Brian's Blog

In a fit of gaming obsession I've finally finished Knights of the Old Republic. This one was the first game in a long while to really get me sucked in. Well, other than the Thief series of which I still need to finish the last one. No game is perfect but this one didn't have anything that jumped out at me except for when you tried to disarm a mine sometimes your character would run up to it and blow it up instead of stopping and disarming it. But that was only a minor annoyance.

Now that I'm done with this I can return to the land of the living for a short while before starting my next game, or maybe actually finishing a book on my list. I'm thinking of finishing the venerable Planescape Torment. Planescape is one of those games I've started many times and never finished. And every time I start it I think how excellent it is.

Since Knights of the Old Republic played perfect under cedega I thought I'd give Torment a shot there, but sadly cedega just doesn't cut it for some reason. I did find an interesting project called GemRB which aims to be an Infinity Engine emulator that lets you play classics just as Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape on Linux. Sadly though, it seems very much in beta so it didn't do to well for me for Planescape so I guess I'm stuck booting into Windows to play. But I'm going to keep an eye on GemRB and maybe give it a whirl when I eventually get around to playing Icewind Dale.