Passion of a gamer
I built a new computer last week and have been playing games non-stop since. You can't imagine how big of a difference going from a 128 MB AGP ATI Rage 9700 video card to a 256 MB PCI-E NVidia 6800 GS card makes. Not to mention doubling my ram and switching from an AMD Athlon Barton 2600 + to a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.44 ghz.
My weekend was a marathon of installing games and seeing what games looked like on maxed out graphics (as opposed to the lowest setting just-meet-minimum-requirements gaming I've been doing).
What is worth mentioning is Steam. In my previous post (my first post on this blog actually), I talked about how Steam was setting up for a new trend in video games by releasing games in episodes, with Sin Episode 1 and Half-Life 2 Episode 1. What I didn't stress was how great Steam was as a game purchasing client.
Steam is getting larger. The last time I was on it (pretty much when I last posted about it), it had just made a deal with PopCap Games. PopCap makes very interesting casual games that are fun to play if you're just trying to kill 20 minutes. Steam also has Activision, Eidos Interactive, and 2K games, all major players that have made some very good games.
I like this direction. EA Games has also released a game purchasing client, EA Link. Though it's not as sophisticated as Steam, competition is always good. EA Link seems to only have games from EA though, which isn't really bad, consider how gigantic EA is.
Being able to centralize all games into one area is great. The best part is Steam knows what games you own, and you don't have to download and install it (if say, you built a new computer).
The direction I'd like to see Steam go in, is to work more like iTunes, where I can add my games into Steam, and thereby, use Steam as a game manager. As Steam gets more deals together with other publishers, they can then add the game to my account, and the next time I clean format my computer, all my games will be listed and ready for download.
Death to CD installations.
My weekend was a marathon of installing games and seeing what games looked like on maxed out graphics (as opposed to the lowest setting just-meet-minimum-requirements gaming I've been doing).
What is worth mentioning is Steam. In my previous post (my first post on this blog actually), I talked about how Steam was setting up for a new trend in video games by releasing games in episodes, with Sin Episode 1 and Half-Life 2 Episode 1. What I didn't stress was how great Steam was as a game purchasing client.
Steam is getting larger. The last time I was on it (pretty much when I last posted about it), it had just made a deal with PopCap Games. PopCap makes very interesting casual games that are fun to play if you're just trying to kill 20 minutes. Steam also has Activision, Eidos Interactive, and 2K games, all major players that have made some very good games.
I like this direction. EA Games has also released a game purchasing client, EA Link. Though it's not as sophisticated as Steam, competition is always good. EA Link seems to only have games from EA though, which isn't really bad, consider how gigantic EA is.
Being able to centralize all games into one area is great. The best part is Steam knows what games you own, and you don't have to download and install it (if say, you built a new computer).
The direction I'd like to see Steam go in, is to work more like iTunes, where I can add my games into Steam, and thereby, use Steam as a game manager. As Steam gets more deals together with other publishers, they can then add the game to my account, and the next time I clean format my computer, all my games will be listed and ready for download.
Death to CD installations.
posted by Allen M @ 4/16/2007 11:53:00 AM
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