tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post597235670137330731..comments2024-02-29T16:43:55.241-05:00Comments on Lurking Rhythmically: Patience in Gaming, or Where Is My Mind?Erin Palettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984632637166408245noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-50709980224261572112013-08-25T17:59:10.943-04:002013-08-25T17:59:10.943-04:00Yeah... of course, White Wolf did a damn good job ...Yeah... of course, White Wolf did a damn good job of self destructing for a few years.Oddballhttp://GunsCarsTech.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-85662094150454698592013-08-24T21:10:26.808-04:002013-08-24T21:10:26.808-04:00Play World of tanks, quick and easy. Went from a ...Play World of tanks, quick and easy. Went from a 2 account having WoW player to WoT. I can agree with ya regarding the age factor. Have no patience for any game I cant just hop into and out and have a good time any more.Siennnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-63228105854118115582013-08-24T09:56:24.762-04:002013-08-24T09:56:24.762-04:00Can't say I'm surprised. Although have you...Can't say I'm surprised. Although have you ever seen the nWoD fangame 'Genius: The Transgression'? Interesting mechanics and setting for science. MAD science.<br /><br /><br />"IT'S ALIVE!!!!"Toastridernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-25597107894461900852013-08-24T00:05:51.768-04:002013-08-24T00:05:51.768-04:00NuWoD tanked? EXCELLENT. /MrBurnsNuWoD tanked? EXCELLENT. /MrBurnsErin Palettehttp://lurkingrhythmically.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-33699439667329301742013-08-23T23:58:04.079-04:002013-08-23T23:58:04.079-04:00Vampire: the Masquerade did go away for awhile whe...Vampire: the Masquerade did go away for awhile when White Wolf came out with World of Darkness 2.0 in a move largely aimed at not having to pay the original creators royalties (example: it's not the MalkAvians, it's now the MalkOvians. I'm not making that up). Sales tanked, and they've since brought back the "classic" WoD books. To make you feel old, there's a 20th anniversary edition of Vampire: the Masquerade, which is basically revised edition with the errata built in.Oddballhttp://GunsCarsTech.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-29513268487952839352013-08-23T17:26:17.970-04:002013-08-23T17:26:17.970-04:00"I have Final Fantasy 7, considered by many t..."I have Final Fantasy 7, considered by many to be one of the greatest <br />RPGs of all times, on my Steam account. I've played 45 minutes of it."<br /><br /><br />No offense, but Final Fantasy 7 was only groundbreaking because it took full advantage of the hardware opportunities the Sony Playstation offered. The translation was originally a mess, and honestly it's a straight up linear JRPG with fairly uninspired characters save for a few bright spots.<br /><br /><br />As far as I'm concerned, Baldur's Gate 2 beats up FF7 regularly and steals its lunch money.<br /><br /><br />I guess in general it depends on my mood. Sometimes I wanna play Minecraft or Civ V and build things. Sometimes I just want to shoot things in the face, so I play Left 4 Dead 2 or Payday. Occasionally I like to stab, so there's Chivalry: Medieval Warfare.Toastridernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6649591714373684167.post-79659282869030702342013-08-23T03:18:20.880-04:002013-08-23T03:18:20.880-04:00Seems to happen to us all at some time or another....Seems to happen to us all at some time or another.<br /><br /><br />When I was but a lad, I had an astonishing amount of patience for games that needed a lot of setting up; somewhere in this very room is a Warhammer army of hundreds of individually-based dudes that took at least thirty minutes just to get out of the case and onto its movement trays and assembled ready for a game where the first two turns would be cautious edging forward and jockeying for position and it might be anything up to an hour and a half before anyone actually wanted to engage.<br /><br /><br />These days I seem to be favouring the "whap out two dozen models <i>at most</i> and be done in ninety minutes" scale of tabletop gaming. More difficult and more engaging as games, but quicker to set up and tear down and resolve.<br /><br /><br />'Growing less patient' sounds like a rather negative way of looking at it though, a kind of self-admonition. I prefer to think of it as 'recognising the value of my leisure time', or possibly 'being too old and tired to spend half an hour just getting ready to play'.Vonhttp://kaptainvon.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com