Full on assault

As PC build frustrations mount to previously unheard of levels, I find myself forced turn to a draft I’ve been sitting on since early summer. Hot on the heels of its predecessor, Mechassault 2:Lone Wolf eats the bomb (Ok, so I’ve been sitting on the draft of this post for a loooooonnnnnngggg time). More than just a graphical upgrade (although the differences are night and day and beautiful to behold), this game brings the series to new heights of destruction while you wage war against the Word of Blake.
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Astound your friends, confuse your enemies. RPS-25!

I am not relevant.

Hola amigos! AJ is out on assignment this week but will return next Thursday with tales of adventure and intrigue.

Well, I’m through with Locomotion. I didn’t beat it - I didn’t even come close - but I’m done with it. I’ll tell you, I really wanted to like this game. I bought Locomotion with high hopes that I’d enjoy building my very own commercial empire, but it just wasn’t meant to be. The worst part is that I wanted to like this game because there was so much about it to like, it was just executed really poorly.

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I’ve noticed that Shockwave/Flash-based games seem to have gotten a lot better recently. Gone are the days where the only Shockwave games were shoot the drunken clown or click the dancing pony fucker. There are actually some pretty interesting games out there.

One of these games is Crimson Room. In the game, you had gotten shitfaced the night before, and you wake up hungover locked in an amazingly ugly Crimson Room. And there’s no bathroom either—the horror! Can you make it out alive?!?!

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Got Milk?

As you know, I started playing Black & White last Sunday. I spent a few days trying to bring good to the people of the world and I failed miserably. Townspeople begged nonstop for shelter, food and supplies. My creature (the tiger) was good at fighting and lousy at taking care of my believers. At some point it was decided that I was an evil god (apparently due to the neglect of my townspeople) and once that happened, even if I went back to a saved game I was regarded an evil god. Today I started the whole game over with a new world, the knowledge of how to keep my townspeople happy and awareness of how to make the best use of my creature.

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Hardware Edition

Months of research are behind me. The credit card bills have all been paid off. All components have shipped and been received.

Time to build me a bomb!

The overriding goal here was to build a nuclear bomb of a desktop on a $1000 budget. Not everyone is able to afford a $4000 bleeding edge Alienware or Falcon rig, nor do I think that it’s even remotely worth it to try to do so. Admittedly, I ultimately ran over budget by a little bit in exchange for a little extra obsolescence insurance. For this I blame F.E.A.R., a game that comes out this month, which can bring the most powerful system currently available to its knees at maxed out HQ settings. We’re talking about 34 fps on a 7800GTX SLI rig…that is fucking outrageous!!! I have no regrets about the extra cost, and I intend to be fully satisfied with my new beast.

On with the show….we are here to play god. We are here to create life through normal mapping, self-shadowing, and realistic physics simulations.

Little of this, little of that…

Step 1) Throw away those pesky manuals. Gods have no need of instructions for their creative endeavors.
Step 2) More power! 115V is for mere mortals and that just won’t do. Instead I procured some energon for just such an occasion.
Step 3) Begin assembly…
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