Hourglass Gamer

I’ve quit gaming since long now,… very long. The latest RPG I’ve played must have been Heroes of Might & Magic II and that, gamers will agree, was during the era of dinosaurs in gaming history. PC Games have evolved a lot since then with breath-taking graphics and ever realistic sceneries, but at the cost of more RAM memory, HDisk capacity and powerful graphics adaptor. No real gamer will own less than a 8800GT 512MB (supp direct x 10 w/ pixel shader 4.0 :p) as graphic adaptor and a Core 2 Duo processor. I’d say a Core 2 Duo is barely enough for serious gaming but yeah, the $$ factor! And with the PC i got, it was a shame not to be gaming.

I’ve resumed (or rather what I consider to be a decent attempt at..) gaming a week ago. I’ve entered WoW arena thanks to some colleagues at work. They are quite a few WoW players in my project and that’s cool to share this thing in common. I remember I had wanted to join the online WoW gaming crew since back then when it was a big hype but i guess my workload wouldn’t allow me to. WoW’s cool, nice graphics, controls are easily mastered, is an online quest-based RPG,.. and you pay to play, which surprisingly could add to the feel-good factor when playing. And yeah, they even had a brief scene on it in how i met your mother

Thing is though, I get bored with most games quite fast,.. I mean it takes a lot to keep me from being saturated. Usually, a few hours and am done. The best experience had been with Counter Strike. Yeah, it’s a crappy game I’ll give you that but it was real fun to play among friends. We’d bunk class (that was routine) and setup our network with 4 players min, co-players sitting next to each other, all equipped with earphones so that you could hear the footsteps of the opponent nearing. These were good times! I can’t play against machines anymore, I find that boring and stupid. I’ve also tried SimCity 4 Deluxe recently. Well it was nice at first but then, again, I got bored after a few hours. Well, maybe am more into killing people than building cities I guess..

Richard Wright (1943-2008)

PF

Richard Wright is no more. Wright was one of the founding members of the mythical band, Pink Floyd, which kept a whole generation at breath with their unique unrestrained psychedelic music. This is sad, this is history dying, for Pink Floyd was no mere band. They were (are, I should say, for such bands are eternal..) no less than the Beatles or Elvis, in their own right. Richard was the pianist or the keyboard magician of the band. The rich and textured tunes he grew off his keys brought a very distinct trait to Pink Floyd’s music. He also made vocal sounds for many tracks.

I don’t have much to say. I just wanted to pay tribute to the man. Am a fan, a huge fan of Pink Floyd and Wright’s departure leaves an emptiness behind.

..wish you were here.. .

Metallica’s back!

This is huge! And brings me back to blogosphere after long.. Metallica is back its new album, Death Magnetic, freshly released yesterday. Well, am not sure am still a heavy metal adept anymore but this feels great. Metallica used to rock my life back in the schooldays and back then, you were either punk electro with coloured hair, reggae weed-pots or the dark metal fellows with long hair and this nasty look that wouldn’t stick off their asses. Well I didnt have long hair but :p… In the last years of college, their music had become an electrifying and adrenaline boosting elixir, always pumped at top volume, constantly roaring against my eardrums. 

Metallica has come a long way since Kill ‘Em All released in 1983 and were considered one of the finest metal bands during the ’90s.  When Newsted left in 2003, it felt like the end of an era, like it would not be the same anymore. This felt even more true with the release of St Anger, which was a decent heavy metal album but felt so unMetallica. In 2000, they filed a lawsuit against the godfather of modern p2p programs and literally killed Napster by asphyxia. That sucked..

But whatever be I’m so fuckin’ glad they’re back (..yeah, wouldn’t be a proper tribute to the band without the F-word) and I can’t wait to get a copy of the album!