It’s another slow period and I can’t think of much, so it’s another half-assed post to fill the feed up – kinda like Baby Bear’s poem from before… Expect games-related stuff.

The First Decade 1.03

If you own Command and Conquer: The First Decade on PC, then this semi-official (by that I mean it’s an unofficial patch, but it was recognised by the C&C website and posted on it) patch will be of great use. It makes a few changes to Tiberian Dawn (skirmish, but AI doesn’t have bases – N64 and PS1 missions selectable), and RA1 (I forget…), but the big bonus is that you can now play the games without needing the DVD in the drive!

To me that is brilliant, which means I can now procrastinate even more in college (even more than when all I had was OpenTTD), and all I have to do is plug in my external HDD…

Grand Theft Auto IV

This be a mini-review. It’s alright, but the gameplay seems to advance quite slow, and it will take a lot of gameplay to acquire most of the 1000 Gamerscore that is available from it. I might stick at it, but it’ll take a while to grow enough on me…

Red Alert 3

I’m also playing this as my second 360 game rental (huzzah for Gamesenders’ two games at a time package!). This is the only way I can play RA3, until I buy a decent comp. It’s going pretty well, but it’s nowhere near the same as playing with a keyboard and mouse. Plus, I think the mechanics are changed slightly, as you still build per production building. I’m not sure whether this is the same on the PC version (old school: more building, decreased time – or Generals style: each building has a build queue) since I haven’t played it or seen it being played yet. Right now, methinks Empire is overpowered.

However, they were nice to nerf rushes, by decreasing the speed of the economy (only one ore collector and Refinery can really get money from an ore mine) and availability (all factions’ most basic tank need either a tech advancement, or an expensive building.

Forza Motorsport 2

I am owning
About 60% of the way there towards completing all Gold medals in all race events. Then all I’ll need to do is buy or sell another 7 or 8 cars in the Auction House and then earn 1 million credits from online games to 1k the game (I’m presuming I will be able to buy all the cars as I complete all gold medals)