Kill Bill and Ryzom

Conflux was on this weekend, and Tessa came up for it….
I picked her up from the airport first thing on Friday morning, and we then went straight to the movies to see Kill Bill 2 – which definitely lived up to the expectations set by the first one. It includes what I think is the worst thing ever done to a character ever – and no, it wasn’t the eye or the grave, but I’m not saying any more…heh.

I dropped Tessa off at the con that evening and then spent the night reading until it was time to pick her up again.
After dropping her off again the next morning, I spent the day experimenting with The Saga of Ryzom…which I must say rather disapointed me. I know it’s only in beta, but it felt to me like they’d managed to take everything I’d heard was bad about MMORPGs and distilled it into one pointless treadmill…..and it really didn’t help that the clothes and weapons merchants were buggy and wouldn’t talk to you.
The way I see it, if you’re holding an open beta, then you should make sure that it is at least partially representative of the finished product, otherwise don’t have an open beta. For me a LOT would have to change for me to be remotely interested in paying money to play it. There was exactly zero story to be found – even quests were just grocery lists. It just wasn’t fun.

Anyway, after coming to that disheartening conclusion, I spent the rest of the evening reading, until it was time to pick up Tessa again.

On the Sunday and Monday I actually attended the con – but I’ll save that for another post.