Oh my god ... i thought i only had 2 games left to fulfill my promise of finishing 12 games before i went next gen !

I've just got to the end of vice city storires so thought i was down to my final game .. when shock horror .. i realise ... it's 4 !!

so I'm still left with 3 games to finish.... And i bought another 4 xbox games so really i should add at least 2 more titles to the list !!

That said i've been playing a fair bit of Outrun 2 .. and for £2.50 ( $5 ) i think i've got my moneys worht out of it ... and i've only gone and bought another 3 games on 360 .. so the cycle of buying too many games has started again !!

I'm thinking that a couple of the games i finish from last gen will now be emulated through my 360 so i'm currently looking at finishing

Simpsons Hit & Run

Unreal championship 2

Metal arms : glitch in the system

Second Sight

Psi ops

.... and then still on PS2

Bully ( or C.C.E in the UK )

Okami

at least one God of War game

... i've got to say at this rate i don't think i should be buying a PS3 in 2009 either !!!

So .. new rule .. no PS3 until i finish a least 12 Last gen games !!

Yesterday i bought an HD-DVD drive for my 360

Now i know that the format is dead in the water and that there will be no future releases onto what will surely become for most people a very expensive paperweight. However this is my story and the reason i'm playing vulture to Toshiba's ill fated format.

1> firstly the drive cost me £25 ($50) including 2 films

2> the drive comes with the Xbox Remote control

3> web sites are shifting their HD-dvd disks out the door for £5 ($10)

4> I won't be buying a PS3 until 2009)

5> there is a good selection of high quality films availiable for it ... not to mention Heroes season 1

these three things combined i thought to myself it's such a small price to pay for a little bit of history... or at least it was .. i've gone quite mad and started ordering disks left right and centre and then realising how crazy i'd gone and cancelling half of the orders .... in a matter of clicks i've built up a collection of disk that would quite frankly shame the average Blu-ray owner. so far i've spent about £60 ($120) and amassed a collection of 9 films .. but there are so many more titles i'm tempted to spend money on ... so far i've been quite good and only duplicated films i already own with 2 of my favorite films.

so where do i go from here , there is a part of me that's tempted to buy films that i wouldn't buy if the format wasn't dead (superman returns springs to mind ) and films i already own just so that i can get the 'HD' experience ( like the Matrix trilogy ) however ... i think i will simply settle for a collection of 15 odd films and be thankful that i've bought myself a nice little stop-gap to ease me into the world of HD movies before i buy a PS3 next year

:twisted: Ok .. i'll admit it ... i broke my promise and with 4 games still left to finish i bought a 360 pro

Now in my defence it was an absolute bargain !!!:oops:

all brand new

360 pro , 2 wireless controllers and 4 games for £176 !

( basically the best deal a shop could do with an extra 10% off from the nice people that do my credit card )

add in 2 more games pre-owned for £5 each and i've got a fairly nice setup !! And when i get round to having some MS points i'm going to buy the worlds greatest game ... SWOS.

but .. i'm still determined to finish 4 more last gen games !

and i will do before i play anything of substance on my 360 .. so for a little while .. no mass effect , no bioshock , no GTA4 !

AND ... i'll now have to stick to another agreement i've made that i won't buy more than 1 console in any given year !

so no PS3 for my till 2009 !!

... the big problem for me then is do i really want to buy a Wii in 2010 when i think it looks too dated right here, right now ?

Oh well .. that looks like another promise on shakey ground !! :roll:

It's always nice to see a great bundle and this is enough to make your mouth water

360 pro and a copy of GTA 4 for £199.99 from play.com

if they are offering it then others will follow suit ...

add to that the PS3 and GTA IV for £299.99 and you've got a good choice on your hands

Other the next few days it will be nice to see what bundles come up. if you've been waiting to buy next gen now seems as good a time as any !

That's it i'm down to my final 4 games till i buy my PS360 ! :lol:

Over the last week i finally finished X-men Ledgend 2 ( which involved far too much level grinding .. i got to the end on level 30 out of 60 !! ) and thne i started and finished Black .. both on the PS2 ( my poor xbox hasn't been played in about 5 months ! )

Now Black was just plain rubbish ! sorry , i'm being deliberately harsh on it because it was really pushed by reveiwers here in the UK as a solid 90% game doing something different and exciting witht he FPS .. the burnout of FPS games. Personally except for the graphics which were quite nice this played like a PS1 FPS ... it was just full of design issues that annoyed me .... like not being able to step over anything over 6 inches high ... and not having the ability to jump over either .. it was a cheap way to pin you in while giving you wide open play areas ... in actual fact it's just a series of narrow corodors with see through walls ! i was looking forward to black so it's a shame it turned out that i didn't like it ... Still onwards

I think i've decided what the next 3 of the 4 game are going to be

Okami

Sam & Max season 1

Vice city stories

... the final game will either be mercenaries , Freedom fighters , God of war , Spiderman 3 , Hulk UD , Killer 7 , Psi-ops , Shenmue 2 , Second sight , Republic commando , Metroid Prime , Project snowblind , Driver PL , Kong , sniper elite , Bully , spider-man 3 ..

:roll:you know all this does is prove that maybe i need to set mysel a higher target before i start buying games for the PS360 too !!

and that's not even a full list of all the games i've got sitting round waiting to be played !! :shock:

Shame on me !! ... Shame !!! :?

it's been confirmed that GTA4 will be the first game to receive the new '12' rating for videogames in the uk

a BBFC spokesman said today " having seen the trailers for this game we think the teens will love it "

Ok , i'll admit it .. i'm missing the 360 !!

I borrowed a friends 360 for about a month, I stupidly told him iId got the demo of SWOS and imeadiately got told to return the 360 so that he could sample the gameing goodness. :evil::cry::cry::evil:

Anyway that puts me back to my promise to complete 6 more games before i buy myself a PS360.

But i now don't know if i can make it !!! after all ... i've opened pandora's box .. how can i go back to my PS2 or even Xbox knowing that there is a world of HD gaming out there waiting for me !! :shock:

Well i'm going to have to .. i've got "commitments" and exams to worry about and a PS360 would only get in the way !

But the biggest question i'm having to ask myself is what do i get ?

I'm currently coming down on the side of the PS3 ... simply because i've got ready access to a 360 .. and the PS3 will give me BLu-ray as well as games. I've also got to admit that if the PS3 still had the backward compatability i would be 100% sure that it would be my purchase ... however as it stands the decision is very cloudy.. 360 certainly has more of the games i want to play .. but realistically i'm not desperate to play any of them and can wait another yr till i get myself a 360 too .... but then do i really want to buy a PS3 and have it as simply a movie player with a side note of games ?

It all comes down to how the market looks on the 12th June ... the date i will finally join the current generation ... only 2 1/2 yrs late !! :D

Ps .... feel free to rip the proverbial when i turn round in april and buy a 360 with a copy of GTA4

Am i down to 5 games to complete before i buy a PS360 ?

I've been playing Dead rising non stop for the last couple of weeks as i've found it to be a very enjoyable game

I've basically borrowed a 360 from a friend with 8 games .. however ... i've not touched the likes of assassin's creed , Halo 3, FIFA or any of the others .. instead i've been completely hooked on dead rising .. a deeply flawed game with one redeaming feature .. IT'S SOOO MUCH FUN !!! :lol:

But it's taken me away from my pile of PS2/xbox games to complete before i take the step into the current gen ... so i have to decide if it count towards my total .. i've either still got 6 games to finish or 5 .... what to do what to do !!

I'm thinking that i still keep that number at 6

I'm halfway through Xmen legends 2 and i have a whole load more games that i want to play in my collection .. including two games that i'm itching to play Black and Okami ( how's that for breadth in games ! )

yes .. i think i'm going to be sensible and say that i've still got too many games to justify buying another console and starting again !!

Why is the mention of a system's sales strategy cl@ssed as System wars?

I recently started a thread in the Xbox forum asking Xbox owners if they thought Microsoft were doing enough to push the 360 to mass market ownership or if they thought Microsoft were happy to sit back and take a smaller share of the market. Basically i was after the opinions of Xbox owners and those who want to make the purchase.

According to gamespot mediation this is off the topic of the Xbox and actually a system wars debate.

Now i do see their point, it's not specifically about xbox games or the systems capabilities.

But ...

it is a problem that if you want to start a reasoned debate about one particular system you need to post it in a forum that is dedicated to fanboys posting, mostly half truths, about why your system if a complete waste of money and theirs is great.

I think there are very few people that go into the system wars forum to take part in anything more than a futile exercise in oneupmanship.

You know , i learnt long ago that every system on the market is a worthwhile purchase, you can't name a single system ever released where there aren't some good quality games available for it.*

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People are protective over their investments , they aren't mature enough to see that there is no righteous path to Games Heaven ... all paths lead there in their own way.

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*(Except maybe the Virtua boy , but to be fair if it had been out for more than 5 minutes i'm sure someone would have made a great game for it. )

Yesterday i completed 24:the game

it's a shame that in some ways they spent so much time trying to make an interesting , good looking and varied game .. but unfortunately came up short in so many areas.

But at the end of the day it wasn't too painful to play through so i've had an ok time with it.

So now i'm down to 6 games .. and i have to decide what i'm going to play next

Okami , Black , X-men Legends 2, Mercenaries, Freedom fighters, Spider-man 3, Hulk: UD, WWF07, God of War 1/2, GTA:VCS .. hmmm , i'm sure there are loads more !

But i'm still sticking to my guns at the moment and i'm happy that by the time i finish 6 of those games i'll be swept up in the hype of the end of year games coming out on PS360 for 08

but whatever happens i'm sure i'll be here is 2012 with the Xbox 3 / PS4 and thinking .. look at all those games i've not played .. right .. no more console till i've finished 10 more games :)