SOW - Fourth Week of September

(Late) I am pleased to announce that I now have The Witcher Extended Edition in my posession.  I am only about two hours into it, but I thought this screenshot from the opening sequence would make for a nice SOW.  As for the improvements to the game, I am a bit disappointed that they didn't improve the combat, but I can notice load time improvements, a few voice changes, and a better inventory manager.  Even with the reletively few major changes I will still end up finishing the game eventually, because it was good to begin with anyway.

SOW - Third Week of September

Didn't really know what to do for this one... I wanted to put in a picture of Spore (which I just got) but I didn't have any good ones or the time to make a good one. I quickly shuffled through the files and found this picture from Half life Lost Coast. I haven't played this in a long time but I remembered liking how the ship flies past the windows in this part. Yeah it is kind of random, but whatever.

On an unrelated note, I noticed that five people have voted in my poll so far. This means one or two of them are people I don't know. Whoever those were, thank you for reading! I realize this blog has no breaking news or exiting content whatsoever for someone who doesn't know me, but what is a blog without people to read it? One of 80% of the blogging network, that's what (or so I've heard). I am no famous person or someone in a high position, so no one really has much incentive to read blogs made by random people they don't know. This makes it into more of a journal that can be read online by RL friends and can include pictures and video. I suppose I will have to leave it at that until I am famous. Anyway, I will be back soon with another Screenshot of the Week.

Woot! Crysis Warhead!

I just finished downloading Crysis: Warhead through steam.  I had it preordered at Amazon, but they failed and I ended up canceling it from there.  I just played through the very first part so I could calibrate the graphics, and it seems pretty good so far.  The intro sequence was well done, and the whole game seems to work smoother (if only a bit) than the original Crysis.

Also, I am going to cheat and call this my SOW for the second week of September.

Question Answered

Well I am not quite sure how it worked but a few days after my last post I logged on to Steam and saw this screen:Well, it looks like SOMEBODY is reading my blog.

Still think it's strange how long it took them after their previous release date.

SOW - First Week of September

The main reason I uploaded this image is to ask the question: "What the hell happened to the expansion of The Witcher?" Wasn't it supposed to come out in... April?  What happened? I almost forgot about it, I really wanted to play the rest of this game (I was waiting for the expansion to finish it).  I might be forced to just reinstall it and play it as it is at the moment.  Sigh...

Poll

I added a poll gadget to the blog. I have no idea how I will manage it, but it will probably just ask random questions of no real importance. Have fun.
First one 's bout Mirror's Edge.

SOW - Last Week of August

I know I have already talked about Counter-Strike Source, but I thought I could use this opportunity to rant about my internet service. For the last month and a half, I have hardly been able to play any online games for longer than about 10 minutes at a time. Every few minutes my internet connection cuts out and I have to sit through about 25 seconds of nothingness. This seems to happen more often when I am on a particularly good ownage spree in CSS. Once it comes back, several things can happen: I can get disconnected completely from the current server, transported to a buggy version of the map with everyone's names replaced with "unconnected", or from then on not be able to see the player models of anyone else on the server (all I can see are the weapons they are carrying, floating through the air). In all these cases, I am forced to reconnect to the server which wipes my KD numbers clean. Apparently, there is something interfering with the signal on the same frequency my internet uses (900mhz). At the moment no one is sure exactly what it is, so it will probably be quite a while before I can freely use the web.