Monday 20 April 2009

Once more into the fray

The Left 4 Dead survival pack releases tomorrow, allegedly. I say that because absolutely every release date for downloadable content on Xbox Live seems to be off by a day, but we'll see. Regardless, I look to forward to any excuse to jump back into Left 4 Dead, I was sadly distracted by some shiny object or another and put the game down earlier than I would have liked. It's not that I didn't get into it, heck most of my favorite gaming stories I have in my arsenal pertain to it - the biggest being the time that me, Tetris and Myke discovered the hard way that Tanks can punch safe room doors down - but well, I think I need a new paragraph.

I have a disorder of sorts... no, that's wrong, let me start again.
I have many disorders of sorts, one of which being an unnatural attachment to experience bars. I for the life of me do not know why, but I love them, and every once in a while* they cause me to get carried away**. Left 4 Dead doesn't have any of these exquisite, yet largely meaningless, bars, and as such I played it like crazy for a few weeks and now hardly ever pop the disc in.

*Read: with great regularity
**Read: turn into a jibbering addict

This time will be different though, the survival pack shall be the salvation of my people, there will be undead masses to be slaughtered and leaderboards to ascend and... wait sorry, The world ends with you has how many distinct experience bars? And that many equipment slots, including one for food?

feeling pretty psyched

Sunday 19 April 2009

No, I don't need your Help.cab.

As I type this 3DSMax Re-installs, but for some strange reason the longest part of the installation seems to be copying and writing the Help cabinet files.
Well, I suppose it's a big program with many features, but that doesn't excuse that:
1. Most of it can be found on the Internet and better,
2. Blind luck can be used for the rest.
Now that that's out of my system I can get on and say that soon (no, not by Valve time this time!) we should have something to show, don't go getting your hopes up though, it's unlikely to be any of our arsenal of unreasonable weapons those are for later. Kind of like desert, but way more destructive.