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  • Enjoying Fallout: New Vegas

    I bought Fallout: New Vegas when it was on sale on Steam last week (the game, plus the Prima guide, plus all the DLC for less than $20), and finally installed it yesterday. I loved Fallout 3, so had fairly high expectations for New Vegas. So far, I have enjoyed it a lot. It has…

  • LOTRO Tour Part 6: Stock to Bree

    Leaving the relative safety of the Shire, the road to Bree is dangerous to low-level adventurers. Wolves, bears, and boars wander along the road, while bandit camps are on either side. This area is for players of levels 13-20ish, with many quests that will allow players to explore the area. It turns out FRAPS is…

  • LOTRO Tour Part 5: Hobbiton to Stock

    Now I purchase a ride from Hobitton to Stock on the East side of the Shire. I pass by lots of places whose names are recognizable from the Lord of the Rings books. Next up: on to Bree.  

  • LOTRO Tour Part 4: Tour of the Hill

    In this segment, my Hunter rides around “the Hill” suburb of Hobbiton. The Hill contains the Party Tree and Bag End where Bilbo and Frodo lived. As you can see in the video, the Sackville-Bagginses have moved in already. I’m disappointed by how much the compression by YouTube muddies the textures. The game is quite…

  • LOTRO Tour Part 3: Michel Delving to Hobbiton

    This time, I am using my Hunter to take the tour because Hunters can easily zip between the major Middle Earth locations. This video shows the path from Michel Delving, where the last part of the tour left off, to Hobbiton, with a short detour to the Great Smials in Tuckborough. Again, no loading screens…

  • Witcher 2 on sale at Amazon Downloads

    I just picked up Witcher 2 for $16 at Amazon for download. This is by far the lowest priced I’ve seen for a game that I am really looking forward to playing.

  • Finished Borderlands: Great game, but underwhelming ending

    I finished the main missions of Borderlands and thoroughly enjoyed the game, but the ending is quite a let down. I was quite high level before attempting the ending, having done all the other quests I could find, so I had some great weapons and gear. Therefore, I was able to power my way to…

  • Enjoying Borderlands

    I bought Borderlands on Steam when it was on sale for $7.50 for the Game of the Year edition (as I write this, the game is on similar sale) and have been enjoying it. Borderlands is a FPS (First Person Shooter) that instead of trying (and failing) to be photo-realistic, it has a detailed cartoony…

  • Switched from NVIDIA to AMD graphics

    I have been a long time fan of NVIDIA graphics technology and have always bought NVIDIA cards whenever I bought or put together a PC. But after many failures of such cards, that has all changed… My new HP laptop has an AMD 6770 GPU in it, which is fast enough to play most modern…

  • Trying out Age of Conan MMORPG

    I downloaded and have played just a bit of Age of Conan, just to try it out. I don’t actually need a new game to play at the moment, but I had been told that Age of Conan (AoC) was a nifty free-to-play MMORPG. AoC is certainly prettier than Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO),…