This little title from Atlus has me excited, it seems made for those who grew up on Wizardry and The Bard's Tale. It's got the kind of setup I like: roll up five characters and hit the dungeon, but the gimmick that really sells it for me is that you have to draw the map yourself on the bottom screen of the DS. It's not like I'm going to have any time to play this at home in the next couple weeks with the Halo 3 Beta, but I do have some flights coming up...
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Etrian Odyssey
This little title from Atlus has me excited, it seems made for those who grew up on Wizardry and The Bard's Tale. It's got the kind of setup I like: roll up five characters and hit the dungeon, but the gimmick that really sells it for me is that you have to draw the map yourself on the bottom screen of the DS. It's not like I'm going to have any time to play this at home in the next couple weeks with the Halo 3 Beta, but I do have some flights coming up...
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I read that the Halo 3 beta was delayed. Is that true? If so, you may have enough time to get as far into it as you get into any Game Boy game and lend it to me.
After living in Los Angeles I have the expectation that anything that ends with the letters "ian" must be from Armenia.
The Halo 3 Beta was delayed about 15 hours. You'd think it had been delayed for 15 months from the reaction. Gave me time to play Aegis Wing, though, and watch two episodes of the West Wing.
No kidding. People sure are crybabies about it. Sure Microsoft is using the beta as a promotion, but I'm thinking people really don't understand what a beta test is. SNAFUs are to be expected during a beta. They're almost desired. I do feel for you, Mike, that you were forced to resort to Sorkin. Was your sock drawer already sorted? Receipts categorized and boxed for potential audit? Lawnmower blades sharpened?
Sorkin is long gone in the season I'm watching, but I suspect you feel that his taint remains. I have liked West Wing a lot, perhaps more than any other TV show. I like my TV to sound smart, even if everyone is a bit glib.
Mmmmmm.........lingering taint.
Gus - are you sure you're not letting the early shark jump that Studio 60 pulled cast a pall on the early Sorkin/Schlamme West Wing efforts? While clearly (tasty) liberal pie in the sky, it was some of the smartest writing around, and actually made people interested in politics. Sometimes too smart for its own good, admittedly, but nothing like the navel gazing that was Studio 60.
I couldn't even bear Sports Night. If I want talky I either go for Mamet or gutter gab like Tarantino. For my money the smartest TV show of the past 10 years was Deadwood. That show's dialog nearly forced viewers to brush up on their iambic pentameter.
...and Deadwood brings us back to taint! Recursion! (*rings a bell*)
I'm glad I gave Deadwood a few episodes to gel for me. I think within the first season, the writer (don't recall his name) got better at writing more naturalistic, less stilted dialog, even within the confines of the archaic verbiage. I ended up enjoying the show immensely.
People focus on the profanity, which I think is a mistake. It's Swearengen's soliloquies that are worth the price of admissions -- like Shakespeare channeled through Bukowski. The writer is Milch, and he's got a new show on HBO this summer. It's called John From Cincinnati.
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