Just as quickly as I mention my discontent, I’m over it. Now, given, this wasn’t on purpose. You see, apparently my Xbox 360 reads the interwebs. And (also apparently) it would rather commit suicide than allow me to angst about my favorite game genre.

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So, instead of playing Gears of War tonight, I cracked the seal on my copy of Faydwer, and checked out the totally not gay faerie critters SOE put into the latest EQ2 expansion. They’re actually really well done, and seeing the Faydark in its new form is a total kick. I went back to my half-elf wizard pretty quickly though. Really, once you’ve fallen from the trees and been chased by orcs a few times, it’s like ‘Yeah, I’ve done this before.’ Less cynically, Crushbone remains one of my favorite places in a virtual world evar, and I’m looking forward to the chance to return.

So … that uh, other game, that I was downloading yesterday. It um … sure was big.  An unheard-of size for me and my pitiful 70 gig games HD, actually. It also took longer than any sane human should be able to bear. The evolutionary processes of the fruitfly were dramatically enhanced during the time it took me download this thing, is what I’m saying. I hop in, I make a cleric-variant character, and poof! Uhhh … why do I only have 9 FPS?

I have a number of months in my head that I think this thing needs before it can be released, and I’m hoping the game’s creators realize that this number? It is larger than 5.

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