Holy painful ear infection batman!
So I have been fighting and ear infection since early December. I have been on a 5-day and 10-day antibiotic. This Friday it was back and I was back to the doctors for the third time. I am not on some really mean antibiotic that I will likely have to take for 15-30 days. I guess I have some really nasty infection and it's kicking my arse. Tried to go to sleep last night and tossed and turned from midnight till about 3:00AM. Advil bearly touched the pain. Laid there for another half an hour and finally gave up. The pain was mind numbing and I was definitely not going to get back to sleep. I surfed the web for a few minutes and then realize that I might a well go and install my Christmas present from my brother, Halo 2 for the PC. This is the first new game I have gotten for my home computer since... hmmm I don't remember.
I played for about 3 hours after getting it installed and updated. I just finish another two hour session after Abby went to sleep. So far I am having a lot of fun with it. I really enjoyed the first Halo and this story is just as good. The Flood does not freak you out quite the way it did with the way it was introduced in the first game. The vehicle battles are very cool and I love the way the vehicles take damage. I also like due weilding the weapons despite how much I generally hate duel wielding in movies. (If you have ever tried to duel wield a pair of handgun you'll realize why. Can't hit crap and you go through ammo twice as fast.) Over all it's been pretty good.
One thing the game does point out though is my new 2.33 Ghz Core 2 quad computer is nice but the 128MB ATI graphics card is definitely lacking. I had to turn down the detail and turn of the aliasing to make the game playable when the terrain is complex and/or a lot of bad guys are on the screen at the same time. Any suggestion for a good graphics card that can handle a game like Halo 2 without being supper expensive would be great. I would guess another ATI or Geforce card in the 1/2 GB variety is what I need but would love to hear specific suggestion from those a little more up to date on this type of thing.
I played for about 3 hours after getting it installed and updated. I just finish another two hour session after Abby went to sleep. So far I am having a lot of fun with it. I really enjoyed the first Halo and this story is just as good. The Flood does not freak you out quite the way it did with the way it was introduced in the first game. The vehicle battles are very cool and I love the way the vehicles take damage. I also like due weilding the weapons despite how much I generally hate duel wielding in movies. (If you have ever tried to duel wield a pair of handgun you'll realize why. Can't hit crap and you go through ammo twice as fast.) Over all it's been pretty good.
One thing the game does point out though is my new 2.33 Ghz Core 2 quad computer is nice but the 128MB ATI graphics card is definitely lacking. I had to turn down the detail and turn of the aliasing to make the game playable when the terrain is complex and/or a lot of bad guys are on the screen at the same time. Any suggestion for a good graphics card that can handle a game like Halo 2 without being supper expensive would be great. I would guess another ATI or Geforce card in the 1/2 GB variety is what I need but would love to hear specific suggestion from those a little more up to date on this type of thing.