{"id":102,"date":"2005-07-06T22:35:34","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T02:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.callblog.net\/?p=102"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:39:05","slug":"pax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/post\/pax","title":{"rendered":"PAX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if to mock me, Tycho from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\">Penny Arcade<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/news.php?date=2005-07-06#2673\">announced today<\/a> that the preregistration period <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennyarcadeexpo.com\/\"><acronym title=\"Penny Arcade eXpo\">PAX <\/acronym><\/a> has been slightly extended.   I would&#8217;ve been all over attending, were it not held on the other side of the country.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been out of the gaming loop for quite some time.  The most exciting game in my life right now is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zelda.com\/universe\/game\/majora\/\">The Legend of Zelda: Majora&#8217;s Mask<\/a>, a game that came out nearly 5 years ago (10\/2005)!  There have been just as many Zelda releases since it came out as there were before it came out!  I am playing the version ported to the cube, so I&#8217;m not entirely behind on console gaming, but PC gaming?  Criminy, the last PC game that I bought anywhere near the release date was <a href=\"http:\/\/nwn.bioware.com\/\">Neverwinter Nights<\/a> and that came out June of 2002, although I probably didn&#8217;t buy it until July.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of picking up a low-end business PC with a Athlon 64 in the upper 2 or lower 3GHz range, slapping 2 gigs of RAM and a high end ATI card in it and rounding off the package with a 17&#8243; LCD display.  Once I got that hardware, I wouldn&#8217;t even know what to do with it.  I&#8217;m not sure what the kids are playing these days.  A quick look on some gaming sites reveals names like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guildwars.com\/\">Guild Wars<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/games\/pc\/riseofnationsrol.aspx\">Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucasarts.com\/games\/swrepubliccommando\/\">Star Wars: Republic Commando<\/a>.  I&#8217;m not sure which direction I&#8217;d want to go.  It seems that these days most games are played multiplayer over the internet.  Last time I had a computer capable of playing modern games, I was still on dial-up. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone reading this looking forward to a game that I <em>should<\/em> be in the loop on?  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