03-25-2004, 11:26 PM
Thanks for all the ideas folks!
I have been spending my time reading (I have a TON of books I want to read) and have purposly stopped myself from buying or playing any other games until I read a stack of books I have.
When I'm not reading, I'm writing D&D modules for my future group (haven't played in over a hear and a half, but hey, it *could* happen), which is taking up a lot of time and is also very fun.
I think I may end up downloading some animme and manga later on.
Yes, I tried KotoR and I really hated the 50% turn based 50% real time combat system. Drove me buggy. I liked the skill system (total d20 from out of the book), and I head the story was great, but seriously, I just couldn't stand it! The graphics were so-so on my game cube, the music was pretty good, and the NPC's were the WORST part, walking around in circles. There was just nothing about that game I really enjoyed.
I guess its pretty ironic that I liked Baulders Gate. The game was just a lot of fun and you could set the combat system to real time. It was hardcore in the sense that if your main character died, your game was over and you had to revert to a saved file (I think I disabled autosave).
I tried Civ III... it was a lot of fun at first... until I had been playing it for over 2 days without an end in sight! I liked the good old days of a 4-6 hour game of Civ or hotseat and that was it. I don't like that 72 hour a game civ thing.
I have been spending my time reading (I have a TON of books I want to read) and have purposly stopped myself from buying or playing any other games until I read a stack of books I have.
When I'm not reading, I'm writing D&D modules for my future group (haven't played in over a hear and a half, but hey, it *could* happen), which is taking up a lot of time and is also very fun.
I think I may end up downloading some animme and manga later on.
Yes, I tried KotoR and I really hated the 50% turn based 50% real time combat system. Drove me buggy. I liked the skill system (total d20 from out of the book), and I head the story was great, but seriously, I just couldn't stand it! The graphics were so-so on my game cube, the music was pretty good, and the NPC's were the WORST part, walking around in circles. There was just nothing about that game I really enjoyed.
I guess its pretty ironic that I liked Baulders Gate. The game was just a lot of fun and you could set the combat system to real time. It was hardcore in the sense that if your main character died, your game was over and you had to revert to a saved file (I think I disabled autosave).
I tried Civ III... it was a lot of fun at first... until I had been playing it for over 2 days without an end in sight! I liked the good old days of a 4-6 hour game of Civ or hotseat and that was it. I don't like that 72 hour a game civ thing.
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