Inventory and Outlook

Today, I drove a friend to the airport.

We're at that stage in life where we are actually beginning to move out of parents house and our parents are somewhat eager to see the process done.

For my friend, Sam, this means that they are asking him to start emptying his room at home.

For my part, this means that I got a big box of computer games that Sam won't be taking to Chicago with him, but wouldn't like his parents to throw away either. I offered to make a home for them in my lair, and so received them I have.

In the making of this blog post, I have compiled a list of the 60-ish games that he has given me and sorted them into a bunch of semi-meaningless categories borne of an instinct to make meaningless categories derived from flirting with an anthropology major in college. (That is to say, the major itself. I generally would not flirt with anthro majors, as they are somewhat simian in appearance).

Games I Have Never Fucking Heard Of Whatsoever:
Flamescape Torment
Crimson Skies
Arcanum
No One Lives Forever
Blue Stinger
Eraser Turnabout
Prey
Freedom Force (also in category of silly fucking cover art)
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
MDK2
SoulBringer
Arcanum
Ultima 4 Ascension

Games That Ring a Bell in a Vague Way That Means Either They Had A Slick Advertising Campaign or a Series or Is a Tie-in to Something Else:
Crimson Skies
Dungeon Siege
Clive Barker's Undying
Deus Ex
The Movies
Doom 3
Fear
Max Payne
Aliens vs Predator
Battlefield 2
Max Payne 2
Tomb Raider: Lost Artifact
Half-Life: Opposing Force

Games I have Played:
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Sim Tower
Baldurs Gate 2 (two copies)
Warcraft
Warcraft II
Halo
Half-Life 2
Tribes 2
Unreal Tournament
Metal Gear Solid 2
Half-Life
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Black and White
StarCraft
Command and Conquer Red Alert
Roller Coaster Tycoon

Games I Have Never Played But Whose Titles Ring in My Ears With Memories of Reviews of Whispered Awe:
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider II
System Shock 2
BattleField 1942

Games that I have heard of and have wanted to play regardless of their quality:
Icewind Dale
Icewind Dale II
Warcraft II Expansion
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Neverwinter Nights (if I can find my old BG2 data... oh boy)
Mafia
Baldur's Gate II: The Throne of Bhaal

Games that I have a Queasy Feeling About:
Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Eraser Turnabout
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (so many mediocre MoH games)
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3d

Games that I think used to be an easter egg in a word processor:
Microsoft Flight Simulator

Games Whose Titles might be veiled reference to urine:
Unreal Gold

Games that I have role-played:
Vampire: The Masquerade, Redemption


Next Post: I will debate and possibly select goals for these games/game-playing experience.