17, M rated games! Not that I have ever had any problems buying them haha. Plus now that I work at bestbuy even if I was having problems I could just get someone I work with to ring it through for me. Still now I can buy them legitimately. Other than that I don't really care about my birthday. I never make a big deal about it. And its weird cause I'm sort of at a point in my life where I dont really want to get any older. 16 was sweet cause I could drive, but after that I have no interest in growing older. Sounds phony but I actually love my life. My school, my friends my family, everything is sort of where I want it to be it's great. Yeah school can be a pain sometimes (especially with my IB classes, for those who dont know what IB is its AP on steroids...) but ultimately i pull through it and then its back to normal. I guess I am sort of worried about the future cause although I am sure I will be fine, at this point in my life I have no interest in changing anything. And my birthday just reminding me that I am getting older, and in a couple years everything will be totally different. And I have no idea wtf I want to do after high school. I easily have the grades to go to university, but I have no idea what I would want to study. But thats enough of that. It's not a pressing issue, it's all just been on my mind because of my birthday.

More importantly I beat Uncharted 2! All I can say is... wow... so good. The campaign is full of surprises, you get sucked into the story, the characters are unique and enjoyable, the variety in the missions is really amazing, the graphics are top notch, controls are perfect, online is actually fun which surprised me, I could go on but all you need to know is the game has a 97 on metacritic for a reason. Everything comes together perfectly to create an experience only a select few games can even compare to. Right now I'm going for the trophies, there are a couple gun ones I didnt pick up which I am in the process of getting, I need the one for 10 steel fists in a row (this is really hard) then just the treasure and hard/crushing trophies. Mix in some online and even after completing the story mode there is still tons left to do. BUY THIS GAME.

Oh and I bough Assassins Creed for $5. Its the limited edition with the tin case and action figure Man I love my best buy hookups

I'm sure I'm not the only one pumped for this game. If you've been to the PS3 threads lately I am sure you've seen all the Uncharted 2 threads. The game looks awesome, from what I have read in reviews the game seems to be a large improvement over its already great predecessor. And I wasn't too excited about online but the beta really convinced me Uncharted online could actually work. The standard deathmatch was a blast, and even though the beta only gives one short co-op mission it was a blast. I'm excited to have a whole set of online co-op to play.

But as good as I am sure the online co-op will be, I am very disapointed that there is no local split screen co-op. Actually no split screen multiplayer of any kind. I'm not the only one who still enjoys split screen, right? As exciting and convenient as online is, nothing will ever be better than beating our friend and laughing about it right there with him. Or playing through some co-op levels and discussing strategy face to face instead of over mics.

Nevertheless, I am excited for this game. I am going to pick it up after work tomorrow (great thing about working at best buy, even though I am working I can just pick up a copy and set it aside for myself to make sure there is a copy waiting for me at the end of my shift) And a sweet thing is the best buy employee discount is cost (the price bestbuy pays) plus 10%, which is great for a lot of things but usually on new videogames you end up saving only a couple bucks or even sometimes the retail price is cheaper. But I looked up Uncharted 2 in our computers to see the cost price and for some random reason it's a good $10 cheaper than the cost price of any other new video game. Very weird but works out nicely I'll save some cash when I buy it.

And one last thing. I am considering picking up Demon's Souls cause it looks so awesome and I want a good action RPG to get into. I was considering buying Oblivion but Demon's Souls looks awesome and looks like something I would really like. I am worried about the difficulty, though, so I'm not totally sure I should get it. I'll be busy with Uncharted 2 for quite some time so maybe ask for Demon's Souls for Christmas. Any thoughts on this? Have you played the game and is it totally unbearably difficult, or a good challenge?

Wow it's been a bit since I last blogged. I've been very busy. School and all my extra curriculars are keeping me busy like never before, and honestly for a period it was quite stresful. On top of that I somehow developed gastroesophical reflux disease, which really is a fancy way of saying I get wicked heartburn whenever I eat. But seriously calling it heartburn doesn't do it justice. It was crippling, I basically couldn't eat it hurt so bad. I've lost a good ten pounds over the past week and a half or so, and I'm already a pretty skinny guy so that really is a problem. Anyways, I did finally see a doctor and he gave me some medication for it and it's a lot better. I can still feel it but the burning heartburn is gone, now it just sort of feels like a lump in my chest. Still sucks but WAY better than before and I am eating regular meals again.

So yeah last couple weeks have been bad, some issues at school got me really stressed out, and homework was keeping me up late. Add that I couldn't eat and I was on edge like no other. A couple of teachers even talked to me about my so called attitude issue because I was so friggen irritable. Honestly thought I hate it when teachers try to act all sympathetic to me. I'm sure it was legit but it still really annoys me for some reason.

I flew down to minneapolis last weekend for the Vikings Packers game. AWESOME! It was my first NFL game (I live in Canada, CFL ftw!) and it was a total blast. But the weekend coincided with the peak of pain from my GERD so as much fun as the trip was I was still really annoyed the whole time. And then I get back to find out I am totally f***** because of the days I missed. I'm not going to go into it because the week is over now, but honestly I have never had so much school work in a 2 day period before.

BUT! Happy ending here. As stressed as I was it's more or less over now. It's Canadian thanksgiving weekend so I have a four day break from school. Plus, I am finally caught up on the work I missed when I went to the game. And the other issues at school I mentioned have all resolved themselves fairly positively. There is still some stuff going on that is rather troublesome to say the least, but none of it directly affects me. Still annoying. Haha honestly I could tell you what it is but I'm so sick of dealing with it that I don't even want to blog about it.

onto NEW GAMES

I bought the orange box a while back for 20 bucks. Seemed like a good deal for the package even if it is old. But not gonna lie I havent been able to get into half life at all. Portal looks sweet, but I haven't even tryed to get into it. Just other games to play I guess haha. But Team Fortress 2 makes it all worth it. So much fun and the graphics are awesome.

I also bought Prince of Persia for 5 bucks NEW! If you didn't already know this, I work at Best Buy. Long story short apparently PoP is soon to be clearance on PS3, and clearance items lose the store money (my manager explained it, I had no idea what he was talking about) Basically to prevent the game from becoming clearance they are trying to sell them to the staff for cheap. Or at leas I think thats the reasoning behind it. All I know is that there is a list of about 40 or so games on all platforms that are soon to be clearance games that I can buy for 5 or 10 bucks. Honestly they are mostly s*** games that should be clearance but there are a few like PoP that looked alright. I've barely played it and my first impression is that the graphics are sweet, but the game is very repetitive. Maybe I'll change my mind about it once I get farther in.

On a related note, has anyone played Wolfenstein? Is it good? For some reason even though we are still selling it for 54.99 or something like that wolfenstein is on the clearance list so I could pick it up for 10 bucks if I wanted to. Seems like too good of a deal to pass up, but the game really doesnt seem my styl.e so I didn't buy it. Let me know if you've played it what you think of it.

And my last new game is Rayman Advance. Rayman for PC was one of the first games I ever played. My friend gave it to me for my birthday and I loved it, even though I remember finding it terribly hard. I was never able to get past a completion level of 20% or so. I remember not being able to configure my keyboard controls either, and having to press random keys to find the right buttons. Every new ability I got was the same process until i figured it out. Funny thing about this game is that the friend who got it for me for my birthday loved it so much that I bought it for him for his birthday I saw the game for 9.99 used at a gamespot and I knew I had to get it if only to relieve my childhood a bit. I still have the PC disc, but Vista doesn't seem to like it too much (XP doesn't either, so it's basically unplayable to me)

Well yeah, thats my blog. Just read some of it over and.... wow. That's what I get for blogging without a plan. Just a series of random, barely related thoughts. I feel like I owe you an apology now for this terrible blog, but it had been a while and now that I am finally in a good mood again I really just felt like writing a blog.