REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY? I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. I certainly would NEVER use that! By which I acutally mean, I want you to continue talking about things! And I actually am on the lookout for new games and stuff, despite the fact I've yet to play all the other ones. I tend to pick up new fandoms kind of slowly, but I always like knowing they're there if I ever want to give them a try.
Plus, that's what the Intarwebs are for. Reciprocal fandom babblings! And I generally like hearing people talk about things, so. If you want to babble about things, please do so! (Well, I'd prefer not hearing about spoilers, but that probably goes without saying. WHAT SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE? NOOOOO)
Fifty page speeches? Man, I'm glad I quit reading when I did! And I thought Grapes of Wrath was bad when it spent an entire chapter talking about a turtle crossing a road. That's just ridiculous, man. Pretentious authors crack me up, sometimes.
I was going for reassured. I have a feeling if it's a computer game I'll be more likely to play it, in all honestly, because I spend a freakish amount of time in front of my computer anyway. With video games, I tend to convince myself to stay away while I'm going to classes, because I know it'll be a major time commitment, but somehow that doesn't work with the computer. I'm not sure why.
Man, seriously. I really want to try playing Thief right now. Stupid school.
The Bard's Tale is glorious. And by glorious, I mean completely amoral. The description on the back says, "A quest for coin and cleavage," and the Bard is an awful, awful human being who snarks at everything, especially at the narrator, whom only he can hear. The narrator despises him, and is voiced by Tony Jay and is awesome. And you get to choose whether you're nice to people or mean to them, although either way you end up saying something snarky. It's just the degree of snark that changes. And some people actually respond better to the mean option than the nice one, and it actually affects things that happen in the game later.
The Bard is basically the definition of an anti-hero, he's very reluctant to take on any "quests", especially if they're for glory and nobility or anything that doesn't benefit him directly. And it makes fun of the traditional quest-to-save-the-world game, with Chosen Ones and everything.
It has some crude humor in it -- you can probably tell that from the "coins and cleavage" bit -- but if you don't mind that and like amoral heroes and poking fun at traditional games, it's really awesome. Or, um, I think so anyway. Also, it takes place in a medieval Europe type setting, with ugly people and huts and the works.
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Date: 2006-11-13 06:13 pm (UTC)Plus, that's what the Intarwebs are for. Reciprocal fandom babblings! And I generally like hearing people talk about things, so. If you want to babble about things, please do so! (Well, I'd prefer not hearing about spoilers, but that probably goes without saying. WHAT SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE? NOOOOO)
Fifty page speeches? Man, I'm glad I quit reading when I did! And I thought Grapes of Wrath was bad when it spent an entire chapter talking about a turtle crossing a road. That's just ridiculous, man. Pretentious authors crack me up, sometimes.
I was going for reassured. I have a feeling if it's a computer game I'll be more likely to play it, in all honestly, because I spend a freakish amount of time in front of my computer anyway. With video games, I tend to convince myself to stay away while I'm going to classes, because I know it'll be a major time commitment, but somehow that doesn't work with the computer. I'm not sure why.
Man, seriously. I really want to try playing Thief right now. Stupid school.
The Bard's Tale is glorious. And by glorious, I mean completely amoral. The description on the back says, "A quest for coin and cleavage," and the Bard is an awful, awful human being who snarks at everything, especially at the narrator, whom only he can hear. The narrator despises him, and is voiced by Tony Jay and is awesome. And you get to choose whether you're nice to people or mean to them, although either way you end up saying something snarky. It's just the degree of snark that changes. And some people actually respond better to the mean option than the nice one, and it actually affects things that happen in the game later.
The Bard is basically the definition of an anti-hero, he's very reluctant to take on any "quests", especially if they're for glory and nobility or anything that doesn't benefit him directly. And it makes fun of the traditional quest-to-save-the-world game, with Chosen Ones and everything.
It has some crude humor in it -- you can probably tell that from the "coins and cleavage" bit -- but if you don't mind that and like amoral heroes and poking fun at traditional games, it's really awesome. Or, um, I think so anyway. Also, it takes place in a medieval Europe type setting, with ugly people and huts and the works.