I'm Not Dead...
... I've just been busy as hell, and haven't had much to talk about here. So, an update then.
I lost interest in both VP:Silmeria and Shin-Mega-Ten 4 - I think my patience for videogames has waned over the years. Wind Waker was the last game I was willing to put up with make-work BS, and I have a bad feeling the whole "search for triforce pieces in an endless ocean" bit scarred me somehow. I stopped playing Metroid 2 right about the point when I needed to go scavenging for Keys, and it's been much the same since then. In VP:Silmeria's case, it's "grind, grind, grind your levels up, and while you're at it try and cross this annoying fucking collapsing bridge"; in Raidou's case, it's more of a "can't be bothered" thing, which is a bad sign.
I haven't given up on games altogether, though. I still play FFXI (though my static is on hold and I've been logging in only sporadically - which reminds me, I should check my AH sales). I also picked up a few other games, including FFXII (which I've only just started - so far it's good, but I'm sorely tempted to find a License Grid key just so I don't waste time on stuff I don't want) and Magical Starsign (which is actually quite good for such a seemingly-simple game). It's more that, given the lack of time at my disposal, I'm having to limit what I play to the stuff I really want to play.
More later, mebbe.
I lost interest in both VP:Silmeria and Shin-Mega-Ten 4 - I think my patience for videogames has waned over the years. Wind Waker was the last game I was willing to put up with make-work BS, and I have a bad feeling the whole "search for triforce pieces in an endless ocean" bit scarred me somehow. I stopped playing Metroid 2 right about the point when I needed to go scavenging for Keys, and it's been much the same since then. In VP:Silmeria's case, it's "grind, grind, grind your levels up, and while you're at it try and cross this annoying fucking collapsing bridge"; in Raidou's case, it's more of a "can't be bothered" thing, which is a bad sign.
I haven't given up on games altogether, though. I still play FFXI (though my static is on hold and I've been logging in only sporadically - which reminds me, I should check my AH sales). I also picked up a few other games, including FFXII (which I've only just started - so far it's good, but I'm sorely tempted to find a License Grid key just so I don't waste time on stuff I don't want) and Magical Starsign (which is actually quite good for such a seemingly-simple game). It's more that, given the lack of time at my disposal, I'm having to limit what I play to the stuff I really want to play.
More later, mebbe.