So I'm having trouble focusing and picking new games to review. I already made a start on Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale but only a paragraph or so. I've long since stopped playing the game though, so I might have to go back for a more accurate review.

I have a list of games I intend to review, but I'm having trouble picking. The list is as follows:

Recettear: An Item Shops Tale

FTL: Faster Than Light

Rune Factory Frontier

Cherry Tree High Comedy Club

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

Dark Souls

Shadow of Memories

Fire Emblem: Fuuin No Tsurugi

Gladius

Dragons Dogma

Inazuma Eleven

A good mix of platforms, although some of the Steam games are at least short enough that a review can be knocked out in an hour or two at most.

EDIT: Yeah so Heavy Hammer suffered a painful, agonisingly slow premature death. But at least I have my blogspot for reviews http://captainquo-gamereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

I have recently set up a gaming website with friends, so if any of you are interested here it is:

http://heavy-hammer.com/

The site has just launched, and features a plethora of gaming news, as well as reviews and features. We review games from the 8 bit era to the present day too, as opposed to every new release, so if you like old games then you will love Heavy Hammer's reviews.

On the 360. Only got it on Saturday. Must have been because I played it so much - the story just willed me to go on. I hear the game is only 8 hours long anyway, but still.

Good while it lasted, but I think what I should have done is bought something with the lastability of Dragon Age: Origins.

I would get Tales of Vesperia, but it's never in shops and its £40 on Amazon! Same applies to Enslaved, which is just out, and Fallout: New Vegas (which will be out in just over a week)

Thinking of getting either Red Dead Redemption, Singularity or Super Street Fighter IV. Thoughts anyone?

Like, now.

Ive been saying for like two years nearly that I'm going to get an Xbox 360. Soon, hopefully, it will actually happen. I have decided that I will probably get one from Amazon.co.uk with my next paycheck. They are doing a deal where I can get any two of UFC: Undisputed 2009, Gears of War 2, Bioshock, GTA IV among others for an extra £10 when I buy my 60GB 360, although I know UFC is going to be a must. I played Fight Night 3 recently at a friend's and its was good, so I'm in the mood for a fighting or wrestling game - plus its selling for about £40, bveing a new game. Im also thinking of getting The Darkness and Viva Pinata, and maybe Kameo: Elements of Power as my first games. Im interested to see what Rare have been up to on the 360. But I theres a chance that I might still have to wait.

I nearly gota 360instead of my Wii, because the games were cheaper, but I really wanted to see what the Wii was capable of. I probably should have waited though. Don't get me wrong, I love my Wii, I just can't afford a lot of games right now, as evidenced by the 360 situation. Most games even second hand are at least £20, and the best games are always expensive.Im still taking advantage of the cheapness of last generations games - I bought a PS2 for £45 last Autumn. Shadow of the Colossus is always between £25-35, and its one of the better games. In order to buy Soul Nomad & The World Eaters, I had to cough up nearly £50, more than I have ever paid for a game in my life. £30 is usually my limit.

Im usually stuck between waiting for months to buy the better Wii games after the prices drop or paying more than I should for lesser games like Ghost Squad or NiGHTS, as I have done most of the time with my Wii. It's been made all the more difficult when all the best games have been recent, so the prices are not dropping very fast, and the Wii is popular, so retailers are reluctant to drop prices for Wii games. Games like Little King's Story, Madworld, Punch Out Wii, The Conduit, Deadly Creatures, Monster Lab and Disaster: Day of Crisis are fairly recent, all interesting to me. De Blob is much older, and even that is too expensive at times. Its only going to get tougfher as the Wii gets more games.

I might just have to get rid of some of my games by taking them to a place in Aberdeen called Solid Gold, where I can trade them in, and maybe get a swap deal. Or try and sell some things on Amazon.

Ive been doing a lot of thinking recently about the types of games I enjoy playing. I recently bought Trauma Centre: Second Opinion for my Wii, and have really enjoyed it. I had a choice between about five games, though, and it took quite a while to decide what I was going to buy, maybe 30mins. The other games included Kororinpa: Marble Mania, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams and Ghost Squad.

Now, rewind to a few weeks ago: I was in Gamestation, and I was looking at a really quirky game being shown in store. It consisted of a large ball rolling around wit the most completely random objects stuck to it. That game was Beautiful Katamari for the Xbox360. A game I am determined to buy when I get a 360.

I suppose maybe ive just gotten really tired of all the FPS's, a style of game that I'll maybe try, but im not that into. My friend Steve, is very narrow-minded whaen it comes to games, and seems to only like Tactical Shooters. He is the kind of person that thinks he will be emasculated if he plays a Mario game. He cannot even consider the idea of playing something colourful, such is his fear of those types of games. He curses Mario under his breath when he thinks im not listening, yet he has never played a Mario game in his life.

Sadly, there seems to be far too many "hardcore" gamers with this silly attitude. They are scared to try something different: they want the same, stale gameplay. What the industry needs less of is the Movie license games that dont do anything but make money off brands like Disney or Pixar. We need less Tactical Shooters that convince so many ignorant people that they have to pretend to be macho to impress their friends. And we need games that are fun, different and not afraid to do their own thing. Games such as these.....

Beautiful Katamari:

Eternal Sonata

Nights Into Dreams...

Kororinpa: Marble Mania

Brutal Legend

Viva Pinata

Little Big Planet

Folklore

De Blob

Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon

Odin Sphere

King's Story

Opoona

Zack & Wiki: The Quest for Barbaros Treasure

No More Heroes

Trauma Centre: Second Opinion

Kirby (The great thing about this series is the number of abilities available to Kirby when he swallows enemies. I thought it was pure genius when I was 7 years old, I think its genius now)

Culdcept Saga

Well, since I finally got a console for this generation (a Nintendo Wii) I can say goodbye to my Gamecube *sniffs*. Not that it matters, there are GC games I still want, admittedly. Also, I'll still play the games while I find money to fund my Wii collection.

With this transitionin mind I would like to say a final farewell and pay my respects to my Gamecube, which on the 25th of December, 2007, finally became obsolete, about a good 6 months to a year after everyone elses.

MY GAMECUBE

R.I.P

BELOVED CONSOLE, FRIEND, AND FATHER TO THE NINTENDO WII

SEPTEMBER 2005-DECEMBER 2007

THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES

In order to pay my respects properly, I would like to take this oppertunity to look over the 20 proudest moments (games)of my Gamecube's life, as chosen by me, the owner.

1 - Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

2 - Resident Evil 4

3 - Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean

4 - Tales of Symphonia

5 - Gladius

6 - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

7 - X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse

8 - Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

9 - Resident Evil 0

10 - Resident Evil

11 - Animal Crossing

12 - Super Smash Bros. Melee

13 - F-Zero GX

14 - Pokemon Colosseum

15 - Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

16 - Soul Calibur II

17 - Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc

18 - WWE: Day of Reckoning

19 - Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader

20 - Megaman X: Command Mission

Honourable mentions: Metroid Prime, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, Super Monkey Ball, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time andThe Legend of Zelda: TheWind Waker.

All 51 games I own gave me countless hours worth of enjoyment on that little purple, indestructable box, and I'll never forget it. By far the most underrated console of all time.