The Video Game Revue

Finishing Up on the New PC

My new Corsair RAM came in today and I installed it promptly. Perhaps not surprisingly, the speed of my new computer surged. I also picked up a Creative 1010 "Fatal1ty" gamer mouse, which seems to be a pretty solid product. I neglected to mention this earlier, but I realised where the drive rails for the DVD drive are (on the inside of the front panel, duh), so I properly installed those. I still haven't upgraded the power supply, which is currently a 450 W supply, but I may put that off for a little while.

Sunny, Matt, and myself played some Unreal Tournament 2004 today, which was cool--Sunny and I on the LAN, and Matt connecting in (Sunny used the new computer and I used the old one.) It worked out really well, and we're hoping to make a semi-regular thing out of it. Of course, I still want to play Counter-Strike with Matt regularly, especially now that I have the new get-up.

I went looking for Valkyrie Profile 2 today only to find that it's sold out around town. I'm assuming that this is no big deal; Disgaea 2 sold out on release week as well, and now it's quite easy to find. It's not like I really intend to start playing Valkyrie Profile 2 right away, but I would definitely like to play it in the near future.

I was hoping to get back into Digital Devil Saga soon, after a long break, although it's definitely being squeezed out by Disgaea 2 and World of WarCraft. My WoW kick is still going fairly strong: my Priest just hit level 31, which means that I definitely need to start setting money aside for a mount. I'd like to hit level 40 before the end of October but that's probably too short a timeframe--then again, we'll see. Having this new computer sure makes WoWing pleasant.

I also went to install F.E.A.R. this evening and realised that I can't find my CD key for it. I do have a pre-existing install, so maybe I can pull the key out of the Windows registry or something--I'll need to research that. The other option is to clean out a bunch of old stuff from my apartment and hope that I find the box for F.E.A.R. which I could have sworn that I kept. I did manage to find the manual for it and there's no CD key in there, which is unusual. I can't remember where the key was printed in the first place.

Anyway, keep on gamin', you gamers.

posted by Parappa @ 10:48 PM