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The <A href="http://bonez-adventures.com/main.html">Bonez Adventures</a> main site has updated with some new treats for your eyes, including a <b>30MB</b> trailer of the game and new screenshots of the swashbuckling archeologist CRPG. They also mention that the game is in the betatesting phase and will be released <b>early 2005</b>.
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So, I guess the game hasn't been packed away in a mysteriously large government warehouse full of crates.
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Yeah. I was beginning to think it had been as well. Glad to see it's still on track. Kind of interested in this game.

 

The trailer should be, though. Packed away in a government warehouse full of crates.

 

No arguments here. Just got done watching it. The game itself doesn't look TOO bad, but I was really put off by the animations. The whole mini-game approach isn't really my cup of tea either, but I think from what they said, those are optional. They should have done a better job with the trailer. That whole merciful death thing was lame.

But, it's an "unknown" company, so I'm willing to give the game a chance. I just wish they'd do better animations on the models. That was pretty hokey.

And just what the hell is a frowsty cave?

 

A musty cave.

 

Sometimes it can be fun when non-native speakers of a language dig up unfashionable/archaic words and phrases from the language X to language Y dictionary.

 

I'm just wondering is all. In all my years as a spelunker, I never heard the term. I figured he meant frosty and just accidentally added the w. But I looked it up earlier and Dojo is right:

adj : stale and unclean smelling

Learn something new everyday.

 

For learning less known meanings of some words, it's very good to try China Mieville's books (except "King Rat"). I learned some really weird (for me) meanings of e.g. "base", "quarter" and "burn".

 

It's frosty in a cuddly manner. Kinda like wabbits instead of rabbits.

 

What meanings did you learn? Is Mieville and more articulate than 19th and 20th century writers? I guess there was a period during the 20th century when writing took turn away from specificity for the use of more common yet indeterminate meanings in order to reach a wider audience. I think it really started as a means for political and philosophical writers to reach the masses on a level they could understand. So does Mieville use the tradition of more Romantic writing, or is it just more advanced than that which today's typical readership has become accustomed?

I guess more importantly, is China Mieville an interesting author whose books I should read? If so, what book or books do you recommend I start out with?

 

(from Webster's new blah blah blah unabridged dictionary

base - low, vile
burn - stream, brook, rivulet (!)
quarter - forbearance, mercy (not killing a defeated enemy)

There were countless more, but those were the ones that come into my mind at the moment. I had some funny situations, e.g. I was reading Iron Council and the heroes found a burn in the forest. I imagined sth like a stripe of burnt down forest, where the incinerated remains of old majestic trees rest in their ashy heaps. But then I read that the heroes swam in the burn, which made me check the word in a dictionary.

I can't say that he's more articulate then Dickens or Dostoevski. But when it comes to 20th century authors, I think he's one of the most articulate English writers I've ever read.

Perhaps. But take Jeff Noon for example, he doesn't use very sophisticated vocabulary, but he writes in an unforgettable "musical" style. I read each sentence of his books very slowly to "hear" it in my mind.

I wouldn't say that. You can read 300 pages of Dostoevski's The Possessed and feel that, while nothing really happened in the book, you are still reading a great piece of literature and have immense fun with it. All Mieville's books have more action and the descriptions, while vivid, are not so elaborate, I think.

Yes, certainly that is the case.

ABSOLUTELY. Read "Perdido Street Station" and "The Scar". If you like them, read "Iron Council" - I can't reliably comment on the book as I'm halfway through it. His debut, "King Rat", is enjoyable, but of, in my opinion, distinctly lower quality. In some places it reads like a novelisation of a DC/Marvel comic.

 

I have to say, the trailer pretty much killed all interest I had in the game. I was fairly disappointed when I saw the ACTIONY combat stuff with Bonez smacking the critters with the sword because it looked pretty dull to me. Not the animations, mind you, but the combat itself looked pretty boring.

I was still mildly interested, though, until I saw the minigame stuff. It's a pity, too. I really wouldn't mind a great 30s or 40s era swashbuckling archeologist CRPG. Oh well.

 

Well, from what I understand, the minigames are optional, at which point I'm still mildly interested. If it turns out they are required however, count me out. That's just fucking wrong.