In my never-ending quest to procrastinate studying for an upcoming genetics exam, I finally decided to try out Oblivion on my 360. When I first bought the system, Oblivion came highly recommended and was one of the first games I bought. After a few races in Burnout Revenge and PGR3, I popped in Oblivion. I was thouroghly entertained during the training dungeon, although I wasn't quite sure what was going on. I'm a huge fan of Japanese RPGs, but Oblivion is the first Western RPG I've tried. I finished the dungeon, entered the Imperial City, saved my game, and went to bed for the night. The next day, when I tried turning on my 360, I was greeted with the red ring of death. I promptly exchanged my system at Best Buy. (I'd much rather pay them for their extended warranty than deal with mailing a console back to Microsoft.)

Since then, I've been reluctant to even put the game back into my 360, because I have an inkling that Oblivion is what killed my original console. Today, my desire to procrastinate overcame my reservations. I can always switch out a broken system at Best Buy again.

As it turns out, I suck. I have no idea what I'm doing in that game. Maybe it's because it's been so long since I originally played it, but it took me 20 minutes just to find my way back out of the city. I have no idea how to navigate the pause menus, and I was killed during my second encounter. I'd really love to get lost in this game for hours on end. It's too bad that I'm so horrible at it. I'll give it another go soon, but, for now, it's back to genetics...