Gaming

Now I just gotta wait for Oblivion to go on sale. It's only at -40% now, and for a game that I'd be buying on whim just to see if I like it I'll wait for a better deal. Fallout 3 was made with the same engine as Oblivion, right? I'm currently slogging my way through New Vegas; I really like the game, but it's taking a loooooooooooooooong time, and I'm sure I'm missing half of the things out there...

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On Edit: No Deathclaw Gauntlet?! I am disappoint.
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I don't have any consoles, although I wouldn't mind having one for two games: Skate and NCAA College Football (I'm sure there is more, but I don't follow console games enough to know about them). I hate EA Sports for having a stranglehold on the NCAA licensing rights and completely ignoring the PC. Actually, you know what I'd really like? A college football management game, à la "Football (Soccer) Manager". I know, I know, I'm weird and it's never gonna happen...

I know what you mean about bad console ports; I don't really care if the graphics aren't amazing enough to make my GPU beg for mercy. What really gets under my skin are things like checkpoint save systems only, badly adapted controls, clumsy menus optimized for control pads only, and generally the oversimplification of games that are supposed to be complex and having to play them as if I were using a controller, even though I'm not and I have a keyboard full of keys at my disposal. But I digress.

The one big positive influence (for me) that consoles have had on PCs is that they have slowed down the hardware arms race. So far my five year old GeForce 8800 has handled everything I've thrown at it. Which may spell trouble for hardware manufacturers, which in turn means trouble for PCs...

But I'm not gonna start ranting...