But back to the main point digital distribution is the wave of the future. I mean seriously why should you have to go out to the store to get data. I mean that's what you're doing when you go out to the store and buy a cd or a game you're going out and acquiring data. I buy all my music via Itunes nowadays, I go online buy a single song and it's mine. Every so often I back these up in case of emergencies to a CD.
Games are even better, my first experience with this was Steam for HL 2, it went all smooth and perfect, I had the game as soon as it was available in stores and was playing it the next day. My Second experience with this was splinter cell just the other day, i downloaded it, surprisingly quickly. It was ready, it was there, it played well, no trash to take out, no boxes and cds to store no cd keys to worry about. Furthermore I backed up the installer but even had I not, i'd be able to download it again from anywhere.
Now I know some you aren't ready for this, maybe you'll never be ready some of you like the experience of going out to the store and buying a box and getting a bunch of stuff that I never even look twice at generally. I'm not against all games being released to stores for as long as people keep buying them. I however would much prefer to just download my data. I've bought more music since I got ITunes then i'd bougght in two years before that because it's simple it's conveniant and it's just cooler than taking a big long trip out of the house to a music store and putting up with the jackal behind the counter. If publishers put huge swaths of their catalogues up on the net for sale I surmise that you'd get more sales that you're missing out on for a variety of reasons at the store.
My X-box recently bit the dust on me, during my Journal Hiatus. This was doubly unfortunate because it happened when I could least afford to fix it. Well, after much deliberation, I decided to go back to what's been my favorite platform for almost as long as I can remember, certainly since the end of the Genesis days. I traded in my X-box and all my games for it and got like 200 dollars worth of trade at Electronics Botique. Well, that being the last console to go in a bizzare twist has me back just on vintage machines and the PC. Will I be missing some stuff, like a game i'm sure to love, Jade Empire. Of course I'll be missing some stuff, but will I be regretting it? No of course I won't. I've got a pile of games to play and more to acquire. One of the nice things about PC gaming is it's fully backward compatible and I've got a handful of games in the pipeline to play.
Having Only last year started the series I'm itching to play Wheel of Time as I'm really enjoying that mythology and so a even loosely connected game involving Aes Sedai would be welcome. I'm also looking to pick up the RPG classics Fallout 1&2, Planescape Torment and more. I'd Really further like to soften the blow of loosing my x-box by picking up ports like Halo, Splinter Cell (both and the sequel coming up) Madden & NBA Live 2005 ( I was a 2k man myself but EA Sports will do in a pinch) I've already got KOTOR and the sequel to that is tops on the list. I'll probably, for the first time have a longer list than I have time to play as many of these games can be had for really cheap these days. I've seen most of these available for 20 bucks or less online.
Sorry about the lack of updates, I just didn't know what to say in this space for a while. So for my first post in this new series of posts I'm gonna talk about the last two games to really get me happy with them.
Troika games' exceptional traditional RPG.
Vampire The Masquerade=Bloodlines =8.4
and Blizzard's Magnum Opus
The last one World of Warcraft, is one of my favorite games of the last year and would have placed very highly in the top 10 list if I were to reseed the list. I'm not quite sure where but it's not quite as good as Ninja Gaiden.
Friends
Tracked Blogs
