KKM 40

( KKM 40 QES: )

I am so happy this came out so soon. ^o^

And I really like the new ending credits. You wouldn't have thought anything could be cuter than the little chasing chibis, and yet!

[OT] Video game recs!

I normally keep my two journals seperate, but I'm socking this one over here in hopes of getting wider coverage.



This upcoming summer, hopefully, I'll finally have time to write, and do stuff, and play video games... and thanks to a $1000 windfall that fell in my lap, I actually have the funds to buy not only a few games but also a console to play them on. Only now I discover that, having been out of the video game loop for so long, I have absolutely no idea what's good.

So... this goes out as a call for video game recs. Help me out here! What's good? What's fun? Not just console games, but computer games too, lemme know what's smoking!

A few things to keep in mind in this list:
1) I have a mac. I love my mac, but the fact remains that unless a computer game is mac-platform-supported, I can't play it.
2) I am not terribly fond of role-playing or epic games. They're just not my thing. I like simulation games, fighting games, shooting games, puzzle games, and racing games. Part of it's just a lack of exposure to any really decent role-playing games, but most of it's just that the few I have played, I didn't get nearly enough fun or satisfaction out of it to be worth the hundreds of hours of gameplay I had to put into it.

So... aside from that, bring it on!

Just to give you an example, here are a few of the games that I have and have always loved.
Simulation games: Civilization II, SimCity, SimEarth, Caeser III, The Sims. What can I say? I love playing God. What girl doesn't?
Fighting games: Soul Calibur (and SCII,) Diablo II, Myth II (IMO, the best game ever)
Shooting games: Unreal Tournament. Unfortunately, UT's latest incarnation is too complicated for me to play without hours and hours of investment.
Puzzle games: I'm talking things like Solitaire, Snood, Columns, Tetris. NOT Myst or its sequels, which I consider games for people with no lives.
Racing games: ReVolt pwned my high school years, what can I say? Alas, Sega Dreamcast, they stopped supporting you too soon. ;_;
And, of course, DDR. Oh yes. DDR is first on my list. *rubs hands together*