View From the Bushes

First off, my apologies for not posting on Friday. A bunch of stuff happened, mostly bad. After getting kind of a bad start to the weekend, I ended up frittering most of it away playing video games. I managed to beat Hordes of the Underdark on Saturday and I started Knights of the Old Republic on Sunday. By the end of Hordes, having played the full game, and being on the second expansion, I was pretty burned out on that style of game. Another problem was that the third chapter oftentimes more closely resembled a Mario Brothers game than a D&D role playing game. But like I said, I had pretty much run the gauntlet, so my views should be taken with a grain of salt.

I did manage to watch Enemy at the Gate. Like I said, I was playing video games like there was no tomorrow so I didn't follow it as closely as I might have, but it was pretty good; it's based on a true story, which generally means means yes, there was a World War II, and yes there was a battle in Stalingrad, other than that... However if this page is to be believed, there was actually a fair amount of historical accuracy, which surprised me. Lately it seems that when Hollywood says "based on a true story," they mean that in the loosest possible sense. Enough so that I'm reasonable certain that by the time X-Men 3 is released they'll be advertising that it was based on a true story.

I should mention that I am thoroughly enjoying KOTOR. It won GOTY (Game of the Year) in quite a few publications and it already feels that way, but I haven't been able to put my finger on why it's such a good game. One possible theory is that after being assaulted and left for dead by Episodes One and Two of Star Wars (that or left for Episode Three to finish off), it's so refreshing to be back in the SW universe I remember from my youth; to not only be back but able to play the principal protagonist. There's a certain logic to the back story that doesn't seem to exist in the last two movies. But maybe I'm reading too much into it. The game does have good npc's, great cut scenes, awesome items and very cool mini-games, so maybe that's it.

Carpe Diwm Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross