Kevin Smith Protests Dogma

"dogma is a sin" -- makes you really think, doesn't it? I doubt that catholic lady understands how hilarious her sign is.

I Am Legend Trailer

Dunno if any of you have ever read the book... fun book to read. The movie looks like it could be good so I'm a little excited but still skeptical.

Will any of you guys play the WiC multiplayer demo with me?

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I've been playing the World in Conflict demo and I've been loving it. It's like playing with micro machines when you were younger but instead of imaginary explosions you get fire and smoke rendered in beautiful 3D graphics. I went to Target today and saw it on the shelf for $50, and even though it's a fun game I don't think it's worth it at that price. In a couple of months the price will drop to $30 and I'll totally pick it up but for now I'll stick with the demo.

The multiplayer mode kicks ass and I could see this game being a killer LAN game. The demo they released comes with both a single player and multiplayer aspect. It only has one map but I'd love to play this game with you guys (as opposed to strangers). Please let me know if you are interested.

Here is how the multiplayer works: You get to choose one of four roles. Infantry, Armor, Air, and Support (similar to what you might find in a shooter w/ classes). The action is very fast paced, as there is no base building with economy to worry about, you just order your units and they are air dropped onto the battlefield for you to use. I enjoy being the infantry because they can take over buildings (like in Red Alert 2) and dig in against the enemy. In the demo there are two sides, the Americans and the Soviets (now you can see why I like this game, I love the Cold War setting). Both sides have similar units so most of the differences are cosmetic.

Here are the minimum specs:
-CPU: Single-core 2.0 GHz or faster
-RAM: 512 MB
-Graphics: 128 MB video RAM, DirectX® 9.0c-compatible
(NVIDIA® GeForce® 4 MX, ATI® Radeon® 8500, 9200 not supported)

Here are the recommended:
-CPU: 2.5 GHz or faster
-RAM: 1024 MB
-Graphics: 256 MB video RAM

My system makes the cut for the recommended requirements and it runs the game pretty smoothly (a little jittery at times for online play). Download the demo, and try it out. Also, give me a shout if you want to play on teh internets.


*screenshot taken using my computer to play the game.

video games = cool

I love it when I actually beat a game, it feels good, so now I will brag about it.

Games I have beaten recently include:

• Half-Life 2: Episode 2
• Portal
• Resident Evil 2
• Peggle Deluxe
  

Games I'm close to beating:

• Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (other things caught my interest)
• FarCry on realistic (very hard!)
• Original Fallout (again)
• Titan Quest (super long hiatus - will need to return to it)

I don't get much time to play games now a days (lots of hours working, 63hrs+ this week) but when I do I seem to savor them even more. I really want to beat FarCry on realistic, I tried beating it in 2005 but my hard drive crashed before I had the chance to end the game so I've been working through it bit by bit. The Orange box games were wonderful, even though they are short they were very satisfying. Peggle was a bitch but it's damn addicting and can be played very casually, I'm now working on the more advanced levels when I get the craving.

I've also been playing a couple demos:

• World in Conflict demo
• Call of Duty 4 demo
• Company of Heroes demo

I really like WiC, it's the RTS I always wanted -- it feels like I'm back playing with micro machines like I did when I was a kid. Call of Duty 4 is sweet but it's very scripted and sometimes very unrealistic but it's what I expect from a CoD game. Company of Heroes is cool, but I can't really get into it all that much, I enjoyed Warhammer 40k more.

What have you guys been playing?

Valve is fucking awesome.

I sent this email to Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director at Valve:

Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 8:17 PM
To: Gabe Newell
Subject: Gabe: Please expand gifting on steam.
Dear Gabe N.,

Today is my friend's birthday and I thought that it would be great to buy him Portal. (awesome game, btw).  I decided that I would try to do this via Steam because I had heard that I was able to gift HL2 and HL2:ep1 if I had already owned them. However, I found no way in which I could buy a gift game for my friend as a birthday present.  Please implement this kind of system, it would be great!  Then I could buy birthday presents for all my friends using Steam.  I'm sure others would too.

thanks,
Andy K.

Being a busy guy he forwarded it to John Cook, manager of online development, and a day later I got this response:

Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 12:11 PM
From: John Cook
Subject: RE: Gabe: Please expand gifting on steam.
Hi Andrew,

I'm working on that feature right now - should be done in a few weeks (too late for your friend's birthday, I'm sorry).

Thank you for the feedback
John.

Yeah, it was only an email, but I love seeing this kind of personal response from a company that I love and it makes me glad to support them. Steam is a great service and it looks like they are making it even better. Support Valve, Use Steam.

Happy Birthday, capt'n.

You know who you are.

Play it.

Portal was fkn awesome!

I just beat it, it didn't take very long, and it was amazing. The writing was brilliant and funny, and the game was twisted in just the right ways. Highly recommended! Using the Portal gun was something that I've never experienced in a shooter before, it's bending my mind just thinking about it. I cannot wait till there's more user-generated levels and puzzles, it's going to kick ass.

So, anyone else try out Portal yet?

Be sure to take the new non-biased poll that I created ------------------>

A Pirate I Was Meant To Be - Monkey Island 3

God damn, I love this game so much. It reminds me of my younger days, back when Lucas Arts actually made good games. I so dearly miss this game, I have the CDs but they are scratched -- they didn't work when I tried to install them... I wish this game was on steam or something, I would totally buy it. I love it so much.