Goodbye blog?
By vidiot 8 Comments
I'm jumping onto a plane in the next few hours for San Diego. It's a family get-together and I was invited.
Suffice to say: I'll be gone for a week, and I doubt I'll be checking my GB profile during this week. So now I have a reason not to play WoW! Because I'm not here!
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO WIN!
Before I go I wanna give a real quick general run-down on stuff that matters. I still need to finish packing.
StarCraft 2
It's StarCraft. The end.
There's a really neat almost, dare I say, Wing Commander-esque adventure portions between missions that I enjoy greatly. The plot is still paper-thin-juvenile-sci-fi written by someone waaay too into Warhammer 40,000. So far I've been able to look the other way, thanks to what looks like a pretty nice progression of an RTS singleplayer campaign. I like the little RPG and adventure mechanics that pepper the experience.
When it goes down to the actual bulk of the game however, I'm still waiting for the big design jump that proclaims that it's something more than 3D StarCraft. I'm very early in the campaign and I still haven't touched the multiplayer, (Nor it's revamped Battle.net) so I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I'm not sure it will though. Although, at the same time, I don't really find that as a bad thing.
Personally I could go on over complaining why it took so long for Blizzard to make StarCraft 2. Perhaps it's the skewed opinion that after eleven years, you get the feeling that something fundamental should change.
That's more human nature, versus any real well-thought out gaming criticism. :P Hey, I'm tired. :P (Not looking forward to this flight :P)
I can totally respect the reasoning in not overtly-changing mechanics, because I understand it elsewhere in gaming. The next time someone points to a turn-based combat system, or a covered based shooter as something that's been "done before", crap, just point to StarCraft 2 :P
Other...stuff
The last few weeks for me personally have been increasing turbulent. I know I'm...uhm...what's a good word for "bat-shit-crazy"? Is that one word? It should be. Like, you say it all at once really fast. Try it out. BATSHITCRAZY.What was I talking about?
Oh, personal stuff.
So I'm going on vacation. I'm planning on...well....not a whole bunch of anything. Probably going to read a bunch. Go out and walk. I'm not really bringing a bunch of games with me like I usually do. I'll check in regularly on the internets, but for the next week or so I'm going to be pretty damn silent on this end.
Call it, a vacation from myself? Oh, that sounds depressing.
For me when personal "issues" crop-up, they seem to all kinda cascade at-once. It's never "oh, and now something bad will happen to you, and now something good will happen..." THAT NEVER HAPPENS FOR ME. EVER. Grrr... I don't even like looking at that sentence.
It always seems like it's all at once and it never one problem at a time. If there's something that I can walk away from, it's that it's predictable.
Oh- and I'm an idiot when it comes to interfacing with the opposite sex, doing stuff for other people, depending on other people, not making enough money, and not taking matters in my own hands.
WAIT! NO! SAID TOO MUCH!!!
Alright, now I'm actually for the first time excited about the vacation.
Almost.
I'll be back fellow bombers!