I have been informed by Zak that I'm buying way to many games as of late, and you know what, hes actually right!!!
I see all these deals round the net and think its cheap and just grab it, my collection is absolutely huge with me only playing a few of the games at a time. I normally get into something then towards the end just stop playing and it gathers virtual dust on my many virtual shelves.
So, I have decided to do a blog on what I am doing, gaming or otherwise!
This is to help me stop going insane!!
So to kick off a bit about me personally, some may know that a lot of the time I am house bound. I have Joint Hypermobility Syndrome and in agony most of the day and night, so getting out can be difficult (have severe problems walking, exercising, cooking, cleaning and the like) and I can no longer work and I'm only 39 years old. It can be sickening, so I spend my time gaming, exploring the virtual worlds.
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I actually managed to get out the house today, spent 3 hours watching my wife with the horse this morning. I gave him a bit of a groom but come midday I was starting to get a little bored and was checking GOG on my phone for todays new releases, Bioforge, something I can live without I thought to myself.
Got back home and zipped about my usual haunts, HEXUS, new articles on Eurogamer, Gamespy and had a look on the GOG forums.
Ahhhhh, all quiet & nothing new, so what to do, started watching GOLD on TV, Open all hours was on and a few other classics, seen them all before but better than sitting just going round in circles looking at the same sites every few minutes to see if theres anything new. From a gamers point of view, its no wonder I buy stuff and don't play it, I'm to busy looking to see if theres anything new going on in my favorite topics.
Come 4pm I finally gave up, and thought I need to do something after the kids had their tea. I then remembered I bought Viking Battle for Asgard from Greenman yesterday and it wasn't working. No text in the menus or the game, is it my PC or a larger problem. Scooting abouts Steams forums it turned out that everyone with an Nvidia card was having the same issue, crap, have to wait for SEGA to sort it. Then on thinking that the old ads for them came to mind and was hoping it wouldn't take AGES for them to sort it out, I know its sad really!
Thankfully there was a patch for it about 5pm tonight which sorted the text issue so good to go.........
Crap again, now the controller settings are borked for users with wireless 360 pads, A = X, right stick is start and that type of thing, no surprise that its happening to others on Steam also, so thats where I'm at with that now. Doesn't help when people with the wired versions rub it in your face as its working fine for them.........just go away, its working for you, you got nothing constructive to say then don't bother adding to others misery. Go play your game, enjoy it, we have to wait on SEGA again (AGES this time methinks). I can use mouse and keyboard on this, but a hack n slash game like this needs a pad and being able to sit back and play it relaxed as you dismember enemies Viking style.
Time to head to GOG now for the CD Project conference, its 6pm. Hmmmm its supposed to start at 6pm, its not happening. Lo and behold some genius works out its actually GMT+2 so not starting till 7pm, may as well check out Steams daily and weekend deals. Payday which I got free with this months PC gamer and its installed and ready to play, Sleeping Dogs on offer, awesome game, been there and done that already, ah well. Switched 3D on daily.....meh, never even heard of it.
Greenman Gaming have a sale on at the min, so I decided to grab Darksiders and The Darkness 2 for £4 each, played through Darksiders on the PS3 a few year back and enjoyed it, traded it in after finishing it so thought why not. Thankfully installation went without any hitches and my wireless 360 pad works just fine. Serious lack of graphics options for a PC game, then remembered the whole shebang when it was released about it being a port. Ramped up the resolution to 1080p (1920x1080) and the textures are actually razor sharp and it still looks good, don't actually care what others think, its still a damn fine game, Zelda for older gamers.
Darkness 2, not bad, still not sure if I like it though, playing it with a pad and the aiming is skew with the firearms so using the 2 tentacles in a gunfight, haha orange jump suit running away as I pick up one of his mates by the lower leg and rip him in half......cool an attack called wishbone. Aiming with guns though, its just plain weird. You start moving your gun round the screen, either aiming down the sights or shooting without aiming. Thing is though its moves at an ok speed but say you are going from far left side to someone far right the further you are moving the crosshair it suddenly speeds up and you end up over shooting and missing. Think I will stick with the tentacles.
Get over it, I'm a PC gamer that actually prefers using a pad now as mouse and keyboard hurts my hands and my back with usually leaning a bit forward, I don't care, I do my thing you do yours!!!! Just let me know how well you get on with Dark Souls with mouse / keyboard, messes you up at the best of times!
Cool its nearly 7pm, time to see what GOG and CD Projekt Red are up to. Waffling on about Mac, 50 games now available and 28 of those have never been available on the Mac. Think the other 22 are just things like Machinarium, hmmmmm thats out already on the Mac and easy enough to get running as its Java based games, so are a few of the others. Interplay, GOG seems to love these guys, they are awesome classic games, even better they now have an offer on Interplay games, lets see what available.
$10.99 for 20 Interplay games, cool will be having that, the minimum for 20 will only go up, grab it while its cheap (theres that bloody thinking again, bought it now, oh well).........Zak mate I know, buying more games, I know!! I'll tell him theres another flight sim in there, then he will see I've just got another sim to get my teeth into...........
Text message goes (not word for word) :
Zak : Ask in wanted for a joystick to go with IL 2 Sturmovik as its impossible with keys
Me : Pleased Bunji has entered my Bards Tale competition (only one bloody entry and it closes next Monday) and that I've now got FA 18 Super Hornet
Zak : Stop buying games!
Me : Well I got it in an Interplay bundle for £7 and then mention Darkness 2, Darksiders and Viking yesterday.
So to stop buying games he said why not do a blog on HEXUS, so here is my first entry. Something else to think about instead of buying more stuff!
So where next, may jump back in to Borderlands 2 for a little while after Men Behaving Badly finishes, got the DLC, hope Gearbox are sorting the stuttering out, they have done something that has knacked the physics. May just play a bit of Darksiders or start installing some of those Interplay games I have just got..............
hmmmmmm, decisions, decisions!
I will be updating this regularly, keeping it as a locked thread as I just want to be able to add to it.
If anyone feels like chatting about it feel free to start a separate thread


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