Reader's Choice -- And Possibly A Lengthy Update

Man did I ever fail at keeping my blog going over my vacation. I must apologize, but everything went so fast and my family get togethers and the like just ran over my spare time.

School has started yet again, and so my time will be limited, but I want to at least post one or two reviews over the next little while since I've beaten a few games.

I'm going to leave it up to a vote as to which two games I should review out of the few I've beaten recently, as I won't really have time to write reviews for all of them. Maybe I'll do it eventually, but not at the moment.

So here are the games you can choose from!

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Borderlands
Forza 3
Torchlight
Trials HD

I'm in the process of beating Dragon Age and will more than likely write a review for that regardless. I'm around 38 hours in at this point and have no idea where that puts me in the game, but I figure I must be at least half way to completion. So far the game is pretty kick-ass, so here's a review preview: game's good.

I'm trying desparately to finish off the last 2 achievements I need in Borderlands to get the full original 1000. I don't care enough to spend money on the DLC for 5 more achievements, but I'm happy having completed all the original had to offer. I'm trying to do this so that I can knock another game off the list before Mass Effect 2 comes out.

Going back to Dragons Age for a moment. Dear Lord that game is a CPU hog! I'm pretty sure they've already patched it for it's problem but damn is it ever CPU hungry. It got so bad that I couldn't get 60fps at the settings I wanted ( 1650x1080, max graphical settings, 2x AA) because of a cpu bottleneck. This is a bit insane since I already had my E8500 clocked to 3.4ghz, but I went ahead and stablized it at 3.8 before I could finally get a solid 60 in all but the most demanding of sequences. There's still some slow down, and odd loading times in places but I think with some more patching they'll have it worked out.

In any case, I must be getting back to work. It's only the first week and my MIS prof has swamped us.

Hope you are all doing well!

Have a good one,

CP1