After work yesterday i headed out to best buy, getting there 15 minutes before closing time (like i usually do after work), fully intending to get the games that i mentioned yesterday (BF2-Delux Edition, Oblivion, and City of Villians).  Unfortunately they didn't have City of Villains, but t hey will supposedly be recieving a shipment in for that game on the 12th.  No, instead of City of Villains, I was ushered by Commander McNeil to purchase Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (i think is the name?).  Fully intending to play GRAW with McNeil, i went straight home and got to work installing these new games.

Something i realized while installing these games-these aren't your daddy's games anymore, the games that take up a total of 200 megs of space.  no, these games take up 4 gigs and more of space now.  which leads me to believe that i will be needing another raptor drive should i buy 5 more games (i have 40 gigs left, 5 games more games would leave me with only 10 gigs-i don't want to fill up the whole drive, for temporary files).  After perusing newegg i see that the 150 GB raptor drive is going for $259.99, so i will be putting back the money for at least one, possibly 2, for when i need to get more space.

Anyways, i installed BF2 first, then oblivion, and then graw.  Oblivion installed the fastest, obviously (one disk vs 5 for BF2-Deluxe edition and 4 for GRAW).  by the time everything was installed I had to get the patches for everything.  I tell you what, the patches for the games are HUGE.  seriously bigger than gaames of old (starcraft anyone?)

By the time i had GRAW patched and ready to play it was almost 12, the time by which i was planning on going to sleep, so i told Command McNeil that i'd have to play GRAW with him another time.  He signed off and i booted up oblivion for a quick 10 minute session.

wow.  that 10 minute session turned into 60 minutes quickly.  I have to say though, they have the 'E' key and the  Space Bar key assigned to the wrong things.  but i guess they wanted it that way to differenciate themsleves from normal fps'.  The 'E' key is set to jump and the Space Bar is set to use or talk.  eh.  i will be switching those.

The game however was incredible.  Just in those 60 minutes of me getting used to the game, even where the storyline was very absent because all you're doing is trying to escape prison, i found it fun and interesting.  I did however probably choose all the wrong things for my character, class, sign, etc., but i'll find out later.

afterwards i went to sleep.

when i get home today (i get off at 6 today) i'll be playing Oblivion for a couple hours and then i'll probably hop onto graw or bf2, try to get used to those.

oh, did i mention i run Oblivion on ultra high settings? yes.  yes i do.  and actually, my cpu only heats up to about 31 degrees celcius, vs 36 degrees celcius when running counter strike: source.  I'd guess that's because most of the work is being done by the grapahics card and not the processor.  I'll have to check actual system temp after i play tonight and see what it goes to.

I'm going to set BF2 and GRAW to highest settings also and see how those run-if they run smoothly i'll keep them there.