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Old 10-30-2009, 11:52 AM   #1941 (permalink)
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Starcraft: Liberty's Crusade was pretty decent because it was sort of a side story of the Terran campaign from the first game that went more into detail of the characters like Kerrigan and Raynor.
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Old 10-30-2009, 11:55 AM   #1942 (permalink)
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Starcraft: Liberty's Crusade was pretty decent because it was sort of a side story of the Terran campaign from the first game that went more into detail of the characters like Kerrigan and Raynor.
As an aside on this subject - Blizzard is the best gaming company period.
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Old 10-30-2009, 11:58 AM   #1943 (permalink)
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As an aside on this subject - Blizzard is the best gaming company period.
No argument there, I mean they've never released a bad game and with Starcraft II and Diablo III coming out soon you've got millions of people salivating from both heads.
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Old 10-30-2009, 12:08 PM   #1944 (permalink)
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he's made me very aware of my despair, i'm just hoping he'll point to the way out
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Old 11-03-2009, 10:29 AM   #1945 (permalink)
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I'm waiting to read your impression on this....

Was one of my favourite novels when I first read it, but has slipped a bit down my list. Very good though.
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^American Gods is good, but I though the idea was better than the execution. I don't think Gaiman managed to communicate everything what was on his mind that well when he wrote it and the story lacks direction, I think. It has a B movie feel to it, I think .. and it's 90s cheesy as hell, but that's what you want from Gaiman.

Still a good book and well worth a read, but I wouldn't rate it among my favourites.
Finally finished it. I thought it a very good read, very engaging, easily legible, very fluid, with enough action and surprises to keep you interested. Didn't detect any 90s cheesiness. I especially liked the short stories that were interspersed throughout. Plus the ending was very good, something a lot of novels lack, very cinematic, which is probably why I liked it. The only fault I can find with it is that it's very long so it did end up being a bit of chore, but that's only because I'm rather impatient. If you're not expecting anything particularly profound but just entertaining and original, I'd definitely recommend it.

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only about 1/10th in, but this is very good. Reminds me a bit of Vonnegut in its use of personal experience interspersed with fiction which gives it a very honest, introspective vibe, something I dig muchly...kind of a major mindfuck though innit? I mean, even more than your usual Dick novel. :|
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Old 11-03-2009, 11:26 AM   #1946 (permalink)
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I'm also reading a Philip K. **** novel



I've only read A Scanner Darkly back in 2006 around the time the movie came out. I really enjoyed his writing style but failed to really expand on any of his other books until now, and I feel like a right cunt for not doing so earlier.
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Didn't detect any 90s cheesiness
Have you ever read any of Gaiman's Sandman comic books? Or played any Whitewolf RPG tabletops? Or watched movies like The Crow or The Prophecy (God's Army here in Europe)?

.. Cause that's the brand of cheese I was thinking of. We may have different cultural 90s backgrounds though.
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Have you ever read any of Gaiman's Sandman comic books? Or played any Whitewolf RPG tabletops? Or watched movies like The Crow or The Prophecy (God's Army here in Europe)?

.. Cause that's the brand of cheese I was thinking of. We may have different cultural 90s backgrounds though.
Sometimes I think we're either long lost brothers or soul mates, is that weird?
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Sometimes I think we're either long lost brothers or soul mates, is that weird?
Haha, nice to see someone else grew up around the same stuff I had when I was a teenager Do you also in retrospect find those things slightly embarassing?

We used to play tabletop RPGs once or twice a week. How much more creative my life was back then ..
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Haha, nice to see someone else grew up around the same stuff I had when I was a teenager Do you also in retrospect find those things slightly embarassing?

We used to play tabletop RPGs once or twice a week. How much more creative my life was back then ..
Absolutely not, I still love going to comic shops and gaming stores and getting to talk geek with the proprietors. Since moving back to the States I have yet to find a group of gamers which has been annoying, but it hasn't stopped me from jotting down ideas in notebooks for future games. Honestly I find sitting behind a computer screen playing World of Warcraft to be a lot "nerdier" than sitting around a table playing a game. At least with PnP games there's real social interaction without the use of some expensive piece of technology.

You should honestly get back into it, even if it's just one session a week, or once every two weeks. It's the best way to spend a cheap night in with friends, using your imagination and wit to play the game while the TV stays off.
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