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Happenings and Goings-on in Hoboland |
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Until I can decide on an appropriate layout and whathaveyou for my actual web site, I figured I could start up my gaming journal here, since I could write embarrassing tidbits of personal information without much fear that they will be noticed.
I AM A GAMER, AND THIS IS MY STORY.
I have seen the farthest reaches of the digital Universe, and I can tell you that it is a) expansive, and b) <i>expensive</i>.
I reside in a little hole, a studio apartment I like to call it, off the side of my wife's parents' house. This is temporary. And while living conditions are not quite ideal, gaming conditions are pretty darned good.
Ignoring the fact that I work more than half the time that I'm awake, my current situation is fairly blissful. In terms of gaming anyway.
I own a halfway-decent computer with a low-budget video card that trudges through vertex shading and TnL. In other words, I can play any game on the market, but performance varies depending on how well the games are programmed. For instance: <i>Doom 3</i> runs slowly and terribly on my computer, yet <i>Half-Life 2</i> looks gorgeous. Not terribly different looking to be honest, but one sponges up resources as if in competition with Microsoft.
I am not fortunate enough to own an X-Box, but I've not cried (visibly) about it. I have a gamecube that I really only got for MarioKart and Zelda. I've got probably six games for it. Not impressive, I know. I should have <i> Resident Evil 4</i>, but when it came out I was going through a financial slump and have since moved on. I also have a PS2 and about 60 games for it. I'm a poster boy for Sony, really. And to think I once hated Sony for cutting down the profit margin on the N64 so substantially.
Anyway. I'm a mixed gamer, really. I lean toward PC games if I can find what I want, but the PS2 really does own my soul in a lot of ways.
The lowdown on recent zombie-gaming:
I play <i>World of Warcraft</i>. That statement alone should hint at the fact that I'm an active pixel-addict. No one who's tried it has ever done anything else willingly.
I also recently came into possession of a huge stockpile of PS2 games. My sources are to remain a secret, but I can tell you that I've been experiencing severe sensory overload. Usually I'd get a new game and play it until I beat it or had utterly exhausted all the fun from it. Now I'm frantically leaping back and forth between titles, admittedly trying to catch up to what's in these days. For example: While I'm playing <i>Devil May Cry 3</i> because it's new and people are talking about it, I'm also playing <i>Prince of Persia</i> because I totally missed out when it was actually a topic of relative popularity within the community.
None of this would matter, and I could give up and play what I want whenever I want to play it, except that my friends and I have embarked on the journey of running a gaming-based web comic. Not only is a comic a lot of work, but to feel like I've paid my gaming dues I have to play all the games I missed when they came out, AND I have to play what's new right now. It stretches me really thin, and I know I should just prioritize, but I JUST CAN'T STOP.
So this is a list of what I'm currently playing, vaguely in the order of my devotion:
<i>World of Warcraft
Mercenaries
Devil May Cry 3
Katamari Damacy
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Knights of the Old Republic </i>(a couple years late, I know)<i>
Half-Life 2
Doom 3
Final Fantasy III (VI?) </i>(Many years late, haha)
There are more, such as <i>Star Wars: Battlefronts</i> and <i>Tekken 5</i>, but I could go on for hours about all the games I'm only <i>sort of</i> playing...
Anyway, that's the lowdown on what digital media I'm cramming into my brain via tired eyes and ears. I'll update more on specific games in the future. Right now I need to use the restroom.
 Sweet Zombie Jesus · Fri Mar 18, 2005 @ 08:45pm · 0 Comments |
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