dragoncortez's Journal: OH MY FREAKING GOSH IT'S GONE GOLD AND I AM A LOSER FANBOY

Ok, so I couldn't decide whether to go with the Star Wars prequel icon or the Xbox games icon for this JE. If they had an icon that was something like, "I am a freaking loser, because I will always worship Bioware and Black Isle for producing the Baldur's Gate series" then I would have chosen that. I will, grudgingly, admit that I am not a huge fan of Neverwinter Nights - mostly due to the fact that I could never get a LAN party together for it. I mean, I beat the main campaign, and the story was cool and everything, but where were the party interactions. I don't necessarily expect every game to provide the option for an intra-party romance, but some occasional comment insertions to the dialogues with NPCs from Tommy the halfling rogue with the brogue would have been nice. But wait! this is not a post intended to rant about the few negatives I found in Neverwinter Nights. No! this rant should be dedicated to the announcement that Knights of the Old Republic (or KotOR, if you will) has gone gold.

Yes, I received an email from Bioware last night. Yes, I was surprised at the resulting emotion unleashed by my fanboyism. I knew that I'd been eagerly anticipating this game and in fact knew that it was scheduled for release next Wednesday. Maybe that's why I surprised myself. I just didn't think that hearing of it going gold would be that big of a deal. Ok, yeah, so, here's crossing my fingers that this game will be closer to what I was hoping for from Neverwinter Nights. That shouldn't take much considering it being a Star Wars game and all. Whoo. Glad I got that off my chest.

In otherwise completely unrelated news, I dug down deep into my geekdom and finally downloaded firebird. Shamefully, I use the treacherous and heinous Internet Explorer for most of my browsing needs. I have periodically used Mozilla and Opera as my primary browser but encountered problems and/or generally unlikable things with both. But today, I am in love. Whether this love will last, only time can tell. But for the moment, Firebird and I are in the full throes of geeky happiness.

P.S. For my slowly growing fanbase(erm, list of fans): Did you enjoy the Utah colloquialism (Utonic) "Oh my freaking gosh"?

Ah...

[Some Woman]

Utah is special. =0)

Re:Ah...

[dragoncortez]

LOL, that actually sounded complimentary. :)

Re:Ah...

[bethanie]

No, I think she meant "special" as in the "I ride the short bus to school" special. :-)

....Bethanie....

Re:Ah...

[dragoncortez]

oops, I meant almost. I guess maybe I do belong on that short bus...

Second Person

[nick_drake]

>> P.S. For my slowly growing fanbase(erm, list of fans): Did you enjoy the Utah colloquialism (Utonic) "Oh my freaking gosh"? Not really, but I *did* enjoy the use of second person.

Re:Second Person

[nick_drake]

I guess I should have used the preview feature... I forgot to format the comment with html.