A New Look, Same Dry Wit.

Spent a good hour or so this morning changing the look and feel of the blog. Been meaning to do this for awhile now, the last time I made changes they looked great in the template designer so I saved them and closed my browser. Was not until I went back a week or so later to pull up a post on another computer I realized how horrible the column widths were. Anyone who suffered through those, thanks for continuing to read! For anyone just tuning in, well... nothing to see here! ^_^

Just started pushing over 100 hours in Team Fortress 2, still not found a hat yet but I have been having a great time. Finding my personal favorite modes are Control Point (CP) and to a lesser degree Payload (PL). Have not tried out arena mode yet, cant find a server for it. Medieval mode was fun for about 10 minutes... it just reminded me a lot of playing multiplayer Heretic/Hexen back in the day on local LAN.

Been trying to keep up with the Potato thing going on with Steam but honestly Portal was only a passing fancy and Portal 2 even less so. I do play Defense Grid:The Awakening though and have been trying to play the new levels, just trying to do my little part to help everyone unlock Portal 2 faster.

What have I been missing all this time? [Daily Thoughts]

I always thought of myself as a knowledgeable computer gamer. One who stays in the loop and knows which games are worth my time and which ones I should just black list. The only reason I can come up with for not playing Team Fortress 2 before now is that my PC could not run it well enough.

That all changed a couple weeks ago when I finished my new computer and started looking for a new shooter to play. All of the current ones seem lack luster to me though, Black OPS is basically just Modern Warfare 3, Homefront looked ok on paper but I want to wait for the reviews to start pouring in and FireFall is still months away. Then I noticed a friend on Steam playing TF2 and thought, hey! That is a really popular game lets check it out.

According to my log in Steam I have played this game for over 20 hours in the last week. (Which is a lot considering I have a job, wife and 2 kids that eat into my gaming time) I just cannot seem to stop playing for some strange reason. The game feels fun, balanced and has all the elements of a great shooter. Team play, objectives, and most importantly a big Russian guy with an even bigger gun!

If you are one of the other 10 people on this planet who have not tried Team Fortress 2, go! go now and download this game.

Any game with a kill screen that looks like this is doing everything right!