com]

Maya would probably be a snap for you. I know we've had the mutual CG-is-soulless discussion before, but I bet if you decided to go that route someone would hire you in no time.

As for X-Men, I'd been thinking of going to see it on the opening night for Matrix 2, as a way of avoiding the crowds.

This may sound minor...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

...but glad I pointed ya' at a good game on accident. =^.^=

Re: This may sound minor...

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

*grin* Thanks. I think.

It was probably about time for me to waste a few weeks playing a video game, and at least this one isn't putting me out thirty to sixty bucks.

Re: This may sound minor...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Quite true, though it sounds like you might get the later games in the series if you get the chance, too. :-)

If you want something to blow an hour or less on once in a random blue moon, track down S.O.S. for your SNES emulator of choice as well. Don't expect to survive, at least not at first or for quite a while, but it's a very interesting game idea executed surprisingly well I thought. Think Titanic, but replace iceberg with tidal wave. You're trying to escape before the ship sinks, and if you can get as many others out with you as possible, good for you.

Just... avoid Masters of Orion 3... a room-mate that's usually quite promptly in bed finally paused for a drink... and realized he'd been playing from around 8pm till NOON the next day, without realizing it. That game is a SERIOUS time-sink. =O.o= Needless to say, he parked that game elsewhere for a month or two now.