Hey all.
We've done books. We've done movies. And I felt the need to create a new thread, so here it is. For those of you who do play video games, console or pc, even little flash things, what've you been playing? How is it? Etc?
Currently I'm playing Final Fantasy IX for the original playstation. It's my first time all the way through. I really like all of the allusions to previous games as well as the ones to world mythology that fans of the series are so familiar with, and I think the existential questions of identity and meaning that it tackles are dealt with in such a way that keep them contextually fresh throughout the game.
I'm replaying Final Fantasy VI for SNES on a special anthology disk that was released for playstation. I don't think I ever played it all the way through. I have to say that the issues in this game are much less psychological, although at times the drama can get very personal for the individual characters. But the biggest conflict so far seems to be about the abuse of power by an empire and the lengths they'll go in persecuting an "other" to gain greater power and the resistance that forms in response to this.
Since April I've been playing Second Life, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game which is essentially open ended, do whatever you want, be whatever you want, create whatever you want, limited only by your skills and imagination. Lately I've been taking the house my girlfriend and I share there and adding secret rooms and trap doors and steam-powered-teleports and such. I'm also trying to create things a little bit more, not one of my strong points, although just today I did make a meditation bowl and then, using a free script I found and a sound I uploaded, made it sound when clicked. I think I'm going to get one of the scripters I know to create a script for me that will make it sound on the hour.
Oh, and I really really really want a Wii. I think it's going to be a paradigm breaker for video game consoles. But I'm going to wait until they're available, at the very least, at their sale price, if not until they've been marked down.
So, any gamers out there? <crickets chirp>
Dauer
We've done books. We've done movies. And I felt the need to create a new thread, so here it is. For those of you who do play video games, console or pc, even little flash things, what've you been playing? How is it? Etc?
Currently I'm playing Final Fantasy IX for the original playstation. It's my first time all the way through. I really like all of the allusions to previous games as well as the ones to world mythology that fans of the series are so familiar with, and I think the existential questions of identity and meaning that it tackles are dealt with in such a way that keep them contextually fresh throughout the game.
I'm replaying Final Fantasy VI for SNES on a special anthology disk that was released for playstation. I don't think I ever played it all the way through. I have to say that the issues in this game are much less psychological, although at times the drama can get very personal for the individual characters. But the biggest conflict so far seems to be about the abuse of power by an empire and the lengths they'll go in persecuting an "other" to gain greater power and the resistance that forms in response to this.
Since April I've been playing Second Life, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game which is essentially open ended, do whatever you want, be whatever you want, create whatever you want, limited only by your skills and imagination. Lately I've been taking the house my girlfriend and I share there and adding secret rooms and trap doors and steam-powered-teleports and such. I'm also trying to create things a little bit more, not one of my strong points, although just today I did make a meditation bowl and then, using a free script I found and a sound I uploaded, made it sound when clicked. I think I'm going to get one of the scripters I know to create a script for me that will make it sound on the hour.
Oh, and I really really really want a Wii. I think it's going to be a paradigm breaker for video game consoles. But I'm going to wait until they're available, at the very least, at their sale price, if not until they've been marked down.
So, any gamers out there? <crickets chirp>
Dauer
