Adventures of Taas

November has been a slow gaming month for me.  Right after I hit 80 in World of Warcraft and really got in to a raiding groove my monitor decided that I was having too much fun and one day just wouldn’t power up (the death was much more slow and painful than that but there you go).  As a result I’ve been spending near 0 time on the PC and as my xfire stats over the last few weeks will attest absolutely ZERO PC gaming.

To get my gaming fix I’ve been relying on NHL 2010, BF1943 and FIFA 09 on the xbox 360 (I’m actually down an HDMI cable at the moment so on top of no PC I’m PS3-less as well!).

NHL2010 feels a little flat.  NHL 2009 last year was without question the best sports game of the year (and they have the awards to prove it) but this year’s installment feels a little “un-fun”.  They added pretty sophisticated methods of controlling the gameplay and difficulty this year, which is great BUT they didn’t spend nearly enough time and energy fine tuning the default settings so your only hope of getting the game right-for-you is browsing around the internet and that is if you even really know what you want the game play to be relative to the available options.

The good news is today I picked myself up a Samsung 2333 monitor (23 inches) and I’m ready to get back in to the PC gaming groove.  Getting back in to that groove has been made much more difficult thanks to the Steam’s Early Holiday sale.  How does that make it difficult you ask?  I have lots of new shiney to play with!

My Steam loot list so far (we still have tomorrow to go!):

• Left 4 Dead 2 (Thanks to Jim – he bought this for the guys!)
• Battlefield 2 Complete Edition (figured seeing the expansions for 14.99 would be worth it!)
• Champions Online (again – for 20 bucks I couldn’t pass up the chance to play this – the game is quite fun – but super heroes really aren’t my bag… we shall see!)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (I might the only person who has never played this game)
• World of Goo (Indie devs need love too)