Hey, my first post!!! So to make things interesting, I'm am going to steer clear from my impressions of Guitar Hero III, and instead give you my impression of a smaller game.
Just got ManHunt 2 today, and I know I got what I payed for. Another Rockstar game that got too much attention because of some "explicit content". While I am sure Rockstar always has this in mind when they create a game, they certainly used it to their advantage this time. This game, which would of most likely plummeted in sales if it weren't for that AO rating it achieved earlier this year, didn't really live up to anything, including the first Manhunt. The camera, while not awful, gives you a worse feeling than Twilight princess does; Less control. The only time you can choose where the camera is is when you are in first-person and stationary. There is a targeting system, but only usable when targeted on something, unlike that of Twilight princess where you can press Z at any time to face forward.
The Graphics were low, even for Wii standards. I was expecting at least something two thirds as good as Metroid, instead we got good ol' 64 bit graphics reminding me of Golden Eye oddly enough. Where you would expect them to make a jump for higher standards, for what violence is worthy of an AO if it has shitty graphics, instead you can't tell whether or not the sledgehammer you are about to pick up is even there, or the killing scenes which is supposed to be the "high point" of the game is so watered down where the only thing you can see clearly are the instructions for the Wiimote and Nunchuck. While I might be sick for wanting to see these disgustingly realistic deaths, knowing they are going on and not able to know... whats going on is more confusing than sickening.
Humor in this game is dark and witty, enjoyable overall. Though three levels in i have not been able to really hear all the jokes. But, the time i have spent in this sick and twisted asylum (and surrounding areas) just sitting and listening to the characters search for you can bring up some humerous dialect... which i forget right now which one made me actually laugh. Must of been empty.
The Wii controls are stable and enjoyable. While it is a little frustrating not to be able to change camera angles, or lift your hands to block, the combination system the Wii version introduces takes over a lot of that empty gameplay. Keeping you on your toes and a little more stressed out than usual.
Could of been better. Wasn't. Oh well, naruto comes out tomorrow.
Fortunately, bought an amazing game along with ManHunt 2.
Bleach: Blade of Fate
A simple fighting game. so simple, that the combinations that characters can dish out can be used either by button combos, or by touching the touch screen. Both have their advantages of course, when doing the combos yourself you are able to really understand which card you can use and its effect (did i mention card elements?). with the touch screen open for combos, everything is smaller and you are not completely sure what you are doing with the card system, which can be a major tide turner in a battle.
Story mode is unnecessary at some points, making you re battle certain people with certain objectives in mind; such as, not using any reiatsu, killing teams in certain orders, whatever. But on the bright side, by doing this the game elongates that which is already too short.
Unfortunately, I beat the main story in under an hour.
Fortunately, soon after i realized there are 20 or so more story lines where you play other as other characters. so along with this Big story line, consisting of many, many hours of game play, there is a challenge system, arcade, versus, training, and a shop to collect many things from the show, including music.
if you love bleach, pick it up. Try not to be disappointed with how they tell the main story.
if you have not even heard of bleach, pick it up, it is a fantastic, light-hearted fighting game that sure to bring hours of entertainment for one or multiple people. (download play)
thats all, hope my misspelling and misuse of grammar wasn't too distracting
-Granger
30 October 2007
29 October 2007
New Week, New Games - Guitar Hero
First off, let me apologize for not getting a new Cover Art up last night. I'm having computer problems and Photoshop is not saving or allowing me to edit images. I'm trying to find a quick fix so I can just get this weeks up real quick. Now on to business.
Back a few months ago, I was saying that I wasn't excited about Guitar Hero III. Harmonix had been sold off to MTV and Activision had put all the responsibility of making the sequel to Neversoft. Plus I had been a little disappointed by GHII because of how mainstream it had all of a sudden become and I didn't pick up Rock the 80's for fear of oversaturation. I was one of the few who took a chance with Guitar Hero by buying it day one and I got to see Guitar Hero grow into the beast it is now from ground level. The new game came out and honestly I was about to pass on it or just pick up the PS2 game only but when I found out the bundle came with a wireless guitar, that was the selling point for me.
With that said, the best thing about GHIII by far is the guitar. I completely underestimated the importance of RedOctane in the success of the franchise and their ability to make quality peripherals. The new guitar (I have the 360 version) is near flawless. It's wireless without any extra attachments or dongles and sports a nice port on the bottom for the headset. The biggest improvement has to be the strum bar. The Xploder's strum bar was trash and that's one of the reasons I didn't pick up the XB360 release of GHII. I like to really get into the game and I often make large exaggerated movements. With the old guitars, I had problems with a term I call kickback. I would make a hard finishing downstroke but old strum bar would pop back up from the force and would make a second registering therein misreading and ending a combo or breaking a hold. Now with the new guitar, those problems are alleviated. This of course makes me extremely worried about RockBand. I'm not hearing good things about the peripherals and that will only make the gameplay and the fans suffer.
Now that I've gotten the compliments out of the way, I can really sink my teeth into the game. My biggest complaint has nothing to do with the game itself, but more of with how the game looks. The characters look bad. The main male singer just creeps me out when I look at him singing. He basically doesn't have a face and is just huge chin. They put way too much detail on the inside of his mouth and teeth. The character movements are very robotic and janky. Everytime I see the drummer I think I'm watching a bad Chuck E. Cheese performance. If you've seen the GHII 360 commercial or started playing career mode in GHIII, you've seen the anime-inspired look. It fits the game wonderfully and I wish they would have completely gone to that look for this game, but I guess that's just a personal preference.
I've said it multiple times before, the most important part about a music game is the songlist. I'm about halfway through the game the first time through and I have to say, the music is a disappointment. I wasn't expecting too much from GHIII and I'm still very disappointed. In the first GH you had these songs that were made by their guitar solos. You'd play through a difficult song and then just completely get owned by the solo. It sucked because you'd have to play the whole song over again to get to that part just to die again. That culture was mainly preserved over to the second game. But now in the third, there's this feeling that the song selection a bit out of place. There's some dead space in songs where you're not doing anything because theres only a bass line. The boss battles are a new addition. I'm a big fan of Tom Morello and it's awesome to have his uniqueness added to the mix, but honestly the battles aren't exactly fun, mostly because you're battling a computer. I have yet to try it online (I don't know if it's even possible) but I could see that getting interesting. I'll have to wait and see what else is left, but so far it's anything new or exciting.
Finally, I want to comment about the popularity of Guitar Hero. It's become this big thing where the fan base is spreading out beyond video game nerds and music game fans. There are parents, kids, and girlfriends buying this game. Along with that so go the nicheness of the game. It won't be a cult hit anymore. It'll be open to commercialism, as we can see with the licensing of guitars and product names. The store in GHIII is actually called Guitar Center and sports the logo and everything. Of course there are good things that come out of this, such as songs that sound good and aren't covers. (I was disappointed however, when I looked at the RockBand song list, I found a few that are in GHIII as well. I'm not talking about Artists but actually the same songs.) I'm worried about the future of the guitar franchise because I can see it becoming this cash cow where micro-transactions and online downloads flood the market and make it not fun anymore. People like me will avoid buying them in a semi-boycott but as long as there are people buying up products, as useless as they may be, the people making money off it will keep producing. I just really hope that the series doesn't get run completely into the ground and become a shadow of their former self like another Activision/Neversoft game.
Why does only the RockBand XB360 Bundle come with a wired guitar? Thats Crap!
David
Oh, one last thing, I'm using the new Japanese female guitarist, Midori, as my character in GHIII.
As if you couldn't have guessed.
Back a few months ago, I was saying that I wasn't excited about Guitar Hero III. Harmonix had been sold off to MTV and Activision had put all the responsibility of making the sequel to Neversoft. Plus I had been a little disappointed by GHII because of how mainstream it had all of a sudden become and I didn't pick up Rock the 80's for fear of oversaturation. I was one of the few who took a chance with Guitar Hero by buying it day one and I got to see Guitar Hero grow into the beast it is now from ground level. The new game came out and honestly I was about to pass on it or just pick up the PS2 game only but when I found out the bundle came with a wireless guitar, that was the selling point for me.
With that said, the best thing about GHIII by far is the guitar. I completely underestimated the importance of RedOctane in the success of the franchise and their ability to make quality peripherals. The new guitar (I have the 360 version) is near flawless. It's wireless without any extra attachments or dongles and sports a nice port on the bottom for the headset. The biggest improvement has to be the strum bar. The Xploder's strum bar was trash and that's one of the reasons I didn't pick up the XB360 release of GHII. I like to really get into the game and I often make large exaggerated movements. With the old guitars, I had problems with a term I call kickback. I would make a hard finishing downstroke but old strum bar would pop back up from the force and would make a second registering therein misreading and ending a combo or breaking a hold. Now with the new guitar, those problems are alleviated. This of course makes me extremely worried about RockBand. I'm not hearing good things about the peripherals and that will only make the gameplay and the fans suffer.
Now that I've gotten the compliments out of the way, I can really sink my teeth into the game. My biggest complaint has nothing to do with the game itself, but more of with how the game looks. The characters look bad. The main male singer just creeps me out when I look at him singing. He basically doesn't have a face and is just huge chin. They put way too much detail on the inside of his mouth and teeth. The character movements are very robotic and janky. Everytime I see the drummer I think I'm watching a bad Chuck E. Cheese performance. If you've seen the GHII 360 commercial or started playing career mode in GHIII, you've seen the anime-inspired look. It fits the game wonderfully and I wish they would have completely gone to that look for this game, but I guess that's just a personal preference.
I've said it multiple times before, the most important part about a music game is the songlist. I'm about halfway through the game the first time through and I have to say, the music is a disappointment. I wasn't expecting too much from GHIII and I'm still very disappointed. In the first GH you had these songs that were made by their guitar solos. You'd play through a difficult song and then just completely get owned by the solo. It sucked because you'd have to play the whole song over again to get to that part just to die again. That culture was mainly preserved over to the second game. But now in the third, there's this feeling that the song selection a bit out of place. There's some dead space in songs where you're not doing anything because theres only a bass line. The boss battles are a new addition. I'm a big fan of Tom Morello and it's awesome to have his uniqueness added to the mix, but honestly the battles aren't exactly fun, mostly because you're battling a computer. I have yet to try it online (I don't know if it's even possible) but I could see that getting interesting. I'll have to wait and see what else is left, but so far it's anything new or exciting.
Finally, I want to comment about the popularity of Guitar Hero. It's become this big thing where the fan base is spreading out beyond video game nerds and music game fans. There are parents, kids, and girlfriends buying this game. Along with that so go the nicheness of the game. It won't be a cult hit anymore. It'll be open to commercialism, as we can see with the licensing of guitars and product names. The store in GHIII is actually called Guitar Center and sports the logo and everything. Of course there are good things that come out of this, such as songs that sound good and aren't covers. (I was disappointed however, when I looked at the RockBand song list, I found a few that are in GHIII as well. I'm not talking about Artists but actually the same songs.) I'm worried about the future of the guitar franchise because I can see it becoming this cash cow where micro-transactions and online downloads flood the market and make it not fun anymore. People like me will avoid buying them in a semi-boycott but as long as there are people buying up products, as useless as they may be, the people making money off it will keep producing. I just really hope that the series doesn't get run completely into the ground and become a shadow of their former self like another Activision/Neversoft game.
Why does only the RockBand XB360 Bundle come with a wired guitar? Thats Crap!
David
Oh, one last thing, I'm using the new Japanese female guitarist, Midori, as my character in GHIII.
As if you couldn't have guessed.
28 October 2007
What I'm Sure You Were All Waiting For...
First let me say sorry for my lack of updates, i'm currently working on a speech for class and it is taking a lot of my time. On a side note, my speech topic is about the evolution of the video game industry so at least my time is being kept relevent. But my real intention with this post is to give my impressions of Jericho now that I am about 3 hours into the game. Brad and David both seem to be very turned off by this game and David apparently thinks it funny that I enjoy games that have recieved somewhat negative scores. But here goes:
First off, let me start by saying that game sites like 1up.com have really trash talked this game on a ridiculous level by pointing out a lot of its faults. Heres the thing though, while their complaints are mostly justified, the faults they point out are not as severe as they make them seem. On the other end of the spectrum, game magazines like Play have rated it higher than it deserves as usual. So heres my take on it. First, ill point out that this game is a hell of a lot better than Lair. That is saying something right there. On the other hand, the game does suffer from things like weak weapons, repetitive enemies and environments, and chaotic battle mechanics that usually show themselves when attempting to change characters mid battle. However, these are usually not so bad that they distract from the thrill of exploration and discovery. The game does have a rather creepy feel and look to it and the creatures are just downright disturbing. One thing I hated about other reviews, is that they wouldn't shut up about the terrible voice acting.... but the voice acting isn't terrible! It may be a bit bland at points and repetitive during gameplay but it is far from terrible. On another note, I do like the premise of the story and the characters even though they aren't developed as well as they should have been. My main complaint is that some points in the game just get ridiculously hard to survive. I can't give my final score right now, but i'm predicting around a 6 or 6.5 out of 10. I will say this, I am thouroughly enjoying the game despite it's faults and I am happy with Barkers vision that he was trying to portay.
O yeah, I really want to pick up Guitar Hero III......
-Nick
First off, let me start by saying that game sites like 1up.com have really trash talked this game on a ridiculous level by pointing out a lot of its faults. Heres the thing though, while their complaints are mostly justified, the faults they point out are not as severe as they make them seem. On the other end of the spectrum, game magazines like Play have rated it higher than it deserves as usual. So heres my take on it. First, ill point out that this game is a hell of a lot better than Lair. That is saying something right there. On the other hand, the game does suffer from things like weak weapons, repetitive enemies and environments, and chaotic battle mechanics that usually show themselves when attempting to change characters mid battle. However, these are usually not so bad that they distract from the thrill of exploration and discovery. The game does have a rather creepy feel and look to it and the creatures are just downright disturbing. One thing I hated about other reviews, is that they wouldn't shut up about the terrible voice acting.... but the voice acting isn't terrible! It may be a bit bland at points and repetitive during gameplay but it is far from terrible. On another note, I do like the premise of the story and the characters even though they aren't developed as well as they should have been. My main complaint is that some points in the game just get ridiculously hard to survive. I can't give my final score right now, but i'm predicting around a 6 or 6.5 out of 10. I will say this, I am thouroughly enjoying the game despite it's faults and I am happy with Barkers vision that he was trying to portay.
O yeah, I really want to pick up Guitar Hero III......
-Nick
Brad's been busy
Been playing:
Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles - The game is hard, very hard. I've come to a realization that old Castlevania games (this one came out in 1993) were difficult because the controls and movement were sluggish. I do enjoy the challenge of the game, but it takes quite some time to get used to the old style of play again. Nick, if you picked this up I have no doubt you find Rondo of Blood way too hard, but you don't have to beat the game to unlock SotN. It's only 3 stages in and you don't even have to beat that 3rd stage. Just look up how to unlock it because it will be totally worth it. You will also gain a lot of respect for Koji Igarashi since he basically made CV what it is today when he made SotN. I've been playing through SotN as well. I just love the game so much. They added a new playable character for SotN too. Just have to beat it once to unlock her.
Orange Box - I'm almost done with HL2: Episode 1. It's pretty great. You spend the game fighting along side Alyx Vance and it's amazing how well you become attached to this character. Valve revolutionized real time story development with the original Half Life and now it seems they are doing some really cool things with character development. Her AI is actually really awesome too. You will be surprised just how many time she will save your ass.
Final Fantasy Tactics - Yep, still the greatest game ever. Better now actually. The story is terrific.
Halo 3 - Beat it with David. Still don't get why the last few missions were so bad. There were some moments in the middle of the game that were pretty amazing. I just don't get it. Multiplayer is still really amazing and have been playing a ton of it lately. Bungie needs to stick with multiplayer only games.
Front Mission 1st - This was a SNES games and it still looks like one. If you can get past that you will find a great game that started a pretty amazing and underplayed series.
Jericho - Just kidding. This game got a 3/10 from 1up so I'm hoping to read Nick's impressions soon. Can it really be that bad?
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - Haven't really played it in awhile. Nothing against it really, just been busy playing other games.
Demos Demos Demos - I had no idea you could download PSP demos off the net. I found this website that has a ton in both Japanese and English. The demo for the new Warhammer game actually seemed pretty cool. It's a pretty cool turn based (but not grid based) strategy game with destructable environments. Gurumin also surprised me a little since it ran rather smoothly for a PSP game and the animations looked nice.
Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles - The game is hard, very hard. I've come to a realization that old Castlevania games (this one came out in 1993) were difficult because the controls and movement were sluggish. I do enjoy the challenge of the game, but it takes quite some time to get used to the old style of play again. Nick, if you picked this up I have no doubt you find Rondo of Blood way too hard, but you don't have to beat the game to unlock SotN. It's only 3 stages in and you don't even have to beat that 3rd stage. Just look up how to unlock it because it will be totally worth it. You will also gain a lot of respect for Koji Igarashi since he basically made CV what it is today when he made SotN. I've been playing through SotN as well. I just love the game so much. They added a new playable character for SotN too. Just have to beat it once to unlock her.
Orange Box - I'm almost done with HL2: Episode 1. It's pretty great. You spend the game fighting along side Alyx Vance and it's amazing how well you become attached to this character. Valve revolutionized real time story development with the original Half Life and now it seems they are doing some really cool things with character development. Her AI is actually really awesome too. You will be surprised just how many time she will save your ass.
Final Fantasy Tactics - Yep, still the greatest game ever. Better now actually. The story is terrific.
Halo 3 - Beat it with David. Still don't get why the last few missions were so bad. There were some moments in the middle of the game that were pretty amazing. I just don't get it. Multiplayer is still really amazing and have been playing a ton of it lately. Bungie needs to stick with multiplayer only games.
Front Mission 1st - This was a SNES games and it still looks like one. If you can get past that you will find a great game that started a pretty amazing and underplayed series.
Jericho - Just kidding. This game got a 3/10 from 1up so I'm hoping to read Nick's impressions soon. Can it really be that bad?
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - Haven't really played it in awhile. Nothing against it really, just been busy playing other games.
Demos Demos Demos - I had no idea you could download PSP demos off the net. I found this website that has a ton in both Japanese and English. The demo for the new Warhammer game actually seemed pretty cool. It's a pretty cool turn based (but not grid based) strategy game with destructable environments. Gurumin also surprised me a little since it ran rather smoothly for a PSP game and the animations looked nice.
Best Week In A While
This was probably the best week for me probably in the last two years for playing video games. I finished Gears of War at the beginning of the week. Phantom Hourglass during the middle. And just wrapped up Halo 3 right as it's turning the new week. I have to say though, I was disappointed in all three. I never thought Gears was as amazing as everyone made it out to be, thank goodness for Co-op mode or else I wouldn't given it any more thought at all. The Co-Op mode is far superior to Halo 3's and it's in my opinion that the game itself is better too. All three games started out very strong but towards the middle to end they just all seem to lacking finishing power. It was just nice to have a week where I didn't really get bogged down by a game and also spend the week really excited about playing when I got off work. I'll post a checklist for the games I'm going through. Keep an eye out for that.
Going to sleep,
David
Going to sleep,
David
27 October 2007
Today's Final Thought
Assassin's Creed went gold this week and is coming out November 13th. I'm honestly terrified this game is way too early. I heard there were still a lot of bugs at E for All. Why didn't they just push it back? Ubisoft is known for shipping games ridden with bugs and glitches, and I'm worried they might have made a mistake here. Don't get excited until you see the reviews guys.
Sorry for my lack of posting lately, I got sucked back into Halo and have been playing mad hours in matchmaking. Expect daily postings and weekly top 5s start next week again.
Sorry for my lack of posting lately, I got sucked back into Halo and have been playing mad hours in matchmaking. Expect daily postings and weekly top 5s start next week again.
26 October 2007
Quick HL Update
Just wanted to give a quick update. I just finished Half Life 2 (the main game). It took me approx 12 hours and was a blast all the way through. The game is definately one to be remembered. Like I said, I picked up Jericho yesterday so I think I will go ahead and play through that before I come back and play through episodes 1 and 2 for the sake of not getting burnt out on HL. Now, if I could just finish Phantom Hourglass and get out of that damn Eternal Sonata dungeon...
-Nick
-Nick
25 October 2007
Where has Nick Been?
Hey everyone, its been a while since I could post. I've been really busy with school this week but I have finally finished a lot of what I had to work on. So here is whats been on my mind lately (since I haven't actually had time to play anything!):
- Almost finished with Phantom Hourglass, I will hopefully finish it this weekend along with Half Life 2.
- Picked up Jericho today for the PS3 and i'm really excited to play it. It will be next on my list once I complete HL episodes 1 and 2.
- F&#^ that damn dungeon in Eternal Sonata!
- I just realized that our store will be having an employee appreciation day, so some of the titles I have chosen to temporaily hold off on will be picked up then: Including Final Fantasy Tactics (PSP), Final Fantasy Revenant Wings, Castelvania Dracula X Chronicles and FEAR.
- Assassins Creed went gold today... this means one of two things:
1- They worked out all the bugs and are about to release one of the best games on a next gen console
or
2- They rushed it out without fixing all the bugs in order to get it out in time for the holidays which will make it one of this years biggest disappointments.
I'm fairly confident that they have worked out most of the kinks but the second possibility will be in the back of my mind until I have played the game first hand.
- I actually played Guitar Hero III a few days back... making that my first time playing a guitar hero. I played on Easy because it was my first time but I was actually quite impressed. I might actually pick this one up.
Thats all for now. Ill be back in the swing of things in the coming weeks.
Peace!
-Nick
- Almost finished with Phantom Hourglass, I will hopefully finish it this weekend along with Half Life 2.
- Picked up Jericho today for the PS3 and i'm really excited to play it. It will be next on my list once I complete HL episodes 1 and 2.
- F&#^ that damn dungeon in Eternal Sonata!
- I just realized that our store will be having an employee appreciation day, so some of the titles I have chosen to temporaily hold off on will be picked up then: Including Final Fantasy Tactics (PSP), Final Fantasy Revenant Wings, Castelvania Dracula X Chronicles and FEAR.
- Assassins Creed went gold today... this means one of two things:
1- They worked out all the bugs and are about to release one of the best games on a next gen console
or
2- They rushed it out without fixing all the bugs in order to get it out in time for the holidays which will make it one of this years biggest disappointments.
I'm fairly confident that they have worked out most of the kinks but the second possibility will be in the back of my mind until I have played the game first hand.
- I actually played Guitar Hero III a few days back... making that my first time playing a guitar hero. I played on Easy because it was my first time but I was actually quite impressed. I might actually pick this one up.
Thats all for now. Ill be back in the swing of things in the coming weeks.
Peace!
-Nick
Theater Mode a.k.a Let's Play Halo 3
So as I said this morning in my post, Brad and I played quite a bit of the campaign co-op last night. One of the coolest things about Halo 3 is that it saves your game play so you can go watch it later in your own free time. So while playing online last night there were a few funny parts that before Halo3 theater mode were only kept alive in our memories. But now we can rewatch them and share them with friends. The only problem is that in campaign mode you can't rewind or save on the XB360. You can only do that in Multiplayer mode (and possibly forge mode). So I apologize about the quality as I had to record it with my digital camera. Also I like higher quality video so I choose to upload the videos to stage6 which is a divx video based site so you may need to install divx player if you don't already have it.
Part 1 [Link]
Part 2 [Link]
David
Part 1 [Link]
Part 2 [Link]
David
Loose Ends
So Brad and I just got done with our Halo session tonight. I was surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did. As the same with Gears, I think it was more of the Co-Op play that made me enjoy it than the compelling storyline or enthralling gameplay. I find it sad that cooperative play has been dwindled down to FPS and splinter cell.
Zach & Wiki for the Wii, I've been watching that game for months now. It looks very "kiddie" a word many gaming elite are so damn paranoid about. I'm about 85% sure I'll pick it up tomorrow after work. It's been getting good reviews which is not a lot of my quirky picks tend to pull off. More importantly this got me thinking to what games I should really be buying this holiday season and in the future. There's Galaxy that I must pick up. But then after that I honestly could pass on everything else. Rock Band sounds great but that's another 200ish bucks. If I had the money I'd try Mass Effect, Ratchet & Clank, and Assassin's Creed. Same goes for Guitar Hero III and a slew of games that I have reserved but still don't have the money to pick them up. But then I got to thinking. Even if I had the money, why would I pick them up? I don't physically have the time to play all these games. As much as I love games, I can't play them every second of the day. I don't want to either. I want to hang out with friends, exercise, work on other projects and hobbies. I've got so many games I don't know what to do with them. I could not buy another game for the next year and still have plenty to play. So I keep asking myself the question, why buy more? It's something that's really troubling me. I'll have to get back to you on that one for the answer....
David
**Oh yeah, after having a 360 since launch day, I've finally broken 1000 Gamer Score. Hooray.
Zach & Wiki for the Wii, I've been watching that game for months now. It looks very "kiddie" a word many gaming elite are so damn paranoid about. I'm about 85% sure I'll pick it up tomorrow after work. It's been getting good reviews which is not a lot of my quirky picks tend to pull off. More importantly this got me thinking to what games I should really be buying this holiday season and in the future. There's Galaxy that I must pick up. But then after that I honestly could pass on everything else. Rock Band sounds great but that's another 200ish bucks. If I had the money I'd try Mass Effect, Ratchet & Clank, and Assassin's Creed. Same goes for Guitar Hero III and a slew of games that I have reserved but still don't have the money to pick them up. But then I got to thinking. Even if I had the money, why would I pick them up? I don't physically have the time to play all these games. As much as I love games, I can't play them every second of the day. I don't want to either. I want to hang out with friends, exercise, work on other projects and hobbies. I've got so many games I don't know what to do with them. I could not buy another game for the next year and still have plenty to play. So I keep asking myself the question, why buy more? It's something that's really troubling me. I'll have to get back to you on that one for the answer....
David
**Oh yeah, after having a 360 since launch day, I've finally broken 1000 Gamer Score. Hooray.
