Blarg Sick Rambling
Sep. 18th, 2009 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyTried to go out birthday shoppin’ with Mom today, but several sneezes, coughing fits, and Kleenexes later she declared me “gross” and took me home.
At least I got to GameStop, though. Man, all of a sudden there are a bunch of great games around!
So I’ve spent the last few days half-heartedly writing a bunch of crap I’ll probably throw out the moment I get my faculties back, watching TNG, drinking lots of tea, reading Tamora Pierce, and playing video games. And the last two have sort of run together so I have decided: I demand a Tortall video game.
You know how the video game companies are trying to target more girls? They’re doing a very bad job of it. They seem to think that, in order to lure girls, they should make games about, you know, Girl Stuff. I say fuck that. If you want to get girls into video games, make ’em a Zelda-style adventure game starring Alanna of Pirate’s Swoop and Olau.
I mean, Tortall is such a perfect setting for games like that. You’ve got character designs all ready to go, and marauding bands of monsters just hanging out waiting to get sworded, and Mystical Crysticals and other such MacGuffins piled up every thirty feet or so, and driving godlike forces. I kinda felt like I was reading an adventure game with Alanna’s series. So why not expand the idea? I can totally see Alanna solving puzzles in a dungeon/temple and then fighting off some GOD DAMN BATS. And she could follow the books, sure, but I'd love a new adventure, while she's off errant doing knight things. Lots more leeway, that.
Granted, video game spinoffs of books don’t seem to be a very big deal—apparently you need to swing by the box office first. And probably it won’t be like in my perfect world,* which would have Tamora Pierce herself writing the story. But hey, I can dream, can’t I?
*A world where everyone gets along, we all accept our differences and love each other for them, a steady supply of raspberry Pim’s cookies remains in the cupboard, MST3k continues with Joel and Mike, Rosetta Stone software is free, pockets and storage bins contain infinitely folded spacetime so you can fit everything you want to in them, and George Lucas died in 1987.
At least I got to GameStop, though. Man, all of a sudden there are a bunch of great games around!
So I’ve spent the last few days half-heartedly writing a bunch of crap I’ll probably throw out the moment I get my faculties back, watching TNG, drinking lots of tea, reading Tamora Pierce, and playing video games. And the last two have sort of run together so I have decided: I demand a Tortall video game.
You know how the video game companies are trying to target more girls? They’re doing a very bad job of it. They seem to think that, in order to lure girls, they should make games about, you know, Girl Stuff. I say fuck that. If you want to get girls into video games, make ’em a Zelda-style adventure game starring Alanna of Pirate’s Swoop and Olau.
I mean, Tortall is such a perfect setting for games like that. You’ve got character designs all ready to go, and marauding bands of monsters just hanging out waiting to get sworded, and Mystical Crysticals and other such MacGuffins piled up every thirty feet or so, and driving godlike forces. I kinda felt like I was reading an adventure game with Alanna’s series. So why not expand the idea? I can totally see Alanna solving puzzles in a dungeon/temple and then fighting off some GOD DAMN BATS. And she could follow the books, sure, but I'd love a new adventure, while she's off errant doing knight things. Lots more leeway, that.
Granted, video game spinoffs of books don’t seem to be a very big deal—apparently you need to swing by the box office first. And probably it won’t be like in my perfect world,* which would have Tamora Pierce herself writing the story. But hey, I can dream, can’t I?
*A world where everyone gets along, we all accept our differences and love each other for them, a steady supply of raspberry Pim’s cookies remains in the cupboard, MST3k continues with Joel and Mike, Rosetta Stone software is free, pockets and storage bins contain infinitely folded spacetime so you can fit everything you want to in them, and George Lucas died in 1987.
