Well technically I was never gone -- I've been here the whole time, lurking about, posting from time to time and reading blogs. I was never really into posting blogs on a regular basis but geez, it's sure been a while since my last one. Anyway, it's past my bed time so I'm just going to *messily* summarize what I've been up to lately.

For starters, I bought GTA IV -- I've been massively hyped about this game since before it was even announced, which is rare for me. Anyway, to briefly sum it up, I beat it, best game I've played it a while, met all my expectations. Was it better than San Andreas? Probably though I had more fun with San Andreas. Did it deserve a 10/10? Hell no! No game does in my opinion, not even Ocarina of Time. I know that many people are saying 10 doesn't mean perfect but even with a .5 increment scoring system, 10 has to be damn close to perfect. I'd give this game oooh, I dunno ... 9.7 maybe, at best? Any game that scores above 9.0 is amazing in my books.

Online play? Could care less about it to be honest, haven't played much of it and I do not care to. Online gaming hasn't been my thing since CS 1.6 and I'm really not into console online gaming. I've played the GTA online and it's not bad but I'm gonna cancel my Xbox Live Gold none-the-less.

Rebought a copy of Final Fantasy VII from eBay yesterday which should hopefully arrive tommorrow or the day after. I only ever beat the game once and I recently felt a sudden urge to playthrough it once more. Unfortunately I sold it a while back so I had to buy it again. I paid a little more than I would have liked to for it but eh -- what the heck? It was an original copy in mint condition.

Speaking of retro games -- actually can the PS1 be classed as 'retro' just yet? Probably not, whatever -- I've decided to start rebuilding my games collection. Current generation games are too expensive for the likes of me so my money would most likely be better spent on old cheap games. I bought a megadrive from eBay as well as Sonic 2 and Aladdin, both of which are excellent games.

Uh, what else .... thinking of buying a GameCube -- I could just buy a Wii but Gamecubes are crazy cheap these days.

Saw the new Indiana Jones movie ... I wasn't too impressed but to be honest I wasn't expecting much from it either. It's an alright movie that doesn't really live up to it's predecessors. There's my impressions for you, see it if you want though I wouldn't reccommend it.

Oh and I just watched this -- Ugh ... I dunno what my thoughts are on this

Achievement unlocked!

Finally! Bring on Through the Fire and Flame!!

Speaking of Guitar Hero, I was ecstatic to find out that the 360 version of Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock has no region-locking. I imported the US version of the game and it should arrive late this week or early next week. A long wait but at least I don't have to wait all the way untill November 23rd for the European release date!

Due to spending way too much time rocking out on Guitar Hero II for the 360, my wrists are officially... well... hurting. On the bright side, I am officially a satisfied customer. Definitly £65 well spend. That game is flat out, awsome! Not only does it play much better than the original but it looks brilliant. The only complaint I would make is that the track list, I'm sure you have heard, isn't nearly as good as that of the previous game. Never-the-less, the songs are really fun to play.

But despite the title of this blog post, this is not what I am here to talk about. A few hours ago, I headed off to Gamestation with the intentions of selling my PS2 with all it's games. Well, I wasn't expecting much money, I just wanted to see how much they would give me for it.

I didn't really wanna trade it in for anything below £80. The guy at the counter was half way through scanning the games when he asked, 'How much are you expecting from this?'. I replied, 'Erm, about £50'. He looked at me and said, 'Well we're already £30 above that.'

Wha-- £80 and still more games to go? I thought that seemed pretty good. It came to £98.50. Luckily I had brought with me an unwanted copy of 'Saints Row'. That brought the total up to £110.50 which was enough to buy a DS Lite with a starter pack and free chart game of my choice. I picked Phoenix Wright: Ace Attourney Justice For All and walked out of the store feeling generally happy with my purchase.

You may be thinking a PS2 with around 20 games + a copy of Saints Row is not worth a DS lite. Well consider this: I do already have two other PS2s in my home that aren't mine but have access to with a decent line-up of games including GTA: Vice City, Bully, Kingdom Hearts, a bunch of sports games...uh...Gran Turismo 3 + 4. Plus I have a fairly new and unused PS1 with games such as Final Fantasy VII, VIII and IX, Metal Gear Solid, Spyro (legendary) and more... Plus I still have a copy of Final Fantasy X which I was unable to sell because there was no manual.

So to sum up: I now have a brand new DS Lite, 5 stylus's, Phoenix Wright 2, a cleaning cloth, screen protecter, a leather wallet thingy for storing the DS and in return I no longer have a PS2 to call my own plus I lost a bunch of pretty decent games.

Totally worth it in my opinion but I'm sure many people will say otherwise.