Gaming Experience: Do we really need 3D?

Faster CPUs, More RAM, powerhouse graphic cards… Evolving technology gives us huge opportunities. Gaming industry is one of the best market where this evolution can be seen with your own eyes. Just look at all the pretty games that are out there: Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3 etc. All looking fabulous on a nuclear reactor fueled PCs. Everything is getting more and more real with all the new details, but sometimes I’m getting a feeling that this just kills the game…

FirstPersonShooters are okay, giving an extreme reality close feeling is really good. But in some cases, I think too much detail and too much glamour just make the games too complex and hard to follow-up on all what’s displayed on the monitor… I hate that.

Strategy games for example… I loved Red Alert 2, and now we’ll have Red Alert 3… in 3D! But why??? Why??? I hate to use hundreds of button combinations on my mouse just to rotate the screen… But okay, let’s say I find a perfect view from one point, and I don’t have to rotate or zoom anymore… the games just don’t look that good! They’ve lost a lot of the smooth with changing from drawed to rendered (unless you have a high-end pc, or lots of cash to buy one)… Give us back the 2D!

And I still haven’t talked about fighting games… Unless 2D comes back, Mortal Kombat will never be the same…

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Indiana Jones is cool once again

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from the new Indiana Jones movie… after all Harrison Ford was in way better shape back at the first 3 episodes, and involving Shia LaBeouf… I can’t say I was running around screaming because of being overdosed by happiness.

Anyways, after wathcing the first teaser, I’ve got excited. Looks good, and has the feeling, and the “Truckchase” scene looks funny and awesome.

You should also check it out, it’s pretty neat.

However they should still consider a title change… still worse than the new Bond movie title…

Series addiction

TV series got back on track of quality in the last years with such awesomeness like Dr House, CSI, Dexter and Desperate Housewives, so anyone who’s a fan of such material knows what I’m talking about when I say “Series Addiction”. You just can’t sit steady on your butt for a whole week, because you are just so insane about what’s coming in the next episode…

Now… some episodes usually last for an hour… imagine all the fun and joy you have for 60 minutes… all the satisfaction for 3600 seconds… got it? Okay… now here’s the deal:

I’m a huge manga fan, and checking for the latest chapter of my favorite series on Thursdays is my weekly rutin. One Chapter usually has about 16 pages of material… 16 pages!!!

Now… compare the TV series’ 3600 seconds to my 16 page of amusement… pretty challenging huh?

I just realized this when reading the weeks naruto chapter… there’s one awesome fight going on there like for 5 weeks now, and the end is pretty far away.

Morning booster

I just realized that I’ve developed my morning habits to the maximum by now… I arrive at work, log on to the PC, then go out for one warm cup of coffe and have a smoke at the fire escape stairs (where smoking is probably prohibited, but… whatever), accompanied by one of my favorite colleagues… otherwise I can’t start my day…