So the lab I work at closes early in the summer so I have to adjust my sleep schedule. This means I wake up insanely early to get things done so I can try to be there during the opening hours. That paired with illness makes means my day gets started at 3:30am-4:30am which is when it used to be winding down. The good thing is that I’m finally getting used to changing my sleep schedule rapidly so I can be more productive. Cool stuff.
Anyway, I’ve been waiting for Civilization Revolution to be released and on July 8th I’m going to buy it for the DS. I hope SCAD gets it as well so I can play it on one of their X-box 360’s. I’m more excited about the DS version because now I can play Civ whenever the fuck I want to. HA. Yea I’m sure it doesn’t have quite as much to offer as the console versions but, dude… Civilization in your pocket. Graphics aren’t incredibly important to me though as I’m sure you could make Civ into a board game and Id still play it.
“Graphics aren’t incredibly important to me…” I suppose that sounds bad coming from a person that might have to find his way into the industry as an artist… I’d personally rather designing games in terms of rules, various systems and narrative if need be. I’ve also been getting more and more interested in AI. But really I just want to work with people to create a fun game. Providing players with meaningful choices, patterns to understand and manipulate. Leaving gamers with an enjoyable experience. I play strategy games to have fun, not to get horny over polygons, normal maps and texture maps.
That all being said I do think that the screen shots from Civilization Revolution DS look very attractive. The screen shots from Civilizations Revolution for consoles also look marvelous. But I’m more curious as to how well it is going to translate in terms of gameplay on a console or a hand held. I think it would be easier to put on the DS since the touch screen is basically like a mouse click. I guess my main concern is navigation between menus and the map with a controller. Also the mutliplayer feature has me wondering. Is it going to be mutliplayer? Online/offline? I tend NOT to read much about games I’m really excited about before it’s release because I like to be surprised. I suppose I like to discover things myself rather than read magazines and online articles. I’m completely confident in the Civilization franchise so I’m certain the combat/economy/government/technology/trade/diplomatic/etc. systems will work well as they always have.
Other than that I’ve been wanting to get a DS game called Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu. It is a DBZ Card RPG. I’ll put it this way, I’m tired of DBZ fighting games. I realize that DBZ is an anime that revolves almost completely around fighting but dude… I just think it translates into an RPG extremely well. Especially during the Freiza Saga (It was basically like a leveling up race). Even after that it was almost like a leveling up race not to mention they have various forms of characters. Saiyans, Namekians, Humans, Androids, various aliens, etc. They also discover new attacks, defenses and other abilities as the series progresses. Sounds a lot like an RPG to me. I once downloaded a Japanese SNES ROM of a DBZ RPG and it still is the best DBZ video game I’ve ever played. I couldn’t read ANYTHING so it took me a bit longer to figure out what the menus were. I couldn’t read any of the narrative(but I really didn’t need to anyway). It used a card battle system which is what Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu looks like it uses as well. Navigation doesn’t look like the SNES version but it seems like the combat system seems to be similar if not exactly the same. I’m unsure if it is going to work well but I think it looks interesting enough for me to purchase. Even if it doesn’t I’m completely convinced that turning Dragon Ball Z into an RPG would not only be fun but successful especially considering how many DBZ fighting games have been released.
Random thought: I believe patterns are responsible for my love of games and music. Also for my hatred of politics. In games I get to manipulate them and use them to create various strategies. In music I get to enjoy them and absorb them as they are composed(Also, to attempt creation myself). In politics I get frustrated because of frequent repetition.
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