As of now, I am very satisfied with the items I have bought. The media player has an 8GB storage space and isn't annoyingly large. I was a little worried about that, since I have been using this little pendrive-sized player from Samsung for about 3 years now. Overall, I feel that I have made a good choice this time, and I'm thankful that Sony realises the importance of tactile buttons and a slim chassis.
My new earphones are a tricky thing. I bought the Shure SE110, which happens to be in the lower range of earphones from Shure. Still, after using it, I have found that it is in fact superior to my old Audio Technica set. I had to do a bit of experimenting with the sleeves(the part that fits into your ear) before there was any noticeable improvement at all. It turned out that the foam sleeves, which are squishy and spongy like earplugs, worked the best. Excellent noise isolation. As I type now, I can't hear the sound of the keys clicking at all.
The Shure earphones are designed in a way that makes them a little inconvenient to put on, but I think I've gotten pretty good at at already. Now I wonder if I should have forked out an extra sixty dollars to get a higher-end pair of earphones. Still, I think that this was a worthwhile investment; if the reviews are to be believed, then I'll be using this pair for at least another couple of years. I'm going to deal with the difficult putting-on process, because now that I have tried these, my old earphones just seem to produce a tinnier sound.
Now, surprisingly, the game that I bought wasn't priced anywhere near any of the other ones. Usually I expect a game to cost about $60, give or take a few bucks. However, Titan Quest was only about $20. That was strange, because it is a fairly recent game(released in 2007), and it doesn't exactly have any major issues(like Hellgate: London). I have played through some of the first act of the game and I have found it relatively entertaining.
Titan Quest is based on ancient Greek mythology. Basically, the titans have broken free from their prisons and are wrecking havoc all over Greece. Naturally, it's up to the hero to single-handedly stop them and save the world. Whatever Zeus and the other Olympians are doing is beyond me.
Anyway, the whole Greek mythology thing makes the story pretty cool. I'll get to fight the Cyclops, Medusa, and a bunch of other big figures.
Even though I would consider this game a good Diablo clone, and a sufficiently entertaining action RPG, it does have one problem: There's no blood. It's like as if blood wasn't invented until after ancient Greece. I can hew horde after horde of Satyrs and not a single drop of the red goo falls to the ground. That's just kinda depressing.
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-Joe