cannard: I've never watched an episode of GoT, mainly because I had the first book for so long, picked up and read it, put it down a while, picked it up, read it from the start again, put it down again, and on and on. I first bought it...2004, 2005 was it? I know I've cleared at least 100 or so pages of the book.
Leroux: I was the same until two years ago or so, but then I just gave up on the ambition to read the books first. I'm sure the books are better or something, but that doesn't mean anything if I can't bring myself to read them anyway. ;)
(If anything, the TV series has renewed my interest in reading the books somewhat, but ... nah, probably not going to happen.)
One thing that's nice at least is that after the first few seasons they diverged from the books to keep itself as a more distinguished entity and so that people who already read the later books wouldn't just be watching a filmed version of books whose events they already know how they're going to play out.
My not wanting to watch the show (yet) stems from some stupid sense of principle I guess. Word-of-keystrokes led me to finding out about the books, back when it was just the first three, got the first, enjoyed what I read, but still due to being a terrible procrastinator and an even worse reader it was open-and-close, open-and-close...I'd really get into the story, then I'd close, and forget I ever read anything. I did my damnedest to avoid spoilers and succeeded. Then the show came out. And now I know, not from seeking them out but just because it's such a given, who becomes king and who gets beheaded at the end of book 1, who dies of being poisoned later on, and OOOHHHHH ITSA, nice day for a, RED WEDDING YEEEAAAAHHHH YEEOOW! And someone gets tortured and castrated I guess. These are the things they kept from the book.
It's...complicated. For me. My decision: I'll start reading the books if George R.R. Martin cares enough to finish the series. I want to know how things play out from his perspective. Even as the
series finale for the show encroaches upon everyone. If Martin has decided "screw it, let HBO finish the story, getting too old for this sh**" then I'll just continue trying to read the millions of other books in existence out there. Then, only then, I might just give in and watch the show (although I also have a problem keeping my attention to TV shows that exceed two or three seasons).
Oh, yeah, thanks for the Puzzle Agent! Props :D Now to get back on topic...
Now I see people recommending Back to the Future, being more of a "classic" style adventure game instead of the storytelling-based stuff they did The Walking Dead and after. Welp, if I'm getting that I GATTA GO FEST before it gets taken down.
Has anyone played their adaptations of Bone? Those any good? The only older game series of theirs I've not seen mentioned by anyone yet.
