PDXLAN 13

Well it was another nerd weekend.  PDXLAN 13,  4 days of gaming 10 AM – 4 AM except for the starting Friday - 6 PM  and the ending Monday 5 PM.  When I left each night around 2 AM there was still a significant number of people in the room still gaming.

I didn’t win anything during the raffle again.  But they gave away some sweet stuff.  the grand prize this time was a custom PC with a custom case and a picture signed by the developers of Legends.

I slept a good 11 hours last night trying to catch up for lost sleep.  When Heidi came home last night I was fast asleep on the couch with a cat curled up on my chest and DVD menu of Chronicles of Riddick looping over and over, I hadn’t made it through the first 5 minutes, but that’s the best part of throwing in a flick you’ve seen multiple times.

Played alot of TF2 on some great new maps, mostly payload but also a balloon race which was interesting.  Call of Duty World at War got some playtime at the beginning, especially since we all got a free copy but I gave up on it eventually.  I’d call it a remake of Counter Strike just in a WW2 environment, add in some EXP gains ala Battlefield with weapon purchasing and configuration.  2 hits and your dead.  Not much fun IMO but quite a few others enjoyed it.

Also saw quite a few folks doing Supreme Commander.  I had purchased the game but never gave it much playtime so I brought it with Sunday, installed it, and had a good time playing it.

Lastly, Starcraft, yes the original one from 10 years ago still lives.  There was even a tournament.  Matt and I played a map and then realized that while it was fun, you can get burned out pretty quick.  Looking forward to Starcraft 2.

PDXLAN 14 is set for July 17-20.  Register here.  I’m at seat 17X.