hey, it's been awhile
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jazzfishLast night's dreams were... confusing and fragmented, to say the least. I was constantly grieving for one or another of my current cats (who are very much alive) and/or Tommy the cat from my childhood who's been gone for almost fifteen years now. I also started dating someone who is in waking life a very casual online acquaintance, started a storm at sea that swamped a boat filled with tiny people who may or not have been other friends of mine, and somehow caused uilos to lose about half the green pearls off her necklace, about which I was a lot more upset than she was. O, brain.
Still somewhat stressed over work. Still not writing, other than the Upgrade Guide, which is not supposed to be fiction anyway. All that should let up in a week or so.
Finished eBear's Range of Ghosts yesterday. Quite good. Still, to paraphrase James Nicoll, I hope in my lifetime to see the death of the bound book-fragment mode of writing. It's all build-up for a story, albeit one that does at least have an end in sight (2014, I expect).
A couple of weeks ago I was talking withuilos trying to figure out what I wanted to do, since nothing felt at all interesting. She bounced a couple of ideas off me and I kept saying "no, that's not it."
"Well, do you want to... sit around and play video games?"
"I can't, because the old consoles don't connect well to the television and it's annoying to have that half-second lag and... and this is a 'can't' not a 'don't wanna.' Hm."
So I went out and bought a Wii, on the grounds that it'll play my existing Gamecube games. That and a component video cable seem to have done the trick. Whomped my way through Eternal Darkness again and felt a bit better about things.
As far as actual Wii games: I'm told I should get both Mario Galaxys and New SMB, and anything labeled Kirby as well. Zelda: Twilight Princess was pretty but after about halfway through, the sheer amount of running around not doing anything interesting has really turned me off it. (That and the terminally annoying fairy who hangs around and is smug about not telling you anything.) Metroid: Other M was... decent, but too frantic to really feel epic; I've got the Prime Trilogy on order. Anything I'm missing? Anything good on Virtual Console / WiiWare?
uilos to lose about half the green pearls off her necklace, about which I was a lot more upset than she was. O, brain.Still somewhat stressed over work. Still not writing, other than the Upgrade Guide, which is not supposed to be fiction anyway. All that should let up in a week or so.
Finished eBear's Range of Ghosts yesterday. Quite good. Still, to paraphrase James Nicoll, I hope in my lifetime to see the death of the bound book-fragment mode of writing. It's all build-up for a story, albeit one that does at least have an end in sight (2014, I expect).
A couple of weeks ago I was talking with
uilos trying to figure out what I wanted to do, since nothing felt at all interesting. She bounced a couple of ideas off me and I kept saying "no, that's not it.""Well, do you want to... sit around and play video games?"
"I can't, because the old consoles don't connect well to the television and it's annoying to have that half-second lag and... and this is a 'can't' not a 'don't wanna.' Hm."
So I went out and bought a Wii, on the grounds that it'll play my existing Gamecube games. That and a component video cable seem to have done the trick. Whomped my way through Eternal Darkness again and felt a bit better about things.
As far as actual Wii games: I'm told I should get both Mario Galaxys and New SMB, and anything labeled Kirby as well. Zelda: Twilight Princess was pretty but after about halfway through, the sheer amount of running around not doing anything interesting has really turned me off it. (That and the terminally annoying fairy who hangs around and is smug about not telling you anything.) Metroid: Other M was... decent, but too frantic to really feel epic; I've got the Prime Trilogy on order. Anything I'm missing? Anything good on Virtual Console / WiiWare?
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Date: 2012-04-25 01:29 am (UTC)I don't know how the wii translation is, but a lot of the lego games are supposed to be pretty good. (I've played some of one of the Indiana Jones ones in a standard-controller version, which was surprisingly playable & entertaining even at novice skill level.)
If you don't require everything to be plot-based, Boom Blox is a good party game (throw things and knock stuff over! What's not to love?) and the Wii Sports Resort has some pretty cool fencing sequences. Weirdly enough, I also enjoy several of the sports (bowling, frisbe...) that I don't much care for in real life.
There are also a *lot* of wii games that seem to have high ratings with the caveat of "gameplay sucks." We have several things that are supposed to be pretty good and that languish in the cabinet because I can't get past the first level.
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Date: 2012-04-25 04:48 am (UTC)The trouble with party games is that I am an electronic misanthrope. And I'm not as tempted by the Wii Sports type things as I might be due to the current living-room setup: the long end of the couch extends out in front of the TV so there's no place to stand and flail madly. I suppose I ought to pick them up soon if I'm going to, though, before the Wii goes the way of the
dodoDreamcast.