These are my personal thoughts regarding games and related stuff. I am not very good at gaming, but I have utmost enthusiasm for games. I am 28 years old, and I spent more than a decade playing games, starting off with an ancient Atari console. On multiple occasions, I thought about giving up gaming...but some great game brought me back in to gaming. This happened so many times that I doubt whether I'll ever quit gaming...

And yes, I am a big, big fan of The Beatles.

• 8Jun 09

  Cowabunga!!!

  You must play this game!

  

  • Posted Jun 8, 2009 5:32 am PT
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• 6Jun 09

  The Sims 3 First Impressions and Other Games

  Okay, before I get in to Sims 3, I must talk about a few other things:

  New Emblems: Well, it doesn't really matter much, but I got two new emblems; one is tagger flirt and the other is for helping gamespot in winning the webbies award. Now my total number of emblems is 9, so the PC afficionado one is not visible right away. I always envied the people with a lot of emblems, and it feels good to get my share of emblems.

  Drakensang: After a two week break (due to vacation and increased work pressure), I resumed playing Drakensang. I played it a lot during the weekend (by the way, weekend in my country is Friday and Saturday), and I must say I am loving the game. I was a bit disappointed at the dark locations of level 3, but it seems that there's a lot of fun in the dark marshes of moorwood. The boss battles are getting more interesting, and so are the enemies I am encountering. There's no more dire wolves or big rats, there's venomous plants, harpies, fireflies, undead humans, skeletons and sorcerers to fight with. I just wish I had more time to play the game! I can't play more than 2 hours, which is unfortunate.

  Spiderman: Web of Shadows: After encountering a very painful mission (where I am supposed to rescue the tinkerer from a jail), I kind of gave up playing this game. I might get back to it sometime, but right now I am just too engrossed in to Drakensang and Sims 3.

  NFS: Underground 2 and NFS: Carbon: During a "games that don't fade away" phase, I installed and played UG2 for a long while. I still play it sporadically--sometimes I play it when I am talking to someone over the phone. I also installed carbon because I never quite played through that game. I feel it still has some replay value .

  I think I'll post this as is and will write about Sims 3 in a later blog. I am quite disappointed with the level of activity my union is having now. Trying to find out what is going wrong.

  • Posted Jun 6, 2009 11:34 pm PT
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• 7Apr 09

  Games That Don't Fade Away

  On the eve of April Fools day, my computer got heavily affected by trojans. I was getting virus alerts all the time, and even after using an antivirus and a trojan killer, my Windows drive crashed. I had to use the bootable Win XP disk to format two of my partitions, and after almost 4 hours of ipod listening and dilly dallying with the PC, I managed to bring back life to my computer.

  However, in due course, I lost the installation information for all the games I had installed--Burnout Paradise, Prince of Persia 2008, Tom Clancy's Hawx, The Battle for Middle Earth II: Rise of The Witch King, The Withcer, Never Winter Nights and 2 expansions, Vampire: Masquerade Bloodlines, etc.

  I installed the nvidia drivers and also my soundcard drivers. I installed firefox, and then when I wanted to re-install Witcher, my DVD Combo Drive (DVD read/write + CD read/write) stopped responding. I mean, it didn't read any DVDs at all. I got severely pissed off as all my new games are in DVD format. A few weeks ago when I went to the game store, I found someone asking for a CD version of GTA 4....lol....I think it'll take more than 20 CDs to hold GTA IV.

  Anyway, so feeling frustrated, I decided to look in to my "retro games drawer". In this particular hiding(!) place, I have many old games stored in relatively better condition. So I decided to install these games:

  1. Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots Expansion

  2. Need for Speed Underground 2

  3. Freedom Force VS 3rd Reich

  Surprisingly enough, all of these games aged very well, and I am still having a lot of fun playing them. I have almost finished the "conquer the world campaign" of RON using Japan, and I've completed around 30% of NFS UG2. I didn't play freedom force much, as I was too indulged in the other two.

  Yesterday I found out that my DVD Rom is working again (Surpirse!), but I don't feel like re-installing any of the previously installed games. I think I'd rather go for another round of conquer the world. I have only 3 turns left and 3 nations to conquer--I won't be able to conquer 100%. Need to be more strategic next time; I bought a lot of unnecessary territory battles when I could easily attack the capital and take over.

  NFS UG2 is perhaps the best new generation NFS game. For a long while I thought Most Wanted was eligible for that crown, but actually it can't even hold a candle to UG2 which revolutionez the whole car customizing aspect of street racing games. Heavily inspired by Fast and The Furios, NFS UG2 is still highly recommended if you didn't play it yet. As an added bonus, you can go very high resolutions and anti aliasing with even a 2/3 year old graphics card.

  These games are indeed ageless...

  • Posted Apr 7, 2009 3:40 am PT
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