Mas Allá de la Divinidad

Well, I think I'm ready to review Beyond Divinity.

Okay, here's what ya got: A really, REALLY good story with some nice game mechanics and good character development wrapped up in only a decent presentation. Oh, the graphics are great, I love them, but... The voice acting. After three and a half acts, my ears are ready to bleed. The voice acting is just... SO BAD! Divine Divinity;s voice acting wasn't stellar, but it wasn't BAD. With the exception of the Dark Knight character, every single voice in the game is just excrement. I'm really sorry, but they must have run out of money when it came down to voicing the characters, because that's what it seems like.

Then, there are the battlefields. A good idea. A laudable idea, even. But what's good on paper isn't always good in practice. The BF's are just too repetitive and flat. Maybe if they were more than just the same 5 merchants giving useless quests, I wouldn't mind. But they have no life. One of the cool parts about the rest of the game is that it does seem alive. There are neutral creatures and the monsters are appropriate for the area that they're in. But in the BFs, you just show up and have to kill a bunch of random monsters. woop-de-doo.

Okay. Now that I've got that out of my system, I need to be a bit more diplomatic. (Why is it that the negatives are always stressed the loudest?) Anyway. Aside from the Battlefields and the voice acting, I rather like Beyond Divinity. It's long, so you don't have to worry about spending your money's worth, it's got a great story to it, and the skill system is so unique and flexible, I'm sure that it's got a lot of replayability. All-in-all, I do enjoy this game.

If you can find this game for $20 or less, I would defiantly suggest getting it. If it's more than that, I would say, consider it, but unless you really need something to play, and there's nothing better out there, then you should probably wait a bit.

¡Que Horror!

Well. I should be studying right now, but I was falling asleep. So I figure I should take a break. Hopefully I won't waste as much time that way.

Anyway. I write fiction and movie scripts as a hobby. Sure, I would love to get them published, but I harbor no illusions that such will happen. I do it mostly because I enjoy doing it. Well, one script I'm writing, (a sequel to a movie some friends of mine and I made for our 2nd-year Spanish class,) is about 70% done. (Rough draft.) But It's not as funny as I was hoping. Of course, I also realize that half the humor is in how badly the movie is made. I was showing the original movie to a friend of mine the other day. (Trust me, this movie is BAD. On a level with Ed Wood. Which, of course, it why its so funny.) Anyway, we were talking a bit about bad movies and why they're so good, and I made the comment about how it seems that cheesy horror movies are making a comeback. Just look at "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra." It's got a pretty good cult following. And my friend mentioned "Van Helsing." He said, in not so many words, that he loved that movie because it was the same thing: a cheesy horror movie. The only differences are that it had a huge budget, and they tried to make it look serious.
That got me to thinking. He's right. Look at how DUMB the script was. Look at the stupid over-acting. The inconsistencies, the poor dialogue, the emphasis on action that didn't really help the story. All of these are classic cheesy movie ingredients. So, before where I really didn't like "Van Helsing," now, I actually kind of do, because I now realize that it was just horror going back to the roots of the 50's and 60's, (like "The Thing That Wouldn't Die," and "Plan 9 From outer Space,") rather than the roots of the classic monster movies. (Like "Dracula," and "The Wolfman.")

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hay que aprender

Well, the new semester starts tomorrow for me. Wish me luck. (Cruddangit I hate math.) Oh, well.
So, anyway, I figure that for the heck of it I'll do a "Current Reading List" of all the books I'm reading every now and then.

Right now I'm almost done with "The Ethos Effect" by L.E. Modesitt; I'm halfway done with "The Prince" by Machiavelli; I've started "The Screwtape Letters" By C.S. Lewis; and the next book I start will probably be "Dune: House Corinno" by Brain Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Also, I'm reading the Federalist Papers for the first time, but I don't think that they can be properly called a "book."

El añonuevo y otras cosas

Well, it's 2005. That's cool, I guess. Although, you may call me a whacked-out jerk, but I've never really seen what's so special about the new year. This year was the first time in six years I havn't been in bed by 10:00. People always put such a big emphasis on being able to put the old behind and starting over. That's nice, but... the way I see it, you should be doing that every day. Why is it that people only make resolutions at New Year's? If it was really that important to you, why don't you resolve to do it the minute you think of it? That's why I personally never make New Year's resolutions. I figure that if it's something I really should do, I set the goal right then. (If I actually get it done is something else, but at least I don't procrastinate my procrastination.)