Apparently Jan 19th 2009 was declared as the most depressing day of the year. I'm guessing that this has been scientifically proven and has something to do with the post-christmas blues and the crappy weather. I would like to contest this claim and decree right now that today is the most depressing day of the year.
Firstly it's the day before valentines day... So anyone is single may be down in the dumps. I've got a girlfriend so the whole valentines day blues isn't the issue for me. I'm more bothered about the lack of anything exciting coming up in the near future. Firstly, I can count on one hand the number of games that i am excited about this year, one of them is RE5 and despite avoiding the demo (to save my heart from truly breaking) I've got the feeling that it's going to be a little bit disappointing. Secondly, the immediate release schedule for the next couple of months is awful. So I have nothing to look forward to there.
I bought an Xbox 360 about a year ago so I've had the pleasure of enjoying a lot of great games upon their release, for example: Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, COD WAW, GTAIV, Dead Space, Mirror's Edge and Braid. I've also bought all of the games that excited me before I bought my xbox, like Bioshock, Orange Box, Beautiful Katamari, Oblivion etc...
I've scoured through game review sites for hidden gems and highly rated games that i wouldn't normally fancy like Burnout Paradise, The Darkness, Halo(s), Psychonauts and have been generally unimpressed. So now the fun of searching for bargain gems has been tarnished by the fact that i've more than likely played the majority of what the xbox has to offer. So what now? What am I supposed to be getting excited about... Street Fighter? hmm.. maybe. I will buy it but even back in the SNES days i was generally underwhelmed by beat em' ups...Star Ocean is coming up soon, but i rarely have enough time any more to dedicate my life to an RPG (with the exception of DS RPGs that keep me sane on my dinner hour). Batman Arkham Asylum could possibly be great, but on the other hand it could also be a stinker (the inability to make a great comic book game will definately be a future blog entry/essay).
Looking further through the release schedules... if someone said to me that there was going to be a game called monsters vs aliens i would raise a quizical eyebrow and urge them to continue, unfortunately it's a film tie in for kids.
June the 14th may offer me salvation, but again, i'm not holding my breath, if i get too excited about this and then find out that it's another Hellboy then i will lose the will to game.
So that is a barren couple of months.
That's just the world of gaming! Everything else is rubbish too... music? Rubbish. Film? The watchmen... will probably be rubbish.
My god, I'm actually even more depressed than when i first started writing.