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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[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

Your description of Dwarf Fortress, as well as Metahacker's reply, reminded me of that line from The Matrix: "I don't even see the code anymore. I just see blonde, brunette, redhead..." My problem with the game wasn't the interface, it was just the depth/learning curve. Seems like I'd have to put in a couple of months to a year of learning just to see whether it's fun and rewarding enough to be worth the effort.

As for what I've been playing recently, I've been mostly picking up old PS2 games for really cheap. My latest acquisition is Super Bust-A-Move, for $10 used. Prior to that was Castle Shikigami 2, a Japanese vertical scrolling shooter, which is $6.00 brand new. Prior to that was The Bard's Tale, a very well done and amusing hack-n-slash RPG.

On the Mac front, I spent a good chunk of last year addicted to Peggle.