island tales #67

oh joy! i bought 2 games over the weekend: F.E.A.R. and age of empires III. both of them actually caused the new comp to lag (wat the heck...), but after lots of tweaking, i upped the details and lowered the resolution, and now it's working fine (more or less. not fast, but definitely playable).

F.E.A.R. is great. with all (or almost all, anyway) the details on, it's pretty creepy, too. and playing at 640x480 (ugh) gives it a grainy video look that makes it even creepier. go play it if you can: it's good fun!!! age of empires is more or less the polar opposite: sunny, bright, and no creepy effects.

phrase of the month: shader effects. i suppose it refers to pixel shading, and HOOBOY it makes a lot of difference in the games. instantly lower frame rates, for example... :P

back to the games... and oh i saw petertan this morning, at church. obviously he doesnt know me at all.. but kinda cool to see someone in real life after reading the stuff he writes about. :D