A Little Behind the Times
I decided to go ahead and buy Halo for the PC. I have obviously heard a great deal about Halo ever since it was release with the XBOX, which seems like quite a while ago now. I, of course, do not own an XBOX and do not intend to buy any gaming console any time soon. I simply do not see the value in owning a console when I have a perfectly good PC right here that does so much more for me and plays games. I have played Halo on the XBOX and enjoyed the multiplayer experience, I wasn�t really that impressed with it because as a PC gamer I can say �Been there, done that.� I�ll tell you that having played the original Tribes back in like� 2000 with up to 32 people on a server and voice chat really makes the gaming experience of Halo on the XBOX look rather elementary. The fact that most console gamers had no experience with true multiplayer features led them to latch onto the first decent Multiplayer FPS as if it were a gift from God himself is a little sad. Especially when you consider the low resolution graphics on a TV set, and the pudgy and inaccurate controls you get with a console, you realize why I prefer a PC for these sorts of games. A mouse is obviously a superior aiming tool when compared to that fat little joystick on the XBOX controller. So the point is, multiplayer Halo on a console is little better that anything else I�ve experienced, Multiplayer on the PC is still an unknown, at my college the port that Halo runs on is blocked off for outgoing and incoming traffic. And I cannot play with anyone on the LAN because stupid Microsoft won�t allow 2 computers with the same Halo CD key to even play over the local network. Jerks. Though I doubt that the PC multiplayer is much better than any other FPS game out there right now, the single player campaign is quite sweet. I actually am enjoying story line and am intrigued by where the plot is going. So far I would say that Halo offers one of the finest FPS single player campaigns I have experienced since� oh probably Half-Life.
There was a funny little bug with the game that only developed after I had played for a while, I would be playing for a very short time and my computer would suddenly Blue Screen and restart. I ended up fixing it by upgrading my video card drivers, but it still seemed odd that the issue wasn�t existant until I had played the game for quite a few hours.
Moving on from my gaming rant� my weekend was quite fun. It consisted of a nice little camping trip with some guys that are good friends. Sure it was really cold, in fact it got down below freezing outside Friday night. I know this because there was a thin layer of ice forming on my cup of cola while I was drinking it. Of course we had several large fires, and melted metal down. We did the usual sort of guy things, threw axes at stuff, ran around and tackled each other, slept on the dirt, ate lots of meat, and shot things. I don�t care who you are, if you�re a guy that stuff is fun.
The pledges to the fraternity that I am a member of have to get ask several questions of the active members and get their signatures, usually 10 actives per week. Yesterday their notebooks of information were due and all the pledges were running around like crazy trying to get the last of their signatures. I seemed to be on their target list yesterday and on of the things that we have to tell them, so they can write it down in their notebooks is our Words of Wisdom. Though I do not claim a great deal in the wisdom department I just thought that these words of wisdom would be good to sign off with. These were actually the words of wisdom that I received from a man I respect a great deal last year when I was a pledge in the fraternity.
Proverbs 17:17 - A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.