We returned from our vacation on Saturday, and I am finally getting back into my usual routine. One curious note from the trip: my internal game clock seems to have started winding backwards. We took our laptop to the coast with us, and I spent my evenings playing . . . Baldur's Gate. Not Dark Alliance, not even Shadows of Amn -- I mean the maiden voyage of the vaunted Infinity Engine, screaming back at us from freaking 1998.
I found my CD-ROMs for the game while at my mother-in-law's house, which was a waypoint on our trip. Mostly on a lark, I decided to install it on our computer, convinced the processor would run the poor game too fast to be playable. I was astonished to learn that Baldur's Gate will still run on our twenty-first century machine; now I just leave the game speed at its default setting rather than cranking it to the maximum. This is quite cool, since I was never able to finish the game back in the day. Jumping back to the second edition D&D rules is sort of a mind-screw, but the gameplay is still very enjoyable.
When not wandering the Sword Coast, I have managed the completion of another couple of levels of Tomb Raider: Legend, as well as checking out the trial version of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One. The latter is fun, but not quite worth twenty bucks, in my opinion. It should definitely win an award for 'shweetest name,' though.
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