Miscellaneous Meanderings
Posted On Sunday, February 10th, 2002 By David Veatch
Have I mentioned how enthusiastically I look forward to Dungeon Siege and Neverwinter Nights (hereafter known simply as DS and NWN respectively)? I can’t recall… if so, please forgive me for repeating myself. Quite simply, I can hardly recall ever looking forward to a mere computer game with quite this degree of… well… ravenous ardor, if you follow me. Sure, the single player campaigns for both look to be really quite engaging, but what intrigues me most, what sets my jowls practically a quiver, is the chance to build my own worlds through which to put my friends and cohorts who share my zeal for either DS or NWN. Of the two, at the moment, I really like the look of DS, far more than NWN. So, with that in mind, I’ve begun to imagine the whole of Middle Earth rendered in the DS engine. From the Northern Waste to Far Harad, from the Gulf of Lune to the Sea of Rhun, along Anduin the Great, up the Misty Mountains and down into Isengard, I want to be able to walk through it all. An ambitious, bold, daring, even reckless task? Perhaps. I’m not even sure if I’m the one more ยป