I've come really close to purchasing a new computer in the last couple days. This may seem excessive in light of the fact that the Yale physics department furnished me with a new computer just 3 months ago, but the desire isn't for the computer itself. No, my desire is being fueled by the growing list of computer games that I want to play, but that I cannot because I don't have a computer which meets the minimum system requirements. This list includes: Call of Duty, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Max Payne 2, Doom 3, City of Heroes, Far Cry, and most importantly, Half-Life 2. This last game is what has brought this issue to a head in the last couple days. My desire to play this game has me pricing out various different configurations of gaming machines.
Alas, I have decided to hold off until I finish some of the current games that I own. The games which I own, but which I have not finished, include: Half-Life, Black and White, Warcraft III, Max Payne, Splinter Cell, and Freedom Force. I know, I know... it's been 5 years since Half-Life came out and I still haven't finished it. But, I have a good excuse, I was 70% done 6 months after it came out (I was too busy playing multiplayer to bother with finishing the single player game), then I reformatted my computer. I had backed up my saved games, but when I copied them back onto the machine, I could not get the saved games to load. Frustrated, I eventually erased the save games. Approximately one year later, I discovered that the reason my games wouldn't load was that I needed to change the file permissions to read/write (files burned to CD are automatically tagged as read-only).
Then this thing called college got in the way, which left almost no time for video games. I did finish a couple others in the meantime, such as Jedi Knight II, then I got into consoles and played through Final Fantasy X and VII, Halo, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, etc. But mainly I got in the habit of starting to play a lot of games, and not finishing any of them. Hence the large pile of unfinished games. Anyway, as the list of games that I want to buy keeps growing, I resolved to finish some of the ones I currently own first. Consequently, I started playing Half-Life again about a month ago. I started over, and I'm now about 80% through the game.
I don't know how long I can resist buying a new computer. It doesn't help when people like Lawrence keep telling me, "oh, just buy yourself a sweet gaming machine!" I just might, Lawrence, I just might...
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