Thanks to the users the gave me some advice as to what to play in my between games downtime. Bioshock was well worth the effort to get through after so much time off.

I'm onto Mass Effect, restarting my adventure as an Adept. Combat is still a bit of a pain to me but hopefully it will grow on me as I progress and grow stronger.

I have a few opinions on some new items that have popped up over the last few days. With regard to the new DS, the DSi, not interested. Many devices are now trying to become multifunction by doing lots of things but none superbly. The DS is an excellent console but how good could a built in camera (two?) be? I'm not an audiophile so music playback to me is all the same. Who would want to carry around a DS sized music player when iPods are a fraction of the size? I'd prefer that Nintendo had their hardware engineers working on the MotionPlus system for the Wii or a next gen portable, not another upgrade to existing hardware.

LBP beta craze has set in everywhere it seems. I am excited for this game but betas never get me excited. I'd rather play a complete, polished game. My time is better spent elsewhere then being an unpaid, glorified game tester.

The "New Xbox Experience" arrival is coming shortly (maybe) and I mixed feelings. Please eliminate the ads MS! The more I look at it, the more I find it to be a suped up version of the Wii style. I hope to be proven incorrect.

Until next time GS users! Go Sox!

How quickly they come and go! I received The Force Unleashed via Gamefly on Friday and have already completed the game two nights later! It is a decent game, I gave it a 7 in my review which can be found here.

Heading over to VGReleases.com, where I track all the games I am interested in, I see that the next big fishies are LittleBigPlanet and Fallout 3, both a month away. What am I going to be doing until then? Funny you should ask. I need your help deciding what unfinished games I've got here collecting dust I'm going to play next! Here are the choices:

1. Bioshock
2. Super Mario RPG
3. Warhawk

Back in the day when I was a yougin', my folks bought our first computer. It was a Gateway 2000 Pentium with 300mb of hard disk storage. Those details are neither here nor there, just giving you a time frame. This computer came with a game collection with one of these games being Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender. Thus began my love of point-and-click adventure games (and probably breasts but that's another story).

Fast forward to 2008 and I am in Atlanta for work attending a week long automation training course and I get the bright idea to give Steam a look. Well to my surprise, The Longest Journey, a highly rated p & c adventure game is only $9.99 and my love affair begins again.

The Longest Journey is a story of a woman, April, who can traverse the real world and the world of dreams and nightmares. She is tasked with saving the world (real and otherwise) from a supreme evil being she sees in her nightmares. Originally released in 2000, the game isn't pushing the envelope graphically but these games never have. More importantly, the story and dialogue carry the game. A sequel was released in 2006 under the name of Dreamfall.

What is your favorite genre? What games recently have brought you back to that genre ?