Delicious Soup

I'm not sure why, but I really enjoy playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It's a roguelike, and that means one mistake, or bad luck will end your game for you. I usually play as a mountain dwarf warrior because it is said to be the easiest to finish the game with. They are pretty consistent throughout. I like Orc Priest and Troll Monk, but they have some problems the deeper you get in the dungeon. I would really like to play around with other classes sometime, but whenever I do try something new, I usually don't get deeper than the third level. Maybe it just works out that way.

I tend to play the tiled version because I always get confused by the ASCII one. The only problem with the tiled version is that I cannot play that on the server. It's not a huge loss, not being able to play on the server, but sometimes I like to do it.

The thing I dislike the most are when the ghosts of your old, dead characters show up. When you find them early in the game, you usually aren't powerful enough to kill them. So you die. Or at least I do. Maybe I'm supposed to run away. Though, if I really didn't want to fight them, I can cheat and delete the morgue files. Of course if I did that, I could also save scrub my games. That is, where I save when I think something bad might happen, copy the save files to another location, and then reload them when I die.

Would You Like To Play A Game?

I really want to buy a new computer. I don't like spending money though. So, while I have more than enough money to buy one, it takes me forever to actually commit to the purchase. I have computer games that are adding up, so I should do it soon.

Currently in my list to play on my mythical new machine is Civ4 (my laptop can handle this, but how hot it gets bothers me, so I avoid it), Half Life 2: Episode Two (again, same as Civ4, but heat and it looks like junk). Also, I purchased Oblivion today on steam for $8.50, which was a deal I could not pass up. I've been wanting to play that since it came out, but never had the chance. After doing a quick look at my steam library, it appears I also have Far Cry. I don't know where that came from. Spooky.

Of course once this computer comes out, I will have access to many more games. Some I already have in mind and am waiting for, others I will pick up on a whim through steam or something. It will be nice to be able to play some games that I cannot get on my Playstation, because when Microsoft says something is an XBox Exclusive, what they really mean is XBox and PC.

It's no surprise that I am waiting for Guild Wars 2. It's going to be awesome. Also, I'm looking forward to Diablo 3 and even though I will be terrible at it, Starcraft 2.

Classic Games

I plugged my NES into the tv today. For games made when 1080p wasn't even thought of, it looks just like it should (not that the game isn't running in 480 or anything). I don't have a light gun, but since they will not work with modern televisions, I'm not too upset.

I really want to beat Super Mario Bros the entire way through without using any warp tubes. Going underground for coins is okay, but no level skips. I played a little bit the other day before I went out and got to leve 3-4 without any trouble, so maybe I can do it. I can't say I ever spent any significant amount of time in levels 5+, so I don't quite know what I will find.

I have a few more NES games that I would like to play and beat as well. I'm a little sad that my copy of TMNT has some display issues. I might have another copy of it in New York, but I'm not sure. It wouldn't have made any sense to leave it there when I made the effort to go get the power cable.

There's a new Mortal Kombat coming out. It looks like it may have some of the classic attributes MK3 had, but since everything after that has been crap, things aren't looking too good. I may hold off on buying it when it comes out.