Most of my gaming experience the past 5 months has been either World of Warcraft or a lack thereof due to finishing up my last year as a computer science and mathematics major (and graduating a year early).

It's been a good experience. Some of you might have seen TimeSink around - well you can blame him in getting me to try out what I could only expect to be another well-polished but rather hollow Blizzard title. And, like he said, Blizzard put out something with, shall we say, the cream filling. More content than you can shake a stick at for months on end. And I haven't even tried out playing Horde. WoW appealed to one of my two main reasons for enjoying gaming, wanderlust. I enjoy losing myself in a fictional world that's full of characters, exploration, and intrigue. It's been great, but the other main reason for gaming has been growing, and it's been like a mental itch.

My other compulsion, along with wanderlust, is that of dominance (for lack of a better word). The feeling you get from heated, fast-paced competition that is pure, unbridled adrenaline. It's why I play sports so much, and also why I play games like CounterStrike and Quake at as competitive a level as I can reach. And well, I haven't played a good FPS in a long, long time. Partly this is because my computer is ancient - besides a new video card 2 years ago, I've had the thing since the summer of 2001. That's right, 4 years old. God I hate being a broke-ass college student. So you can guess how many FPS's I can run with decent Frames per Second.

In the meantime, I'm going to go back to my wanderlust.