I’m moving out of Bloomington and up to Kokomo in August so I’ve been pretty busy packing things, selling books I don’t want to move and generally recycling and throwing out things I don’t want. So I haven’t had much time to blog lately. I’ve been playing TF2 and a couple other things but nothing spectacular.
More posts in a couple weeks…
I know I’m not the only one who doesn’t really get Spore but I have serious doubts as to whether or not this game is going to be any good. I fell fo rthe hype with Black & White but it was a better idea than a game. I’m not making the same mistake twice. I’m guessing that Spore is a better idea than game. I guess it will appeal to the same people who like the Sims but don’t see what is so great about it.
Once you create your creature then what? You set it loose and…? That is not my idea of a good time, baby…
Is it wrong that while rewatching the original Jurassic Park movie I kept thinking about the Sega Genesis version of the game and not the first time I actually saw the movie?
There are mods and then there are mods. Sure the general definition, say the wikipedia one, of the term mod fits a lot of them out there. Whether it is something like Counter-Strike which started off as a mod and introduces new gameplay styles or something like Minerva which is a single player mod for Half-Life 2 that could fairly easily fit into the world of Half-Life. Then there are unofficial patches like those for Vampire The Masquerade – Bloodlines. One one hand we have the creation of new content and on the other we have the fixing of content.
Recently, however, I ran into something that is somewhere in between. I bought Resident Evil 4 for PC a few months ago but only started playing it recently. I took so long to play it because I had heard that it was an inferior port from the console versions. However, then I ran across a website for Resident Evil 4 mods.
Now they call them mods but are they really? What I downloaded was a texture pack with textures from the Gamecube version but also a few newly made textures. Is it fixing the game like an unofficial patch? Is it creating new content? I don’t know.
I’m also curious as to why they go to this trouble. I’m glad they do so I can get a better experience playing the game but I’m just not sure what is in it for them?
I would write some more about it but I’ve got to go play some more…