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Can't... stop... playing... Abe's Oddysee...

I loved Abe's Oddysee the first time I played it, back when I was ten or eleven, but I never finished it. Now I'm playing it again I just can't stop. I've made a silent vow to save all 99 Mudukons and get the best game ending. This is worse than my Typing of the Dead or Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth high score addictions.

It's the simplicity of Abe's Oddysee that I like so much. There are clearly defined rules and success depends on dexterity, forethought and strategy rather than being able to pull off a head shot in mid air while dodging a grenade in a 3D environment. While I appreciate games like Tribes: Vengeance, Neverwinter Nights, and Hitman: Blood Money, most games have a degree of randomness to them which means that any plan you come up with, no matter how devilishly clever, can always fall afoul of a randomly generated value (such as an enemy's reaction to hearing your footsteps, or the direction an object might take when it bounces, or the accuracy of a gun when fired on full-auto).

I've done a little work on my Google Page, I've always tried to knuckle down and create a website for myself but never actually gotten down to it. These newfangled Google Pages make things almost too easy. Of course I don't have my own domain name but that really doesn't bother me right now. Maybe it will later but by then I'm sure I'll have a proper site of my own.

I still haven't managed to work around the problems preventing me from compiling my The Suffering: Ties That Bind video yet. And I keep rescuing Rupture Farms employees instead of writing the third adventure in my D&D campaign. Ah well, the weekend starts tomorrow... it's about time we had another weekend.