However, OSC is also one of the few Big Name Writers who signed up to write for a video game. Till now, most "Big Name People" who sign up to work for video games were actors, see Christopher Walkin in Ripper or Patric Stewart in Oblivion. Unfortunately, actors are only so good. They need good scripts to really shine. Even Patric Stewart, aka Emperor Picard, could not make Star Trek Nemesis anything more than a boring hunk of space derbies that should never have been filmed.
And so, many Big Name Actors in video games have gone to waste, their dialog either completely ruck farded, or they vanish five seconds after the game starts.
I'm looking at you, Emperor Picard!
The inclusion of a Big Name Writer, though...aaah, but that was interesting! Good writing can make a game shine despite hardware or gameplay issues, see ANYTHING by Tim Schafer, while bad writing can sully a good game's reputation. Or at least it should (coughHalocoughcough).
And the story that OSC had pumped out for the game he was attached too was quite interesting, and when we finally played it, it was kick-awesome. Human extinction, godlike powers, aliens, and fun stuff like that. The only problem was that the game was supposed to have two sequels. And it didn't.
DAMN YOU, GEORGE LUCAS!
But, still, the first game was good, right?
Right! It was good. It was so good, I wanted to play it again. And so I reinstalled it, started it up and...um, it didn't work.
So I tried to get it to work. And it still didn't work.
And then I tried something that only made sense at one in the morning: I turned off my video card, thinking that that would totally work.
It didn't.
And now, I can't turn my video card back on.
All I need to do is go into the device manager and flip the card back on. Simple and easy...or it would be IF MY SCREEN WAS NOT A BLANK PIT OF DESPAIR!
CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!
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