Why the hell am I still up? Trying out Dungeon Siege [archive.org link]. It’s ok, a bit like Ultima Online was I assume (I never played it). While it is very nice looking, the first part, and I admit I’m not all that far along, is booooooooring. Basically you walk along, and at set times baddies in various forms (flying mosquitoes, gouls, and dog-like things so far) come out of the woods, and you click on them and kill them, then continue down the path a bit farther, and wait until the next set of baddies jump out at you. I am playing on the easy level, so I’m guessing that in harder levels the combat is actually hard, but as you’re not actually doing combat other than clicking that you want to attack the first in the set of baddies… (your character is smart enough to attack the rest of the baddies that are piling around you). You can cast spells as well, and have to deal with your inventory, deciding which weapons to keep and which to throw away when your sack is full. I’ll play a bit more, but so far I have to give it 2 out of 5 thumbs down.
Ever notice how your cats react differently to catnip? So far I have a stoner (Rex) a scrapper (Zoon) and the one who gets the munchies really bad (Cornelious). Weird eh?