Precious

[prog]

The new thing I say when a video game ceases to be fun, by making me do something I already did over and over, is: This is not treating my time and attention as precious.

Why, yes, I did just finally get to the Meat Circus stage in Psychonauts...!

While I'm here: any game recs I need to know about? Know ye that I really really want to play Dwarf Fortress, but ffs, I cannot get past the interface. I just can't do it. It's like trying to read a really smashing novel where all the text on every page is encoded as a stereogram. And covered in bees. I don't know.

What are you playing?

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Wesnoth. On and off, mostly on. Debating trying to break into the resource files and create new races/etc.

Dwarf Fortress, on and off. I invested the time for the interface (both the inputs, which are predicated on a number keypad I don't have, and the display, which assumes I'm playing by TTY) to become mostly natural -- probably 8-10 hours. Now I can "see" the world at a glance, except for some obscure glyphs for rare items or enemies...but now the gameplay has become too boring. It's too much like work. No, you moronic dwarf! Harvesting food is WAY more important than cleaning up broken rock! Why do I have to tell each of you individually? I hear there are some tools that go on top of DF that make that less painful, but then I'm not sure what the point is (I wasn't a big fan of the Sims, either).

Uh...the LJ game? I play that one a lot. Y'know, type a bunch of stuff, and then hit post, and text comes back. The game designers were slacking off during level design, though.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I have peeked at Wesnoth a coupla times, when I evidently wasn't in the mood. It looks like a fan-port of the old Sega Genesis game Warsong, which I can't complain about. (In fact, your noting it in Facebook status helped get me into the mood for some gaming!) Maybe I will go look again.

I thought LJ2 : Red Alert was gonna totally kick ass from all the hype, but I never really heard much more about it after it launched...

[queue.livejournal.com]

I've been playing Wesnoth again, too, lately. Am also thinking about doing some messing with it. I'd never really looked at the multiplayer stuff before, but I just recently checked out the "Mech Wars" add-on, and it's got some pretty funky things (dwarves in mechs, using fuel to move, ammo to shoot, real ranged weapons). I hadn't realized that that much customization was possible just in a unit. Many possibilities to think of.