Yes me like everyone else bought into the Halo 3 hype. I loved the first game, enjoyed the second game (not as good as the first but still a good time none the less) but now that the third has rolled around all I have to say for it is that I beat legendary with my two best friends. Was it a great time sure it was, did I enjoy waiting in front of gamestop with them and some of my other friends and watching Nathan's sister flirt with every guy there yes I did. But was it all worth $120 dollars?

I have loved the Halo games ever since I got the first one in June of 2003 or 2004 it was a blast, I had never played any first person shooters before and this is the game that made it my favorite genre that it is today. It was fun, had great storytelling, sweet sound, amazing graphics, and was just a blast to play especially with my neighbor who would come over everynight and we would play. I would take it to friends houses and dominate them in 1 on 1 matches and it would be great fun. But how come the third didn't hit me in the same way the first to did. Yes it had awesome online and everything but its not as good as my first online game (Call of Duty 2 [Xbox 360]) and it wasn't as great as my first FPS (Halo) and why not they claim that it is better than both. Heck for 120 bucks it should be better than both combined. It should be like if corpral Taylor and Cortona had a kid it should be that awesome. But yet I haven't played it in like 2 weeks. Why you might ask, because those friends that I have all those grand memories of staying up til 5 in the morning beat Halo with can't play (AMEATYHOTPOCKET [or as I like to say Nathan] is grounded for failing english....again and Colts Fan 42 [Timmy] xbox broke). So the point of the long rediculous article is not to make me look awesome because I'm hating on Halo 3 also but it is because games should be built around having friends to play it with. I mean heck thats why I have been enjoying pokemon so much is because all of my friends play it with me and their ds' are reliable unlike the 360.

But the point is that you can spend whatever you want on a game, and 600 bucks on a PS3, and buy the coolest TV ever but if you don't have friends to enjoy it with whats it really matter? (unless you are playing oblivion then it doesn't matter) games aren't meant to be the anti social nerd toys that the media makes them out to be today, they are meant to be enjoied with friends. Without those friends to enjoy those games with you just have yourself another $120 paperweight.

Yes my 360 died for the second time but I got it replaced for free and it came with some cool new things. A new power brick that uses less power always cool for the everyday environmentalist, a super quiet 360 I honestly can't hear it while I play games anymore its pretty cool, a one month subscription to live since they made me miss 2 months its kinda a bumer but not a bad deal after all.

So I was missing out on some demos so I put in the Beautiful Katamari disk and up pops Hour of Victory I knew it was going to be horrible but I had to try it just for fun to see just how bad it is. Well I almost cried it was horrendus whoever made this game deserves to be punched, kicked, stabbed, and some of that other stuff they have in Saw. I laughed the whole time at the amazing character models that were the redneck zombies I mean Germans. They would yell stuff in english (don't they speak umm german?), they wore baseball hats (Do that many germans play for the Yankees?), and they would respawn out of nothing and shoot in the wrong direction while me running toward the star on the map (that is a total copy of CoD to the point where a lawsuit should be filed) gets yelled at by my comrades that I am running the wrong way. Also they have american accents and are british what the heck? but so anyways after I laughed so much I couldn't breath I tried to play Katamari well now my 360 will not play demos it just freezes! Well thanks a lot Hour of Victory now my 360 just pops up and is like MAKE IT STOP NO NOT HOUR OF VICTORY!!!!

If you have an IQ higher than a dog don't buy this game but if you have issues and need to feel like you are not the worst thing to ever be in this world rent this game don't buy it!

Well finally I have gotten around to writing my blog.

Sadly summer has been super boring so far with little excitement or well for me anyways. So now I am replaying Oblivion again with a Wood Elf who is to be an Archer, Theif hybrid. So far all good just tired of all these dang shooters so I'm going with the rpgs to keep me entertained and soon to be a bunch of last-gen games such as Splinter Cell, Crimson Skies, Beyond Good & Evil and Rayman 2 (I think Dreamcast is considered last gen anyways).

Recent things looking good are Overlord and Project Sylpheed. The Bad Tenchu Z.

I have only played the demo for these games but Overlord was great simple, fun, reminded me a lot of Fable, and also its fun to be a bad guy isn't it?

Project Sylpheed seemed really complicated through the tutorial so I eventually just skipped some things to get to the real deal and was overwhelmed so going back to the tutorial but it looked like a solid game.

As for Tenchu Z I think I would rather play with a pile of monkey poop instead of that garbage. It made the PS2 look graphically superior to the 360 and made no sense at all. I jumped from rooftop to rooftop trying to avoid being hit when all 30 guys that are on the streets decide oh lets throw ninja stars at him! who knew that everyone in ancient Japan carried weapons both long and short rang with them. and I made my guy with 100 strength just so i could hack away guys and it took like 80 hits to kill a guy and by that time I was being gang raped by 30 guys and I get hit one and die. so im definatly not picking it up.

Also look for the darkness coming to a wal mart near you!