Today marks the start of my 3 week break from work! Woot! This as you might imagine brings me much joy. What will I do, I am not fully certain. There shall be much gaming though and I dare say I will be spamming gamespot more and I'll be on xfire/steam more than usual!

I finished GTA 4, what a long, epic, amazing game that was. Story wise, character wise and gameplay wise I feel it was really a step up above previous GTA games. To me it felt almost as fresh as playing GTA 3 for the first time.

The big killer obviously was the performance, Although I found a fairly decent setting, I was still struggling with 20-30fps. I got it playable but hardly the smoothest. I'm still not sure how I'm going to rank this game, performance is really the only negative I had, perhaps the fact that some of the story segments in GTA 4 weren't really concluded as I would have liked - but that was really because the whole lot of side story parts were just too awesome for their own good. I greatly enjoyed the game, Niko is a great character. Brucie is one of the funniest NPCs in a game for a very long time.

Sweet NB Sweet.

Still playing some Left 4 Dead, I am surprised that the campaign is still pretty fun playing through 2nd and 3rd times. I helped my team pass Dead Air on Advanced last night. And by helped I mean I distracted the TANK, using my head. In memory of nutcrackr! I still think the game would benefit from getting another campaign out soon. Or more bosses/weapons. Just more content!

Merry Christmas to all!

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