Firery thing in the sky

Not really much new to add here, the sun/son, a new car, yardwork all eat up my free time.

I did manage to finish EP1 for HL2 but decided to spend some time going through it again with the commentary turned on. The commentary part alone is worth the price of admission to EP1 to be honest. There is a LOT of good information in there that Valve talks about regarding how they designed the characters, certain scenes, development, etc. I was really impressed and I hope more developers spend time adding this sort of content to their games. I don't imagine it adds that much complexity to game development to add the audio and triggers to launch commentary and for those of us who really enjoy games it answers a lot of questions about the games we love.

I'm really looking forward to LOTR:BFME:2 as I haven't played a RTS game in eons and I really think Live is the perfect place to create RTS matches. (unified system, everyone on the same playing field due to hardware, limited RTS audience, etc)

I also am starting to hate Nintendo, not the company itself just the fact that most of their fans are so absolutely blind that they have lost all comprehension of reason.