Not that anybody cares, I'm technically 2 days late on my gaming update of the week.

heh. This will be rather short, I have some gaming to do... and sleep or whatever...

Well, regardless, I have a lot to report from last week. I beat Mass Effect, and it completely blew me away. One of my favorite RPGs ever, no doubt. Great story, great gameplay, great graphics, everything was superb and I'm *that* much more excited for a sequel.

I moved on fast, from Mass Effect to Lost Odyssey. This game is taking my life, soul, and attention as of late. It's not only one of the best JRPGs I've ever played, but so far, it's almost the best damn game I've ever played period. Yeah, It's really up there so far.

Well, that's a quickie I know. Before I go, these are the games I bought last week, there a quite a few

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite - PSP

Dark Spire - DS

Luminous Arc - DS

Luminous Arc 2 - DS

Dark Sector - 360

Army of Two - 360

Bringing my total collection to 397 games. The landmark of 400 is close to come.

The end!

Well, happy fathers day! I hope you all play Wii Sports with your fathers, as I did and am currently about to do as well.

I'll go easy on the old man, promise. Hope all the fathers out there game it up.

Onto the next topic... Nubs. No, not a new player who sucks at Halo, or even a Chainsaw spammer in Gears. The Xbox360 has many kinds of nubs, it seems. My analog nubs on my 16 month controller is the problem here. Sure, it's 16 months old, but my PS1 analog nubs have held up for years. What exactly am I talking about?

Figure A: A brand new Analog Nub

Figure 2, An old, used Nub

You see now? That's not my personal pictures. My nub is completely worn down so bad that I don't even have to be touching my controller and it moves forward for me. For the lazy gamer, that may be a blessing. But I don't use that particular controller for any type of serious gaming.

Problem is, controllers cost as much as a brand new game... I constantly tell myself I could either get a new controller, or 3 used games, or even 1 new game for the same price. It's a rough deal.

Yeah, so not that it really has any relevance to much this week, I really had nothing to talk about... so I decided to rant about controllers.

I've been playing Mass Effect all Week, I got the Completionist Achievement, and 1 of my 2 ally achievements. I'm working on the second one now, and I'm doing a bunch of sidequests before I move on in the story. I also got the Pistol and Sniper expert achievements, and I'm working on the "easy" weapons now. It's my first playthrough so I'm trying to get the annoying achievements out of the way.

I must say I'm completely blown away by this game, it's a really good game...I barely have any issues with the game and It's on track to being in my top 5 favorite games of all time. Really compelling story telling and graphics, along with fantastic gameplay and role playing elements. It's what every role playing nerd dreams of!

I'm also a real sucker for Sci-Fi.....

As for Gaming Purchases.... well.. I bought Master of the Monster Lair for the DS today used for $19.99 Just an Atlus dungeon RPG for the DS. Nothing that will blow me away but I love me some JRPGs.

...I uh... also accidentally bought... a second copy of Ghosts n' Goblins for the NES....

Not too proud of that...

I need to carry around a txt file of my collection on my phone....

So, I decided to try some game demos this week. The only reason is because I didn't buy said games, and I've heard great things about both Hitman: Blood Money and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

Let's start with the good first shall we?

Uncharted. Yeah, I know, I'm a year or so behind on this one. I decided to check it out, I mean I enjoy some shooters, and honestly, E309 made me more interested in the game, because of how great Uncharted 2 looked during Sony's press conference.

I played and beat the demo, not once, not even TWICE, but Thrice! I beat the demo on all three available difficulties Easy, Normal and Hard. Well, what does that exactly mean? I enjoyed my experience... The graphics, control, and even the tiny bit of story that was served up impressed me. The main character has ...well... character - Something I was fearing before I played the game. Drake seemed to look like some random college guy - not really somebody I wanted to play as.

I know it was a demo - so hopefully the one and only issue I had with the game was addressed in the final form. The platforming was a tad bit iffy...not the controls, just the fact that if you even so much as tapped the analog stick the wrong way, you were sent flying off a platform.

Needless to say, I added Uncharted 1 and 2 to my wishlist ...

I also finished Too Human this week. Great Game, I got all the achievements with the Help of a good friend. My written review should be up soon for the game.

Hitman for the 360... oh god... I don't even really want to talk about it too much... The gameplay was alright, the story lacked and so did the graphics. I understand it's nearly a 2 year old game, however even 2 years ago there were titles on the 360 that made that game look embarassing. I hated the way the game presented itself too - the random enemies seemed all the same, and the cutscenes were very poorly directed.

I will NOT be adding any hitman game to my wishlist... I've heard about the series for a while, I guess it's just one of those series that doesn't click with me.

Oh and Lava? Yeah, I ****ing hate Lava.

Since my High School career has officially ended, I have started the Summer of RPGs! (I have a massive backlog of my favorite genre to get too). I started critically acclaimed Mass Effect yesterday.

Aside from the fact that I'm completely blown away by this game, I hate Lava.

What does this mean exactly? Well, I spent about 9 hours doing every single sidequest I need to do before I moved on with the story (Chapter 2). Every planet I visited never had any deadly terrain, so naturally, when I get to the first planet I need to for the main story, I don't think anything of the lava. I get about half way done with the planet on the Mako, and I rive right into the Lava.

I hear the dreaded death scene, and it takes me ALL THE WAY BACK to the BEGINNING of the planetary exploration. Needless to say, I was pretty upset about that. Well, now I know what NOT to drive in.

I just wish that it wasn't such a hard penalty for driving into lava... Bioware should have just amde the Mako take damage as time goes on, much like it normally does in a gunfight.

As for Gaming Purchaces:

I only bought 1 game this week, it was the newly released Fallout Trillogy for the PC - Which contains Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. I'm pretty excited to play Fallout 1 and 2 before Fallout 3. I'm weird about playing sequels I didn't play the orginal games for. I got this disc for a cool $20.

The End.