Torchlight is not fun

I can't stand it anymore, which means that I won't finish it, which means I won't review it. I sent this email to my friend about it:

"It feels like a grindfest; the story is terrible; and even though it's a game to play once, it's not worth playing once (I say a 24-32 hour game on hard difficulty; I don't want to grind for that long).

The voice acting sounds like it was meant for children (lame children).

And the fact that it doesn't have multiplayer doesn't help it; no one to share the pain with.

Good things about the game: good graphics, levels are easy to navigate without constantly staring at your map (improvement on Diablo II); good music; decent sound effects; cool magic and passively-used skills; cool pet."

Where have Me Bin?!

In short, the reason why I have not written on Stage Zero lately in the last 8 months is that I've been really really really really really sorta busy. I just haven't had time for games or Stage Zero writing.

And I've really felt this hard, this dearth of computer gaming in general. I've felt it so hard that, since my last blog post, gaming ended up permeating all my papers, including the ones on Shakespeare ("Why StarCraft is better than Hamlet").

Since September, the only games I've been able to play are:

Mass Effect

Mass Effect 2

Left 4 Dead 2

Uncharted 2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Bayonetta

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

Street Fighter 4

The StarCraft II beta (only 1 month of it)

God of War III

some of World In Conflict

some of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

some of Virtua Fighter 5

some of Metroid Prime

some of Silent Hill 2

some of Dawn of War 2 with Chaos Rising

some of Rock Band 2

some of Super Smash Brothers Brawl

most of New Super Mario Bros. Wii

most of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Fallout 3 + 2 expansions

A couple dozen hours of Team Fortress 2

So yeah, I just haven't been able to play much. BUT FROM NOW ON things will change. Now I will...end up having to read classics of literature and helping people and then, in December, going abroad to help small, Spanish-speaking children...But don't worry! All is not oppression and pain: a friend just gave me a copy of Torchlight, which is supposedly the best singleplayer, Diablo-style game; this I will play in between teaching children to speak our superior language.

And until the abroadness begins, I will blog every now and then (and probably about gaming). And I will counter my compatriot's WoW obsession with my own oncoming StarCraft II obsession! This way we will feature thorough Blizzard whoring, I promise.

And it's nice to be writing here again. I hope you dear readers have been eating well and stuff.