Due to a gimongous backlog of reading that absolutely must get done, I have not had much time to play any games lately. What precious time has been available has not been enough to further gad about the Forgotten Realms. I suppose this is all right, though, since it gave me a chance to actually use my consoles for the first time in about two weeks. I had mentioned before that I tend to 'zero in' on a single game for long periods.
Mostly, I find I can spare a few minutes to get in a few hands of Texas Hold 'Em (should I capitalize all those words or not?), which enabled me to unlock another achievement tonight. In other news -- go Team 2500 Gamerscore!!
For the past couple of evenings, my wife and I have put several hours into a replay of Final Fantasy VII. I read on Kotaku a couple of months ago about rumors of a PlayStation 3 remake of the Japanese roleplaying classic, and I felt the itch to revisit one of my fondest gaming memories. While time has made me chuckle at the fact that I used to rave about these graphics, and the localization was pretty rough, I still find the storyline interesting. My exposure to games made by Bethesda and BioWare makes me very reluctant to attach the term 'roleplaying' to games in the Final Fantasy series, since you can do virtually nothing to alter the roles of the games' characters except decide who uses what abilities in combat. However, I am still able to enjoy what the characters do during the course of the plot; honestly, very few games enable you to do more than choose how your character goes about dispatching the obstacles in his or her way.
By the way, go call your gamer friends and see if any of them just felt an inexplicable urge to argue vehemently how much better Final Fantasy VI is than its successor. Final Fanboys seem to have some sort of Jedi awareness of discussions of their passion.
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