Happy Monday-- hope everyone out there in Videogameland had a fab weekend. The weather was nice here in New York City, though it's set to humid up this week, assuring that everything is going to smell like garbage until it rains. Which means it's an awesome time to hunker down with the AC (well, you enjoy yours, while I pretend I have one) and play games. The things I'm playing haven't changed much since the last time I asked you, with a few exceptions-- I beat Shadow Hearts 2, I'm sick of Puzzle Quest, and I got the Wii edition of RE4, promptly reminding me why I don't play shooters-- I suck just as much at the Wii edition as I did on the PS2. And the Gamecube. Think I would have learned, right?The thing that's really eating me is that I haven't really been able to play the kind of games I've been wanting to.
Because I don't have an Xbox.
That's right; a year ago I swore I'd never get one, on some kinda "principle" I can't remember. It wasn't so much brand loyalty as a penchant for defining myself as a specific type of gamer, a resistance to becoming another type. "If I wanted a big, unstable Microsoft computer with a two-year lifespan, I'd just play with my PC," I said. But I'm about to sell out hard, because I can no longer resist, and I'm going to buy one probably sometime next month as soon as money comes in.
Perhaps this isn't news-- far from it, as I'm rather late to the party in this respect-- but it surprises me somewhat. And besides, very little went on this weekend in the wide world of game news, so it's almost all I've got. I'll keep you guys posted-- meanwhile, what're your recommendations for must-plays on a platform I've historically completely ignored?
