This blog is a tribute to Brad Shoemaker.
Well it's finally the Easter holidays and it's great to have some time off, I even got my wireless internet connection working at a usable level by my 360 decided to make things interesting. The disc drive on my 360 just died over a period of a few days and now the only game it doesn't recognise as unreadable is GH3 which will play for about 5 minutes before the drive bums out, I guess that's just another thing for me to get fixed. But as far as my Wii goes things are great, I've ordered Freeloder and a US copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and I doubt I'll miss my 360 quite as much once I'm in possession of both of those (still waiting for Brawl to arrive in the mail). So this week I've just been playing Puzzle Pirates, Animal Crossing, Advance Wars, The Orange Box and Guitar Hero 3.
On the subject of new this week I'd like to say a bit about the Byron report though, in case you haven't heard this was the six-months-in-the-making report on the affects of the internet and video games that was to be presented to the government. As I expected the media was quite over-reactionary on the subject but I have read some of the report myself. Overall it's quite a good report and did not contain the kind of bias I expected it might. But I have a problem with the conclusions of this report. The suggested action just doesn't seem to fit in with the findings; for one thing it was made very clear throughout the report that there just hasn't been enough research into certain areas to come to proper conclusions about certain aspects of the effects of video games on children and for another thing the research that was personally carried out for the report showed that parents felt that as each child was so different a single ratings system couldn't possibly cater for all the different children in the country. None the less it seems that the idea to tweak the ratings system and combine two boards will somehow solve all of this.
Lastly I'd just like to say the Halo 3 Legendary map pack is looking awesome and at this point I'm really liking the look of Blackout particularly and I hope my 360 will be fixed in time for me to get back to Halo for those. Well thanks again for reading, keep on gaming and I'll leave you with this elaborate suicide from Halo 3.
-Gamer_152