Doubly Disappointed

After coming off my "gaming-high" with Call of Duty 4, I felt like playing something a bit different. It being Halloween yesterday, I decided on a scary game. I recently picked up Alone in the Dark on PC cheap from GoGamer.com so I thought I would give it a go (would rather play Dead Space, but I'm 4th in line on Goozex). I installed it during Halloween day, preparing to play it Halloween night (as is only proper).

The production values for this game are excellent. I play at a 1680x1050 widescreen resolution and was very impressed by the visuals and effects. Unfortunately, playing with a mouse and keyboard is not optimal. Wait a second, did I say it wasn't optimal? What I meant was unplayable. I understand now why it was $9.90. Surely they are patching it though, right? Wrong. A quick search turns up that the PS3 version will have many of the problems in the PC and 360 versions corrected, even reports of a patch for the 360 to fix these problems...but nothing on a PC patch. The platform made for patching looks to be left out in the cold. Unacceptable. What sucks, is I WANT to play this game so badly. It looks so great on my PC. Oh well, I guess I'll have to look elsewhere for my scare-fix while I wait in line at Goozex for Dead Space.

/UNINSTALL

I logged into Steam last night, looking for a game to play before retiring to bed. I came across a new game called Samantha Swift and the Hidden Rose of Athena. Sounds gay, right? Yeah, it does. Undaunted by assumed gayness I took a look anyway. It looks like a fun little point and click adventure game and it has a free demo, so I thought, "why not?" I downloaded the demo to give it a try. I ended up not trying Sam Swift until this morning, instead trying once more to play the aforementioned unplayable Alone in the Dark last night.

Loading up the game, a splash screen pops up telling me I have 60 minutes available in my demo. That's fine by me, I can't imagine playing a demo for more than an hour anyway. I click on 'PLAY'...the 60 minute timer magically changes to '0' and I'm informed I have ran out of demo time. Sorry Samantha, you had your chance.

/UNINSTALL

Van out.