Happy Fireworks!

I'll be gone to my uncle's in Houston for the holiday, so I'm making an early post this week.

For some reason I haven't been playing console games as much as I used to. There's always been the occasional Ōkami session or slaughtering my brother and his friends at Smash Bros., but mainly now that I have a computer awesome enough to run PC games, I've been getting drawn more and more into this new horizon of stuff I missed over the last what, eight years...?

The first of these *good* games I got my hands on was Neverwinter Nights (Diamond edition, with all expansions included). Yes, I'm well aware NWN2 is out and on its feet, but until I can find a patch to run it on Vista, I'm reluctant to buy it. Still, if I want a better RPG, my next choice is definitely Mass Effect, which I know for sure runs on Vista. After that, well, I doubt I really need more than two RPGs at once. >_>

A more recent game that I actually own is Sins of a Solar Empire, and it just might be my new favorite RTS game (sorry, but Rise of Nations is tough competition). I love how smooth the zooming works, and how everything in the solar system, whether you see it or not, is given special attention and detail. Research is a bit tougher to manage than most RTSs I've known, but like all games, you eventually hit that golden age where you forget about research and economy and focus on pounding your enemies into the ground. (Or wherever they go when you pound 'em in space.)

Okay, game rants aside, my brother's off to the Air Force this week, and he'll be back (or gone somewhere else) from Basic in mid-August. So I'm in charge of the house! (Let the pressure begin.)

Something is sure to pop up on the news soon to give me something new to rant about (besides the recent Six Flags decapitation, of which we're all clear the moral is "Don't be a retard"). But until next week, Happy Fireworks!