My baby will have PC gamer blood in it

With my girlfriend's laptop inching ever closer to becoming "our" laptop (one with diminishing harddrive space due to my less than cautious downloading habits), I've adopted it as my poor performing gaming rig.

That's right consoles, I've gone over to the side that's supposedly dying. Time to start downloading all my games from now on! Illegally!

I'm going through this crazy bout where I'm playing more and more games on this laptop. For starters, I'm finally getting around to playing Grim Fandango, a gift for my girlfriend during Christmas 2006. She and I quickly played it for a week or so after Christmas, and then god intervened and told me I wasn't ready for how excellent a game it was yet. I'd need to play far worse before I could understand it's perfection.

So I rented Too Human.

But silly me, I forgot that this was a PC game I was playing. I couldn't expect to just play the thing whenever I pleased. Eventually I encountered a hiccup where the game's audio would skip around like some demon pogo stick wielding child. After a "late to the Grim Fandango party" thread popped up on neoGAF, I figured I'd get my problem solution-ified.

Some fancy footwork later (I had to open DOS or some such thing), and I'm playing Fandango the way it was intended.

"But that's only one game, idiot," someone is surely saying. "How about you play a real PC game, like World of Warcraft or Diablo."

Well, how does Half-Life sound? And lets be clear, I'm not spouting off about any of that The Orange Box
on the 360 crap I usually do. No, I'm talking about Half-Life ONE. I'm talking about using my keyboard and mouse to control Gordon Free. I'm talking about aiming precisely without the liberal help of auto-aim.

When I saw that it was 98 cents, I knew I had to bite. Even though I was merely putting off the eventual purchase of the Half-Life pack that came with all the trimmings (Blue Shift, Opposing Force, etc.), less than a dollar is hard to turn down.

And too complete my ascension into PC gamingdom, I still play Peggle. I haven't even manned up to Peggle Nights yet. If you haven't played Peggle and might want to look into what it is, don't do a google image search. I don't want to hear about what it looks like, because I will smack your face. Download the demo, and you'll understand.

Since this laptop isn't the strongest thing in the world, I have to stick with these artifacts of gaming for now. But before I continue to refer to myself as a now and future PC gamer, I have to ask if I'm allowed into your super cool club. If paying for my games does me a disservice, I promise I'll change my ways. Thank you PC brethren.

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[Wes]

My friend, welcome to the Dark Side.

Now, if you have Steam, you get yourself some Deus Ex, and you do that -ish IMMEDIATELY. I still think it's the most important game of the past decade, as far as pushing the medium forward.

[jp36]

have you or will you be getting Fallout 1/2??
I wanted to get them from gog.com but I went illegal instead. =/