Adventures in gaming
Oct. 18th, 2013 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rheasilviaAs some of you know, I have recently begun playing video games. I've successfully avoided this for a long time, because I always knew it might become dangerously addictive. And what do you know – I was right. I am a sucker for any medium that will deliver a good story, and I have stumbled over Dragon Age.
My previous ventures into gaming have been few and far between. Long ago, there was a game called KGB, in which I played a KGB agent investigating a suspicious block of apartments in Moscow. I gave up on the game in frustration because I always ended up either starring in a snuff movie or transferred to Siberia. I still regret my incompetence as a government agent, though, because it was a good game, and I was a dedicated – if disillusioned and bitter – agent and really wanted to stop those bastards.
KGB was on a floppy disk! Yikes, that was so long ago. I still have the game, actually, and I remember it very fondly apart from the "inevitably ending up stuffed in trash cans" bit. I can't try to play it again, though, because I no longer have a floppy drive.
Next, there was a Blade Runner game in which I hunted renegade androids. I gave up on this game in frustration because my lab results were never in, and I couldn't continue my investigation without them. Foiled by lazy lab techs! I suspect I was lucky nobody had ever heard of Siberia. And also that nobody tried to stuff me into any trash cans.
Lastly there was The SIMS, which I gave up on in frustration because (perhaps fortunately) my computer wasn't entirely up to the task; it stopped erasing footprints after people had walked by, and I couldn't deal with the disconcerting white footprints all over the place. What can I say, I am a sensitive soul.
If you conclude from this that my frustration threshhold when it comes to video games is low, you may be right. ;-) Still, I overcame my initial frustration – and it was there – for Dragon Age Origins, and now Dragon Age II (which I am not yet finished with, so please, no spoilers!). My current computer still isn't entirely up to the task, but I make do, possibly because there have been no footprint-related mishaps so far. I can overlook the occasional person hanging out in a giant spider.
I suspect there will be more posts about this, so I apologize if you have no interest in the Dragon Age games.
Also, if you happen to know of other games with as wonderful and rich a world and characters as nuanced and interesting as the Dragon Age ones, please do rec them to me. :-) I already have the Mass Effect Trilogy waiting on my shelf... anything else I shouldn't miss?
(Sorry about the long silence, everyone. I am still alive! Real Life has merely been – real life. Enough said.)
My previous ventures into gaming have been few and far between. Long ago, there was a game called KGB, in which I played a KGB agent investigating a suspicious block of apartments in Moscow. I gave up on the game in frustration because I always ended up either starring in a snuff movie or transferred to Siberia. I still regret my incompetence as a government agent, though, because it was a good game, and I was a dedicated – if disillusioned and bitter – agent and really wanted to stop those bastards.
KGB was on a floppy disk! Yikes, that was so long ago. I still have the game, actually, and I remember it very fondly apart from the "inevitably ending up stuffed in trash cans" bit. I can't try to play it again, though, because I no longer have a floppy drive.
Next, there was a Blade Runner game in which I hunted renegade androids. I gave up on this game in frustration because my lab results were never in, and I couldn't continue my investigation without them. Foiled by lazy lab techs! I suspect I was lucky nobody had ever heard of Siberia. And also that nobody tried to stuff me into any trash cans.
Lastly there was The SIMS, which I gave up on in frustration because (perhaps fortunately) my computer wasn't entirely up to the task; it stopped erasing footprints after people had walked by, and I couldn't deal with the disconcerting white footprints all over the place. What can I say, I am a sensitive soul.
If you conclude from this that my frustration threshhold when it comes to video games is low, you may be right. ;-) Still, I overcame my initial frustration – and it was there – for Dragon Age Origins, and now Dragon Age II (which I am not yet finished with, so please, no spoilers!). My current computer still isn't entirely up to the task, but I make do, possibly because there have been no footprint-related mishaps so far. I can overlook the occasional person hanging out in a giant spider.
I suspect there will be more posts about this, so I apologize if you have no interest in the Dragon Age games.
Also, if you happen to know of other games with as wonderful and rich a world and characters as nuanced and interesting as the Dragon Age ones, please do rec them to me. :-) I already have the Mass Effect Trilogy waiting on my shelf... anything else I shouldn't miss?
(Sorry about the long silence, everyone. I am still alive! Real Life has merely been – real life. Enough said.)
