Actually finished it last week but been busy with other stuff to post this. After 3 months, 70 hours of long and grueling gameplay, and multiple fake endings, I finally completed it with the True Ending! Just in time for Persona 1 for the PSP to come out. Already got it pre-ordered, along with Demon Soul for PS3.

So now I've finished Persona 3 and 4, going to work on SMT: Nocturne until Persona 1 arrives. If you have even the slightest interest in JRPGs or RPGs in general, give the Persona games a try. Evenif you hate RPGs try it. I despised RPGs, the only one I ever really got into was Fallout 3 and KOTOR.The Persona gamesare long but easily some of the best games I've played, right behind Metal Gear Solid series. It even surpasses MGS in some ways I feel. Not going to write a review on it as I don't feel I could without spoiling a lot of key things.

For those of you who have no idea what Persona is, Giant Bomb has been running a Persona 4 Edurance Run for the past couple of months and are almost finished. If you are bored watch a few episodes (watch as early as possible to avoid lots of spoilers), it shows the gameplay and is pretty funny.

• Final Playtime for Persona 4 - 68 hours 47 minutes
• Final Playtime for Persona 3 - 87 hours 26 minutes

I'll keep this one nice and short

1. Last week caved in and bought a PSP with Metal Gear: Portable Ops, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7, Guilty Gear Judgement, and Socom: Fireteam Bravo. Also got Socom 3 for the Crosstalk feature on S:FTB. Loving it, planning on getting Monster Hunter Freedom United to do some LAN with a friend.

2. Quit my job. Got accused of stealing $60 becuase the cash register was short that much. I'm only making minimum wage, I don't get paid enough to deal with this BS

3. Younger brother got a laptop. It was one we had for a while and was kinda brokenish (sceen flickers). Magically he booted it up and it worked. Parents gave it to him even though I've been asking for about a year.

Since I'm now unemployeed for the 1st time in 3 years (work during summer, school all other times [school counts as a job kinda]) just going to sit back, kick up my feet and relax until school starts later this month. Maybe it'll give me time to work through my backlog of 330+ games...

Just got done watching the major 3 atE3 on G4. No one else wants to hear me ramble about the new titles and such in real life, so I decided I'd vent on here

Microsoft

I did not watch all of the press conference but I did see all the major highlights from Kotaku, G4 and just what people here on Gamespot were excited for so I have a pretty good idea of what is happening.

First of all, the announcement of Metal Gear Solid: Rising was a small blow to Sony. While they still have MGS4 exclusive, having MGS:R be multiplatform is still a pretty big deal as MGS was one of Sony's Flagship titles. Rumors I've been reading are saying that this one is going to be more actiony, which is not what MGS is all about. The motto of Tactical Espionage Action has been replaced with Lightning Bolt Action to help support this rumor. The trailer was a dissapointment, however at least they announced the title.

The next big one for me was the announcement of Left 4 Dead 2, coming November 17 for 360 and PC. L4D was one of my favorite games of 2008, and I am looking foward to the next one. The inclusion of melee combat weapons is something I wanted in the first one, along with new maps and more infected. Luckily we get all of that.I don't care much for the look of the new survivors however, they just don't seem to have the same feel as Bill, Francis, Louis and Zoey do. Theough I may learn to love them later on. Also the inclusion of new boss infected is a great touch, though I wonder if this means more than 4 v 4 multiplayer? Maybe 8 v 8? Left 4 Dead 2 4*2=8?

Of course there is also the motion controls. I'll admit I'm a bit bias against Microsoft, anyone who knows me well understands that. However the camera does look to have potential, I'm mainly saying that due to them showing off "Milo", coming from the creator of Fable and Black & White. This game looks a lot like the Dreamcast title Seaman (go ahead and laugh, everyone else already has), which has intrigued me for some time. Alas I don't have a Dreamcast or the game or the microphone so that option is out there. I won't bother trying to explain it, but if you haven't looked at it you should at least do so.

Alan Wake was given more details as well and showed actual gameplay. This is made by Remedy who are famous for creating the Max Payne series (a third one was recently confirmed I believe). It looks quite good, creepy with action. Been looking foward to it for a few years now so it's nice to see some details

Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins are both made by the greats Bioware, and are looking great. Halo: Reach and Crackdown 2 were announced, and Halo: ODST was given more details as well. Twitter and Facebook is coming to 360, yay i guess?

Overall I thought Microsoft delivered fairly well HOWEVER! They did not even mention Rare working on any game? Even so, I thought they did a good job.

FINAL GRADE: B+

Sony and Nintendo Coming Soon