So in my GH Metallica review I commented that there are definetly some choice Met songs that were left out. Here is my Metallica track list:

Metallica

Blackened

One

The Shortest Straw

The Frayed Ends of Sanity

That Was Just Your Life

The Day That Never Comes

My Apocalypse

Whiskey In the Jar

Die, Die My Darling

Breadfan

The Four Horseman

Whiplash

Seek and Destroy

King Nothing

Hero of the Day

Master Of Puppets

Orion

Sad But True

Wherever I May Roam

The God That Failed

Fuel

The Memory Remains

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Fade To Black

Creeping Death

The Call Of Ktulu

No Leaf Clover

Frantic

Additional Bands

Motorhead - Stone Dead Forever

Deep Purple - Highway Star

Diamond Head - Am I Evil?

Megadeth - 99 Ways to Die

Machine Head - Halo

The Sword - Iron Swan

Mastodon - Blood and Thunder

Iron Maiden - Killers

Mercyful Fate - Evil

Judas Priest - Electric Eye

Anthrax - Caught in a Mosh

Danzig - Twist of Cain

Alice in Chains - Rooster

Alice Cooper - I'm 18

System of a Down - Toxicity

Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell

Bob Seger - Her Strut

Slayer - Angel of Death

Black Sabbath - Supernaut

Dethklok - Thunderhorse

There are always going to be a certain handful of games that will remind me of my childhood. The first will be Wing Commander 3 (on PC of course), and the second will be Street Fighter 2 (in the arcade of course). The problem with me and Street Fighter is that even though I love the series, and have invested a good amount of quarters (and time), I suck. Yet for some reason, no matter how bad I get whupped online, I still keep coming back for more.

Normally I try to hold off on picking up fighting games on consoles. Inevitably they drop in price, making it a lot more palpable to purchase them when I will only play them for a couple of weeks then move on. But I can't wait for Tuesday... thank you Capcom. With the release of Street Fighter 2 HD super-duper-extra-long-name released on XBL Capcom did exactly what they needed to do to get me dying for SF 4. The refreshed graphics and solid game play really got me reliving my old school quarter days back in the arcades. I even stuck with SF2 long enough to get the 100 win achievement and the win a match with every character achievement (twice!).

Now, as I said earlier, I suck at Street Fighter. So I definetly did the "jump kick followed by sweep" move a lot. But now I have pledged to actually learn the game. And when I say learn the game, I mean not only play Ken. Heck, I even ordered one of the arcade sticks to really get that "arcade feel" back.

Well, 2/17, here I come. With an arcade stick, a determined mind, and a sincere effort to rock out with ALL characters.

I don't believe it, I'm blogging...

I just forced myself to take a break from Fallout 3, which I have been playing for an extremely long time, because I was finally overwhelmed. I know it's weird; I stopped playing because my brain simply said, "self, its time to take a break." What prompted this? The level 20 explorer perk that reveals all the locations on the Fallout 3 world map. When an INSANE amount of locations popped up I simply had to walk away and take a breather.

This leads me to this blog and why I am writing it, the value of games. When I was a kid I got video games twice a year. One on my birthday (November) and one on Christmas (December, Duh), so that was 10 months out of the year that I didn't have something new to play. As soon as it was time for me to get a job I tried to work for Babbage's, but no luck. A couple of years later I landed a long gig with EB Games, and bought all the games I wanted to with my hard-earned money.

Now in my time of game playing, I have played a lot of crap. I have also played a lot of promising games that would have been great if I waited for their eventual clearance bin price. So nowadays, the question that always comes to my mind is, "should I buy now, or should I wait." It is my personal belief that if you pay $2 per hour of play time, then you have made a good investment (hence the reason I was a HUGE RPG fan back in the day). I mean let's face it, you pay (back then) $50 bucks for a game and you only get 5-6 hours out of it you felt cheated. Now when that gets bumped up to $25 hours, not only do you feel like you were compensated for your time, but most of the time it forces the game to be better to keep your attention.

Now I will be the first to say that I don't mind repetitive games as long as they are fun. Ninety-Nine Nights was a good bargain bin find, Amped 3 I still find myself playing every so often for 30 minutes, and I am not even going to go into the amount of time I have spent on the multi-player sections of Halo 3 and Gears 1. I still say that one of my favorite games is Final Fantasy 8 (calm down FF7 fan boys) because I put 80 hours into and loved it. This fact now brings me to right here, right now. Fallout 3, 60+ hours in and I thought I was doing everything that could be done to hold off the inevitable end. Then I go and decide to see what locations I might have missed...and BOOM it looks like the entire world map got chicken pocks.

So what am I saying? Fallout 3 is a good game (it now ranks within my top 5 of all time), yes. But I am also saying thanks to Bethesda. Not only have they produced an amazing game, but they have made it WELL worth my money. Now I am not trying to make this a ramble fest about how awesome Fallout 3 is, but compare it to Halo 3 WITHOUT MULTI-PLAYER. I always resisted playing games online because I feared it would detract from the single-player experience... I am just glad to see that there are some games out there that still focus on story and bang for the buck.