New Year’s Gaming Resolutions
games right now
and I’m fairly
sure I have only
played about 30
of them since I
bought
them.
This year will be
the year I finally
hit “install” and
follow it up with
“play”.
Learn to
Play
Back in the day I used to be a first-person shooter
fan. Unreal Tournament was my speciality,
although I did play others. I loved the fast pace,
the awesome weapons, the ducking and diving
and I could headshot with the best of them. Now?
I am usually found wibbling in the corner or being
ganked at my spawn point. Too many years of
playing nothing but World of Warcraft and the odd
Real Time Strategy or Sim game have left me weak
and jaded. I cannot function in first-person shooter
land anymore. My responses are dulled through
years of playing the healer and I am struggling to
recover.
on any available flat space, a tangle of Cat 5 cables
spread across the floor and buckets of taunting
and cursing. Those were the days and I want them
back. This goes hand in hand with learning to play
the traditional LAN games. I need to install, play,
learn and then pwn. You never know, I may even
make a GameOn LAN next year.
I do play a lot of World of Warcraft which is very
social and I love my guild but sometimes I want
to get back to shooting my own friends in the
back of the head. In WoW that is frowned upon
for some reason, especially as I am a healer in our
progression raiding group. I make an exception
This is before we even touch on my recent for a few guildies though, I mean you would kill
experience with action adventure games. I grew my Guild Master as well if you had the chance...
up with Lara Croft. Tomb Raider was one of my
first gaming loves and yet my mouse has never So these are my resolutions. What about yours?
been the same since the Portal 2 “How on earth do Do you also have a back catalogue the size of a
I even exit the first damn building?” incident...
small country on Steam? And am I the only out of
practise FPS noob? Head to the comment section
Become More Social
and let me know. I am also accepting any and all
hints on how to exit the first building on Portal 2...
Once upon a time I held LAN parties in my house. A
Helen Ashcroft
whole bunch of like minded friends setting up PCs
Issue 52 • February 2014
7 • GameOn Magazine