Off By One

Well, my computer is fixed, although I’m a bit nonplussed; the performance on it seems poorer, and the fan is running faster. I’m not quite sure what’s going on, and I’m going to call Applecare to ask about it, but in the main it’s good to have the beastie back.

It might be moot, soon, anyway, since my work laptop is due to ship one of these days from Dell. It’s been a long, long wait, but soon I’ll have a machine with some real horsepower to get work done on, and additionally it’ll make a sweet Windows box for completely sanctioned work-related activity for stress-relief purposes.

As can also be gleaned over here, “Doom 3”:http://www.doom3.com/ has been released, and I have acquired a copy for myself as well. I’m holding off purchasing it until payday (or the one after — but I am going to buy it)

Jebus, this game is gorgeous.

And scary.

I just played for an hour now, and I’m into the part where the game becomes, well, Doom.

I’m not really sure how to put this other than as point form lines. The game is tense, dark, scary, atmospheric. The sound is phenomenal. The enemies are creepy. Ammo is, if not scarce, rarer than I’d like it to be. Did I mention that the sound is phenomenal?

The above traits, minus the graphics praise, could almost be pulled directly from reviews of another game I tout to anyone that asks: System Shock 2.

I don’t think that this is a coincidence.

Now, if only I had slightly higher-end hardware to run this work of art on.