Moving Onward!
Okay, well, I’m gonna get back to my original way of things. I wish there was a Widget for Polls. So I could ask random questions and get answers from people without them needing to leave comments. I was considering doing audio versions, or at least portions, of my posts.
Anyhow, on to progress! This time I have game progress! I’ve been playing a crapload of games lately. Well, maybe not a crapload, but I’ve spent a lot of times on games as of late. On the PC front, I played through Mass Effect, and man is that game awesome. I looks great and runs smooth. Now I gotta play through with a Renegade character. The only gameplay problems with Mass Effect is the sometimes lengthy elevators and slow running speed in non-combat. For non-gameplay problems, the game would randomly crash the first two days I played it. After a while it stopped crashing. Very strange. I have now moved on to playing Assassin’s Creed. While it’s not as hi-res as most other modern day games, it’s still looks pretty good. It’s enough to be called “next-gen” and still run fast on most machines. The HumanIK Middleware used for the “freestyling”, or more formerly called “parkour”, is amazing. Very fluid. I would love to see what other developers could do with this technology. Sad to say, I would be enjoying this game more if it wasn’t for the PC version being really unstable. It crashes randomly every 15 – 30 minutes and doesn’t give any error reports (kind of like it was just closing). As I write this, I have launched the game four times and have only been able to climb one tower and synchronize pat of the map. The game has successfully BSODed my computer three times, at least I’m assuming three. The first and third time I was actually there, the second time I was downstairs getting food and when I came back up my computer was in the boot cycle. I’ve heard random crap about how you have to underclock your video card to fix it, but that’s pure bullshit (Not that I’ve tried underclocking it. The concept of that being a fix makes no sense.). Hopefully Ubisoft will put out a patch sometime soon to fix this. If not, I’m gonna be taking twice as long to beat this game. Well then, out of spite I did a NoDVD crack on the game. The game still crashes, but at least now it handles it properly. Well, after playing the game for a week, it is now running much more stable. Strange.
On top of Assassin’s Creed, I am also playing GrimGrimoire for the PS2, now that my new TV is all hooked up and ready to go. GrimGrimoire is a very enjoyable RTS game. It’s not a conventional top-down view, but a side view. The art and animation are amazing. I really love the style style of Vanillaware’s art team. GrimGrimoire and Odin Sphere are two games any PS2 owner should get. Speaking of which, from what I hear, both those games are pretty hard to find. So I’m glad I was able to get GrimGrimoire cheap on eBay.
I have now acquired the old Panasonic RF TV from the room my brother is staying in. Since the only input to the TV is RF, I had to buy a Composite adapter. So I got this puppy from Newegg.com. It’s pretty spiffy. Like, it only powers on when it is receiving a signal. Albeit, it does take some power to detect whether it is receiving a signal, but that’s just arguing semantics.
For anime related news, I finished watching Saikano. The idea of a schoolgirl being turned into the ultimate weapon by the military is highly unrealistic, but it gets much better as the show goes on. While the setting is unrealistic, the way it portrays how reality sets in in war stricken cities is done very well. A couple weeks ago I spent the night at Widder’s place and we watch some Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. I gotta say, it’s pretty awesome. I’ve only seen the first 3 episodes, but it was very entertaining. I also watched one episode of Welcome to the NHK!, which was also very entertaining. To top the day off we watched Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo. To that, I’m just gonna say, watch it. Watch it, and love it. I am currently watching Last Exile, currently on episode 10.
I have currently set up what I have dubbed “The Server of the Ancients”. It is a computer that is made up of ancient parts that I salvaged together from computers that my school was giving away. Here are the system specs:
Operating System:
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Hardware:
Unknown Motherboard
Unknown Power Supply
Pentium III 600Mhz Processor
128mb of RAM (brand unknown)
ATI RageXL PCI Graphics Card
Western Digital 10GB Hard Drive
Now that is what I call old school. I am currently hosting Natural Selection on it right now. My school was giving out a huge stack of REALLY old laptops, but I waited too long and didn’t have a chance to get to look at them. I would have loved to slap MS-DOS on them or something.
Speaking of Natural Selection. I am currently stress testing the server to see how much it can handle. So join my NS server! Just put ckushhhia.kicks-ass.net into your server browser and enjoy! You can report any findings or bad players to ckushhhia@gmail.com or post on the forums!
Well, I’m out of things to say now. Currently trying to install Exchange Server 2003 on the old beast. Anyhow, some pics and hopefully a video of the computer will come soon. Man I’m tired. Enjoy.
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