I'm not sure what transpired to make this probably the most densly packed month for great game realses in memory, but it's almost staggering.
Already this month the following have been released:
Those two games alone would make it a better than average release month (even taking into account my personal distaste for EQII). That's just the tip of the iceburg however:
Half-Life 2
Ghost Recon 2
Call of Duty: Finest Hour
World of Warcraft
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Staggering, and those are just games I have on my must play list, there are more coming out for sports fans and adventure junkies. The most obvious thing they (with one exception) have in common is the are all sequals. Luckily for the gamers and unlike movies, sequals are almost always better than the original. I only wish the spread was a bit more even, we go 8 months with barely a good release and then we get hit with enough hours of gaming to keep occupied until just about the time that 8 month dry spell comes around again.
Oh and for those keeping track that works out to about $500 to buy, and $40-50 a month to play (because EQII, WoW, and XBox Live! all cost a monthly fee)
Posted 10:29 AM to Personal - (1) Comments
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games aren't new. In fact as a genre they're now officially old (7 years to be exact), and what's bugging me right now is that new games are coming out that just do not improve upon the very basic element that should be present in any game:
FUN
Where did this come from? Well I picked up Everquest II this week, after playing in the Beta. Now playing in a Beta is great because you can usually figure out if you're going to like the game before having to buy it. Why didn't it work this time for me? I don't know, I'm going to have to chalk it up to a near habitual need to pick up the latest game. That and I need something to distract me from the other FUN MMORPG coming out in 2 weeks time whose Beta I'm also in but I want to not continue because it's so much fun I don't want to spoil the real game by getting too far in the Beta.
Continue reading... | Posted 11:08 PM to Personal
This was just too good a find not to post. I have long (relatively) been a fan of FireFox, it's always just seemed like what the next version of a browser shoud be, and if you don't have it you can get firefox here. Anyway, one of the great things about FireFox is the mozilla-based plug-in architecture, which allows for some amazing plugins.
1 - Scrapbook
This Plug-in allows you to grab whole or parts of webpages and create a "clipping". For what I do this will be an invaluable tool for keeping just the essential bits of information from sites, or keeping whole chached copies of previous versions of sites. It's basically selective permanent history/bookmarks.
2- Web Developer Toolbar
Of all the toolbars this is probably the only one I make an effort to keep active. I can very easily see the page structure, view CSS, resize for popular and custom screen sizes, validate. Great for checking my own site (when it's done), as well as scoping out others.
3 - Edit CSS
Similar in spirit to the Web Developer Toolbar, EditCSS lets you edit the stylesheet of almost any website live. This acn come in really handy if you want to examine how some effect or layout is done.
There are lots more extensions available for FireFox that you can get for free from the FireFox update site.
