Alter Ego

... at its worst.

As I was installing the NWN2 Expansion: Mask of the Betrayer (MOTB), I knew that I was going to be plagued by incompatibility issues and other annoying little things that make you wish that you were never introduced to PC gaming. PC Gaming is going great right now, a lot of new games are coming out; thanks to Vista and its notorious DX10. I love PC gaming due to the fact that I love gaming and I can control the keyboard and mouse better if compared to controllers. I have always sucked at using the controllers, I never quite grasped about the high dexterity fingers trick. Mind you, I am not half bad at console gaming, but I tend to be better at mousie and keyboardie. RPG games are joys to play, able to dwell yourself in another world for a few hours from my weekend really helped me even out those stress and hard thinking during the weekdays. You can say that I need my weekly dosage of games.

Yes, I love PC gaming, but until lately that I have realized evil things are cropping up in the PC gaming industry.

Piracy. That's what forced all these. Copy protections like SECUROMS made things a lot harder even for a gamer who buys legal copies of games. We buy original games in the hopes that we get the technical support that we will definitely need, other than that, we just want to support the industry. It's important, I want the industry to keep producing great games that I can play and enjoy. BUT copy protections made it worse by requiring the buyer to activate his game ONLINE. To make it worse, you can only do it 5 times. 5 times, damn it. That's like install the game only 5 times. After that you can throw away the game because you can't activate it anymore. Great. I decided not to get the original game afterall. Oh, I am talking about the latest game by 2K Games, Bioshock. What a sad thing, its a great game. Too bad I am not going to support it for its stupid activation mechanics.

Freaking hardwares. THIS, has been keeping me on my toes for quite some time. Actually forever. My 7900GT can barely do anything anymore. Save for watching videos on Windows Media Player Classic, playing any latest games on this baby is not going to cut it. As a result from that, if you are an avid PC gamer, or intend to be one, be warned that you are gonna have to upgrade your PC at least once every 2 years. Complete overhaul of the CPU. Definitely a must. Oh how I wish I can get my hands on that quad core processor...

Or you can go ahead and grab a PS3 or XBOX 360 and say goodbye to PC gaming.