My Life (As a King)
As Cathedrals were drawn up, new citizens lined up to be adventurers, and I ran from place to place to raise people's morale, it was as though Square's My Life as a King was a reflection of my own life.
My city is Mylak, where my original attempt had the awful name of Esterlind, from god knows where, it's a complete improvement. Esterlind failed in direction,planning, and understanding of the game mechanics. See, in My life as a King, you can't simply build things where they look best, or spread the shops around to give fictional people a reason to walk to every corner of their new city, no, you must build things in specific kinds of spots to meet the highest level of success. This games a fucking ocean, it's got depth, well, it's atleast a lake, a really big lake.
When I started Esterlind I had no idea how stuff worked, for Mylak, I mastered the process of city building, and can say pretty confidently that you know what, I got this shit down. My way of making cities could be streamlined across peoples Wii's, like Starbucks on street corners. Each city of mine fucking delicious.
Anyway, Esterlind didn't fail because I'm an idiot, it failed because their were aspects of the game that I couldn't possibly have known when I began it's creation.
For example; Adventurers like myself, like to shop all fucking day, like to browse even, most of the time they don't even buy shit, so when you HAVE TO send your adventures to a distant land, and you have your Armor shops, your item shops and your weapon shops spread out like they got a disease contagious to one another, these fuckers spend their whole time shopping and browsing, and before they get all the way to that distant land, their time is spent and they're coming home, bitching that it's too dark.
First off, how fucking annoying, second off, Mylak corrected this, by forcing the shops to hold hands.
My point however, hidden in that tangent to educate future players, is that Esterlind failed because I didn't have knowledge that I had to learn for myself.
Outside of my Wii, life is changing again, Trevyn (T Hot) is living with me again, Omar should be moving down in late July and I'll be in a situation that I've been in before. Sharing an apartment with 3 other guys, but this time I know what I'm doing. What also makes me happy is that my life before was clearly Esterlind, lacking direction, lacking efficiency and knowledge. Well I got that now. I got a year left of school, maybe a semester on top of that. I'm getting driving lessons again, I've been burning over 360 calories on the days that I don't work and the days that I do work I'm averaging a lot more an hour then I've ever made. Plus who says I still can't fuck around?
I dunno, my life could probably be better and I'm always trying to improve, but for now, I feel like a King.
My city is Mylak, where my original attempt had the awful name of Esterlind, from god knows where, it's a complete improvement. Esterlind failed in direction,planning, and understanding of the game mechanics. See, in My life as a King, you can't simply build things where they look best, or spread the shops around to give fictional people a reason to walk to every corner of their new city, no, you must build things in specific kinds of spots to meet the highest level of success. This games a fucking ocean, it's got depth, well, it's atleast a lake, a really big lake.
When I started Esterlind I had no idea how stuff worked, for Mylak, I mastered the process of city building, and can say pretty confidently that you know what, I got this shit down. My way of making cities could be streamlined across peoples Wii's, like Starbucks on street corners. Each city of mine fucking delicious.
Anyway, Esterlind didn't fail because I'm an idiot, it failed because their were aspects of the game that I couldn't possibly have known when I began it's creation.
For example; Adventurers like myself, like to shop all fucking day, like to browse even, most of the time they don't even buy shit, so when you HAVE TO send your adventures to a distant land, and you have your Armor shops, your item shops and your weapon shops spread out like they got a disease contagious to one another, these fuckers spend their whole time shopping and browsing, and before they get all the way to that distant land, their time is spent and they're coming home, bitching that it's too dark.
First off, how fucking annoying, second off, Mylak corrected this, by forcing the shops to hold hands.
My point however, hidden in that tangent to educate future players, is that Esterlind failed because I didn't have knowledge that I had to learn for myself.
Outside of my Wii, life is changing again, Trevyn (T Hot) is living with me again, Omar should be moving down in late July and I'll be in a situation that I've been in before. Sharing an apartment with 3 other guys, but this time I know what I'm doing. What also makes me happy is that my life before was clearly Esterlind, lacking direction, lacking efficiency and knowledge. Well I got that now. I got a year left of school, maybe a semester on top of that. I'm getting driving lessons again, I've been burning over 360 calories on the days that I don't work and the days that I do work I'm averaging a lot more an hour then I've ever made. Plus who says I still can't fuck around?
I dunno, my life could probably be better and I'm always trying to improve, but for now, I feel like a King.