Wednesday July 21, 2004

Games I Like

Yesterday's entry got better response than I expected ( 3 people sent me mail! ). I hope you all find my hack useful. :)

Today I wanted to write about games, in particular the game that I'm hopelessly addicted to: SOCOM II. Wanted to write about it, but as you can see, I gave up because it devolved into "Oh Man! It's so great! You can shoot dudes online and then talk smack to them about it!". There, I'm done. Probably the aspect of the game that keeps me coming back is that I never grew-up enough to not want to play hide-and-go-seek.

So, I thought I'd just run down a list of games that stand out in my mind:

• X-COM ( UFO Defense, Terror From The Deep, Apocolypse )
• Total Annilihation
• WipeOut for the Playstation
• Half-Life
• Unreal Tournament 2001
• MechWarrior 3 / 4
• Original War ( check Fry's for this $8 RTS jem ).
• Command & Conquer Red Alert 2
• Grand Theft Auto 3 & Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
• SOCOM & SOCOM 2
• Command & Conquer: Generals

As you might have noticed, most of the games on this list are either console games or "old school", with the exception of C&C: Generals. It wasn't until recently that I had a machine capable of running that game ( a new Dell Inspiron 8600, but I was saving that for Friday's entry ). My buying habits have also changed WRT games. I remember buying WipeOut for the original Playstation days before I owned a Playstation to play it on ( or maybe it was WarHawk, that was a long time ago ). Now I shop the bargain bins for year old games which have a chance of running on the hardware I have now.

-ejo