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Steam for Mac:

I'm ecstatic. Steam is finally on Mac. When my PC crapped out on me a few months ago, I thought I was doomed. And by that I clearly mean my dad convinced me to get a mac (he's a mactard hardcore) and I thought I was going to have to kiss gaming goodbye. Not that I game on PC often (I really haven't participated in much more than guild wars) but I was still going to miss my few steam purchases.

But now, now it's on mac. And I'm stoked. I haven't actually booted up a game yet (mostly because the games I did have still haven't been ported over, but theres a high chance that at least a few of them will) but I will eventually. Maybe tomorrow. Valve is so awesome they decided to make portal free for awhile, so I took the ages of downloading and managed to pick that one up for free. I've always wanted to play, but it tried to explode my poor little HP. Hopefully this macbook will be able to handle it better, not that I'll be surprised it it decides to explode as well.

My only question is: Where the hell is TF2. I wants it. I've wanted to play for years now, but again, poor little HP and it's exploding tendencies. The mac should be able to handle it, but unfortunately, TF2 isn't here yet. So I'll have to wait. Semi-patiently. I want mac to be a semi-established platform. Then again, maybe I don't. I hardly ever PC game as is, it'd be just another excuse for me to buy games I'll hardly ever play.

Speaking of games I'll hardly ever play, I'm highly tempted to go buy Monster Hunter Tri. But I don't have anyone to hunt with, and I never hunt anyway. The game is far too intense for me to play on a regular basis. But I wants it. Probably because its shiny. This is my problem.

Me and games, we go way back. Give me something new and shiny and I'll love it. I really will. Hell, I'll learn everything there is to know about a game that I'll never buy, never play, and never care about past its release. But for the months before the release, I'm its biggest fan. After, not so much.

Maybe it'll go the same way with me and Steam. We'll see. I don't think I'd fall out of love so quickly if there was something to keep me coming back. Something persuasive. Something addicting. Like Guild Wars. It kept me coming back for years. I still want to go back (but alas, I have a mac and no working bootcamp). I've been going back to pokemon since 1997 when it first came out. Something about those damn little monsters. I'll go back for black and white even though the starters are ugly as shit. Something has to capture me.

Something about the world. Something about the story. If the story doesn't capture me, there's no hope. I'll never come back regularly. So maybe I'm downloading the wrong type of games. Maybe I need to get more RPG's again. Because lately, my tendency to return to games is slim. I haven't consistently played anything since Infinite Undiscovery last summer. Again, an RPG. I'd go for FF-whatever number they're on, but I never make it through those either. Probably gameplay related, because the story is always pretty boss. So come on desktop games, help me out here. Pull me in. Capture me. I'm waiting.

Quote of the Day:

"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."
- Pierre Beaumarchais