Having finished up The Bard’s Tale, I figured I’d switch over to my PC and play Battle for Middle Earth, as it’s been a while since I’ve played an RTS. So I start it up, begin a game, and bam! it crashes. Try it again, and…bam! it crashes. This went on and on for quite some time. I tried everything…updating drivers, making sure my case wasn’t overheating…everything. But every time I tried…bam! Eventually I just plain gave up and decided to start up Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell.


So I load that up, watch the inane cut scene, and…bam! it crashes. Actually, that one more locked up than crashed, exactly. In any event, I wasn’t going to play that today, so I decided to try my luck on my Mac. Yes, my nice, reliable Mac.


So I pop in the No One Lives Forever 2 install disc, and start up the installer. Bam! it crashes. Actually, it didn’t really crash, it just did that thing where it opens and then immediately closes before doing anything (I hate it when apps do that). Okay, okay. So I copy the install files to my hard drive and try again. The install seems to work this time, but when I start up the game itself…bam! it does that annoying thing. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.


Some days I don’t know why I bother playing anything but console games. With my luck so far today, my Xbox is going to explode the second I try and start up anything.