Lately I’m playing Fallout: New Vegas on X-Box 360.
Enjoying how the story is coming out. Starting out I didn’t really “get” it, but it’s actually sort of refreshing to be put in a situation where the fate of the world is not, in fact, in my hands. It makes me feel a little more open to be a self-serving person in the game world who is mostly looking out for myself, which is how I choose to take the game. I originally didn’t want to take a companion NPC, but I realized if I turned down those offers I’d be missing out on content, so, I have Veronica around who has turned out to be quite handy. I’m careful about how I use her though, as I’m playing on “hardcore.” I feel as if I’ve only scratched the surface of this game.
Lately I have tried out Kinect again! I wasn’t really sold on it after the PAX demo, but the PAX demo didn’t include Dance Central, which I think is pretty neat and actually enjoy. Despite the fact that we’d have to rearrange our coffee table, this may turn in to a ‘maybe’ purchase depending on which other compelling software is released and when. Right now, as I’m not much of a party hoster, I can’t see myself buying it for party games. This may be sacrilege, but I don’t really play WiiSports for example. It only comes out when other people are around and want a demo of the Wii, rather than being something I personally voluntarily play at home.
Speaking of Wii, lately I’m also playing Kirby’s Epic Yarn (what a silly name) though it merits less “serious” discussion as a critical work so much as it makes me wish I was five years old at times so I could really appreciate it on its level. I’m not saying of course that an adult can’t be charmed and enjoy a game that seems targetted at kids, since, I do, but it’s a guilty-pleasure sort of thing and an awareness that, even if you are part of the target audience, you probably shouldn’t be.
Sadly, lately I’m not playing the Interactive Fiction Comp entries for this year; the time to review has passed. I regret not participating but I’ve been working on a lot of other stuff related to my job so I figured there wasn’t much chance I would get through them, and, obviously, the amount of digital games available this month has already been staggering to me. (I still haven’t fired up Fable 3 yet, which I bought and have every intention to play.) However with a holiday weekend coming up, I think I’ll have a chance to catch up on what I missed there… at least play the top rated games and perhaps belatedly share my thoughts.
Lately I’m still doing a bit of Z Brush off and on trying to finish my D&D modeling project, which stalled out a little when I moved in to my new role at work. However I should have an update for that this week including the normals map, which came out pretty well.
And lately I’m working on a little Facebook application; I’ve been tooling around with the concept for it for some time and started doing some art. No more details on that until there’s something to really show though, so that’s all!
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