It has been a while since I did anything productive on this site.

I still check it periodically. I read that Onlive article. It looks nice. The interwebs is a lovely thing.

Anyway about video games.

I have been addicted to video games my whole life...

except for the last 3 months. I have not touched a game.

And I don't know why. The last game I bought was rock band 2. Soon after I bought an actual drumset.

So that game became quite useless. The only reason to play that game anymore is to sing "you oughta know" by alanis morisette. What a horribly masochistic thing for any male to do.

But I digress.

I need to enter some sort of video game re-immersion program.

Maybe some sort of RPG. I was looking at Lost Oddysey. Not the game really, but the price tag. But I'm old school enough to love any RPG no matter how grindy.

Then I had a thought.

Playing Rock Band had a directly positive effect on my life.

I played game and it inspired me to get real instruments.

Now I play real instrument and I gain personal satisfaction.

Techniques I learned in that game actually improved my life.

Now try comparing that to any other game.

A shooter, I understand eventually you may end up shooting zombies/aliens/minorities

But I'm starting to realize how little RPG's are helping me with my life.

Badass sword techniques, Black magic, and general diety summoning are all anachronistic.

Nuclear Weapons > Bahamut

There are sort of moral lessons from RPG's I guess.

Every RPG does have the Heideggerian message which is like we have to become one with nature. It is always the Holy Nature Spirits which overcome the Evil Human Giant Machine.

The one exception is Pokemon. Pokemon is like screw nature. We can put all the useful plants and animals into little balls, put those on a computer which digitalizes them, and then forget about them as we level up our completely broken Umbreon. (I just realized I never had an Umbreon in Silver because of my 7 PM bedtime. Stupid game mechanics)

What else. There is a lot about friendship.

You can magically make friends with everyone. I especially do not understand how you can fight somebody and then have them immediately befriend you.

You just beat this person 8-10 times with a giant sword, set him/her on fire, and smacked him with a demon.

Ooh and whats up with Clerics.

Talk about religious propaganda. I mean I need an RPG where you can use natural healing techniques. Like a Native American character to replace the religious ones.

If you're wondering I'm listening to Mitch Hedberg right now so that can explain the lack of segways/sense?

Abrupt ending.

I think I will share my RPG idea next time. In however many years it takes me to post again.

Life connected to video games had been going pretty badly recently.

i was going to starve myself for lost oddysey.

but the reviews were meh. Normally that wouldn't bother me. I used to buy all these mixed review rpgs. I love the baten kaitos series and they got 8's some places and 3's other places. The issue here is price

Rpg's and games with good stories are not always the best investment. You play it you beat it... you lend it to friends... you play it again in 10 years. clock in about 70 hours max usually.

A shooter or a rhythym game can clock you thousands of hours. Better investments

back with the gamecube price didn't matter, games were 40 and old games were 5 bucks.

But now games are 60 bucks, and they stay 60 bucks for a while.

but according to the post title something good happened.

And something did.

I've owned a 360 for two months. For 4 weeks out of those 2 months i've had no 360.

I got red ringed twice.

After the first one manufactured in 07, they sent me a new one manufactured in 06.

That one broke much quicker. From the start disc tray errors etc.

I just got my third one. And instead of being from like 1998 like i expected.

It was manufactured last week.

Microsoft is finally tired of giving me crappy hardware.

And that's a great feeling.

It's like they care.

Or their tired of paying for my shipping.

But either way I can relax about my hardware now and truly enjoy the games.

you know... if the games were affordable.

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I am a complete diehard nintendo fan. Every gen since this one I bought nintendo consoles exclusively.

This year I decided to switch my style up and buy an xbox 360.

Honestly one could say I bought it for all the wrong reasons.

I'm barely ever online and sometimes just leave the plug disconnected. When I'm online I'm playing rock band with a band.

Speaking of rock band it's the only game I purchased.

I also played some guitar hero 2 and some bioshock.

GUitar hero 2 held my attention for a while since my xbox red ringed with the game inside and it took about 12 hours to open it and get the game out.

Then about a month to get the console back.

Bioshock was another story. I thought this game would be perfect. Amazing visuals. A SMART storyline. It's not a dumb as hell ninja's kidnapped the president, but it's not too confusing metal gear solid.

Prolly the most captivating story in a game so far.

That enough would make me want the game. But I'm also a big system shock 2 fan. So this game is perfect... in theory

Playing it was extremely underwhelming. Honestly I was bored in a short amount of time playing it.

Disappointment is not the word. I appreciate everything about the game and admit that it is good.

But I can't play it. Bioshock was theoretically one of the best games ever. But I find it unplayable

but now a game i've been all excited about for some time is lost oddysey.

I didn't know it was coming out so soon. i'm prolly going to reserve it now.

Nothing gets me excited like an rpg.

Any kind of rpg. Traditional, Strategy, Action, Card based, MMO all get my spine tingling.

I have yet to play an rpg I didn't like.

Well maybe there is one type of rpg i don't like.

They are the one's with the words final and fantasy.

WHy you ask?

I Don't know. The universe just doesn't captivate and interest me.

They are undeniably good games but the franchise itself doesn't captivate enough.

The thing about final fantasy is if one really got to you, all the others will too.

I never got into it.

So what was the point of this post.

Nothing nothing at all.