Castle Magus

Putting all this shit behind cuts, because it's mostly just a buttload of Youtube embeds.

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As of today, I no longer own any video game consoles or associated games. I sold all of that stuff to Lost Ark Video Games in Greensboro, NC. Well, actually, I do still own a Xbox 360, because Lost Ark wouldn't buy the old fat model, a Playstation 2, which I didn't even take out there to bother to try to sell because it was already on its last legs, and an old, modded Playstation 1 that I didn't even take with me to Washington when I moved out there in 2004, let alone to Lost Ark to try to sell. (EDIT) Oh, and I still have a Wii Fit board, even though I no longer have a Wii to connect it to, because I forgot to bring the stupid thing with me when I sold all the other crap. (/EDIT) Everything else is gone, though, including the handheld stuff. And, weirdly, I don't feel too awfully bad about it. I thought it would probably feel like the rough equivalent of selling one's children to do it or some such, but no... nothing all dramatic like that. (EDIT 2) I have to say that going into my Backloggery and tagging all those games with the little "Formerly Owned" ghost was somewhat sad, though. Some of them I had to actually (stealth) add as new games, since they weren't previously even in the list given that I hadn't bothered to update my Backloggery page in forever, only to then mark them as "Formerly Owned." >_> (EDIT 3) And... that was probably very close to the last time I ever even bothered to keep up with my Backloggery page, so... yeah. (/EDIT 3) (/EDIT 2)

Now, though, I still have a ton of old PC games, which Lost Ark also wouldn't buy, that I need to do something with. I'll probably end up selling those individually on eBay or Amazon Marketplace or something. I actually could have done the same for the consoles and console games as well, and probably would have gotten more money out of them in the long run if I'd done so, but I just wanted to unload them somewhere relatively convenient, so that's what I did.

It's been over two years since I made this post, and that frozen child glitch is still in Fable 2. The only good thing is that the bug usually tends to magically resolve itself as one continues normal progression through the game, which is probably why they haven't bothered to fix it, but it is very annoying that it's still an issue at all.

The fact that they haven't fixed what was a pretty common bug in Fable 2 after two whole years, of course, does not bode well at all for Fable 3. -_- I'm still waiting on a patch for that one, which is the main reason why I'm even playing Fable 2 again in the first place.

At least I managed to make it through Fable: The Lost Chapters without any issues. Well, that is, aside from having to rebuy it for the Xbox because the PC version apparently doesn't work on Windows 7 at all.

I had held out hope that it may actually start to rain again eventually, given that it had been nice and cloudy for the past couple of days. But then today had to be depressingly bright and sunny. *sigh*

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"I recall your earliest lessons. You fell from a thousand feet during the Walk of Death, which alone was hard enough at your age. But you made short work of the Walk of Maiming and the Walk of Intense Discomfort, and tore your head clean off. I comforted you (well, your head), saying that you could just walk it off because, you know, the cut was clean. And you would punch a mountain. IN SPACE."

--Sun Li, the Glorious Strategist

I'm only about six or so hours in, but so far Jade Empire is roughly the equivalent of Knights of the Old Republic + 12.

Sucks that I have to sleep now though.

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And to avoid the confusion that has come up elsewhere, that is a twelve, and not some weird attempt to combine KOTORs 1 and 2 into a single game.

Since I preferred the first KOTOR to the second KOTOR, and since the second KOTOR rocked very very much, and since I'm now saying Jade Empire is twelve more than the first KOTOR, this should give you my high opinion of Jade Empire. Jade Empire has received a plus twelve to "this game is the man."
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