Here's the list of what I need to finish:

AI War: Fleet Command

Alien Vs. Predator Classic

Assassin's Creed II

Borderlands 2

Call of Cthulu: Dark Cornors of the Earth (Almost finsihed this one, but the save file got corrupted.)

Crysis

Deus Ex

GTA IV

Half-Life: Blue Shift

Half-Life 2: Episode 1

Half-Life 2: Episode 2

Hitman: Blood Money

Just Cause 2 (Never going to finish this one. Just to much stuff to blow up)

L.A. Noire (Very close on this one)

Mass Effect

Overlord

Red Faction: Guerilla

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Saint's Row: The Third

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

Dawn of War II

Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising

Dawn of War II: Retribution

The Witcher

World in Conflcit

I freaking hate multiplayer games. It has nothing to do with how any of them designed (Though there are a few games where that is a contributing factor), but mostly it comes down to what makes a game multiplayer: Other players. There's a reason why the ESRB has that disclaimer that says that "Online interactions are not rated". I have never been in a multiplayer where people are not billigerant @$$holes All people seems to want to do on the internet is just be an ass towards everyone else. I mean I've played pick up games in my neighbourhood and gone to a lot of different competitive events where everyone is super incouraging and nice to one another. Not multiplayer games. Unless you're amazing, you're a noob and people let you know it. What spurred me to write this was that I just played a match of Dawn of War 2 in which my two allies spent the whole match telling me that "the game wasn't for me", and called me a noob/dumbass at least two dozen times. Christ that pissed me off. All I wanted to do was play the game, and I've been told that multiplayer is the best part. All it did was piss me off not because I was frustrated with the two D I C K S who called themselves my "teammates".

Similar thing happened to me in Call of Duty: Black Ops. Not the proper multiplayer, however, but in Zombies mode. I still thing it's better to play Zombies with three other people rather than on your own, but not as much anymore. Thinking that Zombies mode was about being a team and just trying to surive together, if I saw a zombie I shot at it. In the first area of Kino Der Torten, I shot at a zombie that was not a the window I was by but at a different one that someone else was at. I was immediatly called a douche and then told that if I was downed, no one would try to revive me (This ended up being an empty threat). I was amazed that even in something that is supposed to be team based, people were still loan gunnning it.

Those two experiences in the past 48 hours have lead me to the disicion to not play multiplayer. I simply won't do it anymore. F U C K those people. Now, if you will excuse me, I've got some Alan Wake to play. Steam, away!!!!!!!

I recently saw Dark Knight Rises with my girlfriend, and ever since seeing it I am in full comicbook movie mode. Hell, I sat down and watched Thor today. I was driving to the post office this morning, and I suddenly had a few ideas on what Warner Bros. needs to do if they make a Green Lantern 2. It's pretty doubtful that this movie will actually get made, but if it does, here's my wish list.

1. Sinestro NEEDS to be the only villian. Obviously this was the plan when they had the major sequel bait of an ending that the first one had, but honestly if the movie consits of two guys with crazy ass mind powers going at it, I'll be far more interested in that then one guy going up against a mean storm cloud. Furthermore, there can't be another secondary villian in there like there was with Hector Hammond having zero arch or character or anyhting interesting about him.

2. Introduce another human Green Lantern. I'm not saying that I want this person to actually get a Lantern Ring in the new film, but if a John Stewart or a Guy Garner was in there, I would love it.

3. RECAST CARROL FERRIS. Good lord she was awful in the first movie. Absoulutely terrible. TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE. This is the woman that eventually becomes Star Sapphire? Bull shanty! Speaking of Star Sapphire....

4. Set up Star Sapphire for a future movie. What a great conflict to have Green Lantern have to fight the woman he cares about. What a huge amount interesting conflict that would create for a future film. Granted, a slight redesign of the character would be needed, but if done WELL it would be very interesting. Don't have her be a antagonist in the sequel, but set her up for a future movie.

5. RECAST CARROL FERRIS.

That is all.

The Hombre

So I've been having a lot of thoughts about gaming in general, and a lot of them (though fairly basic) are way over the heads of my Madden playing comrades. But, hey, this is what Gamespot is for! So this post may get rather large.

Dead Space 3

So the rumor mill reguarding this game as been working over drive. According to a few sites (Kotaku, Shacknews) the game is going to take place on an ice planet and will be co-op centric. I cannot tell you how many red flags popped up when I heard this. So far, Dead Space 3 is screaming Resident Evil 5 to me. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Resi 5. But at the same time compared to previous game, it is a serious step down. The reason That I make the connection between RE5 and DS3 is because both games involve co-op and a major change in setting. Instead of the aweseome futuristic society of the Sprawl or the scary as **** corrodors of the Ishimarua, we've got essentally Hoth. Yippie (Sarcasm). What we all learned from RE5 is that co-op makes horror pretty much impossible because you know there is always another gun wielding badass who has got your back. From a gameplay stance, co-op is a benefit. From a atmosphere/story standpoint, however, it is a serious detrement. What drew me so quickly to Dead Space 1 was that it actually scared the **** out of me, and putting co-op into that equation really does not compute for me. Sidenote: Apparently, in DS3 Isaac is suffereing from a split personality disorder, and has verbal jousts with what is described as "Shadow Isaac". I cannot tell you how disappointed this makes me. One of my favorite things about Dead Space 2 (HUGE GIANT MASSIVE GAME RUINING SPOILER ALERT! SKIP TO NEXT PARAGRAPH) was Clarke coming to terms with his guilt regarding what happened to Nicole in DS1, and him overcoming the halucinations brought on by the Marker. By having Shadow Isaac, this satisfaction of Clarke regaining his sanity is destroyed. No me gusta.

Mount and Blade: Warband and the Valve key fiasco.

Mount and Blade is a series I had heard of once before it went on sale on Steam about a week and a half ago. The Warband version is the highest rated on Metacritc, so I picked to download that one. The issue that cropped up soon stemed from the fact that Paradox Interactive didn't supply Steam with enough CD keys to give out to all of those who picked up the game. Because of this, I couldn't play the game until the day after I purchased it. Not that big a deal, but I still have a few thoughts. The first of which is that I failed to understand the relationship between Steam and DRM. One of the reasons that my purchasing habbits regarding PC games has gone all digital was that I was sick of typing in and saving all of those annoying CD keys. I had thought that with Steam, CD keys wouldn't be an issue. Boy, was I wrong! The fact that I have to wait for authorization from a third party in order to play the games I play is disheartining, but I suppose it is the nature of the beast. My other thought is that Paradox Interactive and Valve need to have a long chat. Combine this idiocy with the completly botched launch of Sword of the Stars II, Paradox really is not handeling its digital side well. There is a reason Paradox has never been able to release a mainstream product. They exist in a grey area between Indie and AAA, and this grey area is a grave yard of failed publishers, and Paradox seems to be doing everything it can to make us a gamers annoyed. So for Paradox, I'd say grab a shovel, we've got a six foor hole to dig.

AppleStation360U

The idea of Apple getting into Video game is laughable. The model that Apple has with regards to tablets and phones would not translate to gaming. Considering how fast Apple nukes all of its products into uselessness as a routine money making ploy, I don't know how the average gamer would react to that, though I expect it wouldn't be to warmly. Tom McShea in the final episode of Hotspot made a really good point about an Apple console, and that is if Apple does it right then they are more than welcome to take a shot at it, but it would have to be based around games and experiences that Apple can provide on its console, and only on its console. I just hate the idea of Valve being dragged alone on this sort of thing. It's too weird to have the consumer friendly company (Valve) teamed up with the supposed evil monolitihc corporation (Apple) on the same project. Terrifying thought: What if Apple and Valve were teaming up for a console, and in order to sell the console Valve made Half Life 3 a Applethingy exclusive. I would literally have to buy it at that point. God I'm shallow and selfish.

Thanks for getting this far fellow Gamespoters.

The Hombre.

I feel terrible right now. I can't even really describe it, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone. All I can really do for the next few days is sit in bed and do nothing, as I can't go to class, (I'm contagious), I can't nap (it hurts to bad to sleep, so tonight will be an adventure), and I can't go out (I ache too much.) So pretty much all I can do for the next couple of days is play video games and watch Caprica on Netflix. Right now I've been playing Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on my 3DS and Splinter Cell: Double Agent on the PC, and am planning on actually finishing the main quest in Fallout: New Vegas tomorrow once the drugs kick in. I'm over 100 hours in and still haven't finished it, though I hear it's pretty epic at the end. I also haven't finished the main quest in Skyrim, or Oblivion for that matter. I'm one of those people who likes to see every nook and cranny of the world when I game, and so when you throw me into a huge open world RPG, it's kind of locking a nine year old in a candy store the size of the Library of Congress.

With the recent tantrum surrounding Mass Effect 3's ending (No, I have not played it, and I have no intention to. Mass Effect 1 really didn't hold my interest, so I'm not going to bother.), a lot of people shockingly from within the gaming community are challanging the idea of games as art. What is happening? Suddenly, because we are not happy with about twenty minutes of one game, the entire medium is now just a product that deserves no protection? Have people gone insane? Games and what they are used to be something that united all of us, and now suddenly it suddenly isn't importnat, just a product to be sold. Crys of "You took my money, therefor I deserve the best thing ever!" are almost defening on any story related to ME3.

Fact of the mater is, Games are art. Who said so? The Supreme Court:

"Like protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas- and even social messages- through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dioluge, plot, and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as a player's interatcion with the virtual world). That suffices to confer First Amendment protection." -Justice Antonin Scallia, author of the majority decision in the Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants Association

The Supreme Court, a group of 9 judges, lawyers, and government officals, all of whom are over 50, have stated that Video games are art. These people do not play games, do not care about games, and likely are completely unfamiliar with them. Yet they see them for what they are. Contrast that with the scores of angry posters on the boards, who all play, love, and deeply care about games coming forward and saying they are nothing more than a product to be consumed, like a box of cereal or a bottle of Pepto-Bismal.

Some people have responded to me by saying "But it sucked! It can't be art if it's bad." Well, art is in the eye of the beholder. Do I like Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary"? No, in fact I find it incredibly offensive as a Catholic. Does that mean I want Chris Ofili's to rip the paiting to shreds and make a nice painting? No, because then you've just taken away his right to express his ideas, vile as they may be. It's art, simple as that.

Others who understand this also respond with "Well other people have changed their art before!" This is also true. You have things like Highlander 2: The Renegade Edition, the Broken Steel DLC for Fallout 3, and the alternate endings to The Shining. Does that make it ok for BioWare to change the ending of Mass Effect 3? NO! Just because other people do something doesn't make it the right thing to do! Other people are out cheating on their girlfriends right now, does that make it ok for me to cheat on mine? Not in the least. I witnessed a guy get into a fight over a beer at a basektball game today. Does that make it ok for me to punch someone over a brewsky? Nope! It's the classic "If they jumped off a bridge" moment.

If you didn't like Mass Effect 3's ending, that's your opinion. I have tons of those. For example, I hated the ending to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, I hated the main character in Red Faction: Guerilla, and I hated how (Spoilers) Ned Stark and Khal Drogo died in A Game of Thrones. But I've accepted those events as the art that they are, set in stone, and moved on. You're not going to like everything you buy, and just because you spent money on it doesn't mean you deserve anything for it.

The Hombre

I saw someone on Fuse post a list of their top ten games... so I'm going to blatently copy their idea. Without further ado:

THE HOMBRE'S TOP TEN FAVORITE GAMES OF ALL TIME

Honorable Mentions: Half-Life, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Resident Evil 4, Call of Duty 4, Company of Heroes, entire Command and Conquer series (except for Red Alert 3 and Tiberum Twilight. Those games... not so much.)

10. Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption

9. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

8. Fallout 3

7. Bully

6. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

5. Medieval II: Total War

4. Star War: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

2. BioShock

1. Fallout: New Vegas

Thanks for reading. Now what you have to do is make a similar list for yourself. You can tell a lot about a person from what their favorite games are.

This is unbelivable.... it's an actual convo I had with someone on the RE4 video review.

Kubilay Han: This fake game is a theif game using RE name.

Kubilay Han: RIP Resident Evil 1996-2002

sgthombre: @Kubilay Han You mad, bro?

Kubilay Han: @sgthombre no i'm not mad are you mad?

sgthombre: @Kubilay Han Nope, I'm not mad. Why? Because I enjoy RE4 a great deal. Why? Because it doesn't control like abrick covered in steaming crap, like the originals did. Also, I'm not mad because I can use grammar and punctuation in my comments properly.

Kubilay Han: @sgthombre please wake up and see waht is right or wrong this is not RE okay? you say you are not made but you use *mad* so you have something with mad people? and grammar? are you teacher? don't teach me anything ok. Just teach yourself this is not RE and this is a stupid game think carefully and you will understand and try to be nice you like insulting because you play Spanish Killer(Frowny face) [Note: In an earlier comment he refered to RE4 as "Spanish Killer"]

Kubilay Han: I hate arguing especially for stupid things please don't argue with me for this disgusting,useless game please understand this is NOT RE what is it? shoot, run shoot, run, shoot and killing talking people si this good for brain? and i apologise if i said something wrong or insult you.Believe me Capcom is insulting everyone this is why i'm angry i'm trying to protect you and players but in the end they call me mad(frowny face)(frowny face) what a shame(frowny face)

sgthombre: @Kubilay Han How is this not Resident Evil? Does it have RE on the box? Check. Are there characters from previous games? Check. References to previous games? Check what mroe do you want? You can whine and moan about a game that won Gamespot GOTY, the nyou obviously haven't lived, kiddo.

Kubilay Han: @sgthombre still sleeping(frowny face)(frowny face) to bad

Kubilay Han: pre-renderd backgrounds! Nemesis,William Birkin you know them? you know real Resident Evil? and is this RE? This is not RE Capcom playing with you like a toy Capcom insulitng everybody. You are killing people they are supposed to be mindless creatures right?they are takling they are using weapons right? is this RE?don't argue with me please argue with Capcom

sgthombre: @Kubilay Han Maybe. If so, wake me up by explaining how this isn't Resident Evil.

Kubilay Han: @sgthombre i told you everything and if you still don't understand that is not my problem if you played Spanish Killer you should understand what i'm trying to say and believe me right now you are laughable (frowny face)(frowny face) Capcom having fun with you(frowny face) this not RE i already told you everything you still wake me up(smiley face)

sgthombre: @Kubilay Han it doesn't have characters from previous resident evil games, and they're weren'y the same types of eneimes? By that logic, Call of Duty 4 isn't COD because it has no characters from previous games and you fight Russians instead of Nazis. By that logic, Skyrim isn't an Elder Scrolls game because it didn't have characters from previous games and you fought dragons instead of demons from Oblivion. By that logic, Command and Conwuer: Red Alert isn't a Command and Conquer game because it's the Soviets vs. Allies instead of GDI vs. Nod. Your arguement is invalid.

Kubilay Han: @sgthombre stop arguing and see the truth you are really laughable (frowny face) open your eyes it is to bad Capcom making money by people like you this is not RE start thinking and understand.but i understand you because you play game like this so your brain is numb now(frowny face)to bad(frowny face)

Kubilay Han: @sgthombre i don't understand you! you already lost and keep answering me for nothing(smiley face)if you like chatting go and find someone elsenot me i hate arguing.your comments are futile,empty because this is not RE when you open your eyes you will understand that truth and you will insult yourself and laugh yourself i feel sorry for you please go and argue Capcom

sgthombre: @Kubilay Han I... I don't understand... how old are you? Like 7? Because I refuse to believe that a rational adult would think or speak in the fashion you do. I'm the one with a numb brain? Because "Darkinwing Duck and "Tiny Toon Adventures" are completely intellectually stimuating. [Note: I checked his profile to see what games he would consider to be good, and he rated both of those games as 10's. He might be trying to be ironic, but I doubt this guy even knows what irony is.]

Haven't had a blog post in a while, so I might as well do one right now.

Black Ops. 2 is apparently happening, and why this is news? Did anyone think for a second that it wasn't? What I really got a kick out of was the COD hating from people who had Assassin's Creed avatars. They were like "Boo! Same game every year!" and failing to see the irony in it all. Personally, I'm excited for Blops2, because I loved the Black Ops campaign, and Im look forward to what Treyarch has up it sleeves.

So nothing is really happening here... I'm a bit lonely as the girlfriend is out of town with her folks for the weekend, but I've been playing Skyrim and Resident Evil to pass the time. I'm wholly impressed with RE: Revelations. On almost every level it sets new benchmarks for the 3DS. The graphics are probably the best on the system, it controls great, and it is actually scary. Plus, i salute the developers to having Jill Valentine as the lead. I'd say you spend about 65% of the game as her, and I was expecting to be playing as Christ Redfield for the majority. Again, hats off to the developer.

What else? Looks like the Vikings are staying in Minneapolis, and I can't be more excited. LA is going to have to steal someone else's team. What is also fantastic is that the new stadium will be downtown instead of in the East Metro area. This is great, as downtown you have things like the Target Center, the stadium where the Twins play, and various great sports bars and restaurants. The light rail system also goes through here. In Arden Hills, the east metro site, there is pretty much nothing, and the road upgrades needed would cost us tax payers over 20 million dollars by some estimates. So hooray for common sense on the part of our politicians... For once.

That's all I've got right now. Keep on Trekkin', and have a good President's Day.

The Hombre

Thought I would inform the world on my current situation.

After blasting though at good 30 hours of Skyrim, I had to take a break in order to prevent burnout. So, once Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates came in the mail, I was excited. There have been a few issues to crop up so far.

First and formost, getting this thing to run was a really pain in the @$$. What happens is that in Windows 7, the auto run literally doesn't work. You'll get a little window after putting int the disk that has a cool picture of a pirate Heavy Crusier and two buttons. One says "install" the other says "exit". When you click install, the window closes.... and then nothing happens. Never fear, I thought, on windows 7 this happens all the time. So I open the files directly from computer, select the setup.exe file and run as administrator. The result: Nothing. Nothing at all. So after a good 30 minutes scowering the interwebs, I found the solution: Run the setup with Windows XP compataility pack 3, and after 15 minutes it installed fine.

Now to the game itself..... there are some issues here as well. I never owned Orion Pirates, I only owned Empire at War, which is the second game, plus the original Starfleet Command. There are a few changes made here from those games. A couple are for the better. You can now actually target the point-defense systems on other ships rather than just having to deal with them the whole game like in SFCII, where it caused me to never play as the Federation, Klingons or Mirak ever, because the ships I'd buy were missile ships, and for those of you who don't know, missles are utterly useless against any ship armed with PDWs. So that's a plus.

But as far as the "8 new Pirate factions!" that the game brags about, the truth is that there is only one. All 8 "factions" have the exact same ships, with the only difference being that the starting area for each faction is different, and sometimes the Beastrider faction will fly into battle with space creatures as escorts. You read that right. This was a tad disappointing, but at least you can play as dirty, traiterous pirates now.

The other issues that I have is reguarding the "advanced" ships, which are so overpowere that they make the game nearly impossible. For those of you who don't know, SFC games breaks the ships and the Campaigen up into several era: Early, Middle, Late, and now Advanced. In all the other games, the best option was Late, so naturally in this game I picked the new era, Advanced. Horrible, horrible decision. Like in all the other games, you start out with just a small frigate and almost no money. In the earlier games, at this stage you would usually run into only small pirate frigates who would often times only be armed with one or two phasers, which is roughly the same weapons loadout of the average shuttle in Star Trek. In Orion Pirates, however, when I fired up advanced I was treated to an encounter that pitted me, a lowly frigate, alongside a pirate Destroyer against a Klingon Battleship, argubly the most powerful vessel in the game. In all my hours of campagining in SFC I and II, I saw a Battleship once. That was in the last story mission for the Federation campagin in SFC I, and it was on my side. Here, I had to deal with one ON MY THIRD MISSION! What was going through the minds of the Admirals in this universe? "What's that? The Klingon Flagship less than two lighty years away from Earth? Just send that Frigate whoose Captian graduated from the Academy last week. That should work out just fine."

Also in the advanced era are the advanced variety of Frigates, Light Crusiers, and Heavy Crusiers. They are completely overpowered to the point of breaking the game. In one skirmish, using a Advanced Light Crusier I destroyed a Klingon Heavy Crusier, on hard, in one pass. ONE PASS! Had I used a normal Light Crusier, the battle could have lasted about 15 minutes, and I would probubly have lost. This on top of the godly powerful ships in this era during the campagin makes me believe that the game is desgined and balanced to be played in the Late era. By the way, you don't start out with the advanced variety of frigate in the advanced era ether. You have to buy them, and they cost SOOO much money.

All that said, I'm still enjoying the hell out of it. Nothing beats Nostalgia. I've owned it for two days and played almost a dozen hours. It's great fun. Saddly, however, the USS Excelsior, NCC-2000, commanded by Captian Hikaru Sulu was lost with all hands fighting against the Intersteller Concordium on Stardate 2286.5 while attempting to liberate the planet "Planet" from the enemy. I, as Captain of the USS Freedom, NCC-2143, wish to express my deepest gratitude for his service and my deepest condolences to his wife and daughter, Ensign Demora Sulu of the USS Enterpirse, NCC-1701-B. He will be missed. (Watching the Excelsior, one of the most legendary ships in Star Trek lore, being blow to pieces will forever be burned into my gaming memories.)