January 2005 Entries
Interesting development here: Sony Online News Release
SOE seem determined to get and keep their customers, and while I remain adamant that they are the ‘McDonalds’ of online gaming, I’m actually quite interested in this deal, as I already own four of the games included in this scheme.
Individual subscriptions for each would add up to about £50 a month, or thereabouts, so typically I am forced to be a little selective about what I’m currently subscribed to. This deal opens up all four for about £10 a month instead…much more palatable, and will let me pick and choose on a...
I appear to be settling in well, if the Villagers are anything to go by. So far I've destroyed two vampyr, three werewolfs, eight goblin and one mummy. I thought that last was a little on the odd side, and as it happened, it transpired that it was not a real mummy at all, but old Mr Carsons, the abandoned fairground owner, in disguse. I destroyed him anyway, as in my opinion, monster hunting has no room for tomfoolery like that, and we all know what happened to the little boy who cried 'Werewolf!'.
The Villagers, ever critical of mysterious wandering...
Picked up an odd telegram in Budapest yesterday:
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HEARD YOU HAD GONE TO GROUND IN TRANSYLVANIA STOP GLAD YOU GOT OUT OF THAT DEBACLE AT THE CLUB STOP HAVE FLED TO BURMA STOP UNABLE TO BE MORE SPECIFIC YET STOP CONTINUE TO LAY LOW AND DO NOT CONTACT ME STOP THEY ARE AFTER US BOTH STOP BEWARE THE SIGN OF THE THREE AND TWO HALVES STOP
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All very cryptic. I do hope the old chap is alright.
Meanwhile, I’ve just finished Half Life 2, the widely proclaimed ‘Game of 2004’. It has this whole ‘Steam’ online connection shenanigans intended to deter software piracy,...