Nov 032005
Civilization IV and Age of Empires III (or AoE 3 in geekspeak) were recently released and I’d like to give them both a spin. But I know if I do that, work on the book will grind to a halt. Because it’s impossible to play “a little” of either game. When you sit down to play one of these games, you can actually feel hours of your life being sucked out of you. It feels kind of weird at first, but you get used to it. Hmm…maybe if I just play on weekends…no, no, I must not give in. But once the book is done, I’m going to take a month or two off of any writing project and get my game on (but don’t worry, blogging will continue).
AoE3 is really very good indeed, BUT Microsoft have neglected to mention that you may well have to go and poke around and turn your antialiasing right off before the thing will work. At all.
Three comprehensive crashes later and a good 20 minutes browsing of tech support forums produced the above tip. Grr.
Know what you mean on the time management, er, issue, though…