It's funny to see something so simplistic and very old school take as much of my time as it has. For the last couple of weeks my attention has been placed upon Minecraft, a very simple game of survival while also giving you the creative aspects of building anything the five year old inside us all can dream of. At first glance it seems like a game you would throw away by todays standards but in reality this game is like crack, it literally will wither away your spare time and that hour you set aside specifically to this one game turns into a marathon of several hours if you aren't careful. Lucky for me I've had plenty of time to play around and figure out all the little things you can mine and forge. If you haven't checked it out I highly suggest that you do and for anyone interested the game is a still in the alpha stage and so the creator has said that as of right now the game is only $14 and includes all addons and updates in the future but when the game finally releases in its full state then the game shoots up to around $35, just something to keep in mind.
Fallout New Vegas is a game I wasn't entirely looking forward to, simply because it seems like a re-hash of Fallout 3 and in many aspects it is. Don't get me wrong I really enjoyed the time I had with FO 3 but you feel so isolated and with no one in the game acting as a member you can kind of join yourself with it seems too lonely for my taste. Although I did hear that you can join factions or something to that measure so sure enough I'm giving it a shot. And maybe the Survival mode will immerse myself further into the game, something I've wanted but felt has been lacking in today's video games. I've played a small amount and so far it's enjoyable but still very FO 3 like so I'll give my impressions in another post when I've played more into the story.
Fable is one of those franchises that I've felt interested in but could never finish any of the storylines. I truly hated the first fable because it was way too linear, fable 2 had the same problem but the areas seemed bigger which didn't bother me all that much. My problem with the second really deals with one quest that had such a huge glitch in it that I couldn't finish it, and with me being a "finish all or nothing" it put a sour experience on the game as a whole. I always said I'd go back to it and start from scratch but I was already 9 hours in and when other games grab your attention so quickly it truly is hard to re-start a game.
It feels so weird knowing that you have a published work on sale at many different online retailers. To see your name in the Author title is just surreal. I just can't quite fathom knowing that I'm officially done with Audia, a project that took two and a half years. It's weird cause I was so ready to be done with the whole thing and now that it's finally finished I can't help but look back at the whole experience.