First, I must tell you that this is my definition of the best computer games. Okay? Not yours. Not the techno gamer guys out there, and not some gamer magazine. Mine. So don’t make fun of me.
Alrighty, I’ll start with something easy that most people will agree with. World of Warcraft totally makes my list. Why? Because it is so much freaking fun, duh. You can interact with as many or as few people as you want. You can solve puzzles or you can beat the stuffing out of critters. What’s not to like? Only down side with WoW is the patches and upgrades (geesh could they do it any more often?) It’s like they are on a mission to fragment my hard drive, but I have a defrag dagger so it’s all good.
Now for something that shows how much of a girl I am: SIMs. Ohh yeah baby. I love running other people’s lives. It’s so much easier and somehow soothing to decorate a house or tell your boss to bite you when it isn’t really you saying it, ya know?
Civilizations and Age of Empires are also highly ranked on the Birdie list. I love playing against my husband. Crazy addictive way to spend an entire weekend… mostly losing for me, but fun nonetheless.
Finally, the computer game that started it all: Diablo. Oh, how much do I love this game. AND there is a new one coming out. I’ll stop with that because I could gush for hours on how much I can’t wait and how excited I am and how I might need to buy a gaming machine just to celebrate 
What are your favorite computer games?
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June 19th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Game Machines | Comments (0)
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking it is impossible to get a hard core gaming machine for less than a couple grand. Right? Nope. It can be done. How? Well the cheapest way to get a great gaming machine is to build one. Yeah, I know. I can’t do it either. But it is the most cost efficient way to get your game on.
Next up? This hurts me to say because I dearly love my laptop. But if you want power that doesn’t cost a ton, you need a desktop. I know, I know. You can’t take it to bed with you and you can’t pretend to watch television with the family while you are really gaming, but we’re talking about money people! Who cares about fitting in?
Finally…sales, coupons, and rebates. If the company is making gaming machines somewhere you can find one of those three things. Wait for it. Don’t jump in and buy the first sexy machine you find. Wait, till you can get it for less, and I promise you, you will be able to get it for less. If you just can’t wait find a customer service number and call them…talk them into it. You can do it!
Now once you have your crazy cool new machine you need to keep it in optimum condition for patches and upgrades and of course, new games. Defrag that hard drive. Fragmentation equals sluggishness and that would be a total waste with a new machine.
What have you done to save money on a gaming machine in the past?
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June 18th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Game Machines | Comments (0)
Let’s say you’ve been playing a game online for awhile…a few years even. That means you have installed dozens of patches and probably several upgrades, right? Well let me ask you a question. When was the last time you defragged your computer? If it has been awhile then you probably have some defragmentation building up. The slow growth has inched its way along until you didn’t even notice your computer slow down.
Now you probably don’t even give it a second thought when there is a slight lag or when the downloads take longer than they used to. Do yourself a favor and clean up your game by cleaning up that fragmentation. I mean it. Finishing reading this and go defrag your machine. When it is all nice and clean restart it and then play. Better yet, find a patch or an upgrade to download and you’ll really be able to see the difference.
When you’ve done one or all of those come back and tell me how right I was, and how as a show of your undying gratitude you are going to send me a tricked out gaming machine to feed my addiction Just kidding, but seriously, let me know how it works for you.
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June 17th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Game Machines | Comments (0)
If you love to game as much (or more) as I love to game then you know the two most important things you can look for in a gaming machine are speed and memory. Yeah, yeah graphics are important too but if you don’t have enough disk space or your processor is dragging you’ll never see them. Priorities people.
So out of the two, speed or disk space, which is the most important? I mean which one should you without a doubt focus on? I’m going to go with disk space — you know why? Because the more memory the more games you can have on your machine. More equals better, right? Well for me it does because I’m a total flutterbudget. I like to flit from one game to another and never stick with one for too long (you know…a few weeks to a month) before I’m ready for something different. It’s not like I just abandon a game forever — I’ll come back to it eventually. That’s why I need lots of disk space. I want to leave it there so I can come back to it.
Of course all of that disk space really won’t help if you are constantly adding new games and adding patches and deleting useless information (like those term papers you really should have finished, but dude…quest!) So even with great disk space and super speed you’ll still want to defrag the beast every once in awhile. I say get rid of fragmentation every time you switch games…but that would only work for those of us who flit.
What do you think is more important in a gaming machine, speed or disk space?
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June 16th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Game Machines | Comments (0)
I don’t know about you but I love games. As a child I started with board games, which are still a bit of an addiction, and then moved on to the Atari (oh, yeah) and then Nintendo, and then more Nintendo and Play Station. Then I met my husband who is a total computer geek (geeks are so cute) and he introduced me to computer gaming. I’m so hooked.
I like role playing online and I like killing things online (great way to release some aggression without going to jail or breaking any laws), I even like RTS games that let me plot out the destruction of those who would dare stand against me. Yeah, I’m such a geek. Anyway to really get your game on you need a computer that can handle the challenge. I know I sound like a total geek, but I haven’t yet crossed over to the dark side. I still have a regular laptop (I hear you gasping in horror) but I do defrag regularly to keep the fragmentation from interfering too much with patches.
::sigh:: Unfortunately, it seems the universe is conspiring against me and I may have to break down and buy a game machine. I’m going to be doing a bit of research before I do anything crazy.
Do you have any advice? What is your favorite game machine and why?
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June 15th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Game Machines | Comments (0)
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