Initial reviews of Final Fantasy XII look really good. This is the one that uses a FFXI Online-like world map. If they could let me make my own characters and use them, instead of pre-generated ones, this would be anything I could ever want in a console RPG. And it still may be.
Devices based upon Microsoft’s Origami project come out tomorrow. We’re already seeing a lot of Origami machines coming out of CEBit, the German consumer electronics trade show. It looks to be a small, handheld, wireless, tablet PC running Windows XP. The geek in me (get out of me, you GEEK) wants one just to have… but I am not sure what I would really do with it.
, made a year ago, has it doing just about everything. EVERYTHING. The buzz is that it will be sort of a super video iPod, with an online store likely called Alexandria.Not sure I really need that. My media repository runs under Linux. Now, a Linux version of Origami might be nice…
In Kingdom of Loathing, the web-based game I began yesterday, I’m up to level 3, and working my way through the “Hobo’s Map” puzzle. Currently looking for “something that combines the properties of a knife and a stalk of asparagus…” I managed earlier to work my through the Haiku Dungeon, and can now do Haiku in the Haiku chat.
Funny bit about World of Warcraft as a text adventure in Wired News today:
Welcome to World of Warcraft: The Text Adventure.
You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully. There is an elf with an exclamation point above her head here.
Talk elf
“Alas,” she says. “There is a great darkness upon the land. Fifty years ago the Dwarf Lord Al’ham’bra came upon the Dragon Locket in the Miremuck Caverns. He immediately recognized the …”
Click Accept
“Hey,” the elf protests. “This is important expository. Azeroth is a rich and storied land, with a tapestry of interwoven …”
Click Accept
“OK, fine. Bring me six kobold tails.”