 Knights of the Old Republic --
posted by Dante on 12.14.2003 - 9:17 pm
I've been playing this game with essentially all of my available free time, and I am totally digging on it. So far, I am still in the first run-through (as a soldier/guardian fighting for the light side). There are 2 things that are obvious to me even now, the first is that the game will be significantly more interesting when I play through for the dark side ending, and that there's a lot more money to be had in the dark path. I'm definitely going to finish the light side ending at least once, but the next runthrough will definitely be going dark side. The force powers are a lot cooler.
My only piece of advice is to find a good strategy guide or walkthrough. The Prima Strategy guide totally sucks. In an effort to prevent spoilers, the guide leaves out crucial information that forced me to reload saved games. The guide is written in a rather confusing way that forces you to constantly be flipping pages to compare the map to the text you are trying to read. I have yet to find a good guide, but if I do I'll be sure to mention it here.
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 where to start...
posted by Christopher on 12.14.2003 - 10:31 pm
so happy the hell period is over with at work... they were nice enough to give me two and a half weeks off, in which i'll probably spend a significant amount of time working for you, oh loyal readers. there are a few tee shirt ideas i'd like to get to, next week's strip, and maybe a few other goodies if i get to them.
getting a new computer soon - exciting. P4/2.8/800FSB/HT, MSI 865PE NEO-2/FISR w/ GBLAN and SATA RAID, 1GB Corsair XMS TwinX Dual Channel PC3200 DDR 400, WD 36Gb SATA Raptor 10,000RPM/8MB Cache, 3DLabs Wildcat VP870 all packaged in a Cooler Master Wave Master case </geek>. well, at any rate, i shouldn't experience ANY more computer-related slowdowns when doing this strip.
beat Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance - clocked about 60 hours into it. as soon as i realized that it was all about character management, it took on a new light for me. very entertaining, but again - enough drawbacks to make it quite inferior to tactics ogre. currently in the GBA: Fire Emblem.
downloaded a bunch more music - Broker/Dealer is really good, Machine Drum is really good, Sonogram rules, Secede is really good. Datacide is extremely ambient, and very good, Caia is really good, E Vax is really good, Machine Drum is really good. all in all, i'm glad i subscribe to emusic - very glad.
movies: Bad Santa - oh my god good - see it unless you get offended easily.
btw, can everyone who reads this far down send an email to chris@faustiandeal.com please? i haven't received an email at that account from anyone besides dante, and i want to know that someone's looking :) thanks.
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Long Live the King
posted by Dante on 12.17.2003 - 9:31 am
As impossibly difficult as it was to drag my unconscious form into work this morning, I have absolutely no regrets about seeing the midnight show of Return of the King last night. There might not be enough coffee in our office (that's a lie, there's more than enough coffee-just not enough cream and sugar to make it sweet enough for me to drink), but it will have been worth it.
My coworkers recognize my catatonia. They see me rounding the corner (clumsily, bumping a file cabinet on my way for more coffee) and their first words to me are, "say nothing." I don't know when I got a reputation as the spoiler of movies. I think maybe they want to have pristine images in their minds as they enter the theater.
I don't usually like to give movies such inflammatory labels after the first viewing, but I will break with convention this time. This was my favorite movie of 2003. It is my favorite movie in the Rings trilogy. Return of the King will find a place in my all-time Top 5 movies list. I won't give it a precise position until at least the third viewing, but I can guarantee it a spot on the list.
I will still recommend seeing the first 2 movies in the trilogy before seeing the third. Seeing this movie in a huge theater, packed with rabid fans would be the best way to see it. But the first 2 movies, excellent in their own right, would seem smaller than this one, especially if you don't have a 50 foot television with THX sound in your basement. Make it happen people. If you haven't seen the first 2 rings movies yet, see them now. Tonight. This movie must be seen before you can truly comprehend what I am trying to say here.
I am reminded of a quote from Die Hard, "When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer..." I almost feel that way now, having walked out of Return of the King. I very nearly wept, for I fear that the cinema experience will have lost is sweetness for a time. I don't know that there will be that many movies that can rival this one. The Spider-Man and Harry Potter sequels scheduled for next summer will probably be excellent films, but can they hope to rival this one?
My only hope at this point is that I will be able to see enough truly, depressingly bad cinema before next summer. Hopefully I can beat my standards back down to a reasonable level before anything of quality hits the screens. Judging by the other trailers at the start of this movie, there are a plethora of crappy movies lining up to help remind me of what realistic movie expectations should me.
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guess i have to say something
posted by Christopher on 12.17.2003 - 10:50 pm
saw return of the king at skywalker sound's theatre with george lucas in the crowd (thanks tim!!). amazing movie, amazing theatre. i thought the theatre here in corte madera was good... god, skywalker's just kills it. i don't know if it was because i was sitting in a room with all the guys that actually DID the sound for the movie, or the fact that sound in that theatre was a far cry from anything i've ever heard, but i certainly noticed the audio a lot more than any other movie i can remember, save starship troopers.
at any rate, see this movie. it was better than Cats.
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