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This One's For All The Gamers
God I feel like crap.
I'm coming down with a summer cold and I hate that. Colds are nasty as they are, but they're supposed to come in the winter, you know, when it's cold? I know I said I was trying to keep cool and out of the warmth, but this is ridiculous.
Now, to bring this away from me, and more towards, well, me, I have a question for all my gaming friends out there. I've found that I don't do well on the regular first person shooter games, or most player versus player games at all, to be honest. I find them fun for a while, but after a relatively short time just give them up and go back to stupid little games like Splash Back or The Yeti Olympics (what's your highest score?), and when I'm feeling particularly masochistic I play this typing game I found, because typing for my job for hours on end just isn't enough. I was in the top ten on that last game a couple of times. I'm strangely proud of that, it's sad.
Then I found games in outerspace, flying a spaceship and dogfighting, blowing other fighters out of the sky while also setting Capital Ships aflame. This interests me as much as it did when Star Wars Trilogy (the big game you could sit in and fly around in different scenarios in the Star Wars universe) came out in arcades and I got to the point where I could devastate any high score that was previously made. On one quarter.
So, I like these games.
Here's where the questions come in:
1) What is the best joystick out there for these kinds of games? It's just not the same without a good joystick, a mouse doesn't have that kind of control.
2) What are some good games in this genre? Note, I don't necessarily care about planes, I like the 3d aspect of a fight in space or something similar.
2a) Does anyone know if Star Wars Trilogy came out for the computer? Because that would kick ass, and I would pay a lot of money for it.
Thank you for any thoughts, comments or suggestions. I promise that later I'll write an entertaining post, and it will probably be about zombies, ghosts, or an amalgamation of both.
I'm coming down with a summer cold and I hate that. Colds are nasty as they are, but they're supposed to come in the winter, you know, when it's cold? I know I said I was trying to keep cool and out of the warmth, but this is ridiculous.
Now, to bring this away from me, and more towards, well, me, I have a question for all my gaming friends out there. I've found that I don't do well on the regular first person shooter games, or most player versus player games at all, to be honest. I find them fun for a while, but after a relatively short time just give them up and go back to stupid little games like Splash Back or The Yeti Olympics (what's your highest score?), and when I'm feeling particularly masochistic I play this typing game I found, because typing for my job for hours on end just isn't enough. I was in the top ten on that last game a couple of times. I'm strangely proud of that, it's sad.
Then I found games in outerspace, flying a spaceship and dogfighting, blowing other fighters out of the sky while also setting Capital Ships aflame. This interests me as much as it did when Star Wars Trilogy (the big game you could sit in and fly around in different scenarios in the Star Wars universe) came out in arcades and I got to the point where I could devastate any high score that was previously made. On one quarter.
So, I like these games.
Here's where the questions come in:
1) What is the best joystick out there for these kinds of games? It's just not the same without a good joystick, a mouse doesn't have that kind of control.
2) What are some good games in this genre? Note, I don't necessarily care about planes, I like the 3d aspect of a fight in space or something similar.
2a) Does anyone know if Star Wars Trilogy came out for the computer? Because that would kick ass, and I would pay a lot of money for it.
Thank you for any thoughts, comments or suggestions. I promise that later I'll write an entertaining post, and it will probably be about zombies, ghosts, or an amalgamation of both.
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Anyway, if you're looking for space combat, have you not checked out the classic X-Wing or TIE Fighter games? Consumed many hours of my time, they did.
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As far as around the house, honey-do list talents, you should know some basic plumbing, like how to repair a toilet or change a faucet, maybe how to change a light fixture, painting, and how to fix breakfast in bed. ;p
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If you want realistic physics and sweet dogfighting, do check out Battlefield 2: Special Forces (original BF2 needed to play) - I recommend checking it out at CyberJocks, since you can test the game out. Flying in BF2:SF is difficult to say the least, and takes a LOT of time to master, but if you can pull it off, you can be one of the deadliest people in the game easily.
Aside from that, I don't know much about the interstellar flying or fighter games. There surely aren't enough out there. Anything with a Star Wars label on it featuring air or space battles typically has my stamp of approval, as opposed to most of their turn based, land or party games which generally suck balls.
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PS. Both FS games can be found for like $10 with sime luck.
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I know nothing about joysticks, except that I knew people who used to like the Sidewinder. My last video-game joystick was on an Atari 2600.
Also, I keep coming back here, and noted your visit and comment to my public posts, so I'm gonna add you. Hope that's cool with you :-)
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