Hey man, got a light?

My buddy and I decided to go half on a gamefly account because, well, we both love games and it's convenient. Buying games can sometimes be a crapshoot. When I sit back and count how many times I spent 50 or 60 dollars on a shitty game that I could have rented first it makes me nauseous. Anyhow, I convinced him to rent The Orange Box from valve for his PlayStation 3 because Half Life 2 just melts faces and is quite possibly one of the best first person shooters to date. Also included with the orange box is Team Fortress 2, a class based online only game that is really good. Unfortunately my friend doesn't have internet access so being the swell guy that I am I redownloaded it onto my computer for him to see what he was missing.

Now, I haven't played TF2 since early this year and the peoples at valve have made 2 or 3 big upgrades to it. Needless to say those guys are good at making these types of games. I sat down just to tweak the graphics settings so the game would run smoothly and next thing I know 6 hours had went by. Yeah, I've got a problem with gaming (according to certain people who will remain unmentioned in this blog)

The makers of the game are in the process of adding achievements to each class sort of like what the makers of Call of Duty 4 have done. What this does is extends the playability of the game and guarantees that sick twisted game-a-holics such as myself will keep on playing. The developers realize that it's good to have goals, even if they are pixelated. So for the next few nights, I will be playing a Pyro (shown here). I swear sometimes that I have ADD as nothing seems to hold my interest for long.

-Twiz