I'm divorced now, so I can spend even more time playing games and acquiring new ones. I have thousands at this point. Ditching that woman was one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life.
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Monday, March 06, 2017
It's been awhile!
And in that time, I've played a lot more games and acquired even more than that. On Steam alone I now have 612 in my library. Are they all good? Well... nah. some notable ones include Factorio, SimCity 4 (that will never change), Cities Skylines, and The Sims 2 Complete. Have I missed some? Of course! It's been nearly a decade since I've posted.
It's funny though, it's been over a decade, but I still play games I played back then. C&C Generals, Bridge Commander, SimCity 4, The Sims 2, and F-22 TAW all have a permanent place on my hard drive. In fact, I've got save games older than my nephews and niece that I still play. Incredible? Yes!
It's funny though, it's been over a decade, but I still play games I played back then. C&C Generals, Bridge Commander, SimCity 4, The Sims 2, and F-22 TAW all have a permanent place on my hard drive. In fact, I've got save games older than my nephews and niece that I still play. Incredible? Yes!
Thursday, December 15, 2005
My Latest Gaming Picks
First of all, I've managed to get my hands on the old Sega Genesis game "Tyrants" and learned how to play that. It's an acceptable game, but not really in-depth or all that fun. Honestly it seems pretty repetitive... good for a long road-trip though. If you don't know what it is (highly likely), it's a strategy game where you try to advance through the ages as you conquer territory and defeat your rivals. Oh, and the voice acting for it is terrible!
The only other console game I've devoted any attention to is Super Smash Bros. Melee. Whenever I can convince someone to play, I enjoy duking it out as Ness, Samus or Pikachu. I've taken to playing a couple new characters in order to entice the competition to play a little more often against me. If i only play as Ness, the game tends to get old a little quickly for everyone else...
On the computer side of gaming, just tonight I managed to get all gold medals in air training for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. What does that mean? Well, I can fly the Hunter... basically a copy of an Apache attack helicopter. Lots of fun flying that baby downtown, and well worth the effort to get it too.
I've also been playing SimCity 4: Rush Hour, and have a regional population of 2.5 million for the one I've been working on on my laptop. My other mega-region for the desktop is approaching 3 million people, and I've barely scratched the surface of the amount of usable land I have to build on. I'm expecting it to hold at least 100 million people when I'm finally done. I also noticed that it takes me about one to two hours to build a city with a population of 200,000 people. That's plenty of replayability there; not bad for a game that only cost $60 total with the expansion pack. If only there were more... instead of The Sims 2 expansion packs.
Last, but not least, in the real-time strategy front; I've been playing Act of War: Direct Action and of course Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour. I still have a difficult time in Act of War occasionally, but I've got Zero Hour down to a science. My preferred generals are the Tank General (even with the game's lame pathfinding AI) and the Superweapon General (no need for pathfinding AI). Nothing more satisfying than sending hordes of tanks against your opponents, or launching dozens of nuclear weapons and firing particle cannons to obliterate their base. Fun. :-)
So those are the games that have been keeping me busy.
This Christmas I'm looking forward to getting some new ones. Who knows what that holds in store for me...
The only other console game I've devoted any attention to is Super Smash Bros. Melee. Whenever I can convince someone to play, I enjoy duking it out as Ness, Samus or Pikachu. I've taken to playing a couple new characters in order to entice the competition to play a little more often against me. If i only play as Ness, the game tends to get old a little quickly for everyone else...
On the computer side of gaming, just tonight I managed to get all gold medals in air training for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. What does that mean? Well, I can fly the Hunter... basically a copy of an Apache attack helicopter. Lots of fun flying that baby downtown, and well worth the effort to get it too.
I've also been playing SimCity 4: Rush Hour, and have a regional population of 2.5 million for the one I've been working on on my laptop. My other mega-region for the desktop is approaching 3 million people, and I've barely scratched the surface of the amount of usable land I have to build on. I'm expecting it to hold at least 100 million people when I'm finally done. I also noticed that it takes me about one to two hours to build a city with a population of 200,000 people. That's plenty of replayability there; not bad for a game that only cost $60 total with the expansion pack. If only there were more... instead of The Sims 2 expansion packs.
Last, but not least, in the real-time strategy front; I've been playing Act of War: Direct Action and of course Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour. I still have a difficult time in Act of War occasionally, but I've got Zero Hour down to a science. My preferred generals are the Tank General (even with the game's lame pathfinding AI) and the Superweapon General (no need for pathfinding AI). Nothing more satisfying than sending hordes of tanks against your opponents, or launching dozens of nuclear weapons and firing particle cannons to obliterate their base. Fun. :-)
So those are the games that have been keeping me busy.
This Christmas I'm looking forward to getting some new ones. Who knows what that holds in store for me...
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
I've got a new Hobby
I've been a GameSpot member for awhile now, and I've taken a bit more interest into the user-review aspect of it. Mostly, I like reporting morons who spam the review pages with crap like "OMG THIS SUKS" over and over. I also like picking out fanboy reviews/insults and just today I reported a 50 Cent game reviewer with the line "Is this even a review?"
Reviews should be at least slightly well-written, and explain why the reviewer feels the game deserves that score.
Personally I think I'll be going back and writing some reviews for older games like Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and some of the other classics I have in my collection since those are the ones that don't really have much listed for them, although there are a few dedicated gamers out there reviewing the older games on GameSpot. That's where the real fun is, talk about how great the game was when it came out, and then discuss how well it's aged over the years since then.
An example of that would be SimCity 2000. I don't ever play it anymore, but it holds a special place in my heart. It was the first real computer game I played and I was hooked instantly. As soon as we got back from our vacation when we were playing it, we went out and rented SimCity for the SNES... and a few months later we bought it from FuncoLand. I'll never sell that game, and I'll never get rid of it. Someday I'll whip it out for the kids to play...
Anyways, it's fun shooting down spam reviews in GameSpot. I wonder if people get warnings for that or if they just delete the post and move on...
Reviews should be at least slightly well-written, and explain why the reviewer feels the game deserves that score.
Personally I think I'll be going back and writing some reviews for older games like Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and some of the other classics I have in my collection since those are the ones that don't really have much listed for them, although there are a few dedicated gamers out there reviewing the older games on GameSpot. That's where the real fun is, talk about how great the game was when it came out, and then discuss how well it's aged over the years since then.
An example of that would be SimCity 2000. I don't ever play it anymore, but it holds a special place in my heart. It was the first real computer game I played and I was hooked instantly. As soon as we got back from our vacation when we were playing it, we went out and rented SimCity for the SNES... and a few months later we bought it from FuncoLand. I'll never sell that game, and I'll never get rid of it. Someday I'll whip it out for the kids to play...
Anyways, it's fun shooting down spam reviews in GameSpot. I wonder if people get warnings for that or if they just delete the post and move on...
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Redesign the Redesign
I went over to visit GameSpot today to see how the new upgrades were coming and I was shocked and amazed at the changes made. No longer is there a sidebar on the left to navigate through the site. The header bar seems larger than before, and in general everything takes up more space. So far, I'm less than impressed with it and to be very honest, if it looks exactly like this when my the renewal for my subscription comes up... I'll be cancelling.
I liked GameSpot's previous design. It was easy to navigate for me, it looked nice, and lots of information was easily available without browsing through half the site trying to find it.
Now however, the site has more "multimedia" components, I guess for the kids who haven't quite mastered reading yet. All those pretty pictures sure makes it hard to find anything quickly. Hooray, I can watch more movies! To be honest, I really could care less about listening to some developer drone on about how his game is going to have even more polygon-filled characters than the closest competitor. I like going to GameSpot for the community, for the game patches, and for the reviews.
I don't go to GameSpot to watch tons of developer diaries or movies about E3 or the latest game conventions. I'm only interested in seeing the real games. For example, the last time I really pulled up any movies from GameSpot was when Burnout Revenge came out and I wanted to see what it was like. I went through and played all of those!
So far, I'm disappointed with the new design. The fact that it's squished in the middle of the browser is really annoying, especially for those of us who have monitors that support up to 1600x1200 resolution. I mean, PrezKennedy.org will fit in a 640x480 screen, but it will also expand to fill a 1600x1200 screen gracefully for those who want it to, and I'm no graphic designer. Someone getting paid thousands of dollars to design GameSpot should really be able to do better than they have.
I'll give GameSpot a chance to refine the look, but I have a feeling it won't really improve that much. Looks like I'll only be a member for a single year... :-(
I liked GameSpot's previous design. It was easy to navigate for me, it looked nice, and lots of information was easily available without browsing through half the site trying to find it.
Now however, the site has more "multimedia" components, I guess for the kids who haven't quite mastered reading yet. All those pretty pictures sure makes it hard to find anything quickly. Hooray, I can watch more movies! To be honest, I really could care less about listening to some developer drone on about how his game is going to have even more polygon-filled characters than the closest competitor. I like going to GameSpot for the community, for the game patches, and for the reviews.
I don't go to GameSpot to watch tons of developer diaries or movies about E3 or the latest game conventions. I'm only interested in seeing the real games. For example, the last time I really pulled up any movies from GameSpot was when Burnout Revenge came out and I wanted to see what it was like. I went through and played all of those!
So far, I'm disappointed with the new design. The fact that it's squished in the middle of the browser is really annoying, especially for those of us who have monitors that support up to 1600x1200 resolution. I mean, PrezKennedy.org will fit in a 640x480 screen, but it will also expand to fill a 1600x1200 screen gracefully for those who want it to, and I'm no graphic designer. Someone getting paid thousands of dollars to design GameSpot should really be able to do better than they have.
I'll give GameSpot a chance to refine the look, but I have a feeling it won't really improve that much. Looks like I'll only be a member for a single year... :-(
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