Niahak's Place

So yeah, been a bit down lately because of the whole running-around-with-head-cut-off thing.  I’ll try not to be that philosophical from here on out.

On break now and it’s not quite as restful as I was thinking.  In fact, I feel like I’ve been running around same as usual, just in a different setting.  Plus I’ve only played an hour of Rogue Galaxy, a situation I plan to amend by Tuesday at the latest.

I lent one of my friends my copy of Suikoden II.  He’s been telling me how his progress has been going which makes me nostalgic for the game.  Unfortunately, he said it froze at some point (though it worked later)… I guess my copy’s finally dying.  Jeez, first the original Wild ARMs and now Suikoden II is starting to bite the bullet.   For such good games, they sure didn’t print them on very sturdy media.  And I was taking good care of Suikoden II lately, had gotten it new and everything.  Lame.

I’ve been playing lots of Space Rangers 2 and I suggest you do the same, whoever may be reading this.  I wrote a full review of it at videolamer.  Suffice it to say, Pirates! in space, very open-ended, creative and entertaining (if Engrishy) dialogue, and did I mention it’s in space?  Space!  Planets and galaxies and stuff.  Yeah.

Other than that, not much has been going on.  Next quarter I’ll be taking a Game Development course with a couple of my roommates; any suggestions on themes or even genres would be appreciated.  I’d love to do an RPG homage to FFL2 with all kinds of nifty and wacky worlds, but we’ve kicked around the ideas of Action RPG and even a rhythm game.  Sounds like the course will be very open-ended, and the only likely restriction is — no game creation thingies, like RPG maker.  It’s a programming course and all that.