My latest encounter with GAME was in the hunt for another copy of Diablo II. After clearing out the games I left at my Dads when moving to uni, I discovered that I still owned the Lord of Destruction expansion pack, but due to a rather convoluted chain of events, the original game was nowhere to be found. Needless to say, this had to be rectified.
After hunting unsuccessfully for a second-hand copy in Cex, I resorted to picking one up in GAME. However, it happened to be in the 2 for £15 range. £10 for one game or £15 for two tough decision. Eventually, I walked away with Diablo II and Genesis Rising.
After installing Diablo and the expansion pack on my long-suffering laptop, I remembered why I loved this game so much. By the standards of modern RPGs its incredibly simple and ugly as hell (quite literally once you reach the fourth act), but theres something intensely satisfying about watching your druid send a ball of molten magma rolling through a rank of skeletons straight out of a Harryhausen film. Rather worryingly, I was also heard to declare my love for Blizzard after I found that the latest official patch allows the game to run without any CD. In front of my girlfriend.
Today, I decided to try Genesis Rising. Where do I start? Well, the back of the case sounded interesting, and thats about where the good points end. Its an amazingly beautiful game that is, for what visuals it has. Apparently the designers took space a little too literally, meaning most maps are basically empty. Then theres the fact you have to micro-manage each ships weapon systems. Most weapons will not fire unless you specifically tell them to. Your fleet is capped at about 12 ships. The universe has been pretty much directly lifted from Warhammer 40K. Then theres the fact that in a right-click RTS interface, for some inexplicable reason, the right mouse button moves the cursor every time you click, so you have no fricken idea where any of your units are going to end up.
Hmm... First Journal in two months, and it turns into a game review. Oh well, I felt I had to share the pain with someone.




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"Why do I have six screens? Because I don't have room for eight." - Terry Pratchett
It is a certifiable fact that everything good in life is either illegal, amoral or fattening.
Well, it looks like we're opponents for the latest round of
If you have any questions regarding my entry or the weirdness within it, feel free to note me. I'll do my best to supply any answers you may need--and, if no answers are avaliable, to make something up on the spot and swear it's canon.
As for me, I do have two questions, but they're not about your audition or character sheet (both were quite clear enough).
1. On a scale of one to ten, how offended would you be if your character died in my audition, with one being 'completely apathetic' and ten being 'I WOULD KILL YOU', and -1 being '
As for me, I would rather prefer you did not kill off my OC, but royally beating him up or letting him join your team for whatever reason are both fine. Even if you did kill him, I promise not to rag on you unless you do a bad job at it. xD
And that's all. Have fun, and good luck!
~nami
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I think I've got a fairly good impression of Shift through your character sheet, audition and minotaur entry, so no immediate questions. But if any turn up, I'll be sure to ask.
As for killing my character, I'd probably be about a 4 on the care-scale. I'd feel a little disappointed if she was wiped entirely from the proceedings at the end of the first round, and I have had enquiries from people who would like to adopt her into their team if she gets knocked out. But equally, it's your entry, so it's how you want to portray Shift and Izzie and their interactions, and the consequences of them. If it makes perfect sense for Shift to kill Izzie in a fairly unpleasant manner, then go for it.
Cheers, and good luck!
Well, I've done some thinking and talked it over with some people in Chat, and in the end I decided to not take the fatal route. It's too early in the game, and Izzie's a cool character that I still want to see hanging around regardless of who wins. I can't say Izzie'll be too happy with Shift once all is said and done, buuuut that can't be helped. The two seem like they'd get along like oil and water.
Much the same!
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For many a poor young orphan lad,
The first square meal he ever had
Was a hot meat pie made out of his dad
By Mister Todd the barber.
It's a great sport. Do you still fence at all?
Sadly I live in Arkansas now and there are no fencing clubs. ;_; We still have all our equipment, and we want to organize one ourselves, but I'm afraid I'm pretty rusty. My family used to go to the club at least once a week, and we got into a few great tournaments.
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For many a poor young orphan lad,
The first square meal he ever had
Was a hot meat pie made out of his dad
By Mister Todd the barber.
Ah, that's a shame. It's funny how things work like that; where I lived with my parents, there were maybe half a dozen clubs all within an hour or two of each other. Now, where I'm studying at uni, the only club for ages is the university club.
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