Browsing all 30 posts tagged with pc-gaming.
Monday, June 30th, 2008
I’ve had mixed emotions towards the latest installation in the Battlefield franchise, Bad Company. Mostly due to my history with the series. I played Battlefield 1942 to death. Battlefield Vietnam saw quite a bit of action on my old PC gaming rig as well. By the time Battlefield 2 came out, my PC was a bit behind the times and struggled to keep up, so I didn’t play too much. After jumping the PC gaming ship, I picked up Battlefield: Modern Combat when it was re-released on the Xbox 360. I had some…
Friday, December 21st, 2007
Just when I had accepted the fact that I wouldn’t be getting any new games until the holidays (which are now upon us), Sony pulls one out of their ass and manages to get the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 shipped on December 10. In case you weren’t following – originally, UT3 was set to launch on the PS3 along side the PC version on November 19. The Xbox 360 version was to follow in Q1 of 2008, but was never given a solid release date. The months leading up to the release…
Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Last week, EA held their big summer press event. When I saw the coverage start pouring in I turned a blind eye. EA, along with Microsoft are in my shit books and I really didn’t care to hear about their list of sequels that are coming out this holiday season. That is, until I saw Valve mentioned in one of the headlines. I had forgotten that Half-Life 2 is now published by EA and with Episode 2 on the horizon, I had to check in to see if there was any exciting news. What followed can only be described as a bombardment of awesomeness.
Friday, June 9th, 2006
The first of 3 new episodes that expand on the Half-Life storyline proves to be well worth the wait and reminds me why I’ve loved Half-Life for so many years.
The Good: More Half-Life! Not only does Episode One expand on the storyline, it comes with a shiny new coat of paint in the form of higher resolution textures and HDR lighting. New enemies and improved AI make this expansion feel anything but the same old.
The Bad: It’s short – about 4-5 hours of gameplay. But with a $20 price tag,…
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
It’s been two months, almost to the day, when I kicked the old habit and bought an Xbox 360. Since then, I haven’t spent more than a couple hours total playing games on my PC. I jumped on a couple times and played a couple quick rounds of Battlefront 2 and the odd level from Quake 4. But considering how much time I used to spend PC gaming, that there is pathetic.
Saturday, March 11th, 2006
For as long as I’ve been a PC gamer, I’ve spent about equal time hating it as I have loving it.
I really wish I could just let it go – pick up an Xbox 360 and never look back.
That was me, 4 months ago. 2 nights ago – Thursday, March 9 2006, I kicked the habit. First thing Friday morning, I went out and bought a 360 and have been playing the shit out Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter all weekend and couldn’t be happier!
I have many beefs with PC gaming, which is no secret. But the big one that hurts the most is the cost associated with it. I simply can’t afford to do a complete overhaul every year and a half or so and the penalty for saving your pennies is too great to put myself through any longer.
Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Judging by the amount of emails I’ve received over the past couple days asking “you’re playing Black? how is it?”, I’m assuming people actually check out my Currently Playing section.
So, how is Black you ask? It’s just as rad as you were hoping it would be! Criterion have taken their desire for extremely fast paced action with tons of shit blowing up that made the Burnout series so great and applied it to a first person shooter. I was fully expecting this game to be pure run-and-gun, but it’s not entirely. There’s actually a strategic element to it where you’re forced to use cover to get around well hidden enemies. It’s very tough at times as just about everything in the environment can be destroyed. So that concrete wall you’re hiding behind might not be there in 5 seconds.
I’ve played the first 4 missions so far and impressed by the variety in the environments and mission style. The first one groups you with a squad and takes place in a modern city. It was pretty intense fighting the entire time and only lasted about 11 minutes.
Sunday, January 15th, 2006
Man, was I ever stoked when I brought home my 21″ 16:10 LCD monitor. Unfortunately, that feeling didn’t last as long as I had hoped. It seems there’s several issues which hamper widescreen gaming that aren’t exactly common knowledge. Even after doing hours of research into pros and cons of having a widescreen LCD, I was met with many challenges and frustrating roadblocks that prevented me from jumping into the games I had been playing on my old 19″ CRT.
With the growing popularity of widescreen monitors and LCDs quickly taking over the monitor market share, I thought it would be a good idea to share my experiences and hopefully cut down the hours you might spend troubleshooting should you pick up a widescreen LCD.
First thing’s first. There’s some terminology you need to know and understand…
Sunday, January 8th, 2006
Straight up, F.E.A.R. is one of the best games I have ever played. It’s one of those games that comes along once or twice a year that just blows your mind, over and over and fully justifies the thousands of dollars you’ve spent on hardware to game on a PC. It’s hard to find a starting point for this review as every aspect of the game is astounding.
Sunday, December 11th, 2005
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve barely played any games at all. I got back into F.E.A.R. and have almost finished it, but my system has not being running so hot lately – actually, it’s been running very hot, which brings me to the topic of this post.
Over the past year I’ve replaced just about every piece of hardware. I started with the motherboard and worked my way out. Most recently replacing my 266MHz memory with a pair of 512MB, 400MHz Corsair XMS ProSeries RAM. Since my CPU has a front side bus of 800MHz, I was looking forward to a pretty significant performance increase. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case at all. After installing the RAM, I noticed no increase at all. Still the same hiccups and lags remained. It was time to do some serious troubleshooting – having dropped so much cash on my machine over the past year, I wasn’t ready to give up on it just yet. I knew there had to be a cause for the slowdowns and poor performance I’m seeing.
