New Games... Again

I just got three new games...Gears of War for PC, Garry's Mod 10, and Counter-Strike Source. CSS is still downloading even now. I think it downloaded the actual game in a few minutes, then 40% of the game is just patches. I was able to try Garry's mod though. I had a lot of fun with it. According to Steam, I played 3.7 hours of it in the first sitting. First I tried out the Counter-Strike weapons a bit, getting some practice for when I play CSS, then I tried an online server. My first server was a free server run by some 10-year-old kid. Also on the server were two or three sereotypical internet people. One just played music over VOIP, the other ones just talked using as many swear words and sexual references as possible.

Even with these weirdos the game was still fun. Basically the point was to either show off things you can make or try to kill the other people in the strangest ways possible. You couldn't just shoot them; you had to make a contraption of some sort that would hit them.

Happy Turkey Day?

Hi all, and happy thanksgiving if you celebrate it. My thanksgiving was spent at my grandma's house. It was nothing really special, but the occasion was completely ruined for me. The reason for this was that before I left my house, I replaced the batteries in my camera with some rechargeable ones, just to give it enough power to last through the day. I was almost late, so I quickly put the old batteries into the charger and the new ones in, tested it, and it worked fine. When I got to her house, the camera mysteriously did not work any longer. I figure one of the rechargeables died completely. But that is not the point.

At my Grandma's house, I tend to get very bored. I play multiple games of Kyodai Mahjongg 2006 (best mahjongg game ever) on her old computer and think about extremely deep topics having to do with life, the universe, and human nature. So I was thinking over what I did in the morning before leaving, and I realised that the batteries I had put into the charger were actually primary (nonrechargeable). This can cause many things. At best, nothing would happen. But it was likely that the battery could die, leak, or even explode, causing a fire. I reaserched batteries online (on the same old comp) and read all I could about it, and spent the rest of the day seriously worrying if I would ever see my house again. After getting home at around 11:30 PM, it was thankfully ok. I think the batteries are dead, but I didn't look close enough to see if they were leaking.

One interesting thing that happened while I was worrying about this was that everywhere I looked, I saw signs or "omens" that made me even more nervous. There was the fire in the fireplace, the clock ticking, the burnt-looking wooden duck, and for a reason I will never conceve the topics of conversation at the table seemed to revolve around depression, suisides, death, and fires burning down large areas. wtf... o.O

Crysis Woot!

I finally got Crysis! Well, "finally" in that I have been waiting for it for at least a year or two, but it actually came very fast. I was surprised when a simple Amazon.com free shipping preorder shipped the day before it came out (came out Nov 16, 2007) and the box came the day after it came out (November 17, no rly?). I am on now the "third level" meaning I have seen three different loading screens so far. It gets much harder as the game goes on as you encounter much larger herds of enemies (only been North Koreans so far). But, as you can see from the screenshot, this does not stop my ultimate pwnage skillz! Woot! It is a very realistic game, so it is fun to see what you can do with it. Once I threw one frag grenade up at a group of enemies on a clifftop and killed six at once.

As for the graphics, well, I have the Nvidia 8800 GTS 320mb and 1.5 gigs of RAM, which is moderately low according to the game. I was able to set textures to high (not very high of course) as long as I kept the other settings on either medium or low. I get a framerate of anywhere from 17-40 depending on what I am doing or looking at. It does look better than any other game I've seen on this computer before, but I really need more RAM to be able to really push my card.

So, sorry for that wall of text. Look at the screenshot (you can click any pic on this blog to enlarge) and move on.

New Demos

Hey again, just thought I'd update again.

I got two new games - well, demos actually, but they are demos for Crysis and Call of Duty 4! Crysis is awesome, and looking at reviews of the game (PC Gamer Magazine gave it a 98%) It looks like the actual game will rip both your mind and your system a new one. It apperently shipped from Amazon.com today (I preorderd it) which is weird because it supposedly went gold for Nov 16... Anyway, the COD4 demo is also fun, but that demo is only about a half hour max to finish, even on the hardest difficulty.

That is all for now, I might post a screenshot of COD4 later if I feel like it (pretty much how everything goes on this blog), and if not then my next post will likely be about Crysis. Cya.

Just Thought I'd add a Picture of UT3...

Here is a picture of me playing UT3. Not really all that exiting, just wanted to be fair to that game, as it is still fun...

Timeshift and UT3!

Hi again, sorry for not updating for so long. (I feel like I will be apologizing for not updating this blog so many times it will get old...)

Well anyways I have offically finished Half-Life 2 Episode 2. (That was a good ending, a nice cliffhanger) And I have aquired Timeshift as well as the demo for Unreal Tournament III. Woot! I am actually enjoying both of these. I have not completely done all I want to with the demo, but it seems fairly fun so far, my only complaint having played the other Unreal games is that it does not seem to quite flow as well. Kinda hard to explain. Anyway, TimeShift is pretty fun; I love stopping time to run up to an enemy and stealing his weapon... =D It is a fairly basic shooter other than the time aspect to it, but sometimes it is good to relax to an FPS that doesnt require a huge amount of thinking or skill. The screenshot here is the room I am at right now when I stopped for the night.