After watching the Fallout 3 Trailer today, I decided to look up on what I missed in 1997. After stumbling upon Gamespot's Greatest Games of All Time archive, I found Fallout's section, as well as a few interesting other games I missed, such as Baldur's Gate II, System Shock 2, PlaneScape: Torment, and a few others. Reading all the articles led me to gaining interest to play all these games, though it'll probably be awhile until I can get around to playing them all, since the end of June seems like it'll be interesting.

Right now, I've got Tomb Raider: Anniversary, StarCraft: Brood War, FarCry, and Halo 2 to keep me busy, and of course, jumping into World of Warcraft, Guitar Hero II, and Command and Conquer 3 from time to time. I'm really focusing on Tomb Raider: Anniversary right now, because its the most interesting out of all. Seeing as I never finished the original Tomb Raider, its a really refreshing and fun experience, withchallenging puzzles, and decent fighting mechanics, albeit a bit mundane and easy. With StarCraft: Brood War, wellwith allthe StarCraft 2 excitement, I decided to try playing StarCraft, seeing as I never finished the original.I'm inching my way through the Single-Player campaign, and playing weekly matches with my cousins and friends, when we've got time. I decided to jump back into FarCry just because I only played it for a few days, then never really got into it. I decided to pick up Halo 2 just for the hell of finding out what happens in the Single-Player campaign. Not really into the multiplayer portion of it anymore, since I played a bit of it when it first released, with my friends. It was pretty good at the time for consoles, but by today's stantards, and by PC standards, doesn't really hold up quite well.

By the time I finish playing these, it should be around the end of June, which is when I'll be looking at getting Overlord, Lost Planet, DiRT, and GRAW 2. All my current games should keep me busy until these roll around, but there is one problem I'm facing before I can fully enjoy these games, and that's my outdated processor.

My Pentium 4 3.00 GHZ feels really outdated at this point. Playing recent games like Lost Planet, Command and Conquer 3, and others, I can feel a small, but noticeable, lag every time I'm turning really quickly, or scroll around across the map. It doesn't completely hinder my ability to play, but it gets really annoying. Once I leave the camera angle in one spot without moving, my FPS goes to its regular rate, so I doubt its my nVidia 7900 GS. I'm looking at purchasing the E6600, unless I canwork up the willpower to wait for the rumored price drop in proccesors in July.

So yea, basically it looks like the dry season is gone, for now. Even better, all the cloudy and rainy days have passed, and everyday I see sunshine here in Vancouver. Summer is here!Was never a fan of rain, always makes me feel down a bit. Whenever its sunny,my spirits are always up,as hot as it usually gets.

[06/12/07 - UPDATE] After a lot of researching, and a lot of benchmarks, I was going to buythe AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+, but after more researching, and more benchmarks, I've decided to hold out till July 22nd, when the price ofthe Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 will drop to around 300$ CDN. Unfortunately, I have to go through buying new sticks of ram, and a new motherboard, since neither of my current ones are compatible with the Core 2 Duo models. Oh well, I've had these for about 3 years now, and they did come relatively cheap, soits time for an upgrade.

Shadow Eagle's Currently Most Anticipated Games:

• Fallout 1 (PC)
• Fallout 2 (PC)
• System Shock 2 (PC)
• Baldur's Gate: II (PC)
• Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (PC)
• Ghost Advanced Recon Warfighter 2 (PC)
• Overlord (PC)
• Crysis (PC)
• BioShock (PC)
• Supreme Commander (PC)
• StarCraft 2 (PC)
• Unreal Tournament 3 (PC)
• The Witcher (PC)
• Guitar Hero Encore: Rock's the 80s (PS2)