dragonoflife | (no subject)

I have gone widescreen and I will never voluntarily go back.

With the money I saved from not upgrading my graphics card (which is flying now that the processor bottleneck is gone), I picked up a midline 23' widescreen monitor. I say midline because it doesn't have, like, 500,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio or 2 ms response time -- I'm not particularly worried in funding things I'll never even notice.

Playing WoW alone is a mile and half worth of distance through the backroads of Awesome County; my monitor space has gone from cluttered with bars and windows to wide-open expanses of pure gameplay. I did OS as part of our mounts-for-all guild project, and was able to fully take in the entire expanse of Sartharion's lava pool. It turns out it's oddly hypnotic.

I also picked up Fallout 3 (I am so freaking contemporary) and have been enjoying that quite thoroughly. (I wanted to pick up Mass Effect, too, but it wasn't available.) You might be interested to hear that Bethesda put up large poster advertisements depicting the modified American flag and DC landmarks ravaged by war and bomb detonations in the busiest Metro station in DC. And perhaps amazed that as near as I can tell, only one person actually complained about it.

What the hell else should I be picking up for the PC now that I know I've got the power to run it all?

MTV finally released Daria on DVD, a decade-ish after the show ended. My god, ABOUT TIME. I know why it took so long, but damn, I don't care, they should have made it happen long ago. I appear to be the only one absolutely thrilled about this release, though. At least that I know.

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Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 are easily my favorite games to be released in years.

Admittedly, I've only played them on the 360, I've heard that some aspects (hacking)suck balls to play on the PC.

Going to widescreen was epic for me as well. Playing wow was like going from tunnel vision to getting my peripheral vision back.

Fallout 3 is a great choice, one of the best you could make. Hours upon hours have I put into that game, and enjoyed every one of 'em.

Mass Effect 2 to go along with Mass Effect 1, if you ever get the first.

You already have Dragon Age and might be aware of my views on that.

I recommend the Witcher, and it's odd that I do because it wasn't exactly a great game. The main character is a womanizing jerk with about as much personality as a piece of cardboard. The game, originally not made in English, has dialogue that just did not make sense.

And yet, it's gorgeous. Fantastic. Gritty. The world it is set in fascinates me very much and I find myself, clunky, awkward inventory handling and all--enjoying myself immensely. And laughing my fool head off at what the main character often thinks is a good pick up line.

Also, the Witcher 2 is in the works. And I'm going ahead and recommending that, because by the looks of it, they've gone ahead and done a lot of improvements as well as continue the story.

Edited 2010-05-14 20:49 (UTC)

Well, yeah, on ME2. I just hate playing games out of order. :/

I strongly recommend against playing ME2 without playing (and importing!) ME1.

I played the first one, but was unable to import my character. I played the second anyway and did not like it not being "canon" for my character. So I replayed ME1 after beating ME2 and am now playing through ME2 again with my real canon character. Hmph.

I suppose I should try ordering it online.

Are you wanting it for computer or 360?

I could let you borrow the 360 one, if you wanted.

Computer. Maybe some year I'll afford a 360, but probably not this one.

If you've got Steam or would want to install it, Nate said he'd let you use his account to play. :)

Or Nate says he has it through Steam, if you'd want to play it through his account.

Ain't it great? :) I picked up a widescreen on Black Friday to replace my 8-year-old Dell CRT and what a world of difference it makes. First time I ever saw the gryphon/eagle things on the ends of the action bar! I had to just fly around for like an hour and see all the landscapes in glorious 1920x1080...

I keep hearing awesome things about Mass Effect, but I am cheap and have no extra time. So I guess I can vicariously recommend it.