May 17th is coming up fast. Whats the deal with this date? Itsclose to payday so that means its game purchasetime, for May, at any rate. However what to spend my £40.00 on? Truthfully I get kinda annoyed at paying full price on release day for games. I do make exceptions, Elder Scrolls alwaysand PES; although PES is now becoming less of a must get. So that returns us to May 17th. On my list of things to get are Crysis2, LA Noire, Brink, and the Witcher2.

It can only be one.

So thanks to all who posted about Brink. I was hoping that was going to have a strong single player campaign and a good multiplayer with differing objectives and so forth. However i am hearing that it is not as finished as it could be. Whats this? Bethesda releasing a buggy game? Never..... And so that has influenced me to pushing Brink from my list. So we are left with LA Noire, Witcher2 and Crysis2.

I guess I can relegate Crysis2, I don't really want another shooter do I? I mean Killzone 3 was an extraordinarily over hyped piece of boring on-rails shooting. Kind of foundI didn't care what happened-which was a shame because I loved Killzone2-That was the game that got me online, way more so thanHalo, (fake quake)COD or Battlefield,- and as PSN was/is down I haven't had the chance to take it online,so still can't make a final judgement. And so I think, until Crysis2 drops to "rude-to-refuse" prices, I shall wait.....and so we have leftWitcher2 and LA Noire.

Yes, I played the Witcher. It was good. But a sequel......Might the sequel be better than the original? It could be. It is on a console. The gameplay is different, allegedly, But its a sequel.....I wonder

And then LA Noire. All the Hype. All the Press. Will it be worth a play.......Its a Team Bondi, I know but then its also RockStar and they make games that I don't much like! Yes I know that makes me an unworthy!! Not liking GTA? Not liking RDR? What sort of an idiot am I?.

However I love Bogart films, be-bop, Raymond Chandler novels......and to take part in one.....now THAT could be something....

Hmmm

Skyrims coming! Yeah can't wait, booked the weekend off and am really looking forward to getting lost in another Elder Scrolls realm. Still recall the magic that was Morrowind that I first played on the big old Xbox original. Still can't forget the feeling of the fat controller in my hand and the sound of another one of those blasted cliff racers heading for me as i messed about outside Balmoral. "Make it quick, stranger". Happy days. Then came Oblivion. Now, I am not an expert. I have played a few rpgs, Baldurs Gate, KOTOR, Jade Empire, Neverwinter Nights, but I had never experienced anything quite as free and as open as Morrowind. And now, here was Oblivion. But something was wrong.....I couldn't tell you what it was but somehow, Oblivion just wasn't quite as "Magical"? as Morrowind. I couldn't tell you why. But something changed after a while, and Oblivion got boring? Something that has never happened with Morrowind, at least not for me. Maybe, if I had played Oblivion first I'd think differently.THought I'd replay Oblivion now that I have a PS3 and so I have purchased the GotY Edition to get lost again in an Elder Scrolls realm before Skyrim lands.

(But for me, I wish they would remake Morrowind for the modern platforms. Not to change anything, just to transfer it on to the new platforms. Least I could then put my Old Xbox away.....and my XP pc!)

I had similar feelings when I played New Vegas. I loved Fallout3. Still playing it today. Marvellous game, but New Vegas? I just don't get it. Its different and somehow not as beguiling. And Please, don't even start with Red Dead Redemption. Game of the year it may be but I didn't get it. Played it for a good few days and waited for something to happen. Still waiting. I keep putting the game back when I get that urge to be a cowboy and then, another Evening spent waiting. It looks amazing, you can do so much but its as dry as the landscape its set in, in my humble. so Come On, November 11th, bring on Skyrim! Be as good as, if not, better than Morrowind.