What's Spinning My Drive
This is going to be a truncated update because, well, this is the only thing I've been playing all week:
That isn't to say I haven't thought about playing other games. But I really haven't. #2 on my priority list would have to be Uncharted 2, but I honestly haven't touched it since the last update.
I'm 25 hours in (so the game says--it's hard to believe I've sunk that much time into it already) and I'm enjoying it immensely. The music, combat, and storyline are all excellent. It seems that I've exhausted the backstory-related conversation options of Morrighan already, which is kind of disappointing. One of BioWare's weaknesses has been that they make these really interesting characters, but just partway through the game you run out of things to say to them. I was hoping DA would be different. And it may yet. More options may be triggered by plot progression--we'll see.
Most of the week's playtime has been spent in Orzammar, the Dwarven city. Certain things I expected, like the geomtric architecture, but most I did not. Again I have to dispute the criticism DA received for its 'unoriginal' high fantasy setting. The intricacies of Dwarven politics and, heck, the fact that they were interesting to me at all speaks volumes. Because honestly, dwarves usually bore the crap out of me.
Check out this cool pic:
Cool place and I'm not even done yet. There's a decent chunk of the main storyline left (or so I've surmised), and hopefully even more areas of the 'Deep Roads' (the underground roads and cities that the dwarves have lost to the Darkspawn over the centuries) will open up. The whole exploration of ruins takes on another level (no pun intended) when it's underground.
The only other thing that's been spinning in my drives this weeks is:
I'm 25 hours in (so the game says--it's hard to believe I've sunk that much time into it already) and I'm enjoying it immensely. The music, combat, and storyline are all excellent. It seems that I've exhausted the backstory-related conversation options of Morrighan already, which is kind of disappointing. One of BioWare's weaknesses has been that they make these really interesting characters, but just partway through the game you run out of things to say to them. I was hoping DA would be different. And it may yet. More options may be triggered by plot progression--we'll see.
Most of the week's playtime has been spent in Orzammar, the Dwarven city. Certain things I expected, like the geomtric architecture, but most I did not. Again I have to dispute the criticism DA received for its 'unoriginal' high fantasy setting. The intricacies of Dwarven politics and, heck, the fact that they were interesting to me at all speaks volumes. Because honestly, dwarves usually bore the crap out of me.
Check out this cool pic:
The only other thing that's been spinning in my drives this weeks is:
My wife spent some of her Christmas money on purchasing the first four seasons of How I Met Your Mother. We're mostly caught up to where we first got into the show (sporadically in season 3, religiously in season 4), but even the episodes we've seen before have a ton of replay value. If you've never seen the show, check it out. It has more plotlines and character evolution than the typical sitcom, though, so you'll get the most out of it if you watch it from the beginning.
That's pretty much it for this update. I'll keep y'all posted!
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