Survival Guide for the Next Few Months

August 22nd, 2008

survival guide in china

As I explained in the previous article I shall be embarking on my Chinese exchange early next week. Even though I plan on immersing myself right into the Chinese culture, I still need my ‘me’ time to relax. Which is why I have been preparing to continue my hobby while overseas. Here’s what I’ve done:

My main thrust of gaming will come from whatever I can squeeze into my aging, graphic-cardless laptop. I am fortunate in that there are plenty of wide holes in my PC gaming collection (and I have a twin with PC games to fill those holes). You see,  I usually regard PC games as a optional second preference to the consoles. I throw them on the list of “I’ll get around to it someday” games along with collecting all the 386 Pokemon and so forth.

Getting games onto my machine actually involves numerous different methods of installation (that’s the PC for ya) so let me run through some of them and what games I plan on taking as they will undoubtedly influence what I’ll write about in the coming months.

Plain Installs

Ultimate Quake spearheads this category and is the only games, or should I say series of games which will install straight to the HDD requiring no CD. I’ve play perhaps too much Quake with my friends in the past few years but I’ve never finished the single player campaigns. My PC port of Resident Evil 3 (yes, as you may have guessed I am going back and playing the whole series) also installed straight to HDD although I did rip an image of the CD first.

Patches

Having friends that would turn socially inept on playing any game that ends in ‘craft’, I have naturally been turned off from everything Blizzard for years. My brother has pleaded with me to change by mind and embrace the phenomenon and so I will, with Warcraft III, Starcraft and their respective expansions being patched to my PC.

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