Use the biotics, Luke

[sigma7]

So I've been playing Knights of the Old Republic III Mass Effect and loving it. The voice talents are pretty distinct: the dude who voiced Carth Onasi returns, and there's a very distinct group of guest stars: Keith David, Marina Sirtis and Seth Green, among others. The action is interesting if occasionally vexing, the digital faces are on the happy side of the uncanny valley, the dialogue scenes are extremely cinematic, the aliens run from adequate to very cool, and the video scene of the Normandy arriving at the Citadel is just fantastic. It could use a bit more polish in the interface and needs a more consistent fast-travel system, but if you were a fan of KOTOR in any of its incarnations (even the bloody mess that KOTOR2 became), you really should check it out. Search/replace "Jedi" with "Spectre," "Force" with "biotics," "Skywalker" with "Shepard" and you're pretty much set.

Interestingly, my old computer wouldn't even run Mass Effect; Diana runs it with max settings with nary a stutter. (And Oblivion looks gorgeous.) I'm gonna have to try Crysis on it.

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[nute.livejournal.com]

I have heard that if your home PC can run Crysis, that the US government is legally allowed to seize it to help land the Space Shuttle.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I keep remembering that the shuttles (except perhaps Endeavour) are running on systems designed and built in the 1970s and that scares the hell out of me.

I was thinking that maybe two 8800s in SLI mode might be overkill, but no, now that I think about it, it's just enough kill.

[daethkow.livejournal.com]

Diana? I'm trying to remember all of the names of your computers, and the only one I can think of right now is Bessie.

And your apartments, too ... I remember The Bunnyhole.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Bunnyhole was my favorite. And there was Area 51, Ground Zero, and maybe Vanishing Point for a while....

The computers went Alison, Bessie, Cordelia and now Diana. I think you see what I did thar. (Maybe it should've been "Donna" for the tie to "Alison," but I gotta say that "Diana" is just a better name, evocative of the goddess of wisdom and, well, certain embryonic glossolalic excremental fiction.)