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It sucks, a bit, to be addicted to facebook all of a sudden having spurned it for years a year as just another myspace (which I hate with the intensity of an army of hate demons, or something less geeky sounding) and discover that, like with most of my other bloggish addictions, nothing ever happens here. Depressing. The willpower required to reign in my urge to change status 23 times a day is missing, which I'm sure will have most of my bookfriends (did I invent that term or was it pre-existing?) hating me within days. I'll try. I can't promise anything.
Due to my current state of being caught between a rut in which I did nothing and going to university where I will do something, I don't really have anything interesting to write here, which leaves you with a very uninteresting 'note' to read. Sorry about that. I'll probably be talking about books, my writing, my pets, forays into the dark side of the net, and ... God forbid, video games. This entry, as it turns out, is on the topic of a video game.
Zelda: The Twilight Princess. Fuck the 'legend of' part, that's redundant, all you need is the bitch's name. I play the Wii version, played, as I finished it a couple of days ago. Am I happy about this? Honestly? No. Zelda spoils gaming for everybody who plays it because no game will ever match up to the epic, endlessly frustrating saga that The Legend of Zelda (legend part was necessary here) offers you.
The Twilight Princess is also the first game to have ever outdone The Ocarina Of Time for me. Majora's Mask was too frustrating, Windwaker was cutesy bit of fun but not quite the same- replacing a horse with a boat in terms of attachment just doesn't quite work, and then came The Twilight Princess and all of those past between the Ocarina of Time seemed, to me, only to exist as fillers while this project was devised and worked on. I'm gushing, aren't I? I should stop gushing.
The gist of it is that this game is the best I've ever played, and like all Zelda games I hated large portions of it because nothing is more annoying to me than being stuck in a dungeon and not knowing what the fuck you do to move the game forward- but the point is, you can leave, you can ride your horse around a bit, chill the fuck out, maybe canoe down a river, go for a swim, visit home, beat up some bad guys, and then get back to the dungeon at a later date. It's enjoyable. And has some of the best cines (scripted moments you have no control over, for the non-gaming populace) I've ever seen in a game, making each annoying challenge worthwhile.
So. It's finished. What the fuck do I do now? To be honest, I'll probably just ride around on my horse until the next Zelda game for Wii comes out. Mario Galaxy is enormous amounts of fun and passes the time but it can't be too much longer until I've finished it, it's extremely easy. I'll play racing games- but what the hell am I to do for epic adventure? I tried the new Spyro and hated it, I tried that Avatar crap and hated it. I'm sure these games would be extremely enjoyable to me if not for Zelda. Which I will not start over again, because without anything new and exciting to look forward to gaining from your completion of a dungeon, it is incredibly unenjoyable. I've tried. When it comes down to it, the truth of the matter is that no matter how much I love that game, it will be one or two years before a new one comes out at least and until then-
Those bastards have ruined gaming for me.
Due to my current state of being caught between a rut in which I did nothing and going to university where I will do something, I don't really have anything interesting to write here, which leaves you with a very uninteresting 'note' to read. Sorry about that. I'll probably be talking about books, my writing, my pets, forays into the dark side of the net, and ... God forbid, video games. This entry, as it turns out, is on the topic of a video game.
Zelda: The Twilight Princess. Fuck the 'legend of' part, that's redundant, all you need is the bitch's name. I play the Wii version, played, as I finished it a couple of days ago. Am I happy about this? Honestly? No. Zelda spoils gaming for everybody who plays it because no game will ever match up to the epic, endlessly frustrating saga that The Legend of Zelda (legend part was necessary here) offers you.
The Twilight Princess is also the first game to have ever outdone The Ocarina Of Time for me. Majora's Mask was too frustrating, Windwaker was cutesy bit of fun but not quite the same- replacing a horse with a boat in terms of attachment just doesn't quite work, and then came The Twilight Princess and all of those past between the Ocarina of Time seemed, to me, only to exist as fillers while this project was devised and worked on. I'm gushing, aren't I? I should stop gushing.
The gist of it is that this game is the best I've ever played, and like all Zelda games I hated large portions of it because nothing is more annoying to me than being stuck in a dungeon and not knowing what the fuck you do to move the game forward- but the point is, you can leave, you can ride your horse around a bit, chill the fuck out, maybe canoe down a river, go for a swim, visit home, beat up some bad guys, and then get back to the dungeon at a later date. It's enjoyable. And has some of the best cines (scripted moments you have no control over, for the non-gaming populace) I've ever seen in a game, making each annoying challenge worthwhile.
So. It's finished. What the fuck do I do now? To be honest, I'll probably just ride around on my horse until the next Zelda game for Wii comes out. Mario Galaxy is enormous amounts of fun and passes the time but it can't be too much longer until I've finished it, it's extremely easy. I'll play racing games- but what the hell am I to do for epic adventure? I tried the new Spyro and hated it, I tried that Avatar crap and hated it. I'm sure these games would be extremely enjoyable to me if not for Zelda. Which I will not start over again, because without anything new and exciting to look forward to gaining from your completion of a dungeon, it is incredibly unenjoyable. I've tried. When it comes down to it, the truth of the matter is that no matter how much I love that game, it will be one or two years before a new one comes out at least and until then-
Those bastards have ruined gaming for me.