It's been awhlie since I made a post. Since this is my first one of the year, and tomorrow marks my offical "been wasting time on this site for 3 years" day. I decided to just go ahead and post about something.

I've not had much spare time lately with work and going to the gym... not to mention I went off on a drinking bender for a solid month at least, and needed a couple of weeks to recharge from Christmas parties, new years parties, after new years parties, and just for the hell of it bar hopping celebrations. Anyways - moving on.....

I got my February issue of Game Informer magazine recently, and there is a pretty decent write-up in there about Blue Dragon (360) This is one of several games I'm really looking forward to, it's in my top 3 for sure, the other two being Assasins Creed and Mass Effect. Of course Will Wrights 'Spore' would be there too if I expected to actually play it within the next year - but since everyone on that project are being as vague as possible, I've tried to forget about it until one day it ambushes me from a shelf in a game store out of nowhere. I've noticed though that Microsoft seems to be making quite an effort to build a decent RPG library up on it's 360. For which I am extremely pleased and thankful. The Xbox in it's first form was completely lacking in this genre, although it had a few notable titles, it was just not enough. I'm glad to see them balancing things out a bit more. Although it's still heavy on the shooter front, I'm looking more to what it will be showing in 6 to 12 months. This is looking to be a good year for me and my 360 (providing the release dates hold) Of course any gamer that has been at this for more than a few years knows, the estimated release dates are tentative at best. Quite frankly, I wish they would just not tell us about games in development until they've hit beta phase. Then they can do a full scale marketing push, and if the game is promising, the hype machine has just enough time to snowball to the point of ridiculousness, but not so much that we have another Fable on our hands. (I'm still angry that my Xbox didn't shoot out 20 dollar bills for every wasp I killed) It gives the game plenty of time to be tracked and watched by potential buyers, but not so much that rumours start building things up in the buyers minds to something that is, for lack of a better word, impossible. Not saying that throwing potential ideas and possibilities out on a board are a bad thing, but you all know how these things go by now.

Example : Gamer A says to Gamers B and C "This is in the game!" Gamer C is skeptical, and lets it go, but Gamer B gets excited and runs off to another forum and tells Gamers D, E, and F "omgz! This is in the game! I bet it will be like THIS!" E may not buy it, but D and F then run off to more forums and give THEIR versions, and before you know it we're all waiting for a game that barely exists, because Gamer A had to go make a stupid assumption and tell more people about it stating it as fact. That bastard.

Sure that stuff would still be going around - but usually the bulk of that nonsense starts turning up when we've gotten no new information in months, or years even, and the fans start getting desperate when they've run out of points to discuss and/or argue. It wasn't always like this - you think there was a lot of hype surrounding Pong? HA! Of course, if they had the internet back then, especially in the capacity we have it now, there probably would have been some amount of ridiculous hype floating around. "It's all going to be holographic! Oh! and we go INTO the game, like in that movie TRON! ......purple monkey dishwasher"

The internet is slowly killing us all I think. My gravestone is probably going to read "Interneted to Death. Buried with a Laptop and an extra battery."