Battlefield 3 (from a Joystiq post)

They say the game will be vastly different from the beta. Thank God. I know that a beta isn’t the full version by any means, but sometimes it gives just the right amount of an idea of the final product. Unfortunately, that broken thing left an awful taste in my mouth in too many ways. Now that they’ve addressed the issue by stating how much will have been changed in the final product (and its more than bug fixing), I’m back to being excited.

PC Gaming

I have a pretty nice PC. Not amazing by nerd standards, but quite good. I can run pretty much anything at high specs if it isn’t broken. Which is why I can’t run Witcher 2 in high specs. Seriously, that game runs barely better 20-25 fps unless I turn nearly everything of consequence off (the game is still effing gorgeous, so I don’t really mind). However, Rage runs at 60 fps and is absolutely the most technically impressive thing I’ve ever seen in video game form (though that frame rate was a huge focus focus, it seems)

And that’s why I prefer console gaming. When I buy a game, I can put the disc in (if it’s not just a downloadable) title and start playing very soon after. No fuddling through settings; no checking every day for a patch release date (or at least not as often); no changing .ini files to make the game run like it should have in the first place; no toggling options in the settings menu or, God forbid, my video card's control panel, then checking results over and over and over. I just play the game that I bought and hope that I like it enough to justify the expense.

Pariah (not the game)

Conversations like the one with Jeff during the waning moments Tested.com Octoberkast (I think it was for the children...?) about how much better the 360 is than the PS3 at pretty much everything always make me feel like a gaming pariah. It's not my fault if a company doesn't make or support games / features that I like - it's theirs. Yet I have to tolerate podcast conversations on a regular basis about how I've made the wrong choices by not liking the same things as most folks. Suffice it to say I'm becoming used to apparently being a troglodyte when it comes to gaming; but hey, at least I'm enjoying myself.

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Trophy Hunting

Oh, I guess GB tracks PSN trophies now. I wonder if I get S-rank quest completions for them. That would be nice, though I don't really have enough to be worth nerd-bragging about.