Well it's all simmering down now and Gamespot's got through the storm with little real damage. Many said they could no leave early on because they had grown too accustomed to Gamespot and its users and many who took dramatic leave saying 'goodbye forever' were quickly delivered back into the Gamespot community realising that they just really had nothing and no one on the other sites and it's great to see Gamespots community so strong. The problems lie in the ignorant and annoying which plague the site (ever read some of the player reviews lately) who have been completely turning against the site and yet continue to use it regularly; Jeff arguments have spilled over into boards where they don't belong and Gamespot has been left hundreds of hate comments. One thing I've said to people claiming to 'support Jeff' is that turning against his old site is not what Jeff would want and if they really did support him they would have listened to the facts (which funnily enough come nicely bundled in a 1 hour, 1 minute podcast) and know that Jeff is rather upset about the actions of these people and that the site staff knew no more than we do. CNET really handled this badly but even when Gamespot tried to be helpful, answering the questions surrounding the matter all they got was further bashing and people jumping to conclusions that it's all lies and despite CNET taking care over the firing of Jeff himself, that they have now gone to the trouble of organising some mass conspiracy against us.
Anyway what've I been doing? Um, Pokemon Diamond, Puzzle Pirates and Super Mario Galaxy mainly, all great games. I was tempted to buy Guitar Hero III but it's been a tricky decision. The game is a lot of money and I could of got it for the 360 but it would of probably been more expensive (£75)and they did announce all 3 Guitar Heroes would be out on Wii. However they promised these 3 titles before the end of the fiscal year and this is looking very unlikely and it's also been discovered that GH3 currently only plays on mono sound for the Wii and Activision are working on it. Well I say Activision but should it be Actiblizzard? I really have high hopes for the new developer, they've been great seperate and I think together they could develop something amazing. More news? Okay. Delaware, U.S is finally doing something about kids getting games underage and have launched an ad campaign, Nintendo have layed out their European launch lineup for Q1 2008 and have also announced that due to the Wii shortages all UK Wii ads are now being replaced with DS ads (as of yesterday), Bungie currently say they have no new plans to make any games for any console other than the 360 (interesting to see how the Microsft break-away is affecting them) and preliminaries are now open to get us all ready for the Best of 2007.
Anyway now for a couple of (new) personal problems, firstly my wireless internet has been out for a week but I don't really wanna pay £40 for a new router and even if I do I have to be careful with what's compatable with my 360 and then there's my bigger problem. There's this guy who keeps coming round my house, he thinks he is my friend but he scares away my other friends and he's annoying as hell to me. I didn't mind the initial excruciating 6 hour visit but then he came the next day and then he came both days next weekend and the Monday and now he's coming round this weekend and I just can't take his guy, I've dropped serious hints to him (in the form of everything up to the actual words 'maybe you should GO HOME!') and we even had a big argument but nothing keeps this guy away, what do I do! Anyway I think I'll get as much gaming in as I can before he finds me, if he does I might just hang out at a mates house. Apart from that my Super Mario Galaxy review is up (thanks for fixing my anti-paragraphing glitch Gamespot) and I may have something else to post during the week. Thanks for dealing with everything here, I know it's been a long blog and please feel free to comment and I'll be back next week :) .
-Gamer_152