TFC! TFC! TFC! (for the non-educated, that stands for Team Fortress Classic) TFC! TFC! TFC! You guessed it, I’ve been playing more TFC. Remember how I said that The Sims was incredibly addictive? Scratch that. TFC is more addictive than every game that I can think of right now (which is about 6 [it’s 1am, what do you expect?]). I can’t remember exactly how much TFC I played, but I will give you the Highlights from “Team S&L’s” Saturday Night TFC Fest!(which also includes gandalf). I rocked, gandalf was doing ok (he had some good sentry placements, even got me once or twice), and Loogie, the Llama, sucked (had about 3 kills). I played as spy (killed Loogie multiple times in the water of “Rock2” [30-35 kills]), gandalf was an engy (killed a lot on “well” and “2fort” with his sentry [20-25 kills]), and as mentioned before Loogie sucked bad (got a few guys as a soldier [3 kills]) In case you’re wondering, we played on the “[DX] SECS TFC #1 v4016” server; it hosts up to 16 players.

Moving on, I also played MS Links 2000 demo (I’ll have the review up soon), Jezzball (level 11!), some other stuff, and, of course, Doom2.

Gandalf: “Alan, you dumbass! You let Snake stab you in the water!”

Pretty much the same as last week. I’ve been playing DX-Ball and The Sims, but I have also been playing TFC and Chip’s Challenge. My favorite “Hunted” map is CityHunted. I am getting better at TFC. It’s strange, but Half-Life usually shuts down when I do something (well, after I formatted my HDD, at least), but TFC runs very smoothly. I have been working on Snake and I’s Chip’s Challenge level pack, too. I may get another DX-Ball board pack in a couple of months.
“Try to climb down my ladder, do ya? BOOM!”

Damnit! Stop shooting my head off, assmonkey! is what could be heard all this week at my PC. And why? Did I lose another E-bay auction? Well, yeh…but it’s really because of my non-stop Team Fortress Classic playing. I have been refining my spy and engineer skills in “2fort”, “Badlands”, and “Well”. I love being the spy and swimming into the enemy base in “Well” as a sniper. Then, walking up to their perch and stabbing the stupid-ass snipers who are always headshoting me. The good-for-nothing red-dotting dumbasses never know what hit ‘um!

Besides my revenge in TFC, I played some Doom2 and Doom Shareware and DX-Ball2 and Chip’s Challenge and (are the English teachers mad, yet) Dark Forces 2 and the MS Links 2000 demo. Just a usual, old week…Oh!…and I got an E-mail from a guy telling me that my AoK scenario was buggy and I won 64megs of RAM on E-bay.

Better check your back before I do (with my knife)!

Did somebody say DX-Ball? Well, I definitely heard it, thanks to its awesome music (of MODs, I might add). Contrary to what you may think, the downloadable DX-Ball2 is not a demo, but actually the full version of the game. Last week, I said that I would get 150 boards for this insanely fun game. Well, I did. I bought Board Pack #1. Each board pack has 150 boards (there are 3 packs, so you can get a total of 450 boards!). It is very fun. I especially like being in cheat mode and holding down any key for a while as I play. Ka-ching! There really should be a level editor for this game. Damn.

I have also been playing “The Sims.” Sure, it gets old after a while, but I just love the atmosphere. It relaxes me after a hard day. My favorite pre-made families are the Goths and the Maximuses (the latter of which you have to download).

My playlist concludes with a pint of Roller Coaster Tycoon, a quart of Diablo, and a gallon of Chip’s Challenge.

Nothing much to report. I played some DX-Ball, always a great game to play when you have limited time on your hands. Also took care of 50-some snipers in 5 maps of the “Hunted” for TFC. I’ve been doing a crap load of scenario-editing and MOD tracking, though. So, look for more downloads from me in the future.

Just like Snake, I am getting a tad bored with The Sims. Sure, the first time you play it, you’re amazed and think that the fun will be endless; but it’s not. I played for 6 hours the first day, then 3, and now I basically play every other day. There are major flaws with the game: you can’t go anywhere outside of your house, it takes way too long to do tasks, and it takes a very long time to load (well, at least on my bare-minimum PC). Unlike Snake, I have not experienced most of what the game has to offer, but that is mostly because I am not a “Psycho” who stays at home on the PC, playing Doom; but I just can’t stop coming back for more.

I have also been playing some Diablo. I beat the game with the Warrior, and now I’m gonna go through with the Rogue and Sorcerer. I will also try MP for it on Battle.net. Man, this game really lacks some things: only one town, not enough quests, Diablo is too easy to beat, and there are some other niggles. I have also been playing Doom II, utilizing Snake’s Matrix configuration file. But Doom is just getting old. Snake continues to obsess with it; he just got the ZDoom Launcher. But, again, I’m not a “Psycho” (WM Note: Um, excuse me, are you jackaling me, “Jackal”?) like him who just kills things all day.

DX-Ball2 finishes off my week of somewhat dormant gaming. This game is wicked, and I’m gonna buy 150 boards for it next week.

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