Well, I was originally planning on participating in NaNoWriMo, but after looking at my November calendar, I realized that that would be an impossibility due to the combination of keeping up with school work and hanging out with friends and family who are coming to visit this month; no intended offense to our friends and family who are making the trek up here to the Pacific Northwest. My plan was, instead of writing a novel, to write a D&D quest, which is something that I would have more success at than attempting to write an original novel.
In the gaming-verse, our D&D story is entering the final act (we're not in the final act mind you, but it's approaching) and I have a couple of ideas for when the Mines of Phandelver are no longer lost. I also got to play Betrayal at House on the Hill and again was thoroughly entertained, although our game ran longer than the projected 60 minute length, again which is something that I'm perfectly okay with. Long board games don't bother me as long as they can be completed in a session or two. In other game related news, don't trust Conklederp as there's a 75% chance that she's a werewolf.
In the video gaming front, I didn't make it through as many of the free games on Steam as I had wanted to, and I am still making my way through Eleusis (which I paid money for a year or two back) and am hopefully just over half way through. I also kind of gave up on Star Wars - Battlefront II as I'm 97% convinced that a particular level that involves libraries and Jedi scum was not properly designed to be played in the single player campaign as I have failed more times that I have been able to count and leading up to that level, I have only had to replay any given level no more than five times in order to complete all of the objectives. I know that completing the level in singleplayer is possible because Youtube says it is possible, but how that clone trooper survives a single lightsaber attack is beyond me. I also gave up on Star Wars: Dark Forces a while back mainly because I kept getting lost and was unable to make my way to the final objective without dying, even on the easiest difficulty setting. No I don't suck at video games by the way.
But as long as we're talking about partly-quitting video games, I may or may not have put Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel on hold after putting 42 hours into the game. I ultimately felt that the game was becoming repetitive in that I would return from a mission, sell all the shit I acquired in the previous mission, acquire the new mission, drive to the destination (after being attacked 20+ times) then inch-by-inch my way through the map and resetting anytime I lose a member of my party. It almost stopped being about any story involved and instead became about not having my characters die. I also felt that members of my group started to have all of the same attributes and any individuality was being lost, which is something very different with other squad games I've played (Final Fantasy Tactics). So I started Fallout 2 a few days ago and after three hours, I've only reached the first city of Klamath.
I also finished (finally) Radiant Historia although I didn't find/finish all of the history/story nodes, but I did complete over 50% so I'm happy with that result. I might write up a review for the game. I also started 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors and am going through the game a third time, which is required to unlock other story branches (like reading through a Choose Your Own Adventure book multiple times).
Lastly, I booted up Tony Hawk 3 a few days ago after playing a bit of one of the Tony Hawk games on the PS3 with Notorious CRC and surprised myself by earning 243,000 pts on the airport stage. This was big considering when I first beat the 150,000 high score almost 10 years ago, it took me a long time to manage the number and quality of tricks needed; I even saved the replay as I earned the final 18,000 pts in the last 3 seconds. Maybe I need to go back and finally try and beat that god damn skatepark level to finally get to the last two stages.
So that's my November. We'll talk more in a month.
~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
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