Over the Thanksgiving break I started on a new web app and a tutorial. Not sure when either will be out though. I’ve been tired all week so I don’t expect to get too much work done on them until maybe Thursday or Friday (I’d put both at 50% right now).
As a distraction, I found myself re-discovering Half Life 2, the first person shooter game that won all those awards back in 2004. If you’ve never played HL2, let me just echo what everyone else in the world has been saying: It’s an AMAZING game. Possibly the best game I’ve ever played (next to maybe American McGee’s Alice). I don’t really consider myself a gamer either. The last game I was really into was Doom 3, and that was back in 2005. When I fall for a game though, I fall hard.
I spent my whole winter break playing Doom 3 all night. It was funny because I’d wake up around 4-5 in the afternoon, right as my roommate was coming home from work, and then I’d go to bed around 6-7 in the morning, right as my roommate was leaving for work. Well, I should get to bed, waiting until the last minute to write these things is always a bad idea.
I go through periods where I don’t do anything besides play Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, or some RPG that I get nostalgiac for. But ever since my roommate got a Wii, we’ve been addicted to it. He is a lot worse than I am though. Like calling out of work to play Metroid Prime 3 all day.
Wii’s are awesome. A friend of mine used to do a Wii night. The Metroid game was fun, though I found my arms getting tired after playing it for 2 hours.
I was thinking of getting one, but since I go through phases of playing a lot to not playing at all, I’d fear it might go to waste, plus it’s a pretty social system, so it’s best played with someone else and I’m not sure how into it my roommate would be.