Cough hack wheeze.
Didn't go to work yesterday. Had a fever Monday night and into Tuesday. Sore throat, coughing, congestion. Ugh. It's really sucked so far. And I'm still feeling like crap. Haven't been sleeping well, as a consequence, and so last night took a sleeping pill...man do I feel groggy today. Slept a full night, though, which was nice.
Borderlands came out for the PC on Monday. I'm really digging pretty much everything about it. Its Diablo-ness, the shaded graphic style, the presentation, the humor, the classes, the gunplay...pretty much everything is awesome. Really loving it. Biggest complaint is that it plays like a console port. I expected more out of Gearbox, a studio built on making Half Life mods/games. It feels really rushed. You can't turn off the ingame mic (which has no push to talk, meaning that when you're sick and coughing, you blow people's ears out), can't skip the intro movies and all of the ingame menus look like they belong on a console and are the opposite of useful on a PC. All of us had to go into the actual files to edit out the mic and intro movie problem. I'm really shocked at how anti-PC it really is, given Gearbox's PC involvement in the past. And for all that Gearbox's CEO complains about Valve and Steam, I'm shocked they didn't rely on some of Steam's best features. You have to use Gamespy to play games online, which shirks a lot of the benefits Steam gives its players. So you end up having to refriend the friends you already have on Steam to play with them. I guess I'm spoiled with Steam. Some people have complaints with them and I can't argue with most of the good ones, but Steam offers a lot more to consumers than pretty much any other company on the PC. Someone had to do something to revitalize PC gaming and I'd rather have Valve at the lead than some other companies...
Now to just try and make it through today. I'll be the one in the corner, quietly coughing to himself.
Borderlands came out for the PC on Monday. I'm really digging pretty much everything about it. Its Diablo-ness, the shaded graphic style, the presentation, the humor, the classes, the gunplay...pretty much everything is awesome. Really loving it. Biggest complaint is that it plays like a console port. I expected more out of Gearbox, a studio built on making Half Life mods/games. It feels really rushed. You can't turn off the ingame mic (which has no push to talk, meaning that when you're sick and coughing, you blow people's ears out), can't skip the intro movies and all of the ingame menus look like they belong on a console and are the opposite of useful on a PC. All of us had to go into the actual files to edit out the mic and intro movie problem. I'm really shocked at how anti-PC it really is, given Gearbox's PC involvement in the past. And for all that Gearbox's CEO complains about Valve and Steam, I'm shocked they didn't rely on some of Steam's best features. You have to use Gamespy to play games online, which shirks a lot of the benefits Steam gives its players. So you end up having to refriend the friends you already have on Steam to play with them. I guess I'm spoiled with Steam. Some people have complaints with them and I can't argue with most of the good ones, but Steam offers a lot more to consumers than pretty much any other company on the PC. Someone had to do something to revitalize PC gaming and I'd rather have Valve at the lead than some other companies...
Now to just try and make it through today. I'll be the one in the corner, quietly coughing to himself.