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tim_x

State of things

Jan 09, 2009 11:35

Right now I am embroiled in re-writes on "Wind in the Willows" for the All-Action Classics series (Sterling). "Tom Sawyer" is on shelves now, "The Odyssey" should be coming out this year (October) and I think they plan on having Willows follow Odyssey.

When I'm not chopping up my Willows script and putting it back together again, I'm playing games ( Read more... )

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chronovore January 10 2009, 05:53:09 UTC

I'm waiting for the Odyssey and already have instructed my comic retailer to put aside my copy for me. I'm sad about your artist troubles on it. Tom Sawyer, I've read twice and enjoyed. Hope you can sign a copy for my shelf someday.

I'm stoked to play Fallout 3 sometime soon. I missed the big sale at Amazon where the Collector's Edition was US$50 for a week, and they had the Survivor Edition for carrraaazy cheep for a bit as well. I'll likely wait until the inexpensive Platinum Hits version comes out.

Mass Effect has been on my shelf for a year; I should really give it a shot.

Did you fix your mic yet?

tim_x January 10 2009, 06:03:20 UTC

You should definitely give Mass Effect a play. It's a lovingly crafted Sci-Fi game that often feels as if you're playing a movie. I hate protracted dialogue sessions, but the conversation mode in Mass Effect is so awesome I barely notice I'm slogging through background info on the game.

The character animations are just awesome, and nuanced. The human models look a little plastic, but the alien models are excellent.

Fallout 3 is also excellent, but for different reasons.

tim_x January 10 2009, 06:04:31 UTC

Oh yeah. The mic is fixed. I've just been RPGing it like crazy.

Do they have any Live RPGs yet? How awesome would a D&D Adventures series be?

chronovore January 10 2009, 06:14:01 UTC

I'll party-chat you if I see you, but feel free to decline if you're in the thick of play.

ME is highly recommended by everyone who didn't go into it thinking it would be an FPS more than an RPG. People who wanted FPS were sad, apparently.

chronovore January 10 2009, 05:57:05 UTC

btw, did you play Wasteland, or the other Fallout games?

tim_x January 10 2009, 06:00:26 UTC

Yup. Have Wasteland, and both previous Fallout games under my belt.

I've also played Fallout Tactics, and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (Xbox).

You?

chronovore January 10 2009, 06:17:26 UTC

I played about 2 hours of Fallout Tactics before deciding I would rather play tabletop wargames on a tabletop. Oddly, I do not feel this way about other Tactics games. I guess FT made me over-manage my units, and I got bored.

I /tried/ to play Brotherhood of Steel, which is essentially the same game as that D&D game which also featured the largely-top-down view... some Forgotten Realms thing. BoS was a PoS for me; I was very unhappy with the repetitive play and lack of depth.

I have Fallout 1 and 2 but never got very far. My friend liked them both so much that he shut himself in a room one weekend, and completed them all with a butterknife just to see if he could. He did. And I've always been a little overly intimidated by that.