Padre Nuestro

Baba yetu, yetu uliye
Mbinguni yetu, yetu, amina!
Baba yetu, yetu, uliye
Jina lako litukuzwe. [...]

Civ 4

Thou shall not start late games of Civilization IV, for they will drag on into the night and cause your wife to be mightily angry [...]

Moranar: San Andreas

I finished GTA: San Andreas late last night, after a few months of playing. Great story throughout, and a climactic ending. I’m also happy about the fact that, should I decide to play again, there’s still 15% of the game to complete: several racing challenges, the quarry, unique jumps and a couple of girlfriends are the [...]

To do lists

I have a nice backlog of games and movies that I want to finish and watch before I start playing back old friends like, say, Diablo II.

Let’s see, here’s the list of what will keep me entertained outside of exams:

Age of Mythology: my appetite for RTSs is currently not too great, but I’ll get to it [...]

A computer to work and play with

My rig is not a particularly modern one. Suffice it to say that it strains a bit when running Far Cry on high settings, and that the mean release date of my games is two or three years old. I use my computer to work and play, and since I have the disk space, I set [...]

"In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu lies sleeping"

The one good thing about Vista is that it introduced me to use the Sleep function. This was on my aunt’s computer. When I got back to my own little rig, which has Ubuntu Linux and XP on it, I tried it, and it works perfectly. Yay!

I had been aware of this innovation before, but the [...]

Escaping Butcher’s Bay

Just completed Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. It was great playing, I enjoyed being stealthy, and using eyeshine to overcome guards. One common criticism is that the game is short, but since I paid little for it, and I took my time, I didn’t notice that. I was enthralled by it. The one thing [...]

Homeworld’s End

I just finished Homeworld. Rarely I’ve been so immersed in a videogame. This was a truly [...]

Skill and Patience

Prince of Persia – The two thrones taught me a lot in the areas of patience and skill. It was perhaps the first game I actually felt I was growing on as a player. After much practice, my skill with the gamepad improved, I knew how to move, what to do. A marked improvement from the [...]

Abe’s Oddysee

I finished Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee today. The final level was tough, but the experience I got playing the rest of the game helped a lot. Abe got pulped by the meat saws many, many times, but in the end, I prevailed.

It’s been a great game, if a bit infuriating due to its save policy. On the [...]