Gaming

Just seen a load of people on Reddit getting nostalgic over this painting....



...and yet I seem to still be playing some of these games now.

I guess this one is more like my version of nostalgia...



Couldn't find a Speccy version... I suppose that's too old to remember.

Never played Half Life?!?!

That shocks me. :disbelief emoji:

Just to prove that I DO play those games I finally got past the big Antlion last night (although an enormous amount of luck was involved. Hope there isn't another one.) And to tick another one off that pic, I went back to Morrowind to try and complete some quests that took me away from my usual places to The North! I started off by going to Gnaar Mok but then ended up staying there after it took an eternity to find a particular cave. The locals would only give vague directions so I wandered around and around while being plagued by cliff racers. The environment isn't kind to them up there. They keep getting stuck in the trees because of their dodgy pathfinding algorithm so I had to repeatedly guide them to a clear area so they could attack me.

And I too still have a pile of Amiga boxed games under a desk! Never throw anything away.

You clearly have too many fingers, Charlotte.

With today's painting efforts quickly going in the bin I instead used my time to install Arkham Asylum. I didn't "play" it as such but just ran it to make sure it worked and it's pretty impressive (even runs on fairly high settings too! )
One minor quibble is that Windows firewall has a bit of a hissy fit. Anyone else played it and had that problem?
A quick google suggests it may have something to do with the old "Games For Windows Live" irritation. I'm not sure whether to "allow" it or just put up with the security message every time I play.

And a quick Skyrim episode:
I did a little job for Nazeem (you know, the annoying, arrogant, sneering man that I don't like!) to retrieve an item stolen by bandits. Killed them all, found the thing, rode back to Whiterun but got there at nearly 4am. (Game time not my time. ) I was gonna wait until I saw him the next day, but then I remembered all his sneering so instead I found the inn where he stays, marched into the room where he was sleeping and woke him up to give him the item!

The problem didn't occur the second time I launched it so maybe it was a one-time only glitch after installing.
I played through a bit of it properly this time and enjoyed the intro. There are quite a lot of keyboard controls to learn, I guess it was made with controllers in mind. But I'll get the hang of it... eventually.

Hmm, not much on TV again tonight (except a near three hour Transformers movie later! ) so I'm gonna set off on one of those looooong walks in Morrowind to see if I can find the Urshilaku Camp.
I'll come back and tell you if I get there.