Two games are etched permanently in my gamer memories. The first is Diablo 2, the game that got me into PC gaming. The other is Halo. I remember that fateful night when a buddy of mine and I rented an XBOX and a couple of games including Halo at our local Rogers Video, and headed home to see what this game was all about. Five or six hours later, and a phone call for his desperate wife worrying where the hell he was, Halo had forever changed who we were as gamers.
Since then, the Halo franchise has seen new iterations, some better then others. With the soon to be released Halo Reach, Bungie is again pulling millions of gamers into its addictive time warp. Over the last few nights, I've popped Halo 3 ODST in my trusty Xbox 360 (don't laugh, since coming back from Microsoft the white knight of consoles has performed flawlessly!) and had fun blasting through the dreaded Covenant.
This will sound corny, but Halo has this familiarity that few other games have, besides EVE Online of course. I can't put my finger on it, but everything seems familiar; it's has if I've spent so much time in these games that the environments, the sounds, the HUD, they all seem second nature to me.
So the guys at Bungie may rest assured, they'll yet again see my money when Halo Reach comes out.
Do you have a game or game setting that has that same effect on you? I'd be curious to know!
As summer slowly comes to an end and the cool winds of autumn start to make themselves felt at night, it's time a shake down of this blog. Regular readers will have noticed that its been a while since my last post. Some might wonder what's happening with this blog, now that I've left the EVE Blog Pack. All I can say for now is that all these changes are for the good. More on that later.
For now, here's a an updated post series that used to be known as "EVE Speedlinking for...". I've indeed decided to rework the formula and bring you a different more diverse speedlinking experience. This new series will have lots of EVE Online content of course, but will allow me to post links to anything that's peaked my curiosity; whether EVE-related, scifi-related or just plain cool geek stuff.
Removing these blogs gave me a little more room to add fresh new blood to the Pack. So without further ado, here are the blogs that have been added to the EVE Blog Pack:
Now those keeping tabs will have noticed that this takes the total count of blogs in the Pack to 52. And why not! With the hundreds of blogs out there, why limit ourselves to just 20, or 40 or even 50 for that matter. I say the more, the merrier, as long as the quality and frequency is there. Speaking of which, I've noticed quite a few Pack members with outdated content. Unless they start posting soon, or inform me of a new URL, I might have a few more openings on the Pack in the not so distant future.
So, welcome to the members above. And Venom, since you're the only veteran to return, why don't you show the example to these newbie Pack Members and write a little something!
P.S.: And one last thing. Since I'm no longer in the Pack, I'll need at least one of the Pack Members to write a little something about this post. This is going to be interesting!
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