Knitting Park Plays Games

The gaming adventures of a mid-30's knitter who spends as much time playing her video games

Thursday, December 02, 2004

Why the hell would I ask for 2 front teeth anyway?

So what does every gamer want for Christmas? Well, Half-Life 2, of course. The first game was pretty good (tho' by today's standards it's a little dated and it definitely gets weird at near the end). I just saw the review on Xplay and damn, does it look like the perfect game (even they say it's about as close as you get).

The problem? It's a PC exclusive. There are two problems with this: 1) I no longer keep a PC for gaming. I don't have the graphics or sound card that can run this game (or even a machine that I could up grade with the latest cards). 2) I've never actually played a FPS on the PC, I've always done them on the consoles (I played the first Half-Life on the PS2) and I'm not sure I would be comfortable using the keyboard rather than a controller.

Oh well, a girl can dream, can't she. Maybe they will eventually release HL2 for one of the consoles (preferably the Xbox, thank you very much). It took 2 years (I believe) for the first one to be available for the PS2.