Seriously I want the "Elite" 360 but Im trying to keep a decent budget this year, and not go overboard.Its either, buy quality games that I know Im going to play and not hate,(thank god for gamefly) or get an Elite and one game for the year, and thats with trading in my premium 360.

Its not a money thing so much, see I know that wanting the Elite is just my spoiled side coming out, and wanting it because its the very best top of the line, but my current 360 works fine, and has a 2 year service plan attached to it, so no worries if it goes bad on me. Its that damn black color and HDMI though...I can buy the bigger HDD but no HDMI or black color with out voiding the warranty.

Im gonna be honest, I hate the white 360 and always have. I just cant stand it, I love Black Game consoles. But Id rather spend $500.00 on games for the rest of the year. Ive said it so many times but I HATE MS. Always have, Always will:evil:

So I was board looking for something to play and I thought: Why not try Castlevania? I have NEVER played a Castlevania game, and this one seems to be popular so I bought it and think its great so far anyway.  Its another great addition to the LIVE arcade. Look for a review soon. Hopefully I continue to like it.

And here are a few reviews:

Fight Night Round 3 (PS3

Dark Kingdom (PS3)

Mortal Kombat II (PS3)

F.E.A.R. (360) 

When is the Wii ever truly going to get a good game?

Lets talk about Resident Evil for a moment.

On the Gamecube Nintendo re-released every game fro the series from 1 to Code Veronica. And they rocked. Better graphics, new gameplay, and resident Evil Zero was awesome, as was resident Evil 4.Those sad Online only games on the PS2 were disgusting though. The only Resident Evil gmes I dindt like as a matter of fact, were those 2 PS2 crappy versions.

To take a step back for a  moment. We shouldnt be surprised about DMC 4 going multi-plat. It started with Resident Evil 4. That game was suppose to be a Gamecube exclusive....then they rehashed on the PS2, with new stuff, but downgraded graphics. Now its coming to the Wii with NO graphical improvments, and use of the Wii remote...I can Hardly curb my enthusiasm:roll:

This is all leading up to this: "Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles" WHat a dissapointment. A friggin Lightgun shooter? Why? Does any one remeber they tried this with the PS1 (or PS2 cant remember) They made a Resident Evil FPS that was absolute crap, and now this. Not only am I disgusted with Capcom for Rehasing Resident Evil 4 for the Wii, now this monstrousity rears its ugly ugly head. WHAT A JOKE! This game will blow ass.

Will the Wii ever get anything besides lame ports, rehashes...and friggin kiddie games? A resident Evil Lightgun game of all the gimmicky things...WTF? Why the **** is the Wii so popular? Are casuals that stupid to buy **** like this? Why ever bought the Wii again Ill never know. Super Smash brothers, and Mario Galaxy are not enough to keep this system...for me anyway.

I know some of my good friends like the Wii, but right now I look at its games and wonder....How in the hell does this thing sell? And how does any one even like this system? The DS has a better selection of games than the Wii.

I put the Wii up there with all those lame little game machines you can buy at walmart for like $30.00 made by tiger eletronics, just plug and play:roll:. Its nothing but a friggin toy.....I gave up toys a long time ago.

Speaking of toys, why the **** do limited edition games come with action figures? I dont play with GI joes any more...Im saddened by the decision for the Bio-Shock Collectors edition. A friggin toy comes with it. If I want toys Ill get them for free from a Mc Donalds happy meal. I just dont understand or like were gaming is going honestly.

It feels like Devs are appealing to casuals and forgetting about the Hardcores, and Hobbyists who buy every system and game under the sun.  Speaking of lazy devs and appealing to casuals....People like to rag on the PS3 for not having a bunch of exclusives, what about the 360? There is not exactly a TON of exclusives for it either. What happened to the exclusives? Why is that devs want all games for mulitplatform, and only Sony and MS in house develop exclusives? That is retarded.

Besides if you really want to get down to the nitty gritty Sony has a ton more in-house IPs than MS, and has a lot more in-house Sony only games releasing in the future. Only 2 MS exclusives Im loking forward to. Fable 2 and Halo 3. Gears 2 might be good, but if its anyhting like the first no thank you. As racing goes, do I get forza now or wait for Gran Tourismo 5 which as always will probably have twice the cars and twice the tracks? Or say **** it and wait for PGR 4 lol.

And another thing...this graphics vs. graphics thing has to stop. System wars is what casues people to shoot other people. Last gen the PS2 the weakling of the bunch destroyed the competition. Im not saying the PS3 is weaker, but at least Sony and MS are on a level playing field this gen, with really awesome physics capabilities with the cell, and Geat textures with the 360's GPU. 

 Fanboys piss me off. You want to like one system thats fine. But respect others decisions to buy all or just the opposing system.

Look at it this way. Nintendo and Sega bested what Atari tried to build. Sony B**** slapped nintendo and crushed sega for 2 generations. MS joined the fray and provided awesome graphics, and built upon the empire that sony dominated even beating nintendo there first outing, but not Sony. Only god knows what will happen this gen. MS came out a year ahead with a decent start, with good games, but cant seem to get the quality of the syatem it self right. Sony enters a year later with a great quality system but lackluster line up, not even begining to breach the power of the console, and of course a few broken promises. And Nintendo has.......Seemingly come out with a toy that appeals to the masses, even I was entertained for a month, but thats done now.

 Not sure exactly were this blog went lol.

After a brief obsession with Oblivion and then a break with nothing new coming out for a bit, gaming was at kind of a lull for me.

Last night though that changed. Played Lost Planet for the first time in a bit. Ive put 4 hours into that game and Im 1 level away from beating it....that is pathetic. Played Saints Row too which was a lot of fun, Crackdown was awesome to.

Didnt try Fear or Just Cause though, not sure why. For a bit I enjoyed Lost Planet much more than Gears, but its twice as short:( What is it with these short ass games anyway? Original Super mario was longer than some of these :lol:

It just feels good to actually WANT to play games again. Regardless of whether they are new or not.

On another note though I'm quite pissy over the fact that the 360 is the glitchiest system I have ever played in my entire life:evil: I mean I really enjoyed playing it last night, and getting back into some of my other games but, Lost planet froze twice, Saints Row froze once after a few hours, hell I even Dl'd the shrek Demo for me and my girlfriend to try (we enjoy games like that together, go figure:P) and I had to re DL it twice due to file corruption...WTF?

When is the glitchiness gonna stop? I dont think...I KNOW that it will crash again, its juat a matter of when. They just "gutted" the "Elite" to see the inner workings and the article I read made reference of how MS basically slathered the GPU and CPU with apoxy....and then made remarks about how if that was MS way of making sure the connections stay and dont melt...thats sad. Apparently that is the trouble with the 360 then? The connections from the motherboard to the CPU and GPU degrading due to excessive heat? What a cheap piece of crap

This worries me even more because I want an Elite...even though Im royaly pissed about it. Ive played my PS3 on stints of 24 hours straight, and did the folding at home thing for like 2 days straight once with out a freeze, glitch, hiccup, or any sort of over heating.

No matter what anyone says, games or no games right now, the PS3 is so much better built than the 360, and Im having way more fun with the PS3 launch games then I ever did with the 360's launch games. Resistance alone was worth my money at launch.

Anyway still had a good time with the 360, just getting very tired of glitchiness.

I have to come to the conclusion that in all of my years of playing video games, I have become way to spoiled the last 6 years with all of the free-form non-linear games.

As it stands right now corridor shooters, (Doom, FEAR, PREY, etc) or FPS have become way to limiting with the role you play, and how the story works out. Severly boring cliffhangers are a far to common thing in endings now days, game play is way to short, and Levels are way to small, FPS, sadly are one of my favorite genres but with Oblivion, Saints Row, and all the GTA's I have been spoiled and almost feel like I cant stand it when the game ends, so I dont end it.

In GTA and its clones I rob murder, and sell drugs not only because its fun, but because even when the game is over, I can still do those things, same goes with Oblivion. It ends when I SAY not because Im not on some linear path.

Resistance is like one of my Favs at the moment, mostly because the corridors are brief, and the Levels are HUGE. It took me 8 hours to beat Gears....yay......it took me 30 on normal difficulty to beat resistance....a little better. On super human I dont even know how many hours it took, but it was a lot. Resistance is the only exception Im making for linear games right now.

Ive gone back to Crackdown, Saints Row, Oblivion (PS3 and 360), Just Cause, and all of the GTAs for the PS2. Point being that I cant stand linear games no longer. In my opinion a cinematic climax can be reached in a free-form game, devs just gotta try harder, and quit being lazy.

Lost PLanet, FEAR, Dark Kingdom, Fight Night round 3, are all going on the chopping block this week. Linear games bore me to death. Now if said games (fight night round 3 being the exception) had Online Co-Op thats another thing Im interested in, but they dont, and I need the 120GB HDD, so its trade in time :lol::P

Im looking forward to Mass effect,(unsure a little bit) Fable 2, Lair (possibly depending on if its longer than 10 hours), FFXIII, (if the battle system was the same as 12 though forget it:() Two Worlds, (depending on quality) Halo 3,(not really excited though) Godzilla for the Wii, purely because Im a Japanese monster freak:D, Bio-Shock,(if its not to restricting)

If youll notice the only 2 Im really excited for are Godzilla and Fable 2 and were the only ones I didnt make remarks about. THATS IT! Thats all Im pumped about. That alternate realityWWII shooter Turning point looks good, as battle field:Bad Company and Army of 2 especially army of 2 for Co-Op, but all those games seem so limiting. I want huge Wolrds, and the ability to do whatever I want....Im spoiled thats all there is to it.

But I love Co-Op games too. My all time fav has to be Chrome Hounds. I LOVE THAT GAME! Endless battles friggin rock, with a buddy:D By the way friends, Im buying that game again soon so hopefully we can get in on some play time:D

Honestly Im having the best time ever with the PS3 and 360, but games on the PS3 are lacking at the moment, and only a few 360 games last longer then 10 minutes (exageration obviously:P)

I also gave in and played some Super Mario brothers on the Wii today, and Mario 64:D Just felt like a classic's day to day:P

So now its time for therapy.....WHY IS IT THAT I SPEN 8 HOURS LAST NIGHT TRYING TO CREATE THE PERFECT CHARACTER ON MOTHER******* OBLIVION?

I mean jesus christ why? Ive gotten to the point where I know that my play ****matches my personality. If I were in the military, I wouldnt be a sniper, or a tank operator...ID BE THE MOTHER****** AT THE FRONT LINES LEADING THE BATTLE SLITING THROATS AND STOMPING BABIES, AND PILLAGING THE INNOSENSE FROM HELPLESS MAIDENS!

Yet in Oblivion I have this yurning to try something different.....and I suck at it. Im great with a fighter/assassin, but my mage characters lack the ability to seemingly level up balanced, and like 2 hits from a sword kill me, because I forget, that I have to methodically kill things, no running in and slaughtering anything with a pulse.

SO were is the problem you say? Its the fact that I want to experience the game in a different light, but my brain just wont let me :lol: It says no run in there.....and die lol. Yes I actually spent 8 hours trying to creat a balanced mage with fighting skills, and needless to say I failed lol.

Its just that when you have a character that has so many different wayward skills its hard to level up the right things you need to advance in, because when you have skills governed in 4 different things, and you can only level up 3 at a time, some skills go un used and un balanced and I cant stand that....Im am so neurotic with this game.

The very first character I EVER had was a Argonian Fighter/mage, that I spent 300+ hours playing with (360 version) It was perfect. I was a ******* god, but this was pre-patch and my game glitched.....****! My save was ruined and ever since then I cannot truly make a character I am happy with.....yet I still play :lol:

I dont know Im sure you guys probably think Im nuts the way I write these blogs....*looks in medicine cabnent, forgot to take happy pills* :P

If anyone has any tips on a multi-dimensional charater, I would appreciate help. My fav Magic skills are, Destruction, Summoning, and Restoration, My fave Fighting skills are, Blade, Heavy armor, armorer, yet putting together a character like this seems to be impossible. Its like in oblivion the devs said: Sure you can be what you want, and you will feel you earned it, but truly powerful god charatres are only attained by being one thing, Fighter, Mage, Stealth.....which kind of sucks......Honeslty I love the leveled loot, and weopons etc....BUT LEVELED ENEMIES SUCK ASS!

I would honeslty PAY for a patch that allowed to bypass the leveled enemies. Just make everything a certain level except for weapons, armor, loot etc. Make it so that your level CAN exceed the enemies level. Only powerful enemies will appear when you level up but once you reach that high level, you should still be able to out level them. I guess every game has its flaws though, and this is Oblivions.

Feel free to tell me Ive gone insane:D:D:D

PS: GS apparently blocks words like s t y l e and c l a s s so some paragraphs may not make sense. Apparently there is some kind of exploit with these words. Something to do with Java script:?

SO I'd just like to welcome my buddy nyc05 back:D Its been a while man:wink: And also to my other friends, I will be busy taking care of the little woman as she has just had some serious surgery. Hopefully I will be back gaming soon:D Im staying at her parents house and could bring one sysstem so I brought the PS3:(

So the only comunication I will have will be through their PC, no LIVE:(. Anyway hope to be playing again soon.

Oh yea to my friend Martin....dont think Ive been ignoring you:P, Just took me a while to remeber to check my LIVE account via: PC:P

So now I see why I never had it for the PS2....Guitar controller or not I wouldnt pay $70.00 for a game and guitar controller. For the 360 Im sure as hell not paying $90.00. I play gutiar in real life think Ill stick to that. Doing Panteras Cowboys from hell solo on a real guitar and doing it in a game just are not the same.....much easier and less challenging in the game then real life lol.

I was excited about this game for a bit, but I have enough trouble paying $60.00 for a game let alone $90.00. It appears a lot of games may be passing me buy this year, due to lack of cash. Assasins Creed, Bio-Shock, Mass Effect, Shadow Run, Mercs 2, and others appear to be on the gamefly rent list. Only FOR SURE purchases this year will be GTA 4, Halo 3 (maybe, still unsure), Fable 2 (hopefully this year), Lair, and a few other PS3 titles.

Gaming is starting to get too expensive these days for me. Going to start having to go for quality over quanity:wink: 

Maybe its about time MS starting listening to there customers. Not only is MS extending warranty coverage on "repaired" consoles, they have actually realised that the suppose "refurb" seems to fail so you will actually get your console back when you send it in for repairs, and not a refurb.

That's a huge deal for me. If I would've actually received my launch console back when it failed, I probably wouldn't have had so many failures and I wouldn't have to create a new Gamer-tag and petition MS to refund me points so I can re-download everything because its not registered to my present console, so I cant play content offline....say that 5 times fast lol.

It would've made things easier in the beginning had MS just done it right the first time. To lazy to provide a link so just go to the 360 page here at Gamespot and you will see it:)

First 6 console go bye bye with #7 seeming to work ok. Then my LIVE account goes haywire after using a prepaid card to renew it, as well as my communications only work when the settings are completly open. Come to find out my DL content is all registered to my old 360s so it doesnt work off-line and they just cant transport it over, so I have to make a new silver account, and rebuy everything so its registered to this newest console, which is actually the the shining light in this dark cloud as they are refunding me 15,000 MS points, its just the thought of going through this whole goddamn process of having to talk with 100 idiots who barely speak english just to get to the one supervisor that does speak english.

Also communication on games like Halo2 and Doom3 for the original xbox I cant communicate on those games with my account but sign in to my girlfriends account on the same console and I NOT ONLY HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH 360 COMMUNICATION I ALSO CAN COMMUNICATE WITH ORIGINAL XBOX GAMES......WTF IS WRONG WITH MY ACCOUNT? MS TO STUPID TO FIX IT? THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY TO BUSY HIRING IMMIGRANTS THAT SPEAK NO ENGLISH TO ACTUALLY ADRESS AND FIX ISSUES WITH PEOPLES CONSOLES....****ERS! HOW MANY MORE TIMES WILL I HAVE TO CALL THESE @$$HOLES THIS YEAR?

Dont even get me started on the Elite, I have no comment.

The Wii is gone as of next week. Im sick of looking at it, and not playing it. Classic games are not enough for me to keep it.

Just another F'ing day in paradise. Only thing working right is the PS3. Still playing all the games for it. Resistance, Fight Night 3, Dark Kingdom, Oblivion, and Motorstorm. It doesnt bore me, it doesnt piss me off and freeze and breakdown.........SO why do I have the other 2?......Fable 2 is about the only reason Im hanging on to my 360 and if Oblivion and Saints Row are any example. Fable 2 will probably freeze like a mother****er, so whats the point?

Im so sick of calling Microsuck, and Ive had with Pretendo toys that have nothing but crap games. Thats the 360s only good point is the games...which Im not even playing right now:(

RANT OVER:twisted: