Ok I've finally done it, I've gotten myself an xbox live gold subscription for 12 months. Time to face the world of online gaming... I tried a little Halo 3 against other noobs, I'm the one that gives noobs the hope that they are really good, but they are probably not. I'm just going to put out my apologies now for anyone who ends up playing with/against me online now.

Well I'm going to get my monies worth out of my subscription...

I came home to a house full of relatives tonight who I don't see all that often... Don't know about you but this often leads to a whole 'why are you single?' and 'when are you going to bring home a boyfriend?' (in my own damn time). My uncle pretty much then turned around and said guys don't want to be around female gamers, it's emasculating, he then told me (not his words but my understanding of what he was saying) I needed to slut it up, wear tighter clothes, put the goods out there and wait for the offers. Why does gaming have to be a male oriented hobby? I'm not really a strong feminist type but I really can't stand it when people tell me that because of my gender I'm supposed to like certain things and others are inappropriate.

So I decided to give the game wet a go(cause I could borrow it for free)after watching my brother play a demo and thinking that looks pretty good. I thought this could be the game to to ease me back into shooters (cause I've been avoiding them - I suck at them, a lot) since you can still hack people to death with a big sword too. Well... the game had potential, visually it was pretty, acrobatics, blood splatter, watching your character roll over the ground cause you didn't jump from one moving car to another fast enough - all very pretty. Gameplay: stupid and flawed! if your aiming dot thingy is between someone's eyes, in theory it should equal that they get shot right? If you jump and there's a pole next to you shouldn't remain mid air in the same spot for god knows how long while everyone shoots the crap out of you. This is the first game were I thought to myself what a waste of free time! I'm glad it didn't cost me anything... maybe if I was more into shooting games I would have tried harder but it looks like I'll avoid them a little while longer.

Well you should get your own opinions of the game but after playing it I was just disappointed. I think I'll just play wolverine again and hack things up to make me feel better.

I was asked to make a joke about wet and whether or not it had that effect on me... No, no effect at all. Sorry there isn't a funny joke but it was just stupid.

Last night I decided to finally finish off the story mode of batman arkham asylum after trying to do as much of the riddles and other side stuff that comes along with the game. I was fighting through a bunch of bad guys in party hats excited cause I knew there was an achievement waiting on the other side of the fight when my TV went blank... Ha what ever scarecrow I know your games... um why is my 360 not on? uh hello! not to worry that fight didn't seem hard I'll just start it again and finish off the game... save corrupt... SAVE CORRUPT! I have to start again, I think I may have cried myself to sleep. So much time wasted, progress all gone.

Well off I go to restart the game...

Both Maybe?!? I'm a big lover of the Final Fantasy series and I will get anything with the name on it if only for collectors sake but when my brother asked me which console I was going to get it for I had no idea. Do I want the crazy addiction I have for achievements to possibly change the experience of the game for me or just admire it and enjoy the story line with out being distracted or constantly waiting for the 'blep' of an achievement? I know if I really enjoy the game I'll have absolutely no problem going back to playing through it a second time and gathering as many collectibles and spending ridiculous amounts of time levelling up.

Would it be stupid to want it on both systems?

Not far off getting my new X-Box 360 console. Will be upgrading from a 20 gig pro console (that doesn't work most of the time) to an elite 120 gig console. Woo! Now I just need to transfer everything over... Might as well use the bigger hard drive right? Now I'm sure it's a simple process really but I can't help but feel paranoid that I'm gonna screw something up and loose game saves or DLC or worse my profile. Again it's probably easy as pie (then again I can't cook pies either) but I don't want to have to start again and I'm over not being able to play.

Can't wait to jump back into the world of actually playing X-Box again... Soon batman soon, we will be re-united, I will complete you.

So it's gotten to the point where I've ordered a new X360 (although waiting for the price drop on the 22nd - thanks for the heads up gamespot) because I'm so frustrated at my current one because it always puts up a fight with me when I want to start a game claiming that there isn't one in there no matter how many games I put in there. My PS3 has also given me the silent treatment at one stage where it just didn't want to do anything and I was forced to format the darn thing and lose all game progress and updates (there goes a whole day just to get the updates). My Wii hasn't died yet, then again I have been neglecting it... Why is it so much to ask for a little more reliability.

I just organised it so I could have two days off in a row (Tuesday and Wednesday) so that I can relax get all my s*** together and get in some decent gaming time. Now at the moment I've got about 5 games that i'm currently getting through or haven't started yet, but do you think I actually feel like playing any of them right now? Why is it that when you have the time you don't feel like doing it what it is you planed to do but whenever you don't have the time you wished you did? Well hopefully when I wake up this on my actual day off I'll be able to get out of my funk!

So here's the thing I spent the whole day at work picking which games I wanted to play, how I could score... gamer points, ignored texts from my friends to make sure I could have some quality time with my 360. After a long day at work with Playstation and Nintendo flirting with me I go home to spend some time with my 360, pop a game in... nothing. Ok, quick clean... nothing again. Alright not in the mood for Prototype, how about Fable 2... No, why not? We used to love these games together. After trying several times with different games it appears that I can only play for an hour or so before my 360 stops paying attention. Is this the end? How could my 360 make me love it and then make me so angry? Back when I was completely into my PS2 the only reason I left it was because I upgraded the next generation of consoles, I never had it disagree with me. I miss that loyalty. I feel rejected. Sigh, I'll just go spend the next 45 mins waiting for it to decide to read a game so I can play, I'm not ready to fork out more money to replace it with another 360 just yet.