Hi Jempeace, I hope your health has improved and that the move next week goes smoothly. Despite the stressfulness of moving I do love moving (though it’s been 16 years since we last moved – we intend buying a bungalow when he compensation is finally paid out, so I have a move to look forwards to in the not too distant future. There’s something special about moving to somewhere new. The discovery and the adventure. I hope everything is fabulous for you in your new place. Is it in the same locale as where you live now, or are you making a big move?
As for all those games I bought last week. Well, I’m certainly having a ball, though I’ve hardly scratched the surface with them yet. After installing Knights of the Nine; an expansion (of sorts) for Oblivion, I’ve spent most of my time playing that. 50% of the games I bought were FPS games, which have been my staple for the last few years now, though of the six FPS games I bought, the only one I’m really playing is Frontlines: Fuel of War, (I think I’m getting a little jaded with them now) which I’ve only just started playing because the first one they sent me didn’t have the serial number included, then when the replacement copy arrived yesterday, it installed then said it wasn’t the official disc. Thankfully I always download no CD/DVD patches for all DVD/CD based games now, so as to keep my game discs in mint condition (due to losing a few games to damage after playing them excessively). Anyway I got it to work yesterday and apart from some stints in Oblivion have played that exclusively. Some of the other games I’ve played a little and enjoyed are Terrorist Takedown, Sniper Art of Victory (an excellent game for those who enjoy the sniper class in any FPS game as it has a great emulation system that takes into account wind speed, your breathing etc), as well as Stalker: Clear Skies (I loved the first release Shadow of Chernobyl) , Crimes of War and Hard to be a God (an excellent RPG), though I’ve not played a few of the others yet, so have those to look forwards to. I finally got around to buying the deluxe version of Morrowind (which is the prequel to Oblivion that was released six years ago) which includes both expansion packs - Bloodmoon and Tribunal. It only cost me $15 which is less than an arcade game, yet it has a whole 3D world to discover; - actually most games that are that age will sell for a lot less usually, but Morrowind was one of those classics that’ll hang around for a ling time yet, as will Oblivion. The game play is almost the same as Oblivion, but the graphics aren’t as good, for example when out in the countryside in Oblivion, the grass looks like real grass, whereas in Morrowind, it looks rather false, but it’s still a great game. My daughter has been playing it alongside me while I’ve been playing Oblivion. She thought it was really funny taking all her characters clothes off and wandering around the world. I was quite surprised when several in game characters actually commented upon Em’s characters lack of cloths lol. I also bought a couple of games for the children, for example Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and Sega Rally. The latter was a big disappointment though as the cars are restricted to a really tight corridor. That is, they cannot stray off the race tracks like many other race games, and the cars never get a scratch on them when you crash. Whereas previous purchases of this genre such as Crashday’s, Flat-out Ultimate Carnage and even Colin McRae’s Dirt, all have major damage possibilities to the cars as well as the ability to go off road some distance (In Crashday’s it’s actually a sandbox style game so you can travel anywhere on the map. , though neither of them have bothered with it yet as they have both been fascinated watching Oblivion; though my son is usually playing Mario Smash Bro’s or one of the other Mario titles with his friends on the Wii. Anyway, I’ve waffled on enough about games. Suffice it to say, I’m really please with all of the games I bought apart from Sega Rally.
