What to do, what to do

So I have been playing Starcraft 2 as if it were vital to survival lately. Thankfully I am playing it from my laptop while laying in bed with my wife while she watches Veronica Mars so I am in the clear with her for spending time and hanging out. But I have been looking ahead for "that next big thing" to come and hit me in the face. Now I love XboX 360 and PC games so you would think I would be excited with the upcoming release of Halo:Reach, CoD:Black Ops, Fallout: New Vegas, or at the very least World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. But alas, I have been severely shut down to most of these games as time as gone by.

Halo reminds me of the wonderful LANs I used to have with a group of high schoolers and a few leaders on the weekends. Always fun, but unless you played Halo like crazy, you were nothing but easy points for those kids and select adults who devoted the training time.

CoD:MW(2) were awesome...for a while. For the same reason I sometimes would hate World of Warcraft i developed a hate for both games. That ability to have a 12-year-old boy with no life and parents who have no sense of what's probably not the best for their kid to be playing call you in their high squeaky voice a "f@g", "mother f@$%*ing noob", or tell you to "QQ mor" just gets old real quick.

Fallout seems to be the only potential hope on that short list I have of something I might be willing to shell out some money for. I loved Fallout 3 and the wonderful open world that was available for the saving...or slaughter as my mood changed. A high replay value made this game a good filler when I was between games because no matter what you choose or do, you can always watch the heads explode because of it.

Oh yeah, and then there's WoW:Cataclysm which unless the stars align and I am compelled by the act of my friends begging me to come back...that game is not gonna happen.

Current video game loves

So recently I have hit a point in my video gaming where I had to decide what I wanted to play and what seemed like the best use of money for the time available. I have been playing World of Warcraft on and off for quite a few years and again decided it was time to hang up the keyboard reigns and see if it's something I want to come back to at a later date. Biggest problems with WoW were too much time needed to be spent to attain almost nothing in the game, plus fellow players decided that unless you spend all your time getting the best of everything. . .you're not worth the time to join them on adventures.

I picked up Starcraft II on release night thinking it would be a game I play "when I don't have enough time to get on WoW, and when's that gonna happen?". Well, it happened fairly quickly and now I am very thankful for picking up the game that allows both single player play and multiplayer play for free along with the ability to talk to all my friends who still play World of Warcraft.

My future of gaming is pretty well set in my eyes. I could always go play the new expansion to WoW, but at this point why bother since once I get back to the same point I'm at now with higher levels and new looks. . .seems pretty pointless. Plus the minute they announce and drop the release date on Star Wars: The Old Republic I am gone from WoW until further notice. . .which as far as I can tell will be forever.

Bioware and Lucas Arts have teamed up to make what looks like one of the most extensive and in depth MMO's of all time and I am ready to dive in (hint hint Bioware...send me that beta invite pls!!!!). If you like MMO's, Star Wars, or anything of the like go check out the SWTOR website and see the awesomeness that is coming out way.

No Recent Video Game Posts?

So I have not had a video game post in a while and I felt it my responsibility to explain why that changed. When I first started writing this blog, I was able to read all of the great sites for gaming at any time. But with my office having a computer that was infected and destroyed causing us to have to shell out the $1500 in attempted repairs and then another $500 on the new computer. . . things changed.

All of my favorite sites(ign, escapist magazine, and team xbox to name a few) were added to the block list for the reason:Games.

That's all fine and dandy if by games, they meant they are sites about games. But as anyone who reads those sites knows, they are not "gaming sites" themselves. They are the gateway to learn about what games are coming out and what might be or not be worth your time to spend the money on. I love reading about games and giving my thoughts, I love to have the demos downloaded so I can test them out and then get back to you all with how it really plays out.

Now I could do all this from home, couldn't I? Yes, of course I can but that means at the same time of trying to read a review or start the download of a demo I most likely will have some form of a screaming child who either wants my attention, or wants the attention back from his mother. So instead when I get home, I spend that time with the wife, the boy who cries wolves, and the fun of Rock Band 2/Fallout 3.

So I'm thinking I should start swapping every other night between just playing games, and writing about games. Any thoughts?

Bioshock 2 Video

Holy crap! The 9 minute video showing you some gameplay looks freaking amazing!

*Graphics=Great
*Sound/Soundtrack=Still scares the daylights out of you when splicers are around, so Great!
*Gameplay Design=Looks good, everything he said about making it more challanging than Bioshock 1 makes this one a "reserve it" on my list.

The concept with the Little Sisters looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. And lets face it, a Big Daddy with plasmids. . .YES PLEASE!

Here's the video if anyone has not seen it yet:

No good games coming out

So I know there are some "blockbuster" titles coming out this summer for consoles, but really when you look past the glame of movies-to-games there really are not any big titles coming that send me to my local shop to reserve them.

There are a couple that look interesting to me, but again, I have yet to really been thrown aback with amazement over them.

Prototype seems like it could be pretty fun, the concept is there, from what I've seen the graphics are there, most hands-on reviews claim the gameplay is there, but I'm just not as drawn to the story as I hoped I would be. I thought it was an amazing concept at first glance, but then as I delved deeper I found it to be a little more cliche than I had hoped. I feel like they took something from other titles that worked and added it to the mix.
--"Do we have mysterious main character? Check. He doesn't seem mysterious enough, lets give him memory loss like Wolverine and make him have to figure out everything. OH OH OH and we can let the designers have some fun and throw in a few of those crazy flash back type things that were in Halo 3 that pissed everyone off. . .a few of those would be good too."
--"Do we have zombies? Check. What's a video game these days without zombies"
--"Should we do stages or open world? Open world seems to be working the best, lets do that. Oh lets also make it a 'post-apocalyptic world of death and mayhem'. . . done."

All in all, I think it could be fun, but I'll wait until someone returns it at gamestop before I go out and buy it.

And to top it all off, most of the titles I am interested in are all due to come out in September or later. . .freaking jerks making me wait for a game worth playing.