size matters not.I think I may buy a
Schecter C-1 Hellraiser or a
Damien FR. Falsedoobydog recently bought a bass and I've been playing his Squier with him when we jam since my Ibanez is in pieces. I should wait until it's playable again before I decide to buy a new guitar, but tax return time is coming and I've recently discovered that I have several cd's in my collection that I never listen to that are worth a small lot of change. If anyone knows a bit about these Schecters or has any other recommendation for an edgy but not over-edgy (like a Warlock or King V) guitar then have a say so.
"It's the nature of man to create monsters. It's the nature of monsters to destroy their makers."I finished playing F.E.A.R. this evening on my pc. The last ten to fifteen minutes revealed the restraint the developers had to have employed through the course of the game up to that point, as they finally popped the cork and unleashed a supernatural climax and some quite amazing effects for a pretty thorough finale. In the case of Doom 3 the player became quickly conditioned to the haunted house whack-a-mole type of gameplay and when the *scary* quickly wore off the game lost its wallop. F.E.A.R. demonstrated restraint with the scary and made you want MORE. I held my breath around each turn with the possibility of the little girl (imagine something like the thing that crawls out of the well in The Ring) in the red dress sinisterly approaching me or just standing and waiting for me to come forth. The plotline was a bit thin really, but the lackluster story was easily overshadowed by thick atmosphere, wicked AI, and visual effects that made every firefight explode with more than a malenky bit of the old ultraviolence. Monolith's engine seriously demands serious hardware for the complete experience. While I could crank up the settings on my machine and play with an adequate framerate, I installed it on a friend's moderately dated (3 year old AMD 2500+, GF fx5600ultra) pc and the game would hardly run above 18 fps with everything cranked way down on an 800x600 screen res. I love the exhilaration of being honestly spooked. I give this game high marks for it.
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