[Author’s Note: For my 100th blog, instead of writing something new, I decided to revisit an old favorite post of mine which I absolutely loved. I posted this blog about a year ago, and since then this community has grown by around 15,000 people. I believe I can safely say there are a lot of new members that have never read it, so I think it’s worth while to post it again. I hope everyone enjoys this, my 100th blog post.]

Yesterday there was a lot of discussion in the Dtoid community about what the best FPS shooter was. As expected, everyone had their own opinions and a great deal of arguing ensued. After all the drama I came to the conclusion that there isn’t really a best FPS because it hasn’t been designed yet by anyone.

This is where I come in. I have come up with a game idea, which if implemented, will be the ultimate FPS. So I would like you to all clear your minds, and follow along with me as I describe to you the most incredible first person shooter none of you have played yet. I call it, Halo-Life: Call of TurokShock. 

[SilverDragon1979 talks about how much he hates all of the big name titles coming out at the same time during the end of the year for his Monthly Musing piece. -- CTZ]

The summer is about to end and it’s almost time to usher in that very cold period of the year known as fall and winter. With it will come a great many wonderful things, such as football, turkey, snowmen, and chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Along with all of those chestnuts will come a huge deluge of videogame releases. Now I’m not talking about a slight increase in the number of videogame releases, I’m talking about the Burje Dubai of videogame releases.

Between the months of October and November there are over 120 individual games being released in 2008. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have the time or the money to play even a small percentage of these games, and that’s why I hate the onslaught of fall/winter videogame releases.

[Editor's note: Community member SilverDragon1979 takes a look at the original Civilization as part of June's Monthly Musing topic. -- CTZ] 

There was a time when computer games came on 3½” floppy disks. When Sid Meier was not a gaming household name. When computers where used for little more then word processing and data storage management. On a more personal level for me, there was a time when I thought the only game worth playing on the PC was Oregon Trail. This was also a time when I thought you only needed an 8-directional game pad and 2 buttons to play any game. A time when gaming consisted mostly of jumping from platform to platform, killing Goombas and monsters, racing down deserted streets, and failing to land F-14 Tomcats on an aircraft carrier. This time was known as the '80s.

My family did not own a PC back in the '80s. Instead, we owned a Word Processor  (I wonder if many of you remember what those were). The only PC games I got to play back then were learning games that I played on the Apple IIe in my elementary school, like Math Blaster and Oregon Trail. 

Before the '90s came along, I had not yet been exposed to any other type of PC games. All of my videogaming was done on my Atari 2600, NES, and Genesis. It never even occurred to me that I could use the PC to play games for fun. Then along came a new up-and-coming game designer by the name of Sid Meier. He had released a couple of popular PC games such as F-15 Strike Eagle and Railroad Tycoon, but he had yet to make it big. It was tougher back then for PC game programmers to become well known because the PC game industry hadn’t really taken off yet. Sid Meier was about to change all of that, and my gaming world was about to be turned upside down.