Must have been due to my recent indulgence in the generally shallow world of video games, but I was happily shocked when excellent all around gaming blog Play This Thing! mentioned Steal Away Jordan. After all, a political roleplaying game focusing on slavery, for that's what SWA is all about, isn't what I consider banal, and, yes, that's coming from someone still enjoying the odd Class Struggle session. It's just that spending all this time shooting (mostly undead) stuff, makes such a game really stand out, especially considering that most RPGs have the player step into the iron boots of some hairy barbarian instead of a rather desperate slave.Now, as I've yet to buy or obviously review the game, you'd better help yourselves to a lovely PTT review and of course have a look around the SAW official website. Rumour has it it's a narrative heavy game with a unique game system and that I'll soon be getting myself a copy.
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Now I'm stuck at PlayThisThing reading reviews ... some excellent stuff there :)
ReplyDeleteIndeed. A fantastic site with tons of content... and its so young...
ReplyDeleteYep, they have several contributors which makes things a lot less messy than our one-man sites :D
ReplyDeleteWeeell, things might just change... I'll let you know...
ReplyDeleteWow. You found another cool site, Gnome. One can always count upon you to deliver us from boredom (or work) with something good to read or play.
ReplyDeleteSee that it has covered a few things you have hit upon. Looks like you got to some of them first as well.
Glad you liked PTT dearest Blue cousin and nice seeing you around here again. Oh, and thanks for noticing :)
ReplyDeleteWow! the perfect antidote to the RE5 debate... Now a video game version would be good, for all of us too lazy to indulge in non-video based RPGs...
ReplyDeleteNow hold on a dog gone minute! BLUE GNOME????!!!! What devilish works are at hand here? Has that bloody Seamus been impregnating your cousins? No of course, that would make a green gnome...
ReplyDeleteWhat goes on? I guess I'll learn as I scroll down...
Umm.... Father, I've posted a few time around here and you are just now seeing the resembalance? Mayhaps you need some gingko caplets...
ReplyDeleteActually Father no video game can really come close to the experience of live RPG gaming. Problem is it's time consuming...
ReplyDeleteBTW, glad you guys finally got to meet each other :)