View From the Bushes

At the moment, I'm looking for a game to play. I don't actually have the time to play any games, and certainly not one of the length I played in years previously, a la anything by BioWare, which sort of rules out Neverwinter Nights. But something in me is convinced that I do have a couple of hours in there somewhere to recreate and all of my old games just don't hold any appeal for me anymore. So I went to the local GameStop, and nothing leaped off the shelves, so I decided to try a nearby Media Play and even though their selection was greater than Gamestop's (which always surprises me) I still found nothing.

Of course, the danger is that you will find something, and that it will consume your every waking moment, that 40 hours will pass and still you desire to play the game will be unslaked. I don't worry about that so much any more. Now, maybe it's the recent crop of games I've picked up, but nothing has really done that to me in at least two years and probably longer. Maybe I've grown out of video games (I know my wife would be happy to hear that). Maybe I'm too stressed to enjoy the mindless entertainment. Maybe when I went in for nose surgery last year they accidentally gave me a partial lobotomy, and no one noticed any difference...

One game looked vaguely promising, but since they wanted $50 for it I thought I would at least check out some reviews before I bought it. The game was called "Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader. I guess the premise is that in 1588 the third crusade opened this breach to another world and that from that point forward history diverged. Not a bad little concept but none of the reviews were stellar, so I probably won't get it. Of course I guess I could download the demo, that might be just enough to fill the two imaginary hours I might have to play. If any of the three people reading the blog have any recommendations feel free to post them in the comments or e-mail them to me, and I'll let you know if my game-playing ever gets beyond playing Snake II on my cell phone.

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Ross