Okay been slacking a bit, this one post I wrote about getting Katamari Damacy was lost, but needless to say I got it, and I have beaten it, it was awesome and I show everyone that game i can. But with what around the corner gamewise its prolly gonna take the backburner for a bit. Plus I installed what is probably one of my favorite games ever, Tie Fighter for my PC, its like a Star Wars flight simulator, but you know with lots of shooting. Makes me happy cause for reason I was always unable to install it before on XP. Busted out my flight yoke and been playing that here and their. I'm still only a Flt. Officer, the Imperial Navy , we want you! I need to regain my rank of Captain, on the Second Circle of the Empire. Now off to play some games.

Okay I'm sitting here in my PHP class like I always do and look at stuff online. I was peeking through Gamespot seeing what games will be comeing out soon.

Sweet Jesus!

In 4 weeks time 11 games are going to come out that virtually every gamer has been waiting for, or is considered to be a blockbuster game. Some more than others obviously. It just seems to me with the Holidays coming soon, they should be spacing this stuff out. Let me show you, sorted by weeks. It starts with a bang but slow, and then just gets kind of rediculus.

10/24
-Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

10/31
-Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal
-Lord of the Rings: The Third Age

11/07
-Halo 2
-Jak 3

11/14
-Everquest II
-GoldenEye: Rouge Agent
-Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
-Metroid Prime 2: Echos
-Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
-Viewtiful Joe 2

And the other thing is that I just named the really big games that are being released, literally at least 5 other good games come out each of those weeks, and countless other random games come out also. And the Week after all that, literally nothing comes out...like 3 games that no one really cares about. I mean #1 who wants to come out the same week as Halo 2. #2 In one week 3 games I'm dieing to play come out and I'm gonna have to choose. How insane is that? During the Summer when I had money, practically nothing came out, and I would have bought all of these games. Now I'm in school, with less income because I'm working less hours. And NOW they release all the games I want to play. I mean why don't they release this stuff in the summer, when I actually have time to play it!

Not to mention I'm still in the middle of Sly 2, Katamari Damacy, and soon I'll be getting X-Men Legends, and I wanna get Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door(thanks Cat) that just came out also. Just makes me mad cause some really good games are going to be lost in all this. People are gonna have to choose one of these, cause how often does anyone have $250 to spend on videogames in a short amount of time. Plus finding time to play all these games. Honestly, its just freakin ridiculus. For me personally...I can live without GTA its gonna be good but I'm in no rush, and I don't have an XBox so no Halo 2 for me....but that nest week I have 3, I got Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, I'm a huge MGS person, so this will probably be my pic that week. Metroid Prime 2: Echos is the sequal to one of the best and most engrossing games I played last year. Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, the sequal to one of the most suprising and most fun games I've played. I mean Jebus why not throw in a new Zelda or Super Mario Game. So in 2 weeks the collective gaming population head's will explode. I plan on not leaving the house the day Halo comes out, and I'm bringing my girlfriend here also RPI will be a dangerous place.

Also the Nintendo DS comes out during this period also. Sweet Jesus. OK I'm out for now.

I just remembered...I'm a big X-Men fan, y'know what with having been reading the comics for like, well probably 10 years now. And I havn't owned a single good X-Men game....ever. Spider-Man and the X-Men: Arcade's Revenge, was the worst and most impossible game ever. X-Men: Mutant Apocolypse, was...ok, but also was rediculusly hard...and I never really got to play the X-Men games for the Genesis. And aparently this new game X-Men Legends is a great game. So I think I have to buy X-Men Legends now....damn logic.

LOL

So Tuesday I picked up good old Donkey Konga cuase I like music games, and I like wierd Japanese games. I'm gettin the hang of it although when it gets fast sometimes I clap instead of hit the bongoes and hit the bongos when I should be clapping. Some of the songs are meh, but on the whole its a fun time, I hope other people get it also cause multiplayer bongos would be cool.

As far as Sly 2 goes havn't played it since Monday, but I p[lan to play a level or 2 later, I'm on episode 5 I think. When Bentley the turtle had to go it alone and try to free Sly and Murry from Prison it was so cute, poor little guy. Story has taken some interesting turns.

Uh I played the Myst 4 Demo a while ago just because I hadn't really tried anything on the comp since I got the new Video Card so I wanted to test it out. But it made me want to get back into the Myst verse since I remembered how much I love the story. It came out yesterday and I was gonna pick it up when I found out online...that its only released on DVD-Rom....and I don't have a DVD drive :-. So I'm thinking about getting one, crikey....

Oh! I Found my halo CD and installed it hoorah, I'll play through that game yet. And thanks to the new video card no slowdown and I can see reflections and shiney stuff.

About liking the Pokemon games, the Game Boy RPGs that is, I could do without Snap, Channel, Stadium, Hey You Pikachu, etc. I always feel it hurts my gaming reputation if I'm in Gamestop chattin it up, and then say can I get Pokemon Leaf Green, which I did today. It's the same feeling I got when I was a Burger King today ordering a CROISSAN'WICH®, I hate saying that word it makes me feel like an ass. But yeah I liked the original Pokemon game, The other newest one is pretty nifty also. But goddamn there are too many Pokemon I liked when I could actually name them all on site...now i have no clue half the time, since playing Ruby I don't even see too many of the original 150.

Sly 2:Band of theives is going well I'm on the third episode. There was no boss fight at the end of Episode 2, but they saved it for 3 since your robbing the same guy again. But still less than 20% done so I still got plenty left to do thankfully. Sadly Pikmin has taken a back seat since Sly 2 showed up.

I got 2 new stamps I guess they're called in my profile, not really sure how they get awarded, but I feel honored. I got the "Good Taste" and the "Old-School" Stamp/Award. Feels nice to have some validation. *beams*

I have to say, I really like this new community stuff at Gamespot. Keep track of what games I have, what I want, and what I look forward to. And I figure I'll keep a little gaming journal here.

I bought Sly 2: Band of Thieves last night, because of dinner with the folks, and some girlfriend issues I didn't get to play last night. I had to get up at 7 this morning for my 8am Calculus class, then I had a nice 2 and a half hours to get into it. I was also dealing with a nice big headache, so Sly eased my pain a bit. Can I say how much I loved the first game (Sly Cooper and the Thievious Racoonus), so much fun but tragicly short...or maybe it was just so good I didn't want to stop playing. Such great platforming nirvana. A nice direct path, and if you get good you can just blast through it and look like an acrobat. I live for presision jumping in video games.

But back to Sly 2, I've gotten through the first heist so far and its fun times, and from that it seems like it will definetly be a longer game. And of course the GTA influence is even felt here, with the much more open environments than the first game, and more free form. The HUB areas are much bigger as i said but the main objective areas are a bit shorter, so far you spend more time getting to a level, than the level itself. I say that, but I still am having fun playing it its a good game.

Hmm I should probably stop typing this up and pay attention in my PHP class. More later folks.

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