The Fast, the Decision, and the Final Answer

Well, after a lot of deep thought and contemplating, I'm gonna finish this short fast of W101 tonight and return for a while on it tomorrow.

Why haven't I played it in a couple days? First off, I'm a Grandmaster Death and have every possible quest completed. Long story short, my plate's been clean for a week today. This game has eaten up most of my free time; I play it almost every day and knock off it around midnight whenever I'm off. Since the New Year, I had Xfire installed so it could log my time onto it and it came to be 120-130 hours. I'm talking about since the first when I'd installed it. A little too much time in the fictional Spiral for a 25-year-old BK Porter, yeah?

Unless I mentioned this in my first post, I didn't really expect to play it for this long back in late August when I started. I just saw the ad on TV and tried it to see how my cousin would like it and got hooked like my description states: "sucked into the action of the Spiral that never ends". Granted that I've met many colorful friends and gotten hooked onto the main theme of Malistaire, but the time has come to take a little break from it.

I don't mean permanently, but at least a month. I'll go on ahead and pay for this month coming since it's nearing the payment date. Then, when the subscription runs out in late February or before the next payment's due, I'll skip a month to try readjusting a little back to reality, my PS2 and X360. Especially those two to finish the last two legs of my GTA marathon.

I thought to myself one day, "Next marathon of GTA I do, why not play 'em in chrono order?" And so, I did back around mid-November. So, in said order, Vice City Stories (1984), Vice City (1986), San Andreas ('91), Liberty City Stories ('98), III (2001, year of release), and soon, IV (2008, like III, year of release). In release order, they'd be III, VC, SA, LCS, VCS, and IV. But, since I wanted to play them in the order they were set instead, I'm beginning to find an epiphany of the complete story, mainly the first five. I can ramble and nag on about it, but that's another show.