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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
So Many Games, So Little Time...
Just picked up this week's Electronic Gaming Monthly and had to face facts: there's a new wave of must-have games right around the corner. Never mind the PSP, which is priced out of my range for the time being. Never mind the DS, whose one game I'd want to play - Advance Wars DS - has been pushed back to autumn. (A good RPG would make me consider buying a DS. Or any RPG, for that matter. But do they have any? Well?)
No, just on the Xbox alone, we've got Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Jade Empire, Doom 3, The Shield, GTA: San Andreas (maybe), Sid Meier's Pirates!... For my wife, the latest Rainbow Six...
MIA but still leaving me salivating is 100 Bullets. And I'd like to know when The Movies will finally be scheduled.
And then there's the GBA, with Fire Emblem 2 sometime this Spring. That'll be a blissful way to spend a couple months...
Unfortunately, I've been ridiculously delinquent with my gaming time. Haven't used my GBA much besides a bit of Advance Wars 2. On the Xbox I'm in the middle of Mercenaries still, but haven't touched it in the past few weeks because of other concerns (writing, work, life). The last time I spent quality time with my Xbox was trying out the Chaos Theory demo on Official Xbox Magazine's monthly disk... and a new OXM with a new disk, this one with a Jade Empire demo, arrived last week.
And of course, I haven't finished several games on my shelf. That includes Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (which I must finish before starting Chaos Theory), Fatal Frame 2, Fable, X-Men Legends (which I lent out to a friend and never bothered to get back), Halo 2 (I know what the ending is, though, and have only really cared about online Slayer since discovering that).
I always feel like if I don't spend enough time playing video games, I'm missing out. It's like when I don't spend enough time reading literature or Oscars time when I realize I hadn't seen most of the movies nominated - there's a hole missing, a cultural blind spot that matters to me (as opposed to, say, watching MTV, which doesn't matter to me at all for a couple decades now). That said, there are only so many hours in a given day, right?
An hour a day would be a decent goal for now. And from there, maybe I'll get sucked back into one game in particular and let it dominate my life for a while.
No, just on the Xbox alone, we've got Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Jade Empire, Doom 3, The Shield, GTA: San Andreas (maybe), Sid Meier's Pirates!... For my wife, the latest Rainbow Six...
MIA but still leaving me salivating is 100 Bullets. And I'd like to know when The Movies will finally be scheduled.
And then there's the GBA, with Fire Emblem 2 sometime this Spring. That'll be a blissful way to spend a couple months...
Unfortunately, I've been ridiculously delinquent with my gaming time. Haven't used my GBA much besides a bit of Advance Wars 2. On the Xbox I'm in the middle of Mercenaries still, but haven't touched it in the past few weeks because of other concerns (writing, work, life). The last time I spent quality time with my Xbox was trying out the Chaos Theory demo on Official Xbox Magazine's monthly disk... and a new OXM with a new disk, this one with a Jade Empire demo, arrived last week.
And of course, I haven't finished several games on my shelf. That includes Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (which I must finish before starting Chaos Theory), Fatal Frame 2, Fable, X-Men Legends (which I lent out to a friend and never bothered to get back), Halo 2 (I know what the ending is, though, and have only really cared about online Slayer since discovering that).
I always feel like if I don't spend enough time playing video games, I'm missing out. It's like when I don't spend enough time reading literature or Oscars time when I realize I hadn't seen most of the movies nominated - there's a hole missing, a cultural blind spot that matters to me (as opposed to, say, watching MTV, which doesn't matter to me at all for a couple decades now). That said, there are only so many hours in a given day, right?
An hour a day would be a decent goal for now. And from there, maybe I'll get sucked back into one game in particular and let it dominate my life for a while.
