sageoftruth wrote:CountArioch wrote:I play some games. I'm working on diablo 3 now, but have put lots of hours into Skyrim, and Final Fantasy 14. I mostly play PC games due to how crappy the current gen of consoles are in general.
I also play tabletop games, and am GM for a pathfinder game at the moment.
You sound awesome. I always wanted to meet a GM. It sounds like such a fun, yet challenging experience making up a story and shaping it around the decisions of the other players. Basically doing in seconds what game developers spend months working on.
I definitely agree about the current gen consoles. Today's graphical improvements just don't carry any weight like the first time we started seeing polygons replace sprites. Sony and Microsoft seemed to have worked themselves into a hype corner and now they can't get out because all of their games now need cutting edge graphics and lifelike photo-realistic animation. Even if some of them do believe that games don't need to mimic Hollywood to be great, they wouldn't dare assume that their customers feel that way.
I always felts graphics for a game just have to be "good enough". I don't get it when people zoom in on the background elements to see if everything is rendering at full 1080 and stuff like that. And the wave of modern military shooters just makes me roll my eyes, I prefer my shooters with monsters and over the top weaponry and crazy stuff.
Funny story: I was at a local Gamestop, and a brodouche was trying to pick up the pixie working the counter (Like literally, she was a short, petite young woman with a pixie bob haircut and a very perky demeanor.) Anyway, he was trying to impress her with the kills he and his clan had, and asked her what she had played, and loudly proclaiming he had never heard of her games (Because games like Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Fable, and Bioshock are so obscure...).
I think I killed his game when I cracked up, started walking our of the store, looked him right in the eye, laughed louder, then left. I feel somewhat proud of that moment.
EDIT (I don't like doubling up on posts when I think of something immediately after posting)
I also paint my own miniatures for tabletop games. Here's one of my more recent minis:
http://imgur.com/JRNkLka