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I'm not apt to spurn a paycheck, and I'm not likely to have the chance this semester, since things didn't go to plan. That's the good and the bad in one sentence. Technically, things can still come through, so rather then beat myself up about it, I can acknowledge that there's a substantial boon in waiting until some things are paid off or much closer to and I'll have better savings. So that's it for a little while then.
I'm still working on Mage. I have to build a city, and I really want to look over stuff like Boston, Mysterious Places, Sanctum and Sigil, and stuff like that again. It's still in the design phase because I've been very busy with other stuff, and I don't even have my playgroup yet. I like to design NPCs and setting elements with them so they're invested from the beginning. I also kinda want to use all that stuff, even if nobody sees the work that goes into it but me.
Um, I bought Persona 4 online, after checking two Best Buys and two local GameStops. And while the manager of the Collinsville GameStop was very charming, I did not give her money because she did not have any of the games I wanted at the moment. That probably will be my first check in the future, though, because it really was a swell first impression. Anyway, I always skimp on the shipping so I can expect it sometime... man, like, next month. In the mean time, I've got to the very end of Dead Space, even if I never finish the last boss. I've been spoilered on the ending, and honestly I'm about as meh as you can be on it, in a very general sort of way.
The game itself has been good. Not great and not awful, either. It loses a lot of points because you see everything the game's got a little less then halfway through, and it doesn't really mix it up from there. It's got the 'ambush you as soon as you press the button', the 'every time you succeed, something negates it', the 'it's horror so the controls aren't very good', the 'cut-scene ambush', and the occasional 'flood of misshapen creatures'.
That's all standard action-horror stuff, so I didn't get pissed and kick it out of bed. But I did toy with the idea sometimes, because really, I'm mostly sticking with it out of sheer bloody mindedness. For other, maybe better, gamers, it's probably no big. I bet you'd be able to complete the whole sha-bang much more quickly. For me, I kept losing interest.
For all that, it had its good points. It was pretty good at scenery and the action was solid. The guns are cool, and I liked the feeling I got after I had just fought down this big, flesh-skewering monstrosity with my fusion cutter or just wailed on it savagely with the melee attack. I'd stomp on it, and curse, and then throw it over a bridge with telekinesis. Sometimes I'd sing a riff from LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out.", probably to Frank's chagrin.
I fuckin' love that song, though.
I'm still working on Mage. I have to build a city, and I really want to look over stuff like Boston, Mysterious Places, Sanctum and Sigil, and stuff like that again. It's still in the design phase because I've been very busy with other stuff, and I don't even have my playgroup yet. I like to design NPCs and setting elements with them so they're invested from the beginning. I also kinda want to use all that stuff, even if nobody sees the work that goes into it but me.
Um, I bought Persona 4 online, after checking two Best Buys and two local GameStops. And while the manager of the Collinsville GameStop was very charming, I did not give her money because she did not have any of the games I wanted at the moment. That probably will be my first check in the future, though, because it really was a swell first impression. Anyway, I always skimp on the shipping so I can expect it sometime... man, like, next month. In the mean time, I've got to the very end of Dead Space, even if I never finish the last boss. I've been spoilered on the ending, and honestly I'm about as meh as you can be on it, in a very general sort of way.
The game itself has been good. Not great and not awful, either. It loses a lot of points because you see everything the game's got a little less then halfway through, and it doesn't really mix it up from there. It's got the 'ambush you as soon as you press the button', the 'every time you succeed, something negates it', the 'it's horror so the controls aren't very good', the 'cut-scene ambush', and the occasional 'flood of misshapen creatures'.
That's all standard action-horror stuff, so I didn't get pissed and kick it out of bed. But I did toy with the idea sometimes, because really, I'm mostly sticking with it out of sheer bloody mindedness. For other, maybe better, gamers, it's probably no big. I bet you'd be able to complete the whole sha-bang much more quickly. For me, I kept losing interest.
For all that, it had its good points. It was pretty good at scenery and the action was solid. The guns are cool, and I liked the feeling I got after I had just fought down this big, flesh-skewering monstrosity with my fusion cutter or just wailed on it savagely with the melee attack. I'd stomp on it, and curse, and then throw it over a bridge with telekinesis. Sometimes I'd sing a riff from LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out.", probably to Frank's chagrin.
I fuckin' love that song, though.
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