Just Seems to Blow By
Another week almost down, yet it doesn’t feel like it’s been that long since the last one. Sure, it doesn’t seem like today is Tuesday or anything, but when you consider that I’ve already been to work four days this week, I’d call that pretty impressive. There’s way too much stuff to get done this weekend (mainly game related), and the fact that the Super Bowl is on Sunday doesn’t help matters at all. Saints? Colts? Honestly, I don’t really care one way or the other (although I’d probably pick Indy), but I’ll of course be watching it anyway.
In what probably qualifies as one of the slowest methods of multiplayer gaming ever, Alexander and I have a “play by email” game of Civ 4 going on where one person takes a turn, emails the save file to the other person, they take a turn, send it back, etc. Considering single player games can take 2-3 hours to play (the shorter ones), a single game like this could potentially last a year, but on the other hand it doesn’t mean that you have to try to find a continuous block of time to play with someone else (and since moves aren’t simultaneous, there would still be some waiting for each person). Ask me in six months where we are, and maybe one of us will have discovered guns by then to replace our archers.