Frostmourne Hungers

Its been a long time since I blogged. There are two main reasons for this. Warcraft III and Rome: Total War. Now I am pretty much done with these games though I am still too scared to get into multiplayer warcraft, as I am sure it would end up like aoe and ruin the rest of my time here. Not that I know of anyone here, who wants to play multiplayer warcraft.

This is the customary globe para so you can skip if you want to head straight to the better stuff. Its placement time here and soon a million companies will descend on this place to recruit the hell out of everyone. I have the usual doubts. Did it really matter, did MBA really matter. I definitely have a huge set of options now, much more that I imagined possible, but have I really learnt anything in these two years. Of course I have no regrets, the first paragraph will probably tell you why, but still this is just like undergrad. You had fun for 4 years and the end you weren't too badly off. Not that you learnt anything.

Anyways moving on to the topic of this blog. Dhaaji left his comp here sometime back, and i started using it. I made the mistake of downloading warcraft III. As i started playing it i got sucked in more and more. For those days/hours all I was doing was warcraft. I only took breaks for meals. I was playing so much warcraft that I started having warcraft nightmares. And these were lucid dreams. Curse the day I ever discovered the art of lucid dreaming. Well as a result I resolved to quit warcraft and move on to Rome. Rome is a much slower and lower involvement game. Its turn based so that helps. All this gaming has given some new ideas of how to handle life.

Why not think of life as just one of the best RPG's I ever played. I mean what RPG could be more realistic. And its so fascinating, the same thing never happens. Graphics and sound are simply out of this world. The game continuously creates the new characters and old characters always seem to react differently. I already have the basic hardware requirements. Recommended requirements are hard to come by, but I am happy with basic, and hardware upgrades are part of the game. A good diet and exercise and in six months you have upgraded hardware. Network play is also simply awesome. In fact its almost impossible to play single player. This attitude to Life that I am trying to consciously adopt has paid rich dividends. I have been much happier. Must remember ask the developers to include a happiness bonus in the expansion pack. However there are two problems with Life the RPG.
1. No savepoints: This means that if you get shot by baddies it really is game over. Or if you accumulate too much damage you actually have to limp around for three weeks with a torn ligament. This can be quite tough for a new player to handle. However this is kind of fun in its own way. Its like a hardware downgrade. Now you have continue the game with lower quality hardware.
2. There's no objective: No princess to save. No empire to destroy. No villain to kill. This can be looked upon in a different way. There is almost infinite choice in the victory condition. Not only that you can even change the victory conditions as the game evolves. This may or may not be intentional by the developers, but even if it is unintentional its pretty cool. In fact finding the victory condition could be a recursive victory condition.

That said Life the RPG and the gaming experience is dependent entirely how one wishes to play it. I think(hope) ill be playing Life for some time to come.

that's my game review done. Happy gaming.
Game Rating: Life The RPG 10.0/10.0