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..