So I downloaded the Tribes: Vengence Multiplayer Demo last night.

I had to delete the Single player one cause it was fun for no good reason. Now this Multiplayer thing gets all up in my grill and I am like "dude, I am trying to work here!"

and he's like "dude, I kick ass"

and I'm like "dude, c'mon halo is going to be out soon, and I need to make money, or I'm gonna be poor"

and he's like "dude, it's me, tribes..."

and that was the clincher. So you see folks, not only am I a big nerd. But I also have no sense of long term gratification when it comes to my proffessional life. Oh well, back to it....

Cheers;)

So I downloaded the tribes vegence demo. Pretty nice for such short demo. I don't really feel like you got a true tast of it all, but besides that what a great looking game. Thankfully it ran really well on my machine. The notion that I have to upgrade soon is becoming more and more aparent.

Cheers ;)

Just picked up Fable today! Thank god for pre-orders.

Was able to start playing it on the same day too, which is a bonus. It's pretty good from what I have seen. There is so much to do, the music and the voice acting along with the amount of character the game has already is just blowing my mind. So far so good.

Bonus: Was also able to pick up COD: United Offensive as well. Gonna crack that open soon.

Cheers;)

Rented Burnout 3 last night.

Stayed up until 4 a.m.

I have got to say that there has never been such a game that has not only eaten time, it has eaten time at such incredible speed that I would only parrallel it with the speed of which you travel at the game. Which is staggering mind you. That game provides such wonderful incentive to replay the races or the crashes you have only just completed that the only words that it illicits from you following a race is "I can do better."

It's definatly hard to put down. I had to throw my controller away from me to physically get me from starting a new event. I am going to be so broke this christmas.

Cheers;)

Just finished playing the demo for Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of war. Fantastic. Way to much fun. And I think the reason why it was so much fun was because they did the right thing. They wrapped the game around their original concept of its turn based predesessor. Everything that made 40k fun they crammed into this game and it turned out a winner. Like the fact that infantry with bolt rifles can't do anything to tanks. That's great! I love it. I really adds to that tactical element and provides a totally different level of thinking.

Can't wait for the game

Cheers;)

Okay. Where did Kingdom under fire come from and why didn't anyone tell me about it?

Someone needs to call their marketing department and tell them that no one knows about this game. I read Gamespot regularily cause I like to keep up. But seriously this is the first time I have heard about it's coolness. I looked at the screenshots earlier today and they looked amazing.

A friend of my cousin who works at EB didn't even know about it. And he is the god damned manager. So something must be wrong. Or either him or I are just blind.

So far, if you look at my tracked games especially, the next three months are going to be hell. I can't even fit all the games I want on my tracked list either.

Cheers;)

This Hurricane Pack thing is tough Sh*t. Besides the new weapon, which rocks by the way, and the new enemies, everything is harder. What a wonderfully challenging game.

...Despite the fact that it is giving me an ulser.

Cheers :wink:

I feel pretty nerdy for entering stuff into a journal on a video game site. But I really don't know where I could have put this where it could have been at all thought provoking and relevant in its context.

My buddy asked me in the car today about the reason why I play, or more to the point, buy video games. He equated it to people (women in particular, but that's a moot point) who buy clothing when they are depressed or because they feel they need to in order to attain happiness in their lives. As if it fills some sort of void that is otherwise vacant and can only be satisfied by other more profound suppliments rather than material weath and consumption.

So in this constant pursuit of happiness we all endeavor there is, as I have come to believe, a very fine line between our passions and our addictions or escapist addictions that we might miss in our journey. Such a converstion compelled my to look a little deeper and think about specifically why I play and buy video games.

My initial reaction regarded the simple fact that I am a graphic designer (full-time), and being that I am in the constant pursuit of inspiration and a creative outlet. Gaming has been a constant source for these things for as long as I could understand what a computer was, or perhaps when I got my first Nintendo at Christmas. As I have matured, so have my interests in the gaming industry and my tastes in the games that I become involved in. I was first into them because it was fun, and addictive. I became intesely into them when the art and the styles of each game became more developed. It really all started to become a passion when Warcraft was release. I remember pouring over the art , music and the story of the game, completely transfixed on the level depth the game had to offer.

But that was then.

Now I continue to update myself on the industry and pursue games that provide similar experiences and quality of depth that the Warcraft series had delivered. But do I continue to purchase games now because I think it will make me happy? And if so, why will it make me happy? That is the burning question of this whole entry. Has the passion and the initial interest turned into an addiction? Perhaps I have outgrown their fufillment in my life and fail to see that games are only now just a temporary high to distract me from what might really be going on in my life. It is similar to those who shop when they are depressed or unhappy. I am guilty of it. "Ebaying" it up at 2 in the morning after I didn't get the job I wanted. Everybody is guitly of it at one point. It is that feeling that the aquisition of material goods will heal pain that is on a deeper level. Or the endless struggle to re-create the initial rush that something had provided when you had first discovered it. It is a fruitless endeavor, however some are trapped in thise cicle.

There are many reason why I love video games. They are challenging. They are inspiring. They are intriguiing. And they are most certainly fun. But again, it is very easy to tell myself that. Questions like the above need to be answered in order to discover why you pursue things in your life to make you happy. It can be a very blurry line between the passions and the addictions. Like just a simple recreational interest as a hobby or something to do on a rainy day, which could be interperated either way or not at all. I don't want to make this issue a black and white subject, which it isn't a lot of the time, however I only wish to express what I think is two ends of a spectrum.

Kudos to those who have read this, I hope you were able to make sense of it all.

Cheers ;)

This is the first entry into this so called journal. I don't really like the idea of this turning into a blog I don't think. I don't think I am going to be writing down every mood or thought that crosses my mind. This may be in fact my only entry. Perhaps. But for the sake of it.....

current mood: naughty:twisted: