LadyCrimson

One of my main irritations with the ES series has always been the combat mechanics. Don't like 1st person melee, and the 3rd person never felt quite right. Does ESO change any of that or does it still all rather feel kind of awkward. At least some articles make it sound like ranged is fun-ish. The early impressions, now that the press embargo is off, don't exactly inspire. Especially the writing. Not that I'd play a MMO for the writing, really. But one complaint I'm seeing is a lack of impact feel to combat. I might like the exploration and quest design, tho. That sounds at least promising, for my style. rockpapershotgun's 1st several hours impression article made me laugh, tho, re: some of the tortured dialogue. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/07/hands-on-the-first-few-hours-of-elder-scrolls-online/

Dangit, I should've have looked at the preorder page. Mudcrab pet! Dangit.... *goes off to read lukewarm reviews to temper desire for a mudcrab pet....*

Does it feel worth a subscription?

Tried to watch the first episode of Bates Motel. Seemed like it might be all right...I wasn't disliking it or anything. But couldn't focus on it so I turned it off for the moment. The woman playing the mother seems pretty good...the guy playing Norman felt a touch too twitchy, but otoh, appropriately weird and wimpy? wussy? repressed mamma's boy?

Are you saying it's going to be bad? It's just a Princess Bride reference, nothing more.

Pillars of Eternity - You Killed My Father, Prepare to Die Edition. ...I don't really see any reason for a subtitled title. They can save that for the sequel, if there is one.

Last thread Finally got around to watching "The Croods". It's not a Pixar masterpiece or anything, but I enjoyed it. Even made me chuckle a few times. The imagery was nice to look at, too. Plus, y'know, I want one of these.

Post limit. Time for a new one.

Hopefully it's actually a bug and not you developing cat allergies. ...I hate being allergic to my beloved cats...but it doesn't stop me, either.

Nice poem and sentiment, Hurlshot. Lucky wife. Pizza and movies night. Some family movie called Firehouse dog is on CN and since it has Bruce Greenwood in it, so I must watch it because I'm a Greenwood fangurl. Also has Josh H., which took me a few minutes to remember "oh yeah, Hunger Games". I forget how young he is/was, even in Hunger Games. Plus, y'know, cute dog. Earlier I caught a bit of Silent Hill, which also had me going "Hey, the blonde from Walking Dead!" (who's a lot hotter with short hair, imo, I might add). A whole lot of people are in that movie, actually. Fun times.

If they get to a VR point where I actually feel as tho I am an actor playing a role in a movie - but without having the embarrassment of having to have anyone see/hear what a terrible actor I am (haha!) then I may end up loving games as a story medium. I mean, if I'm alive at the time, games with tactile sensory imput, total 3d immersion and picking up a stick means reaching out to pick up a stick that would be pretty awesome. eg, a holodeck. Also, it'd get rid of the couch-potato syndrome. ...but unlike alan, I feel the interactivity of a sit-at-keyboard computer game actually takes away from the flow/pace of story, and to me, uninterrupted flow is everything. Whether this is because of current methods of integration/implementation in games I have no idea, but I'd guess it's pretty likely.

I have difficulty with the over-reaching story arcs in a lot of games because of all the player-stuff I have to do in-between the snippets of story that are doled out. By the time I get to the next story bit, my brain is stuffed with side quests, chr. arcs/stories, profession skill/gear/other choices, exploring, beating up dozens of bad guys, etc. that I've practically forgotten there is a story arc. That's just me tho. And it's not that I don't appreciate/want a good story in the game. It's just not my favorite format for getting one (vs. a book/movie).

Watching little bits as I wander back and forth around the house. So far the best stuff is watching those hunky speed skaters and a shoe commercial that used the theme to Underdog as its music. Haha. I did finally realize last night that it was mostly opening ceremony stuff...for some reason I thought it had already started a day or two ago or something. So that explained that. I felt a little bad that the one light ring didn't open. The floating island fantasy thing was kinda pretty too. At least I found the NBC cable sports channel that seems to play more of the actual sports. Especially at late night. Sadly I don't have a DVR to record it.

Recovering flu-wise, I'm at about 90% I think. Mostly the cough left. Oddly, this means I'm more sleepy. Guess one doesn't get a lot of quality sleep when sick, perhaps. So it was a quiet day, listening to the rain, snoozing off and on. Nice to see some rain this week. Clears the allergens, soothing sound, gives moderate temps. This weekend...no plans. Might buy myself a 40" TV (not pc monitor) for this room and set it up with a cablebox. I'm getting a little tired of competing for the living room TV w/hubby and his couch-gaming. He doesn't like sports and half the stuff I watch, anyway. Plus that way I can have sports on while still doing something else on the PC's.

Most of my fave games "evah" aren't RPG's.

Did Costas have a stroke or something? Or are his glasses just giving off some eyeball illusions. Edit: Why is Obama on my screen (for a long time, too)? Where's the sports? Oh forget it, I'm going to go play a video game.

First thought: "Ohhh, that's what people mean by "life hack." Must have been in the right mood, because for some reason I found a lot of it hilarious. Or when they worked, kinda neat.

Homeland - end of 3rd season. :verymad: Well...that's it for me re: that show. No reason to watch anymore. Not that what happened maybe wasn't needed/necessary, but nothing about the show has shown me that my interest would survive beyond that they did at end of Ssn. 3.

After "everyone" kept telling me I should try it, I bought Total War:Rome Gold disc set at some point. I think I got to the first tutorial and thought it was more RTS than I wanted (at the time), but I should give it another shot since I barely did anything.

I just noticed that. I have Pripyat and Chernobyl via Steam already but having them via GoG and not being Steam-dependent would be great.

Here's 10min. from someone's Let's Play of LotR 2. Gives you the idea of the non-combat part (combat/siege was done on a separate map/format). I loved that flute tune, too. LofM (4 minute mark for gameplay)

I bought Lords of Magic, realized it wasn't at all like I thought it was going to be (slightly more akin to HoMM, where you explore a map with an avatar?), and shelved it. So I can't comment on it. It wasn't all that well received initially, partly because of the single-map structure, although I think it might have been looked at more favorably as time passed.

Never played LotR3. But after taking years in development processes (wasn't released until 2004, according to wiki), it was turned into a RTS (not turn-based) and was very different from #2 gameplay wise. It did get decent reviews at the time, I think. LotR2 was admittedly simplistic but I really liked it. It had a faint touch of city-build feel to it, even tho you weren't actually building per se. The time/turns to build castles/move around the map, population happiness, waiting for population to tick up again after sucking peasants out for armies, hiring mercenaries, etc.

Oh...so that's what they meant by "An Event where a challenge will sometimes appear when you kill enemies/you can accept a quest." Lame.

I had a fevered dream that I was taking my PC apart to stick a bunch of cool new stuff in it. I woke up a sad panda. So yeah, I'm starting to feel all jealous-like at threads like these, again. At least a year, maybe two before I can justify new rig/s. Wonder what gpu's will be like then.