F.E.A.R. the URL Change!
So yesterday our provider changed servers around without letting us know about it, and so we temporarily lost email and the website until I could change things around and wait for the new nameserver information to propogate. Fun, fun, fun. I'm still very much a webmaster n00b, so these sorts of things are semi-arcane to me. I guess I learn by doing. Fortunately I know a lot of smart people, like my brother, who understand these things very well.

I also picked up the game F.E.A.R. yesterday. That pretty much blew my productivity for the night. So far, I like the game. A lot. I had to crank down the graphics settings to get it to run at a reasonable rate on my machine, but it still looks pretty good. And it plays VERY well. I'm not a huge FPS fanatic - I still haven't even played Half-Life 2 - but I am really enjoying this game. It's got a solid "creepiness factor" throughout, but (so far, at least) the supernatural and "horror" elements overlay a pretty straightforward - but very well executed - FPS design. So far, I'm just blowing up soldiers. You could pretty much write any story you want around the action. But the creepy little girl - Alma - and the visions you receive from time to time (not to mention your supernatural ability to kick in reflexes and move in Matrix-esque "bullet-time") give the otherwise standard action a really awesome flavor.

I haven't tried the game multiplayer, but I don't really see how the game could really stand up in multiplayer against competition like Unreal Tournament 2004, the Battlefield games (all my complaints notwithstanding), and so forth. But I didn't get it for the multiplayer.

Labels: Mainstream Games

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