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Jak and Daxter games, just not the first. Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines when it works is a pretty great world...
This topic may just get me to write my first blog!
This topic may just get me to write my first blog!
thanks bullettrain you've given me something to read once I'm done with the Kushiels dart series and Olympos. I've been meaning to read that series for years
Childe Roland to the dark tower came...where was I, oh yes, this musing is kinda TOO good for somebody like me who can't ever decide on a single topic to write about for these things. There are SO many well done game worlds that it will be almost impossible to choose just one.
Dark Tower got SOOOO horrible by the end of the series. Book Seven might as well have been printed on toilet paper and written in shit for the quality.
Also I call Morrowind all you fuckers stay away from it I GOT DIBS.
Also I call Morrowind all you fuckers stay away from it I GOT DIBS.
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I agree (apart from bits of the very very ending of book 7). I wouldn't at all have minded if Stephen King had died after the first book and left us wondering what might have been. Although I haven't read his new bullshit "revised" edition that George Lucases the fuck out of everything.
I agree (apart from bits of the very very ending of book 7). I wouldn't at all have minded if Stephen King had died after the first book and left us wondering what might have been. Although I haven't read his new bullshit "revised" edition that George Lucases the fuck out of everything.
@ Chronic Logic not if the respawn point was right outside the final dungeon with no way back and no healing items in my inventory.
Damn, I've been waiting for a topic that would just hit me. And here it is. I got this shit locked down...should I choose to write...
I've had three or four games jump to mind immediately, and all but one are probably already the subject of someone else's first draft. This should prove to be fertile.
I read the Dark Tower trilogy back in the early 90s. I bought the 4th book when it was first released, but never read it. I just couldn't bring myself to ruin what the first 3 books had created for me.
But all this talk is making me want to jump back in!
Fun fact: every RPG that allows me to name the main character has been Roland ever since I read those books.
But all this talk is making me want to jump back in!
Fun fact: every RPG that allows me to name the main character has been Roland ever since I read those books.
That series peaked at Wizard and Glass. And the special edition of The Gunslinger really only fixes some problematic continuity errors and ties it in better with the later books, the heart of the work is unblemished.
So can it involve cross media stuff, like that monthly musing about expanded universes a while ago, or the immersiveness (not a word right?) can only be discussed by the game itself? Anyways, I have some ideas for this one, which I'll probably never get the time to write up.
@Anthony King's revised and expanded version of The Gunslinger was hardly a "Lucas"ing. The few things he changed was renaming a town previously named "Farson" for obvious reasons and added that the reason Ellie snapped in Tull was because she was exposed to "Nineteen". That's about it.
I've got a really good idea on what to write about, but I just hope no one else beats me to it or does it better.
I've got a really good idea on what to write about, but I just hope no one else beats me to it or does it better.
@PappaDukes - I do the same thing. In my first playthrough of FFVII Cloud was named Roland. Everything since then has been the same too.
I have a couple ideas. Now, for the decision... Do I go with the game I'm playing now, or the one I grew up playing?
@Anthony
The first three books, Book 2 and 3 especially, are great. The Drawing of the Three is way up there on my list of all time favorite books.
After the third one though, King dropped the series and only went back to it years later for some reason, clearly not wanting to, and just fucked it all up. When I read the description of the Crimson King as basically "angry santa claus" I wanted to find King and run him over with a van.
The first three books, Book 2 and 3 especially, are great. The Drawing of the Three is way up there on my list of all time favorite books.
After the third one though, King dropped the series and only went back to it years later for some reason, clearly not wanting to, and just fucked it all up. When I read the description of the Crimson King as basically "angry santa claus" I wanted to find King and run him over with a van.
So my question is... Why does the front page's link to the monthly musing still say Expanded Universes?
On a side note, and I may be late to the party with this tidbit of news, but I heard that J.J. Abrams was tied to the film adaptation of The Dark Tower. I swear to heavens if he casts Zachary Quinto as the Gunslinger, I will shit shattered marbles.
@ PappaDukes
He'd be too young to play any proper version of older Roland, and too old to play the younger. George Clooney for the current Roland. Ryan Reynolds as Eddie. And of course: Vin Diesel as Walter O'Dim. Ok, maybe not Vin, that would have to be Tim Reynolds. And Geddy Lee as the Crimson King.
He'd be too young to play any proper version of older Roland, and too old to play the younger. George Clooney for the current Roland. Ryan Reynolds as Eddie. And of course: Vin Diesel as Walter O'Dim. Ok, maybe not Vin, that would have to be Tim Reynolds. And Geddy Lee as the Crimson King.
If anyone writes a monthly musing about Another World/Out of this World before I do, I will buy a plane ticket, hunt you down, and force you to do very bad things with a golf club, a traffic cone and a tub of vasoline.
I really agree that the latter books 4+ are crappy. There are great parts, but overall they were a disservice to the excellence of the earlier ones. I am really anxious about how a movie adaptation could turn out especially in Abrams' hands. Besides lost, almost everything I've seen by him has made me sick. But Lost almost redeems the bad that he has done. I still think I'm guaranteed to hate anything other than the version of the book that's in my head. Also, fuck King's adapted version of the books.
And, what would anybody think of a video game version of The Gunslinger? Would that even work as a game?
And, what would anybody think of a video game version of The Gunslinger? Would that even work as a game?
Three words people...
"World of Warcraft"
As for Gunslinger?
I'm only now going through book 1...
Do not kill it for me...
Killing this series is like reading Gamefaqs on how to kill the Colossi...
"World of Warcraft"
As for Gunslinger?
I'm only now going through book 1...
Do not kill it for me...
Killing this series is like reading Gamefaqs on how to kill the Colossi...
After a few weeks of playing Persona 4, I woke up one rainy morning and thought to myself, "Gee, I hope this rain doesn't keep up too long, the fog will set in." It was then I saw how much the game had sucked my in to it's own reality and changed the way I go about my life.
I only wish this story was long enough to write a monthly musing on. Two sentences is not an article.
I only wish this story was long enough to write a monthly musing on. Two sentences is not an article.
Oh goddammit, I just finished writing one that I'm really proud of, and then it hit me that I need to write an article about Pikmin too. Well, I guess I'll just do two entries. Kind of like making up for lost time since I haven't written an article since March. o.o;
Damn I still need to go through the Gunslinger novels. It wasn't too long ago that I was making my way through The Talisman and Black House, i'd love to return to their world sometime soon.
Still banking on the rumored 2010 TV series of The Talisman to be good. If that thing actually sees the light of day..
Still banking on the rumored 2010 TV series of The Talisman to be good. If that thing actually sees the light of day..
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