In case you're wondering, no I haven't gotten started on Episode 15 in any significant way. I think I am still in a post-election funk and feeling uninspired.
What I have been doing instead is playing Caesar II, an old Win95/Dos game, but it's fun. I have been stomping my way through the provinces, kicking barbarian butt and bringing civilization to the poor unenlightened masses of the outer Roman Empire. I like these sorts of games because their worlds are all mostly blank slates and you can build everything up from zero. One such game, Sid Meier's Civilization, played an important role in getting me interested in computers again in the post-Commodore 64 world: having played that on a Mac originally, I knew that I would have to get myself a real computer come hell or high water. :)
Some day someone needs to make a game where you can really work from zero, from empty continents and ignorant savages, without prefabricated parts. A game where you can design the technology that you use in extravagant detail, build your own building designs, really create your own world from nothing. Such a game might be too complicated for mass consumption or profitability. It would be nice though.
Another Win95 game was really insanely time-consuming. Ascendency was a great game where you create this galaxy-spanning civilization and interact, ally, trade or destroy other species, build planetary infrastructures and planetary defenses, but it took FOREVER to play one complete game.
Anyway, all of this is by way of saying I haven't done jack with Episode 15. :)
Posted by doddblog
at 8:32 PM CST
