Yeah, I was out, now I'm back
Okay, I was away for a while, or at least not posting. No excuses. As consolation, I'll give you all a brief review of the various games I've been playing.
1. Portal -- By far the best game of the past year. The end credit music and final boss fight are their own reward.
2. Half-Life 2: Episode One -- Meh.
3. Half-Life 2: Episode Two -- About 1000 times better than Episode One. Car chases, lots of rockets, and an epic end boss fight. However, having Valve continually wave their programming arms around to make sure we notice their physics engine is growing tiresome. Look, we get it, you made a physics engine that is pretty close to reality. Stop it already.
4. Team Fortress 2 -- I didn't think I'd get into this but for those times where you don't want to depend too much on your teammates ability, it is a pretty glorious romp full of explosions and often times a server full of trash talking assholes. Can't go wrong with that.
5. Everquest 2: Rise of Kunark -- They give you a massive amount of solo and group content but there aren't enough uncontested group instances to keep you interested once you hit the level 80 threshold. There's some pretty nice raid zones too but I haven't been able to hit all those yet. I realized I was starting to get a little bored with it when I started rolling an alternate character to pass the time. That's about the same instant that I put the game aside for a little while. They recently added epic and mythical weapons too for each class which was nice. But of course the super hardcore types of the class I play (Inquisitor) think the epic/mythical weapon blows. It probably does but since I don't raid seven days a week and I am not completely fabled out in gear I think it is not bad. But, I can see the hardcore folks point too: since it's epic that means it should probably be more than "not bad."
6. Quake Wars -- I haven't played this in months. My friends aren't crazy about it and pub hopping just doesn't hold the appeal it once did. Graphically it is gorgeous of course but I still find myself going back to BF2142 with my buddies instead.
1. Portal -- By far the best game of the past year. The end credit music and final boss fight are their own reward.
2. Half-Life 2: Episode One -- Meh.
3. Half-Life 2: Episode Two -- About 1000 times better than Episode One. Car chases, lots of rockets, and an epic end boss fight. However, having Valve continually wave their programming arms around to make sure we notice their physics engine is growing tiresome. Look, we get it, you made a physics engine that is pretty close to reality. Stop it already.
4. Team Fortress 2 -- I didn't think I'd get into this but for those times where you don't want to depend too much on your teammates ability, it is a pretty glorious romp full of explosions and often times a server full of trash talking assholes. Can't go wrong with that.
5. Everquest 2: Rise of Kunark -- They give you a massive amount of solo and group content but there aren't enough uncontested group instances to keep you interested once you hit the level 80 threshold. There's some pretty nice raid zones too but I haven't been able to hit all those yet. I realized I was starting to get a little bored with it when I started rolling an alternate character to pass the time. That's about the same instant that I put the game aside for a little while. They recently added epic and mythical weapons too for each class which was nice. But of course the super hardcore types of the class I play (Inquisitor) think the epic/mythical weapon blows. It probably does but since I don't raid seven days a week and I am not completely fabled out in gear I think it is not bad. But, I can see the hardcore folks point too: since it's epic that means it should probably be more than "not bad."
6. Quake Wars -- I haven't played this in months. My friends aren't crazy about it and pub hopping just doesn't hold the appeal it once did. Graphically it is gorgeous of course but I still find myself going back to BF2142 with my buddies instead.
posted by Sphinx at
8:48 AM
2 Comments:
Awesome to see you posting again :)
Yeah, I had forgotten my password plus I didn't see much reason to post since I wasn't trying new games and wasn't keeping up with the new stuff out there.
Seems like we're stuck on BF2142 which means we're unwilling to try new stuff which I suppose means we're getting old.
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