I'm calling "special circumstances". gog.com, direct2drive.com, and Steam are running sales that, frankly are bordering on complete madness. Direct2Drive has compounded this by giving me a $5 credit for free. I'm not sure how, exactly, they're making any money off of some of this stuff, but I'd be a fool to pass it up. I'll post more once I've made my final decisions, but I'm definitely going to take advantage. The games backlog will likely be growing by several titles.
Direct2Drive: Torchlight
Steam: Braid, Red Faction: Guerilla
Friday, December 25, 2009
Suspension Removal: Alpha Centauri
My lovely and sweet wife was kind enough to track me down a copy of Alpha Centauri and its expansion pack for Christmas. Why yes, I am a lucky man. (And she's not even reading this!) I'll set about playing it sometime tomorrow; it's been a very nice, but very tiring Christmas.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Elimination: Dune
Cleared: 12/22/2009 at 7:25pm
Verdict: Liked. A lot.
Dune was lent to me by a good friend of mine who prefers not to be written about by name online. I sat on it for a long time while I finished the semester and my wife and I have been watching a disc a night for the last 3 days. It's very, very, very good. (Note that this is the 2000 miniseries, not the 1984 movie.) The characters were interesting, the plot was good, and setting is very cool. (The fashion was very, very odd.) I've never read the books, but this makes me want to give them a shot. All throughout the whole thing, I kept thinking "this all could have been avoided if the emperor had just had the stones to support the good people he installed instead of assuming they were a threat to him, which became a self-fulfilling prophecy." Good stuff.
Verdict: Liked. A lot.
Dune was lent to me by a good friend of mine who prefers not to be written about by name online. I sat on it for a long time while I finished the semester and my wife and I have been watching a disc a night for the last 3 days. It's very, very, very good. (Note that this is the 2000 miniseries, not the 1984 movie.) The characters were interesting, the plot was good, and setting is very cool. (The fashion was very, very odd.) I've never read the books, but this makes me want to give them a shot. All throughout the whole thing, I kept thinking "this all could have been avoided if the emperor had just had the stones to support the good people he installed instead of assuming they were a threat to him, which became a self-fulfilling prophecy." Good stuff.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Replacement Addition: Mutant Chronicles
Replacing Dead Space: Downfall is Mutant Chronicles, another recent sci-fi B movie (though this one isn't animated). We'll see if I fare better with that one.
New Rule: Replacement of Junk
13. If I consume something and decide I don't like it, I'm free to replace it with something immediately.
Elimination: Dead Space: Downfall
Cleared 12/18/2009 at about 10:15 pm
Verdict: did not like enough to finish.
Not much fun. The plot moved really slowly, it wasn't so much scary as just gory and bleak, and none of the characters were at all interesting or sympathetic. I stopped watching about halfway through. Not My Thing.
Verdict: did not like enough to finish.
Not much fun. The plot moved really slowly, it wasn't so much scary as just gory and bleak, and none of the characters were at all interesting or sympathetic. I stopped watching about halfway through. Not My Thing.
Addition: Dead Space: Downfall
I've cleared two movies from the backlog, so by the rules I can add one. The addition is going to be Dead Space: Downfall, the anime backstory behind the video game Dead Space. Dead Space itself may wind up in the backlog after I've eliminated some games.
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