I'm sure that putting "first blog entry" into the topic of my blog will turn away any potential readers (as if anyone would be reading this anyway), but i am far to self conscious to put something up that others can see without being able to fall back on an excuse for poor or boring writing. so for those who have actually decided to keep reading....um....so video games? Well i just finished my first play through of Vanquish, and I'm pleased to say that i found it to be well worth the money. In fact i was inclined to write a review for it, but found that you can only write a review on gamespot if you have achieved level three. So that killed most of my motivation, but i still felt like writing something. Even if it was just to see if I would get close to leveling up, and here i am. I will save most of my thoughts on vanquish for when i am able to write a review, but i will say that vanquish was a blast, despite the fact that it took me less than six hours to complete the campaign, and there is no multiplayer to speak of I was mostly satisfied with the product that is vanquish. I think that a large part of why i enjoyed this game had to do with the fact that it brought me back to the games i enjoyed in my younger years, when things like story and emotional connections to characters never got in the way of gameplay and having a good time. whether games made several years ago actually had less in the way of story or my adolescent mind simply cared so little for these things that i didn't even notice it, i can only say its probably a little of both, but regardless vanquish made me feel a way that i had not felt about a game in what seem like years. don't get me wrong i like games with a lot of story. In fact I've found my taste shifting further toward story heavy games recently, but it did get me thinking that maybe some large budget games with all the production values and fancy writing added in an attempt to enhance immersion have lost something, and we've forgotten about what made us love games in the first place. Or maybe I'm getting too sentimental, and i just like thinking back to when i was 12 and life was simple. anyway something to think about perhaps. for anyone who read this, my apologies. but personally i hope this is the first of many posts