Oh Bon Jovi, I've waited many moons to use that line somewhere in real life hahaha

Well to the matter at hand.. In my previous blog post I lamented about how I literally have nothing to play and I am "goin' out of my frackin' mind" but that issue has BEEN RESOLVED! Ladies and Gentlemen, I bought Orange Box for Xbox 360!

Now some of you will say "but Maxx you already own Orange Box on Steam... what gives?" and I'll reply "I'm addicted to Achievements, and I have cash to kill"

So there you have it.. I now own a game twice for the soul purpose of collecting numerous Achievements.. but at the same time I will no longer be bored out of my mind waiting for the next big game, Ace Combat 6.

On another note, I preordered Assassin's Creed finally. I ordered the pack that comes with the super badass resin statue of Altair.. OMG, so hot. As a result of my pre-order I got an Assassin's Creed T-Shirt!! Speaking of t-shirts, we keep getting more and more Grand Theft Auto IV t-shirts here at our studio... They're so cool.. Thank you Rockstar NY for being nice and giving us more swag

Anyway I'm going to wait patiently to finish up work here today and go home and enjoy a weekend of chilling with my lady and playing some Orange Box... again. Hey, it's a different platform so technically it's a different game.... Sort of...

Listen, I know that Halo 3 is a big game, and it's pretty awesome don't get me wrong, but after beating the campaign and playing some co-op and playing some forge and doing some Slayer, I'm honestly kinda bored with it now. I own about 50 xbox 360 games, not to mention countless Xbox, PS2, Wii, PS3 and a nearly endless number of PC games. But the problem with being a hardcore gamer is just that, you become HARDCORE. The dilemma I face is even with my full time job here in this industry, even with constant exposure to videogames (and obviously development) through my job, I am not saturated at all in this! I get home, and all I want to do is kick back and play a good videogame. the problem that arises is that I play way too damn much, and as a result, I have run out of games to play. Literally.

I know that sounds a little ridiculous, trust me if someone else wrote this blog I'd say "dude you're nuts" but I'm being absolutely frank. I work full time, I have a heavy social life, and I do all kinds of things outside of work and my apartment. nevertheless, I buy every single game as they are released and I have played every game I own almost to death. There are a bloody ton of games coming out right now, well, as of the end of October there will be. My problem is that I am currently bored to **** right NOW. I need something to play right now.

After all I could finish Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition, or play more Warhawk, or finally play Metroid (I keep putting it off, I'm not compelled to even start the game), and I am also playing Dark Messiah on PC. I recently beat Half-Life 2 Episode 2 and now that it is done I feel an incredible emptiness overtake my soul... I love Half-Life, ever since 1998 it has been my all-time favorite videogame franchise, EVER.

The only hope I have is somehow surviving, holding off until October 23 for Ace Combat 6... and for that to hold me over until Need For Speed ProStreet, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Army of Two, Kane & Lynch, etc... Man, I'm going out of my mind...

Any games you guys could recommend at ALL for me to play? bear in mind I own every platform with the exception of my Gamecube which my brother currently has.

So we all know what the lineup for the final stretch of this year is like.

Games like Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, BioShock, Two Worlds, Halo 3, Warhawk, SKATE, NFS Pro Street, Kane & Lynch, Project Gotham Racing 4, Heavenly Sword, Half-Life 2 Orange Box, Metroid Prime 3, etc... These are the games that are going to murder me by December 31.

Some of you know what I do for a living, for those of you that don't I work in this fair industry as an Environment Artist for a reputable, badass company. I make a rather good salary doing what I do, too. Nevertheless I am going to be more broke than ever before. This lineup is amazing don't get me wrong and I am surely not complaining, but releasing so many AAA titles in such a short period of time is going to wreak havoc on many of us gamers!

It is a brutal, double-edged sword. Great games on one side, no money on the other.

That's ok, I can work off my debt