Books and Games

As you would expect, I have been spending most my time playing Dragon Age. I keep having my mind blowing at just how large this world is. I thought there might be two or three open world maps but no, there is a ton. And there is so much more you can do even outside wandering the wold. It is crazy. This game is pretty close to the prefect game for me. I could use a little more city building kind of deal but that is it. I love everything, including the saving mechanism (weird point to love but it makes saving over other saves easy to avoid!).

Though I have been mindlessly playing Dragon Age, I have also been able to do other things. Not many mind you, but some! I have been playing Don't Starve Together with Tov after he has gotten some DA in. I have started working on my apartment because my family will be over for dinner this weekend (I think). And one day, I only played the game for two hours because I spent the rest of the day webcam-ing with a friend.

I am also reading when Tov is home but I had to set the Abarat to the side and start reading Fool Moon by Jim Butcher. I was putting up with everything in the Abarat but when he had the main character fall deeply in love with a character she had known for an hour, I had to be done for a bit. I am all about love at first sight and all but the way she is acting, it is as if she has known this character for ages. It could have been so easy to make her go from not trusting to loving him and not have it in a boat ride. "As the weeks went by, things changed. First Malingo noticed; then the Johns who shared jests and snickers when out of Candy's earshot. It wasn't long before the whole crew knew, Candy was falling in love."

There a reasonable time of getting to know than just the other persons name and down in three sentences. I understand that there isn't that kind of time in the current plot but I wish they had met earlier. Maybe close to the book? There have been many times that would have been perfect. Currently it just feels like one character asks if she has ever fallen in love then the author was like "hey, know what? I should make that for shadowing and make her fall in love! Now!" Candy is asked that, then meets her crush at the end of the same chapter.

Enough rambling from me though!

Until next time; may your day be wonderful!