~phil's blog

Another day without WoW… I just can’t be bothered at all. The only thing I can do with Jaide is grind dailies and money to get gems, and my alt is boring to play. I may re-roll as a non-caster at some point, maybe a rogue (just so I can be a dick to everyone I meet).

I was trying to play the best game in the world today, but it doesn’t seem to work in my modern shiny computer – The solution was to take my so-called ‘Linux server’ that still wasn’t working properly (I blame NVIDIA), lob Windows on it, and install the game on there. For once, shitty system specifications can be an advantage! Plus, it gives me an excuse to hook it up to my shiny new monitor, like so:

And the best game of all time? Why of course, it has to be Grim Fandango. I miss the old Lucasarts, the one that made good games like this and the Monkey Island series before they started milking the Star Wars cash cow dry. The humour is just perfect – enough witty banter to keep you interested, and it doesn’t feel forced at all, say, such as Jack Keane, which is trying to copy of LEC’s comedy and failing. The pre-rendered graphics aren’t too shabby for nowadays (looks even nicer in 22″ widescreen, mind you), and surprisingly, gamepad controls work perfectly. I’ve always used a keyboard in the past, but this works better.

So yes, go play this game. If you don’t, then you deserve to be dragged out into the streets and shot.