Stupid Is As Stupid Does
So last night, after I'd finished a bottle of Southern Comfort, pizza seemed like a really good idea.It wasn't.
Normally if I don't have too much gluten in any given period I'm okay, but as I was more than a little drunk I didn't really take into account that I'd already had pasta with a garlic ciabatta bread for lunch (me and Jules went out to eat and have a natter, as seems to be our wont these days), so pizza really was pushing my luck.
Today I feel like crap, and have done pretty much all day. I'm tired and weak, and my stomach just hurts. And I keep being violently ill.
There was something that I really wanted to blog about too, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was... I'm sure it was movie related, or maybe game related...
Okay, what I will write about for a bit is my return to PC gaming now that I suddenly have an ass-kicking new PC. It's kinda odd, to be honest, because I really haven't missed it. Sure Doom 3 looks a hell of a lot better on this machine than it does on my Xbox, but these days I'm a console gamer and I just feel more comfortable sitting over there in a nice chair, looking at a 32" screen, with a sensible joypad in my hand, rather than being huddled over here too close to the screen trying to co-ordinate keyboard and mouse. To be sure my shooting (particularly in Halo) is so much more accurate that its not even funny, but I just don't know if that's worth the sacrifice. And even with the aformentioned scarily ass-kicking PC, you still have set-up and configuration issues, you can't just whack the disk in and expect to be playing - you have to install, patch, set up all your graphic, performance and sound options, then tweak the controls and then, finally you might be ready to game, unless of course you've set your options too high in which case the game won't run properly or at all, and you'll need to tweak and fiddle until you get a happy medium of performance and looks. It just seems like an awful lot of fucking about for no particular reason.
And so a brief discussion of Monolith's F.E.A.R. It is insanely uber pretty, easily the most stunning looking game I have ever seen, on anything ever. It's atmospheric, entertaining and yet even four missions in the game is feeling repetitive. Aside from the fact that I'm TOLD I have to go here and shoot people, I really have precious little knowledge of why I'm doing it, and what it is I'm trying to achieve. The firefights are good, although there are times when the enemy AI seems so 1995 it beggars belief (I've walked right out in front of enemies and they haven't reacted to my presence at all, even after I've shot them a couple of times...), its just that the firefights all kinda seem... the same. Maybe its me, maybe I'm missing something, but without a noticeable story framework to hang all this stuff on it all seems kinda generic. Sure is one good looking game though.
Oh my, I think I'm gonna puke again. I hate this so much...
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