This week I’ve finally gotten back to Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.
So far I’ve gotten a town through very nice methods and not at all taking it from a rebellion. Now I have to work very hard to not have a rebellion start in my new town, which is difficult with the population of the town not liking me for some unknown reason.
What’s everyone else doing this week?
Time to close out my argument (such as it is) and the movie. As the dance sequence ends the story transitions back to a more straight-forward growing up/coming of age aspect. Sarah has to make her final choice then prove that she has mastered the lesson. Jareth now will appear in black (see the screenshot in the previous post), representing his ultimate role as villain and adversary. And of course, having proved she is the master (drink), Sarah will be “rewarded” through ultimate understanding.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Dance Magic: Final Thoughts on Jim Henson’s Labyrinth”
This week I have had more time than last week, but unfortunately I got a little sick, so once again, very few games have been played.
What’s everyone else doing?
We left Labyrinth at what I described as a transition point in the movie. Sarah is now stuck at the bottom of an oubliette (one of many in the labyrinth, Hoggle will inform us shortly), although Jareth will continue to refer to “the” oubliette and “it” as if there is only one. Was it a script inconsistency, or an intentional reference to the fact that Hoggle is a product of the story while Jareth is the storyteller? Much like many insane Kubrickian hypothesis, I don’t think it matters. As far as the story goes, she *is* in *the* oubliette, and that’s all we need to know. The labyrinth is “full of them,” according to Hoggle, and considering Sarah is dealing with more significant matters than the pedantry of the Goblin Kingdom…it is, after all, only the setting…they may as well all be the same oubliette. And as we have seen, they *could* all be the same oubliette, all leading to same possible outcomes.
This week I’ve done barely anything. In my free time I’ve been watching YouTube, but I’ve barely had enough time to commit games. Next week I should have more, so hopefully then I will have anything to talk about.
How’s everyone else this week?
I scoured the Steam database to figure out what words were the most commonly used in game titles.
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2015.
This series explores the troubled history of VR and the strange lawsuit between Zenimax publishing and Facebook.
This version of Silver Sable is poorly designed, horribly written, and placed in the game for all the wrong reasons.
A stream-of-gameplay review of Dead Island. This game is a cavalcade of bugs and bad design choices.
Obviously they are. Right? Actually, is this another one of those sneaky hard-to-define things?
Crunch-mode game development isn't good, but sometimes it happens for good reasons.
What makes the gameplay of Borderlands so addictive for some, and what does that have to do with slot machines?
A video discussing Megatexture technology. Why we needed it, what it was supposed to do, and why it maybe didn't totally work.
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2011.
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