Gaming TODO list: Finish Bad Company 1. …

Gaming TODO list:

  1. Finish Bad Company 1. I’m almost near the end, but I kept dying in the village where you have to destroy the two bridges.
  2. Play Portal as the sequal has been announced. I have the Orange Box, and despite being a huge Half Life fan back in the day I played about an hour of HL2 before getting bored of it. I never even go to Portal.

The Sharkoon Xtatic Headset arrived and …

The Sharkoon Xtatic Headset arrived and I played two games of Modern Warfare 2 with them. Sound quality is great, although mid to high range sounds are missing a bit of “oomph”. They need a bit more bass. The subwoofer does a great job with booming explosions however!

Unfortunately at this time of day it was really hard to find a game, so I had to play on rust where it’s so small that players are all around you making noise. The next game on Favela was better, and I clearly heard footsteps clomping up the stairs 🙂

All in all, my first impressions are good, the sound is immersive. I noticed the wind blowing on rust and other atmospherics that I never heard before when playing with a stereo headset. There are a ton of settings I don’t know about so I’ll need to experiment with those to find the best ones.

I’d buy Armalyte if I had a PC

Armalyte, a horizontal shooter from the glory days of the C64 was and still is a firm favourite of mine. It was bloody hard, but I think I got about half way through the game. I knew there was a remake coming but not sure when. Well, it’s out now.

JUSTONEMOREGAME has posted a glowing review and now I’m sad that I blasted my Windows partition when I upgraded my laptop’s drive. I can’t play it!

Edit in 2023: I did buy it in a bundle. Unfortunately it played at double speed and I couldn’t get it to work properly. I still love the original C64 version.