Writing Reviews and Deleting Screenshots
Wrote two game reviews in less than a week. And that’s because I actually finished the second game in about a week. I think I may have finished Splinter Cell faster, in four or five days, because I remember wondering about how short it was back then, but that’s about it. On top of that, Kohan II somehow managed to get me back to what was my regular gaming “schedule” before meeting Andra, which involved playing for four to six hours on an average day, and that hasn’t happened in a long time. For some reason, not even King’s Bounty: The Legend managed that, though I did play it more than I have been playing anything else lately. Perhaps it helped me get back to that rhythm and then Kohan II took advantage of that “training”…
Then again, I guess the main reason is that the way I play RPGs tends to require a lot of care and planning, and I’ve been feeling worn down by it for quite some time now. But it’s very hard for me to like a game that’s not an RPG, so stumbing upon two good games in a row that were not RPGs (though King’s Bounty: The Legend has significant RPG elements, which likely helped a lot) was likely just what I needed. I’m actually not fully over that phase of perhaps seeing RPGs more like a chore than entertainment, but it’s much better now. So it was probably just what I needed, especially considering the mood I’m in pretty much all the time when my mind’s not kept fully busy by a game.
As for the deleted screenshots… I took a few that I thought were really good while playing Kohan II, but I didn’t really check its MobyGames page until after I uninstalled it and deleted the screenshots as well. I only glanced at that page to see that it only has a single review, which made me decide to write my own, but I didn’t look at anything else and therefore didn’t notice how few screenshots had been submitted for it and what small armies were featured in them, if any armies were shown at all. So, by the time I looked again and realized that my screenshots could have been really useful, I was too late…
Of course, I didn’t just keep those screenshots for myself, sending some of them to others as well. Actually, each of the ones I was thinking of submitting was sent to at least two people, one of them being sent to three. So I asked them to send back anything they might still have, but only one of them sent anything. That meant I could only submit two screenshots and it’s possible that only one of them will be approved, since the other is from the end of the game. What frustrates me the most is that the best combat screenshot I took while playing this game was among the two that I sent to others and didn’t get back.
Maybe I’ll also manage to write a review for The Bard’s Tale from what I remember of it, since there are only two listed on that page. I meant to do that ever since I played it, but could find no motivation to write anything more than a short comment about it since I didn’t exactly feel like submitting any potential review anywhere. But now that I seem to get a little involved with MobyGames, I may actually write it one of these days, assuming I still remember enough of it…
Otherwise, I seem to have found another way to avoid writing just those serious non-personal posts that I started this blog for, haven’t I? Posts about the gaming industry or games in general do fit that description, but I’m not sure if writing reviews for the games I’m playing counts… But I can’t get myself to think about anything else for long enough to write about it. I see that finding and playing games that I actually enjoy keeps me somewhat functional and try to do it as much as I can, but that means those games are also what I usually think about lately, whenever my mind can be persuaded to focus on anything other than what whoever knows me is all too aware of…
