Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Thursday, April 08, 2004 The Pitch: It's like a Time-Sink meets a Time Suck! Ahhh, the wonder that is Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII. I found it in the bins at Best Buy for $19.99, and after hearing great things about it on some video game fora, decided to pick it up. With a few hours on my hands on Sunday, I popped it in and--voila!! There went all my free time up to now.As is always my downfall, I was initially attracted by the eccentricity of ROTK VII: A Japanese video game devoted to the great tome of Chinese historical fiction? The ability to play over 50 different historical characters, or create my own line of characters that would then mingle with great Generals and Lieges? Plus, the chance to write letters and win poetry tournaments? How quaint! Well, that quaint motherfucking game ate up a full six hours of my life yesterday--from ten to four, all I did was maneuver my Ronin in and out of various friendships, earned the trust of a liege, then was appointed to a town, earned everyone's trust, recruited generals, etc., etc. I didn't even get a chance to compete in the Tournament of Poetry until eight or nine game years into it, and I didn't start winning until about three years after that. I'm embarrassed to admit it, but if my guy hadn't just died, I'd still be lying in bed with the joystick in one hand, a diet coke in the other, watching the real world bounce brightly off the windowpane while I tried to finagle a visit to the Great Wall of China from some general. And the more I dug around about the game online, the more I found. Secret characters, like Abe Lincoln, Harry Houdini and Mahatma Gandhi? Check. Magic items? Check. The chance to catch and tame tigers? Check. It's lucky my guy died (of old age, I should add--how often does that happen in a video game). It allowed me to put on pants about four hours earlier than I might have otherwise. (Actually, Larry and I are going to a matinee at two, so it would have happened sooner, anyway). Now I can go grab lunch with my beautiful girlfriend, and carpe that god-damned diem. I'm going to pretend I have lost ROTK VII (at least until Edi visits the East Coast later this month), so please be kind and don't mention it before then. posted by Jeff Lester | 12:42 PM | |
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