Where was I?

I should return to the creating world soon. I finished my "perfect" runthrough of Dragon Age 2 and have my post campaign file all ready for the next sucky installment. Well, I hope the next isn't sucky, if there is a next. I didn't like this one, nuff said, moving on.

So I gutted my game in preparation for the next EP. I had no idea where I was anyway. I'm starting to put my CC back bit by bit. I'll be back here downloading some things again I'm sure. I always think I have backups of everything, but some things still slip through the cracks.

Once I put DA2 back on the shelf I tried out Sims Medieval. I wasted money on it so I figured I might as well at least give it a try. I can say I gave it a good shot. It took me three tries to force myself to finish the tutorial. OMG... boring. It didn't get much better after that. I  played long enough to be well-loved by all, built a church and tavern. What a nice combo, eh? Beat up the jester, after I fired him, to get rid of a negative blood thirsty moodlet. He deserved it. He was a jerk. I guess the game was somewhat amusing. I just don't get why they went backwards in gameplay. Why the dollhouse view? Why no aging? Why does everything take incredibly long to do? And giving us the fast forward button isn't a solution. It still takes too long and it's boring. Maybe I'm too hard core RPG. I mean, I don't want that much help when I play a game. I want to be left alone and do what I want to do and figure stuff out on my own. I don't want every waking moment dictated, pointed at, and nagged. And you can botch picking wildflowers. Seriously? Picking flowers? A fail? What, now they're taking note of Blizzard's past ignorant ideas? If you were in herbalism in World of Warcraft you used to fail at "harvesting the herb". All you did was bend over, no, they don't even bend over, and pick the flower. Pick... a... flower. FAIL. What? How did I miss the flower? Am I blind? The flower is right here at my feet, disproportionately large to everything else, and it's the only thing I get the icon to click on in 10 miles. How did I miss it? How can I not pick it? How did I fail? Good Lord. Thankfully Blizzard did away with that ignorant feature but it seems EA missed it or something so they put it in their game. It was so needed. Truly. We all need to be put in our place, humbled, by the mere failure to pick flowers correctly. The Watcher says so. Whatever. And WHAT is with the "wax on, wax off" praying? Is my monarch a friggin' mime? Actually, the game was more fun when I just gave up and let my sim sit around drinking ale and reading bad novels. I love, not really, the "collect some wood, get some stone, and kill a bear" quests, but don't let anyone see you. Poof! My sim goes to his little secret place to do the deed. Wow. When was chopping wood and mining stone a top secret government notion?  And I can watch my sim duel some stupid bandit for 20 minutes but I can't see him poke at a bear? If I'm The Watcher, shouldn't I be WATCHING something? Oh, I am, my sim is over there, playing in the bushes, for hours. Right. I'll just um... go make myself some supper and come back later. I just want a medieval neighborhood for my sims. Where everything is medieval and themed. The clothes and chivalry and radial menu choices are all quite quaint. Some of the female hairstyles are quite nice as well.

Alas, it was a depressing weekend of bad games. I'm back to Sims 3 and working on getting my hoods going again. Freedom.