Tale

Dag nabbit. This month is going to drive me insane.

It makes me sad that I need an editor for forum posts. I don't know if I'll be able to complete it or not. I've already rewritten the first page twice. And I see myself doing it a third of fourth time when I actually type it. This is a trend that will probably persist for all pages.

Lucasarts was fairly supportive of it. Licensing it out to Telltale for Tales of Monkey Island and then doing updated versions of the first two.

Assassin's Creed 3

The rules are to try writing a 50,000 page novel before the month's end.

If there's not a significant musical number, I'll be slightly disappointed.

My big plan is to hang out in doorways and closets, hoping to ambush and eat the living. Having a good ambush spot is very important or else you might get shot.

It can be six years ago with the magical power of alcohol and self-delusion! More information courtesy of Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Including that they intend to do a Kickstarter.

I don't count them, but it's certainly not too many. I'm writing in a notebook.

Wake up, thread! It's here. The first day of National Novel Writing Month. I guess this means I need to make a more serious effort than I had been the past couple weeks.

Also, Halo 4 reviews are dropping. IGN Games Radar Polygon Destructoid Giant Bomb Overwhelmingly positive. I was going to skip this one, but several of the reviews speak of the campaign as the best in the franchise. I've always found their campaigns to be remarkable with the usual caveat that I hate every flood level ever made, so that means something to me.

Dreamfall sequel announced from Tornquist's new studio. Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee Here's the press release from Funcom.

This doesn't seem legitimately relevant to Project Eternity. Just a thinly veiled complaint about game journalism and accusations of general bribery. A topic on expectations for how reviewers might react to Project Eternity could fit in here, but how much you hate IGN and think they all take bribes seems more appropriate for computer and console, n'est-ce pas?

Assassin's Creed III. I'm still in the prologue... I seriously don't understand why the game was built this way. It's not offensive, it's just boring. Haythem gets no upgrades, one side mission that I don't even know if I can actually complete yet, no customization (does Conner get customization like Ezio had?). I'm just running around as a guy who is way overdressed for hiding in bushes. At least he gets a cast, but only two of them are worth remembering the names of.

As I understand it, Disney didn't really want to do JC to begin with. It was in the director's contract that he would get to. Still, I don't know if it's a "failure." It was a late bloomer and made a profit in later showings. And seemed to be doing fairly well on home release. Though my info on that is anecdotal, the Blockbuster I tried renting it from told me that everyone kept buying the rental copies after watching it.

Barbarians perturb me. They wear hide armor for no reason other than because their primitive tribal society did not make any better. You can come up with all sorts of justifications with mechanical ties for how they can, in spite of that limitation, excel. But I can't think of a single justification with mechanical ties for why they would continue to do so outside the context of a society that simply can't create better armor. And it's good for me to type that out, because usually after I type "I would never!" or "I don't see how..." is when ideas on the subject start coming to me. Edit: Perhaps it could simply be a damage/defense tradeoff for barbarians. Heavy armor limits their damage output by some fashion. But still allows them to function in a different, but equal, role. I guess that means their archetypal presentation would be more of a damage dealer than a meatshield. Is that comfortable for fans of the class? Maybe.

Thank you.

You don't understand... It's made by a Marvel competitor, The Star Wars EU is not made by a marvel competitor. The publisher is largely Del Ray. Marvel has even published some themselves. http://starwars.wiki...r_Wars_(Marvel) Whoever publishes it, it's still owned by LucasFilm. There's no reason to end the tie-in merchandise, which is precisely what the EU is. They may kill the Dark Horse deal, but Dark Horse doesn't own the EU.

Are you under the impression that Extended Universe is fan material? It has about as much chances of disappearing as Marvel comics.

Nope. I think they just didn't want to pay the model for his likeness any more. Like why they got rid of Kirsten Bell.

I caved and purchased Assassin's Creed 3. I was upset about Revelations and their desire to drag it out forever, but I've decided I trust them enough to make a good story out of Conner and maybe finish Desmond without butchering a decent plot too badly.

I'm hoping they can. This is the big thing I would like to see come out of this.

The Star Wars EU already became a bit of a mess from overexposure and too many cooks. So I'm not all that bothered by the possibility of a bi-yearly milking. If it ends up with more consistency than the old canon, it'd be a godsend. Though I am more than sympathetic to the idea of letting things go. I'm generally pretty disrespectful of any franchise that outstays its welcome, and the Star Wars EU is one of my inspirations for that opinion.

So, not any worse than the new Clone Wars series?

Pick a source, any source. Depending on your opinion of the current state of Star Wars, this might be considered good or bad. There's an episode 7 planned for 2015. Found the press release.