22nd February 2005, 9:18 PM
Nuts, that post didn't get posted for some reason...
Well I've been busy lately so I haven't been playing many games actually. I have a lot of RPGs to catch up on, GOOD ones. I'll say I really want to get back into Planescape though. Just getting out of that crypt at the start revealed enough story about that eternally party forming and then utterly arse kicked into amnesia fellow you play as. That's about the only bit I know of him so far. That, and there's some ghostly woman who he once loved. Who knows how many he's met like that in past eons? Oh well, anyway I have a lot of stuff to work out while in "the hive". When I finally start playing, it's off to find the thief who stole my stuff. Nice enough, I can be the guy who just wants to find my stuff instead of the guy who's all "HE STEAL! ME SMASH! BLAAAARGHH!". I don't need to be a bad arse in the least! In fact, the way I've been talking I'm the naive nice guy.
Well anyway yeah needing the net connetion to play when it is a physical requirement is fine. I understand that for like, multiplayer gaming. But here, it's just for some security measure. I get why the PA guys would crack games they legally own now.
I will say being able to buy games and just download them is nice and good. Ya know, Bioware has released huge scenarios for Neverwinter that you have to buy. You buy and then download them. I've heard lots of complaints about their confirmation scheme though... Really I feel for the companies doing this, but it is a big annoyance. Anyway, I'm not buying those content packages :D. The single player campaigns included with Neverwinter and it's expansions just aren't that fun to play single player. In fact, everything you do is like boredom the way they did it. It's like a robot analyzed the basic concepts of what makes a game good and did it in a purely robotic fassion. It's TECHNICALLY got what it takes, but pulled off in such a sterile and uninteresting fasion that it sucks. Multiplayer is the entire reason I play the game, and fan made scenario packs, and that's the way it'll stay.
Well I've been busy lately so I haven't been playing many games actually. I have a lot of RPGs to catch up on, GOOD ones. I'll say I really want to get back into Planescape though. Just getting out of that crypt at the start revealed enough story about that eternally party forming and then utterly arse kicked into amnesia fellow you play as. That's about the only bit I know of him so far. That, and there's some ghostly woman who he once loved. Who knows how many he's met like that in past eons? Oh well, anyway I have a lot of stuff to work out while in "the hive". When I finally start playing, it's off to find the thief who stole my stuff. Nice enough, I can be the guy who just wants to find my stuff instead of the guy who's all "HE STEAL! ME SMASH! BLAAAARGHH!". I don't need to be a bad arse in the least! In fact, the way I've been talking I'm the naive nice guy.
Well anyway yeah needing the net connetion to play when it is a physical requirement is fine. I understand that for like, multiplayer gaming. But here, it's just for some security measure. I get why the PA guys would crack games they legally own now.
I will say being able to buy games and just download them is nice and good. Ya know, Bioware has released huge scenarios for Neverwinter that you have to buy. You buy and then download them. I've heard lots of complaints about their confirmation scheme though... Really I feel for the companies doing this, but it is a big annoyance. Anyway, I'm not buying those content packages :D. The single player campaigns included with Neverwinter and it's expansions just aren't that fun to play single player. In fact, everything you do is like boredom the way they did it. It's like a robot analyzed the basic concepts of what makes a game good and did it in a purely robotic fassion. It's TECHNICALLY got what it takes, but pulled off in such a sterile and uninteresting fasion that it sucks. Multiplayer is the entire reason I play the game, and fan made scenario packs, and that's the way it'll stay.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)