Exceptional Mediocrity
Friday, April 22nd, 2005I finished Jade Empire several days ago and I’m taking a second run through. Not because it’s that compelling, but because I’m not done deconstructing it yet and I missed some things the first time through due to not talking to my ‘friends’ often enough.
Now, when I do Interactive Storytelling in the traditional, die [...]
Blah
Monday, April 18th, 2005Despite a beautiful weekend and a ton of projects to focus on, I found myself not inspired to much other than intensive navel gazing over the last day or two. Jade Empire continues to fail to impress, not sucking, just not elevating, inspiring, or… some other vaguely alliterative thing.
I’m heading to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [...]
Friday 100 Yard Dash
Friday, April 15th, 2005I’ve got a lot to do today, and I’m heading down to Ithaca to help a team work on a game project called Aetherspace. So this post is going to be brief,
Harumph. Found a second color puzzle in Jade Empire yesterday. On the plus side, I found an encounter where I had options [...]
The Eternal Mystery of Color
Thursday, April 14th, 2005Oh, I’m afraid that I’m going to be a bit of a Jade Empire nay sayer. It isn’t that it’s not good. It is. It isn’t that I’m not enjoying it. I am. It isn’t that it didn’t keep me playing while I had more productive things to do yesterday, [...]
Focus… Focus…
Wednesday, April 13th, 2005I picked up Jade Empire last night. It’s too early to give any in depth analysis, but suffice to enjoy I’m enjoying it so far. I want to sit and play all day, but I have some thing I have to get done as well. I think I’ll be bringing my laptop [...]
Packin’ My Bags
Tuesday, April 12th, 2005I’m heading for China today (courtesy of an Easter present from my mother in law, no less!). Not the real China, but China by the way of kung fu movies and, more to the point, Bioware’s new offering, Jade Empire. Truth be told, I enjoy a good combat game, but I tire of [...]