October 26, 2008

Some Notes about Games that Begin with F

First off, in my new world order, all scholars must place their journal articles online, and get their heads out of their asses, which are in the past.

Secondly, man, I’ve been stupid busy, haven’t I? A long time since I posted. Shame on me.

Anyway, what’s been going on? HOMEWORK.

Also, Fable 2.
Now, there’s been some mixed reactions to Fable 2? But my reactions are almost completely favorable. This is a fun game. It’s not the deepest or most complex, but, besides the game ending bugs, I guess, the game is very polished. The world feels very alive, and you can do some neat things. The combat isn’t all that hard, but if you take it as an excuse to make yourself look like a badass, you can have tons and tons of fun with it. It really is quite a bit of fun. I highly recommend it if you like fucking around in an open world and action RPG combat mechanics.
I have some reservations, though. Although I think it’s interesting, what they’re trying to do with the expressions as open-world conversation mechanics, it makes my character seems even more mute than most mute RPG protagonists, which is really kind of frustrating. It also makes it impossible to form any kind of real bond with any character, making the whole marriage and having kids thing kind of… empty. I married a girl into a lesbian marriage, but it’s so empty, really. She gives me items, I give her money and sex. But I don’t really like her. She just is, you know? Compared to how I feel about the puppy, which is by far one of the strongest parts of the game as far as making you care goes, it’s absolutely nothing. I shouldn’t care more about my dog than about my wife, should I? I dunno.

I also finished Forumwarz Episode 2 since last I blogged. It was completely and utterly worth 10 bucks. Seriously. Go play, go enjoy, go invest. The thing that really interested me about the whole experience was the fact that I was actually thinking about the story by the end. I spent a whole night at work thinking about what all the plot twists right at the end of the episode meant and how they were going to affect episode 3. I think that’s really high praise for a vulgar, roughly-humorous game about internet culture parodies, you know?
In any case, I got more gameplay fun out of a lot of, say, XBLA $10 purchases, so go buy it. Yes.
I’ve also been playing my new Camwhore. Man, Camwhores are easy mode, aren’t they? They have serious healing capabilities. It makes fights with them much less healing-item intensive. It’s pretty nice. It’s also nice that they do play a bit differently than Emo Kids. I was kind of worried that everyone would play mostly the same. Certainly makes me want to try a Hacker more, now.

The end, I guess. Time to go relax or some shite.

Leave a comment