The greatest game I've ever played
Last night, I finished playing Knights of the Old Republic, and I will be honest when I say that it has been a very long time since I have played a game that was so interesting and so filled with everything that makes a game great.
It was like playing a movie, but a very good movie. It's a Star Wars game that takes place 4000 years before the first Star Wars movie, and you are a person smuggled onto a rebellion ship that is attacked by the Sith (the evil people that would eventually be known as connected with Darth Vader 4000 years later). Throughout the whole story, there are a number of mysteries that get solved along the journey, and the essence of the story is that you become a jedi and lead your friends you pick up along the way to battle against the most evil Sith Lord ever imagined.
The story was just brilliant. The game play was enjoyable, if not a bit frustrating because sometimes it was SO hard to beat some of the situations you got yourself into. The characters you hang around can range from frustrating to hilariously funny (there's one robot that is part of your group that was sold to you as a "translation droid" even though it's pretty obvious he's a psychotic killer droid that keeps asking you stuff like "Master, can we blast these meatbags? Please let me. Please, please! I mean, if you want me to, of course."
Anyway, not much else going on other than that.
Practically giving up on my Internet connection
They don't care. They really don't. I have been complaining for weeks, or pretty much about two months since I moved here. I can't maintain a stable connection, and for the last two days I've had no connection at all. Finally, I went to Best Buy, got a Juno disk and installed a dial up service on my computer instead. I mean, what else can I do?
It's been really frustrating. But if they don't want that $160 a semester from me (2 computers are $80 a piece), then it looks like I'll just have to compromise with something else. I'm starting to do less with the Internet these days anyway, so I guess I can live with it. It will make it really hard to do research this way because already the library has given me nothing but errors as I've tried to access Lexis-Nexus, even using my account information.
What can you do?
Stumble It!
Last night, I finished playing Knights of the Old Republic, and I will be honest when I say that it has been a very long time since I have played a game that was so interesting and so filled with everything that makes a game great.
It was like playing a movie, but a very good movie. It's a Star Wars game that takes place 4000 years before the first Star Wars movie, and you are a person smuggled onto a rebellion ship that is attacked by the Sith (the evil people that would eventually be known as connected with Darth Vader 4000 years later). Throughout the whole story, there are a number of mysteries that get solved along the journey, and the essence of the story is that you become a jedi and lead your friends you pick up along the way to battle against the most evil Sith Lord ever imagined.
The story was just brilliant. The game play was enjoyable, if not a bit frustrating because sometimes it was SO hard to beat some of the situations you got yourself into. The characters you hang around can range from frustrating to hilariously funny (there's one robot that is part of your group that was sold to you as a "translation droid" even though it's pretty obvious he's a psychotic killer droid that keeps asking you stuff like "Master, can we blast these meatbags? Please let me. Please, please! I mean, if you want me to, of course."
Anyway, not much else going on other than that.
Practically giving up on my Internet connection
They don't care. They really don't. I have been complaining for weeks, or pretty much about two months since I moved here. I can't maintain a stable connection, and for the last two days I've had no connection at all. Finally, I went to Best Buy, got a Juno disk and installed a dial up service on my computer instead. I mean, what else can I do?
It's been really frustrating. But if they don't want that $160 a semester from me (2 computers are $80 a piece), then it looks like I'll just have to compromise with something else. I'm starting to do less with the Internet these days anyway, so I guess I can live with it. It will make it really hard to do research this way because already the library has given me nothing but errors as I've tried to access Lexis-Nexus, even using my account information.
What can you do?
Stumble It!
posted by Duane @ 11:03 PM
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