12th of June, entering my home in the recess from school with my friends... I know the game has been sent, having read my email with the shipping notification... I stroll to the other door, the one with the letter-slit, tugging my red apple... As I open the door connection the foyer with the small hallway (the one with the mail-door), I drop my apple on the ground and catch myself flying onto the ground next to the package. I pick it up and rush past my friends to my PS3, the feeling is indesribable and the very unwrapping of the package seems epic.

There it was.. ..

-I stuff the game into the PS3 and curse as I know the hated install-session is coming soon, but to my surprise it's alittle more nifty than a bar. It features Solid Snake/Old snake smoking. Even that small thing furthered my love with the game, and as soon as it finished I started the game, watching the opening sequence, up to the point where the first -actual- gameplay begins. I start off by giving it a sneaky approach, siderolling past some searching soldiers, until I look at the clock and mutter another curse as I realise I only have seven minutes left. I decide to not save the game, so the soon-to-come rampage is not saved on my record.

I start again at the small alley and run out, pulling off a headshot before the soldier can even finish his "Hey-". A second soldier walks over to the fallen comrade, kneeling down, calling for the HQ. In the middle of the sentence he's cut off, as I have him held firmly in my grasp. He struggles to get free, but I finish that struggle by slicing his throat with a satisfying small and professional cut.

I throw myself on the ground, rolling to the side past the container, letting off several rounds of bullets at the three soldiers ganged up at the other end of the small road. Two of them fall, one of them catches sight of me jumping behind earlier mentioned container, and cautiously approaches the small corner. I eagerly await him, until he's just close enough for me to roll out, grab him by the face and then smashing him into the ground. I finish him with a well-placed stab to the torso, and shut the game down, recess is over.

On the way into our schoolyard my friend mentions... "I want a PS3 now". I grin and await the end of school, so I can get home and play the final time of Solid Snake's life through.

Money and cash. Cash and money... Why the hell is that so hard to get? I've been practically griefing all week for my lack of money, and for my filled wish-list of items I want (really need). I could easily walk down somewhere and get myself a job, but it so happens that the only jobs in my area gives me time-conditions that force me to run out of school before the day has even ended, so for obvious reasons (stated just above, I hope you noticed), I can't get any bloody job. And no job equals no money, so one could say I'm broke, but given I have not moved out from my parent's house, then it doesn't really matter. Essentially, then I'm just broke in the sense, that I am far from getting anything I want.

The biggest problem with all this is, that I can never rest assured, saying I've got what I wanted, and now I can sit down and relax. And why can't I do that? Simple, because over time, the little list in the back of my head, has grown to vast sizes, and I doubt I'd ever be able to afford all that. While I earlier stated (previous blog) the good things about the competition, is the many good games and et cetera, then this is the one bad thing. My wallet can't keep up with the industry! And I sincerely hope that your's can't keep up either, because you would be stuffed with money.

I for one, am a person who does not only stick with one console (although I have developed a fuzzy feeling for Sony's consoles). Currently I own a Wii and a PS3, but recently I've been wanting to buy a 360 too, but obviously considering my funds, then that is not going to happen. Besides there's this thing I call a computer, which of course needs upgrades to run the new games, and there's gonna be none of that either. I believe we have said the youth in the modern society to be free under responsibility, and I'm gonna put myself under that age-group now, which is only fair, thinking of my age. Youth has gotten way more choices than before, with education, furthere jobs and so on, and that is confusing for the most according to sociology. That's how I feel about games, because I have no idea how to select between all these tons of games, or find the right ones I need.

Truth be told, then it's pretty lame that I'm complaining about many choices within gaming, and it's when one can complain about choices that you know everything is as it really should be!

Cheers, the way I look at it 2008 is gonna be an amazing year for games. I mean, just look at the list of releases planned for this year: MGS4, GTA4, AoC, Super smash brother brawl (atleast in europe, not sure when it was released in the U.S), Haze (not so sure about this one, but it seems interesting), Halo 3 also this year and I'm sure you can all mention atleast three great games already released or due to release.

The gaming industry, as every other industry, evolves... And that's just more a benefit to us consumers, while the developers are struggling more and more to keep their products good and attractives for us. The fact that you can begin to like characters from games or admire them is also quite interesting.. How many of you havn't seen a Solid Snake profile picture for example, and any other character for that matter. The games are becoming interactive movies, and I for one am enjoying this sincerely. In the older games, way back, when gameplay was the only interesting thing to a game, it was not interesting to be the friend seeing the other playing. But now, I'd not mind watching a friend play a game through, as long as it has a story-line. For the on-looker it's like watching a movie if you live yourself into the ongoings at screen, and for the player itself you're the star of that movie .

The competion for developers are sharpening, and we can just sit back and enjoy a new golden age for the games. Horay.