My army died on the beach. The battleground was the Carolinas—a sandy, swampy land of broad beaches, surf, and room to maneuver. My town was situated along the shore, too close to the shore for my comfort, but I had no say in the matter. As my ally I had the Turks; Suleiman the MagnificentContinue reading “On the Horrors of War”
Category Archives: Video Games
On a Nostalgic Find
In high school I discovered Rogue-like games. Rogue is an old computer game, a text-based dungeon crawl. You create a character, journey down into the underground where you fight all sorts of monsters, find treasure, and… well, I’m not really sure what the point was. Doesn’t matter. In high school the two I enjoyed playingContinue reading “On a Nostalgic Find”
On an Odd Harry Potter Musing
Friday afternoon, for reasons that still mystify me somewhat, I began musing on Harry Potter. But not in the way that people usually muse on Harry Potter. Who ends up with whom, how the seventh book will end, that sort of thing–not my interest, sorry. Rather, I thought back a few years to the releaseContinue reading “On an Odd Harry Potter Musing”
On Future Lord of the Rings Games
EA Games has extended their license to create video and computer games based on The Lord of the Rings through 2008. A new game is in development for release in 2008, though no details have been released. The fate of Lord of the Rings: The White Council, a role-playing game set a few decades beforeContinue reading “On Future Lord of the Rings Games”
On a Pointless Quest
And there was much rejoicing! I found a Windows binary for PernAngband! Okay, okay. Most of you reading this are probably saying to yourself, “Huh? Wha? Who?” PernAngband. There’s a computer game called Angband. It’s a text-based dungeon crawl, a Rogue-like game similar to Hack and NetHack, a descendant of Rogue and Moria. Where HackContinue reading “On a Pointless Quest”
On Revisiting The Third Age
My recent musings on EA’s video game Lord of the Rings: The White Council and its possible cancellation put me in a Tolkien gaming mood. I wanted to play a Lord of the Rings video game, I wanted to mercilessly kill Orc after Orc, but which game to play? I settled on The Third Age,Continue reading “On Revisiting The Third Age”
On Sudoku
I own a Nintendo DS, the limited edition red DS system they released with Mario Kart DS. I love my DS. I love the color, that solid, vibrant red. It looks classy, not girlie or gay as Marc Klein called it at last year’s Shore Leave. It’s funny. I may have scoffed at the ideaContinue reading “On Sudoku”
On Lord of the Rings: The White Council
From about the time Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring released in theaters in December 2001 until about the time Lord of the Rings: Return of the King had its extended edition DVD release I visited TheOneRing.net at least once a day. Maybe for the latest rumor on the films, maybe for the latestContinue reading “On Lord of the Rings: The White Council”
On Incompetent Blundering
Henry the Navigator is an incompetent fool and a worthless ally. Our battleground today was someplace vaguely New England-like. It’s hard to say precisely, as it was a random map–Gandalf’s Random Land Map, to be precise. The landscape’s features, though, said New England, even if the native allies–the Lakota and the Iroquois–and the native fauna–herdsContinue reading “On Incompetent Blundering”
On Battling Orcs
I put Lord of the Rings: Return of the King in the XBox. I wanted to kill some Orcs. 🙂 Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn might argue at the rampant militarism in fighting the Orcish hordes and the centuries of oppression the Orcs have endured at the hands of Gondor and the Men of theContinue reading “On Battling Orcs”