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Well, not exactly. I'm currently doing first line tech support for IBM, which is a start, but not a "dream".
However, I have also done a couple of reviews for PC Format. I did Lords of the Realm 3, which they must have hated, as 3 months later they made me review Myst IV. Obviously not the highest standard of games, so I assumed I would have to spend a while playing the dregs before getting anything good.
So I was surprised when, during an email conversation with the editor about what information my invoices needed, he asked me if i was free to do a bit of freelance work that needed to be done quickly. I said I was interested, and asked what it was.
He wants me to write a walkthrough. For a little book that'll come with the magazine. "Essentially", he said "we'd be paying you to play Half-Life 2".
I paused. "Half-Life 2?", I said.
"Yup. We need you to play through the game, and write a walkthrough. We'll give you the official one in case you get stuck. And a copy of the game, obviously."
Again, I paused. "So this is going to be a proper walkthrough. To go in a book. That comes with the magazine. For Half-Life 2."
"Yup."
I mulled over it for a bit, and then accepted the offer. And then put the phone down. And then booked Monday off of work. And then passed out.
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Wait... Half-Life and Halo aren't the same thing?
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Myst IV is not the highest standard of games? Myst series is rather popular last I checked, is the new one not doing as well?
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Pft. If it takes those shoddy mag editors as long to publish your walkthrough as it took them to publish your reviews, we'll be lucky if chapter one is up before Half-Life 3 hits the shelves.
Also, I hate you and hope you contract writer's block.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: Myst IV is not the highest standard of games? Myst series is rather popular last I checked, is the new one not doing as well?
I wasn't talking in terms of popularity. I was talking in terms of actually being a fun game with fun elements that are fun. (Although I did try and do something different from the standard "reviewers hate Myst, people buy it, reviewers get angry" review.) The review for that one is in the current issue, which I haven't bought yet due to not being able to afford it.
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Or, you know, being a game instead of a slideshow for people to show off their brand new CD-ROMs and OH MAN isn't 1996 AWESOME have you played THE SEVENTH GUEST yet you TOTALLY better check it out UH OH MELROSE IS ON.
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The realMyst edition was great, I have never felt so free in a fantasy environment, my gf also liked it at the time. We played it together, although I'd already finished it earlier so I had to keep my trap shut. She finished it without my help, though.
Ass you, Liam, for drop-kicking me down memory lane.
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Well, it's your fault for liking Myst. I bet you also watched Sex & the City and convinced yourself it was a good programme. Didn't you? DIDN'T YOU?
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If I ever saw those babylon harlots during their lunchbreak I'd kick their table over, light ceasar sallads and dildos flying all over the place. Mr Big I would shove up his own ass, along with his Mercedes carkeys. Then I'd ask if he's always wearing lipstick due to his having lady lips, like John DeLancie. The muffled response would satisfy me to no end.
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I'm not on trial here! And I don't belong to the demography of superficial, pseudofeminist/promiscuous urban females, so I pretty much did the opposite of watching it, that is not watching it.
Now please, hand me the blue page, just one more page, I need the page.
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