[Monolith]

I've been playing "Scratches" and "Half Life 2" for the last week. Finished both games yesterday. HL2 kicks ass. I'm not a fan of first person shooters, but I simply couldn't stop playing.

"Scratches" is totally different. An old school adventure game. The riddles were nice and challenging - but more difficult than the riddles was finding the riddles. I was walking around in circles about billion times because I overlooked something trivial and simply didn't know what to do next. These parts were rather frustrating.

Right now I don't play any game. I thought of installing Max Payne 2 which I've yet to play although I bought it a year ago. But I haven't finished the prequel, how can I play the sequel then!?

I could buy Oblivion. Now that I have internet again it wouldn't be all that hard to get those 1000 mods which are needed to make it enjoyable. But I don't want to support Bethesda for digging out another raw diamond and leaving the polishing to the modding community.