First thing in the morning and ready to get my Game on! I'm not the best gamer in the world but maybe that's because I don't really have a whole lot of time to devote to it. At least, that's what I tell myself as I'm getting slaughtered by some 12-yr-olds playing pretty much anything I can. Whenever I can find the free time to game, I like to throw down mostly with Call of Duty 4 where I am honestly just a fair player.

My rig? Well, one of the benefits of working so much that you don't have a lot of time to game is that you can afford some Kick-Ass hardware.

Motherboard: EVGA X58

Processor: Intel Core i7 920

Ram: 6GB of Corsair XMS3 Triple Channel DDR3

Graphics: EVGA GTX285

Sound: Razer Barracuda AC1 that I am getting very annoyed with

O/S: Vista Ultimate SP-1 64-bit

PCMark Vantage Score: 12507

3DMark 06 Score: 15890

The wiring ain't pretty, but it's got some muscle nonetheless!

Posted 03/08/2009

Time Changes. I am so very irritated with them. I was all set to go watch the new watchmen movie this morning at the early bird showing (I'm cheap) and then I realized that the time had changed. So I called the friends I was going to go with (one of them a new member coming soon) and told them I wasn't going to make it to our planned outing. It got me to thinking though: If it hadn't been for my computer, I never would have remembered about the time change. Have I really gotten so dependant on technology that I can't function properly without it? Of course I have! Earlier this week my internet was down for about 2 days and I was going out of my mind. without it, I was unable to do anything.I was even wondering how to order a pizza without the internet even though for years just calling the store was perfectly a perfectly acceptable way of doing it. The real question is: Is it really so bad that we've come to depend on tech so much that without it we feel like a less than functioning human being? Is dependancy on technology qualifying now as a special need? Is there anyone else out there that has a similar problem? if you have a funny story about how technology has overtaken your life feel free to send it to me here and I will maybe even post it on the site.

Posted 01/25/2009

Well now.

We're almost through the first month of a new year and I gotta say, I'm honestly a little underwhelmed with last years selection of PC games. I mean, sure, we had grade-A titles like Fallout 3, but everything else I played left me feeling a little flat.

I was again very excited at the prospect of playing a new Command and Conquer game, and once again marveled at how badly the series has suffered since being taken over by the folks at EA. It was a good enough game, it's just that I wanted a bit more from Red Alert 3. Oh well, I'm sure the inevitable expansion pack will totally renew my faith in C&C.

Call of Duty: World at War was one that I kind of expected to be a let-down, so I wasn't nearly as irate when that game ended. Sure, the graphics were great and the story was fine, but it was just a bit blah to go back to WWII weapons after the glory that was Modern Warfare.

Spore:<sigh>

Here's hoping that this year the games industry will rise above the mediocrity of last.

Posted 04/14/08:

Oh my god! Assasin's Creed is more fun than I could have hoped! Take that you dirty Templar!

Posted 04/09/08:

Are you kidding me?!?!?!

I just got done playing the single player campaign on Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath, and I am absolutely ashamed at how this once-proud franchise has been lessened by the ending of a single expansion pack. Back when Westwood pulled the strings of the C&C universe, the anticipation of the expansion packs was part of the reason you bought the core game. I can remember when Yuri's Revenge came out, I was at my local video games store on its release date every hour to see if they'd gotten it in yet. So when I booted up Kane's wrath, I had similarly high hopes. The missions were fun (if not a little convoluted in timeline) right up until the very end. I got to a particularly easy mission and when I beat it, I was treated to a nice little cut-scene that got me amped up to play the next mission but when I went to click on the "continue campaign" button, it was grayed out. "That's it?!" I cried. and I was so furious that I had to call up Boss Ivan, who had beaten the game a few days prior, and before commiserating with me about how bad it sucked and how it's a pity that big-time publishers buy up great franchises and butcher them in the name of the all-mighty dollar, his first response was "BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!".

Now, I know that the reason to leave a story open-ended is to leave the person at the other end wanting more, but the beauty of the old games by Westwood and their respective expansions, wasn't just that they told a story that was a smaller part of a whole, but they told a story that could stand on its own and was part of a larger story. SHAME on EA for simply slapping together what feels like just a $30 collection of filler missions and a story designed to set us up to buy another expansion in the future that might actually do what this one promised: To find out what happens to Kane.

Oh, and was anyone else totally distracted by the way Natasha Henstridge's breasts kept magically contracting and releasing under her little chain mail thingie? Just wondering.