On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:38:03 -0800, spam wrote:
> On Nov 19, 6:40 pm, "E. Liddell"
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:31:11 -0800, spam wrote:
>>> On Nov 19, 1:09 pm, sephigirl
yahoo.com> wrote:>>>> On Nov 18, 10:02 am, "E. Liddell"
>>>> wrote:
>>
>>>>> . . . couldn't find much of interest in the current
>>>>> round of spam/kook postings. :P
>>
>>> Hey, I tried to start some convos... okay, they were utterly lame
>>> attempts, but I *tried*. And was met with near silence. So forget it,
>>> I figured.
>>
>> And I didn't respond, and should have . . . gomen nasai.
>
> I forgive you. Just this once. ~_^
>
> We're all busy; I was just being irrationally self-piteous, as is my
> wont.
Well, we all do that sort of thing now and again.
Want
to borrow a goofy little black neko to cheer you up?
>>>>> So how's everyone else's November going?
>>
>>> Busy. And I have a headache. And I'm screwing around at work when I
>>> need to be working. And I also have a headache.
>>
>>
>
> Thank you.
Any time--I have to keep lots on hand. ;P
>> Myself, I can deal with the basic mechanics of just about any RPG
>> (currently, I'm sort of alternating between Saga Frontier and Lunar:
>> Dragon Song, for what that's worth), but I suck at tactical stuff . . .
>> or maybe I just think that because I've been playing too much Battle for
>> Wesnoth lately.
>
> Don't know that one. The "tactical RPG games" seem to look relatively
> simple, though honestly the only one I've played is Suikoden Tactics,
> which was not difficult, but very clunky and slow.
Suiko Tactics seems to suffer a bit from poor game design, yes.
Final Fantasy Tactics was much better in that regard. (I've got
a couple of others on my To Play list somewhere . . .)
> On the PC I've been playing Civilization IV, where I've discovered any
> skills I had at playing strategy games I seem to have completely lost.
> I keep building these lovely cultured empires and then watch them get
> destroyed by the enemy because I forget to upgrade my longbowmen to
> riflemen. Very sad.
For the past few days, I've been absorbed in Dwarf Fortress, which is
sort of the Roguelike answer to Civilization and similar games. Hopefully,
the "Oooh, shiny!" will wear off soon and I'll get my life back.
E. Liddell
