As I start this blog I have no idea what to call the topic. Honestly I don't have a clear train of thought at the moment for this post.

I guess the biggest thing thats happened to us as a gaming community is the passing of E3. Boy what a passing it was, E3 is always the time of when my heart swells with joy and my wallet cries in agony. As I sit back and read the posts of countless fan-boys and their systems I chuckle, I rant, I compromise. The typical "my company is better then your company battle" rages on ever-still. Then I tend to think, Jesus these guys got it good they only play one system and thats it. Me on the other hand plays everything under the sun. So while my Xbox 360 hums along on the shelf I have to make room for a PS3 and a Wii. Long Ago I worked for Game stop (kind of a crappy company imo) and the two most frequent questions were; "Have you played the new Madden? or What system do you think is better?" The first quest I answered with "I don't play sports games" which was a complete lie, I do play sports games but mostly racing. As for the system question the best answer was always " I own em all so I don't think I can answer that question." Every time Sony has released a system I tell myself that i'm gonna wait it out a few months for all the hardware bugs to be worked out. But there i am on release day in line with wallet open only hours from gaming nirvana. But like all drugs your looking for that high that you got the first time you touched a video game. It's seldom repeated but you'll try everything you can to see if does the trick.

I have a few standards before I buy a system. For Nintendo based systems they must have a Metroid release before I consider buying. For Sony there must be a MGS game or Resident Evil game before I buy it. Microsoft is an odd bird to me. I bought the first one for Halo (like 90% of the other consumers) and the 360 I bought for Oblivion, FFXI (even though I own the PS2 and PC versions), DOA4 and whenever it comes out Ninety Nine Nights.

My parting words for this blog is really to stop fighting with other fanboys about what system is more powerful and start fighting about why do some developers put out pure trash and call it gaming and charge 49.99 for it. Demand better quality of your games, they owe that to you! Be open to new ideas from start up developers. Some of those odd games you see on shelves are actually hidden gems made on a very low budget. Never let big business think they know what gamers want better then actual gamers.