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As promised, there will be a bit of something here today, whether that actually makes you happy or
sad is totally at your discression.
I am going to talk about the game that I was playing that made me miss the update two days ago, but that
I actually mentioned yesterday. It was a pretty good game, for the money.
In case you have not noticed by now, I am one cheap bastard. I will not pay sticker price for pretty
much anything. I am the type of person that sees a truck has rolled over on the freeway and wonders
what could have been in that truck that I could buy on discount. Of course we all have to buy things at full
price from time to time, I mean when you need a toilet plunger you are gonna lay out the six bucks for it,
regardless of whether you saw one in the paper last week for half that price. Sometimes we simply can't
be thrifty, most of the time we can.
I take that same view into life, movies, video games, hell everything, with the possible exception of
food. Sometimes it is better to pay full price for food than to pay half price for food, then pay twice the
price the next morning, if you get my drift. I think "cheap" was kind of bred into me, since I did
grow up pretty poor.
Once again I have gone way off topic. My intention was to speak a little bit about this game that I picked
up for under ten bucks at a Wal-mart recently.
The game was
The Mystery of the Mummy, and is an adaptation of the story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Games that are based on stories are like, well, games that are based on stories. Kind of like movies
that are based on books, but a bit different. The people who make the movies are trying to please the fans
of the book at the same time as pleasing the average movie viewer. The people who make the games seem
to be banking on the fact that 'gamers don't read'. That is certainly not a fact, but the game companies
take a lot of liberties that would never be present in a movie, while I can not site one particular
instance of it, trust me, it is all through the game.
The game in question depressed me for the fact that it made Sherlock Holmes sound like a high-pitched,
whiny person. I, and I think everyone near my age, remember the voice/image of Jeremy Irons playing
the character of Sherlock Holmes. The character, as portrayed by Irons, had a much deeper voice, and
was really convincing as the cocaine using know-it-all. Of course all drug references are removed
in the game, as well as the later adaptations of Doyle's work.
This one will end prematurely. With luck, I will continue the discussion of that video game at a later
date.
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