I've been playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II since I bought it on February 10, and have finished the game once and have started again. It's full of bugs, but I haven't had that as bad as other people apparently have. My biggest complaint is that it was like watching a movie with Steven Spielberg directing but replacing him as a director with Ed Wood for the last 15 minutes. The story loses all sense of coesion and, well, sense. The whole thing just completely fell apart at the end, with stuff happening that wasn't explained or didn't go anywhere, but hey, I still enjoyed the game and the game was rushed out too soon.
This isn't a review though. It's more a pondering on why (oh, as I write this I'm experiencing MAJOR deja vu) I love RPG games so much, or at least the ones I've played and been addicted to. I played video games VERY casually most of my life, but other than Tetris and Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, I've never really completely fallen in love with one the way I've fallen in love with Morrowind, Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) and Baldur's Gate II (BG2).
I've tried playing Dungeons and Dragons, the grandpappy of all Role Playing Games, but wow, did it every bore me to tears. I've tried those old text-based adventure games, but I always found those extremely frustrating because you really had to know what to type to get them to work. But graphic computer RPGs? I love them, or at least the ones I've played.
Maybe it's the feeling of being submerged in a whole other world, though some are better than others in that regard. It's fun going on quests and wanting to get just one more done before going to bed, to try and collect all the best stuff in the game, to use my brain more than my lack of ability to aim or having to know which sequence to press buttons in (I'm worried about Oblivion, the next came in the Elder Scrolls series after Morrowind, because that sort of thing is going to depend more on the player's skill, including blocking which will no longer be automatic).
I have a long weekend after word today, my first since August, and I'm hoping to catch up on all my television viewing. Desperate Housewives and Days of Our Lives are calling out to me. I'm hoping I can put KOTOR2 aside long enough to do this. And urk, it just occurred to me that there is a new season of Survivor starting tomorrow! Oy vey.
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by Tabby at 2/16/2005 07:22:00 p.m.
