Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Boredom and Confusion + Civilization 4

Quite bored and confused lately. Dunno why.

Perhaps it's this economy situation that's depressing; or perhaps it's some of my goals feel far-fetched; or maybe it's just the rain that started pouring randomly since yesterday...

It's like that feeling when you first encountered a enticing MMORPG and you grew bored of it eventually by its seemingly repetitive system. And boy, how surprised now I am that these MMORPGs sometimes do capture a slice of life.

Most people would just bear with it and hope it'll get better as time passes. Perhaps that's what I'll do.

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On a side note, been playing some of Civilization IV + Expansions lately. The old traditional turn-based strategy do feel refreshing and more relaxed than the real-time games mostly made nowadays. (Granted, Civilization IV is kind of old itself.)

But after a few games, I realized that this is hardly a game for pacifists. Even though it allows winning the game peacefully, I tend to get rather low score through those routes. The game gives highest score basically if you conquered all other civilizations and dominated the whole world in the shortest time possible. Comparatively, the peaceful victories feel much less rewarding, even though you're the largest civilization in the whole world, when you get the title of Dan Quayle in the end = =" (no offense to Mr. Quayle himself)

That's it... the game taught me that in order to win and be praised, the decent thing to do is to forget about being civilized, just build a large army and own all other nations.

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Conclusion of the day: Screw World Peace! World Domination All the Way! ^_^|||

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