Stories come in many forms. Max Payne and others like it (Deus Ex, KOTOR, etc...) with the guided-by-the-hand role-playing feel have their appeal. I thought Knights of the Old Republic was the niftiest Star Wars story since Empire. But what's really impressive to me is when the game designers allow the player to more or less make up their own story, ala Morrowind. There was a central story, but the potential range for getting from point A to point Z allowed for a huge variance of gameplay in between. Those kinds of games engage the imagination in a different way than the 'movie story' games do. Or maybe I'm trying to justify the months of my life I squandered wandering around on Vvardenfell.
Just think though, with enough robotic blimps spying on us, the satelites won't be able to see us. Will this mean I'll need to build a new kind of aluminum foil hat?
Ah, nothing like a vacation in the former Soviet Republics. Radioactive bus tours, rampaging gangsters, bathtub gin, and smallpox. Sounds like going to Gary, IN but with a longer plane ride.
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Oh yes. I love the holidays. Food, presents, and fixing everybody in my family's ill PCs (they bring them, I set 'em up in a row, and type 'till triptophane/ cheap scotch does me in).
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Stories come in many forms. Max Payne and others like it (Deus Ex, KOTOR, etc...) with the guided-by-the-hand role-playing feel have their appeal. I thought Knights of the Old Republic was the niftiest Star Wars story since Empire. But what's really impressive to me is when the game designers allow the player to more or less make up their own story, ala Morrowind. There was a central story, but the potential range for getting from point A to point Z allowed for a huge variance of gameplay in between. Those kinds of games engage the imagination in a different way than the 'movie story' games do. Or maybe I'm trying to justify the months of my life I squandered wandering around on Vvardenfell.
Just think though, with enough robotic blimps spying on us, the satelites won't be able to see us. Will this mean I'll need to build a new kind of aluminum foil hat?
Ah, nothing like a vacation in the former Soviet Republics. Radioactive bus tours, rampaging gangsters, bathtub gin, and smallpox. Sounds like going to Gary, IN but with a longer plane ride.
Oh yes. I love the holidays. Food, presents, and fixing everybody in my family's ill PCs (they bring them, I set 'em up in a row, and type 'till triptophane/ cheap scotch does me in).