Ravings on CS, OSs, PLs, SF, and other things geeky...

I’m not an avid gamer, although I will enjoy a good one once in a while. While I often enjoy various games, I start to resent games that become more of a compulsive fun than actual fun, and thus more of a time sink than an interactive experience. In real terms this means that unless a game has a sizeable social aspect to it where I can enjoy it with friends and such I will try to limit myself to about one such game a year. Most of the time I enjoy strategy and role playing games more than others and lately it’s been all RPGs.

This year that game was one which I had been clamouring for since it was released almost 4 years ago. Star Wars: The Knights of the Old Republic. In fact it was one of the reason I bought a used X-box off Yahoo auctions for about 10K yen, that and last year’s Jade Empire. Having played through it I can say it was quite good, and I’m currently resisting the temptation to play Knights of the Old Republic 2.

That being said, it looks like I have already picked my one game to play next year as one of my all-time favourite role playing game is getting a sequel. Hopefully this time next year I will be playing Fallout 3. From the looks of it, it will be somewhat different from the first two, being more of the first person variety, but at least the trailer promises that the good old 50’s post-apocalyptic-retro-future scenario that Fallout is famous for is still there. Check out the teaser trailer below.