Saturday!
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In settling down to play on my new system, I realized that I never played Knights of the Old Republic II now that the new and improved patch has come out. (Seriously, the game that came out for Xbox was seriously unfinished.)
5 minutes into Knights of the Old Republic II, I realized “I need to play Knights of the Old Republic first!”
So, all that to say, I’m playing Knights of the Old Republic.
I wrote about how awesome and wonderful Knights 1 was waaaay back when here.
The main point from that essay, if you don’t want to revisit it, was this:
As Maribou and I walked back to the car after seeing The Phantom Menace, she asked me what I thought.
I yelled “IT WAS FINE!” at her and we finished our walk to the car in silence.
This game? This game was so awesome that I found myself very, very sad that they released this game as a game, instead of as a movie…
Because the game was as good as the original trilogy… and The Phantom Menace was *NOT*.
If you’ve never played it, you should know that you should. You’re a Protagonist who wakes in medias res and fights/negotiates his or her way through a story where you find out that, holy cow, this story is awesome. You’ve got the Hero’s Journey thing going on, you’ve got the Star Wars Universe (including lightsabers) going on, you’ve got John Williams music, you’ve got helpful droids, you’ve got opaque Wookies, you’ve got everything.
And, and here’s the point, the sequel has (finally) been finished. So that’s what I’m playing. Again.
So… what are you playing?
(Photo is “Untitled,” by our very own Will Truman. Used with permission.)
I was visiting my sister this week and watched a few episodes of the Clone Wars cartoons with my nieces (low double digit age range). (They’ve seen the entire series fifty eleven million times, I have maybe seen an episode or two.)
What struck me above all else is how this series retroactively made all the prequels even worse. The episode I saw this week had a complex plot on honor, betrayal, the code of soldier, the conscience of the individual – but all the time I’m thinking “they’re going to jetison all these philosophical musings right out the airlock when Order 66 comes down the comm link”Report
KOTOR II is, in ways, a deconstruction of KOTOR.Report
Which is why I love it so much. I’m a sucker for a good deconstruction.Report
One of the best lines was getting chided for thinking that massacring your way across four planets somehow reconnected you with the Force.
Of course, Kreia’s general hatred of the fact that the existence of the Force kicked free will in the face, and her plans for fixing THAT were pretty awesome. Pity the ending was seriously cut down. Even with the restoration mod, there’s a lot of clear “We were building towards this” and Kreia ends up not really ending the way she should haveReport
Still on Witcher 3 Blood and Wine. Doing every quest, etc.
Then I’ll go back to Doom.Report
Hot damn, Blood and Wine finally dropped? Why does nobody tell me these things?Report
Just follow it on Steam.
BTW it is good. It’s set in a sorta medieval Provence. Nice and sunny, nice change from Skellige and Novigrad. Lot’s of pretty flowers, olive trees, vinyards, and Mediterranean architecture. And there is the house you can put stuff in like Skyrim. And of course, mission to get stuff to put in your house.Report
After putting in about 60 hours on XCOM 2 over the course of the last couple of weeks, I’m finally at what appears to be the final mission. I’m a little hesitant to play it just yet, because I’ve managed to get this far while losing only a couple of guys and I’m worried I’ll lose more. I know, I know, that’s just what happens sometimes in this game, but I’ve gotten attached to my guys, dammit.Report
If you haven’t replayed Thief/Thief 2 with the newest version of the game engine, YOU NEED TO DO SO.Report