nein! mein geliebtes bauerndorf!

No one could confuse me with a console gamer. I don’t even own a console, and have held a controller maybe, um, five times. I’m not even a PC gamer (is that the proper term?) except I did have a terrifying run-in with Quake once, in which I merely jerked the joystick in a continuous rightward direction and held the trigger down and screamed. The effect of this being, of course, my big bad manly protagonist twirling in a pretty ballerina circle while littering the universe with bullets. Until he ran out. And then he died.

Therein ended my PC gaming career. Nowadays, it’s Myst III and The Sims, and neither of those require bullets or ballet moves. Thank goodness.

But I do love to watch other people play games. It’s sad, really. I wanted so much to play Ecco, but I couldn’t figure out the various doodads on the controller and got frustrated and gave up. Regardless, I thoroughly enjoyed Gregory’s post on console RPG clichés. My favorite is “Ayn Rand’s Revenge”.