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Breakfast / Lunch

• Small chicken Caesar salad with real bacon bits - (Dominion - 250g)
• Light Caesar dressing

Dinner

• Small chicken Caesar salad with real bacon bits - (Dominion - 250g)
• Light Caesar dressing

Snacks

• One Cadbury egg (BAD!!!)

As some of you may or may not have been aware, during some of my lunches I usually play Quake against some fellow co-workers. Quake has been around for over a decade, and I’m still amazed at how awesome this game is. Now, let me be clear: I am talking about Quake, the first one, not Quake 2 or Quake 3: Arena, or even the recent Quake 4. I’m talking about Quake… the one that started them all.

Anyway, after many game of Quake, and even some Red Faction (another old-skool game, but not as popular), my co-workers and I were looking for a change. We decided to try out another game that as of yet we hadn’t gotten around to, yet, was just as good, if not BETTER than Quake: Unreal Tournament.

Now, just like when I was talking about Quake, with Unreal Tournament I’m not talking about UT2K3 or UT2K4… I’m talking about Unreal Tournament. The first one of the series, and in my opinion, still the best.

One thing I’ve noticed is that with some franchises, and with some players, they expect the flashier graphics with the big explosions, the crazy weapons, etc, yet they’d trade gameplay for all of that. I just don’t understand this. It’s becoming harder and harder to find games that have good gameplay. Some of the old-skool games were amazing for this. Sure, the graphics weren’t that great, but they certainly weren’t that bad, and they focused as much on gameplay as they did with the graphics. Large franchises like Halo still have what it takes, but other like Crysis are just insane.

Anyway… enough ranting. Let’s save that for another day.

Today, we played Unreal Tournament. The game was just as awesome to play as it was when I played it endlessly back in 2000. The weapons were familiar like the back of my hand, the levels were just as I remembered them, and even though I was playing against only Simon at this time (Mike will join in tomorrow, I’m sure), we had fun pot-shots at each other, and as we were playing capture the flag on Facing Worlds with low gravity (personally my favourite level and config), I’d opt to go for the flag and win the game… while Simon could only watch. That’s right, Simon… you were no match for me today. 

Anyway, tomorrow should be a blast, as playing games during lunch is a great stress reliever, and what better way to change up the routine than welcoming back an old-skool friend into the mix.

Unreal Tournament. Awesome.