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August 30, 2007

Templar: Look! One quarter of a car!!!

Baby steps, you guys. Baby steps.

In between this week's pages of Templar, I've been playing a new game, Overlord. It's fun, because you play as the new Evil Overlord in town, and rebuild your predecessor's tower that was ransacked by heroes after his defeat. You also get to beat on hobbits and elves, raid and subjugate a village, kidnap servant girls for your tower, do a little interior decorating, and coordinate groups of impish minions, which is neat. I recently acquired a mistress, even, although I don't like her much. She's sorta bitchy. She snorts at me derisively. I can hear her doing it.

Why would she do that? That's not very smart. I'm huge. I've got an axe. My eyes are glowing. And I've killed so many of the village women that my jester's been calling me "Wenchbane."

But anyway.

My only real complaint is the rigidity of the plot. I mean, it's practically an undercover puzzle game, in a "Lemmings" sort of way: use the waterproof minions to get this, use the fire-starting minions to trigger that, etcetera. In a perfect world, I could just scourge the countryside in an open-ended free-for-all and knit together an empire, Civilization style. An evil one. Hell, in the perfect game, I wouldn't even be an Overlord, just a god.

I'm probably the only person on Earth convinced the Black & White series would have been ten times better without the plot and the Titans; They just got in the way of me flinging my screeching worshipers into the ocean like skipping stones. That's really all I need in a game. Absolute power and the freedom to be a force of unstoppable malevolence.

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You guys have seen my Sims 2 comics, right?

Posted by Spike at August 30, 2007 03:36 AM

Comments

That...isn't a carpet, is it?

Posted by Jerry at August 30, 2007 10:36 AM
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I totally agree on black and white... I was having a grand old time playing genocidal frisbee golf but the plot got in the way too much and I got bored.

Posted by Enesthi at August 30, 2007 02:14 PM
64.85.135.2

Yes! Sims 2 for the win!

Posted by Jala at August 30, 2007 04:11 PM
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Overlord sounds kind of like Pikmin mixed with Fable, I guess.

Posted by Elliot at August 30, 2007 04:14 PM
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Hey, there's a car peeking in from the side! Slowly but surely, eh? :)

Posted by Cailin at August 30, 2007 05:53 PM
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Hawhawhaw.

I love the sims 2. I have all my wives cheat on their husbands with other wives, and have the husbands walk in on them.

also:

elaborate backgrounds ftw!

Posted by MissusHow at August 30, 2007 06:02 PM
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Wow that actually sounds fun! ^_^ I think that's going to be a game I end up recommending to my guy friends because it pretty much sounds right up their alley. That way I get to play it, too!

Posted by lostkittenrae at August 30, 2007 08:49 PM
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I just read through all of your Sims 2 comics in one sitting. You're an evil mastermind and I enjoyed 100%.

Posted by Lina at August 30, 2007 09:52 PM
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You need Spore. But not, because then you will never work on Templar again. T_T

Actually, Playing with Dolls came up as a must-read in the Sims2 LJ comm (someone was asking about non-legacy sims stories). Everyone's dying for more Millionaire Sexy!

Posted by millie at August 31, 2007 02:40 AM
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Oh God, Millionaire Sexy cannot be matched.

Posted by Krajki at August 31, 2007 06:09 AM
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Oh, but that one quarter of a car is amazement-inducing! Please, Spike, pleasepleaseplease tell me that in Templar, people still drive those bitchin' old '20s and '30s cars, a la Batman!

Posted by Alan Tyson at August 31, 2007 10:32 AM
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wow. instead of doing laundry and packing for this weekend, i sat and read the sims comic. i love it. makes me want to get sims 2 myself. maybe someday...

Posted by befu at August 31, 2007 06:53 PM
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Hey Spike,

The "comics professionals ask fandom questions" article is finally up.

http://www.yourmomsbasement.com/archives/2007/08/wwc_10odd_quest.html

Enjoy. :)

Posted by Carissa at August 31, 2007 10:14 PM
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Is it wrong that I got way too involved reading the parts about Coda and Lilith's relationship? :P

Posted by Jim at September 4, 2007 04:35 AM
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Sims 2 comics... very funny =))

Posted by gov2gov at December 6, 2007 01:15 PM
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