For awhile I liked the solitude also. In my head, I came up with this sort of narrative that I was the sole survivor of the apocalypse (I started playing before NPC villages were a thing ;) ). But now I love being on a multiplayer server. It's awesome to see what other people build and to get to show off my own creations.

Interesting, as I've been thinking about building a tree house in the world I last created in Minecraft a couple of months ago. I have not done so yet, in fact I haven't even played Minecraft hardly at all in the last couple of months (I blame Terraria for that hahahaha). I was really glad, when I created this world, that I spawned in a jungle. Before I created this new world, I had a house, a whole in a cave, and I was desperately looking for a jungle so I could tame an ocelot. I explored quite a bit and never found my jungle. I can't recall, but I imagine I created a new world because I died and got frustrated. I've done that so many times that that is the only reason I can think of as to why I created a new world (that and I wanted a jungle when I couldn't find one). All that said, the reason I wanted to create a tree house was because I felt that would be the best defense against Creepers (I really hate when they blow my stuff up, a point which I keep mentioning). However, I did find a nice little "floating island" in my current world, which I may go explore and move in there. I think the last time I played I was on my 3rd or 4th cave that I found trying to find some diamonds. Sadly, I felt like I could never find enough diamonds and maybe that's a small part of why I stopped playing again. However, reading and seeing more about Minecraft makes me want to go back. Oh and I did find and tame some ocelots in my new world, but some didn't last very long or I didn't. As I was chasing one ocelot kitten, it ended up drowning (very sad). While a tree house is a great idea as defense against Creepers, it would suck to have a dog since they take fall damage.

I picked up this bundle for metro and red faction. I already had everything else but who could pass up such a great deal. Sadly, you do not get giftable copies of the games you already own.

Tried a bit of red faction Armageddon today. It was pretty fun but i haven't got all that far in it. I do hate the fact that there is very limited graphical changes. Made the game not run as well as it should be able to on my PC.

Mine is pretty crap. I can usually get games to play well if i can turn down the graphics though.

I was talking about red faction

Lowest settings it allows, which isn't much. It doesn't really look any different on any graphical settings. At least to me it doesn't. I got a very slight performance boost from lowering the graphics.

Picked this one up for Metro 2033 and Red Faction, as well. Ok. That and the SR3 soundtrack, so I'd own a legitimate copy of it.

Haven't seen the graphics issues you're describing in Metro 2033 and my current PC rig is a core i3 with an integrated Intel HD 3000. Of course, I had to set the graphics to low, resolution down to 1280x720 and it stutters a bit, but it's playable.

Do you have a DirectX 10 option? I think that's what finally made it playable for me. I know Saint's Row was unplayable in DX9, but DX10 got me around 20 fps.