Sometimes, you gotta binge
I went on a rare gaming rampage last night. Of course I was not planning to, it just happened that way.
I started out in CounterStrike: Source with my buddy Lethal in Florida. We used to play the original back in the day, had a clan, and we were pretty 1337 back when it still meant something.
Well, maybe it never meant anything, but we played a lot.
I've had CS:Source for about 6 months now, but I was afraid to even boot the damn thing up because I did not want to get my @ss handed to me by the new 1337 kiddies on the block. You know, getting p0wnd by gamers that were not even born yet when I was playing Doom with Lethal and Joviax on a coax Lantastic network back in college. (Still love that 486DX4-120, great chip that was.) But, since I started to knock the rust off with CS in Xbox (thank you M$ for the free game), I figured I'd give it a shot for real on the PC.
What a game. Man it is beautiful now, gone are the bitmapped images of CS of old, and gameplay was smooth as could be. I think I have been in MMORPGs for too long, this was a nice change of pace.
And I did not suck too badly, keep about a 1:1 kill ratio.
We did not play too late, and after Lethal signed off, Laz in NY hopped on AIM. He's never on AIM, guy lurks more than anyone I can think of. I cornered him for a game.
So, we went the social gaming route, hopped on Xbox Live and played some Project Gothem Racing 2 and caught up on news. For chatting and being social, you cant beat PGR2 on Xbox Live. We played for a few hours... I had my beer, he had Scotch, and before I knew it it was 1:00 am.
I know to most gamers, 3 hours is not a long time and 1:00 am is not too late, but for the 9-5 working stiffs such as myself, rush hour can come a bit early.
So, sometimes you just gotta binge.
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I started out in CounterStrike: Source with my buddy Lethal in Florida. We used to play the original back in the day, had a clan, and we were pretty 1337 back when it still meant something.
Well, maybe it never meant anything, but we played a lot.
I've had CS:Source for about 6 months now, but I was afraid to even boot the damn thing up because I did not want to get my @ss handed to me by the new 1337 kiddies on the block. You know, getting p0wnd by gamers that were not even born yet when I was playing Doom with Lethal and Joviax on a coax Lantastic network back in college. (Still love that 486DX4-120, great chip that was.) But, since I started to knock the rust off with CS in Xbox (thank you M$ for the free game), I figured I'd give it a shot for real on the PC.
What a game. Man it is beautiful now, gone are the bitmapped images of CS of old, and gameplay was smooth as could be. I think I have been in MMORPGs for too long, this was a nice change of pace.
And I did not suck too badly, keep about a 1:1 kill ratio.
We did not play too late, and after Lethal signed off, Laz in NY hopped on AIM. He's never on AIM, guy lurks more than anyone I can think of. I cornered him for a game.
So, we went the social gaming route, hopped on Xbox Live and played some Project Gothem Racing 2 and caught up on news. For chatting and being social, you cant beat PGR2 on Xbox Live. We played for a few hours... I had my beer, he had Scotch, and before I knew it it was 1:00 am.
I know to most gamers, 3 hours is not a long time and 1:00 am is not too late, but for the 9-5 working stiffs such as myself, rush hour can come a bit early.
So, sometimes you just gotta binge.
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