Total Immersion

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#71 - Fortunate Fallacy

Twin

on Nov. 1, 2006

Well, this one is a couple of hours late, huh? I can explain!

You see, on the way home from university (an hour of bus travel just to hand in an assignment - yay) I stopped in at my friendly local LAN centre. In the mood for a little Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, you see.

Picking up where I had left off last (barely completed the first mission, I was THAT enchanted with the beauty of it all - I would kill for a computer that could run Oblivion as well as those), I played for a couple of hours and was thoroughly enjoying myself.

The Oblivion hell-plane, though? Well…a bit average, really. I was expecting a bit more blinding pain and hideous demonic visages.
The moving tentacle plants freaked me out a little, though.

So, into hell, destroy the requisite artifact, and get out. And after about two hours of play…

Yep, the fucker crashes and I lose my last half-hour of play. Good thing I save regularly (a computer that enjoys to crash daily helps you work up a nice sense of paranoia), but I was still a little miffed.

Otherwise…yeah. I have fallen in love with that game. You can be a BARD in it, and still kick ass. That's my definition of AWESOME SAUCE.

Enjoy the comic!