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Games this weekend

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It's funny how the PC gaming market seems to be crumbling at brick and mortor stores and yet... I feel fine. I REALLY love steam, a little too much these days. I'm finding that I'm rebuying older games I may already have just so that I can ditch the CDs and have them available on STEAM where I know I can always access them. This weekend's culprit was Max Payne 2, which  at $9.99 has one of the better stories that I can remember in video games, definitely close to tops for the action genre.

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Videogames to me are more like books in that I very rarely revisit the games I've already played through once. Unlike movies, games take quite a while to finish and most of the time I can't justify the time to replay a whole game. Also, games, unlike books, tend to become less meaningful as time goes on, mostly due to yesterday's graphics not holding up to today's memory. I find it even stranger that the games that feel the effect of graphics-degradation are only the games of post GL quake era, and not the 2D games of 10 years and previous, who tend to stand up really well. Essentially, I notice how a game like Max Payne looks today more so then I would playing a game of Final Fantasy on the SNES. That's not to say I'm not having fun, I'll definitely make it through the game again just to get through the story, but I wish I could be having a better time with it. Maybe it's also because I'm playing Crysis: Warhead at the same time which would warp anyone's perception of graphics and style.

I also took the time to play a little bit of Force Unleased this weekend, which while a little sucky with the controls, is satisfying my inner star wars nerd with it's storytelling. The first level, where you pounce around as everyone's favorite Sith Lord was truely awesome and I was more excited about how Lucas Arts nailed the gait of Darth Vader more then anything. Darth doesn't run you see, he just walks fast.

In any case that's what I've been playing this weekend, along with my usual does of TF2. I'm trying to fit as much gaming in as I can before Fallout 3 consumes my life. I haven't been as excited about a games since... well, Oblivion.
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