so the majority of the criticism directed towards this blog is that I don't talk about gaming much. fair enough. I've been playing games for a long time. let's see, I'm 22 and I've been gaming since I was four. I love video games. I'm one of those film and media studies majors who wants to legitimize video gaming as an art form. I think I could write a pretty convincing argument why some games could be considered art. but that's for another time.

I own an xbox 360 and a wii, but my wii collects dust because I only own four games - brawl, galaxy, metroid, and zelda. and I've beaten all of them and my roomies and I don't play smash that much anymore. actually we play like once a month. all three of my room-mates own xbox 360s and we are HUGE halo fans. go ahead, criticize me all you want. I don't know why - maybe its my attachment to the first halo, which I'd definitely put in my top five games of all time. the second halo game isn't that great, but as a trilogy, I think they're my favorite games. I think halo 3 is so well done in every way. it's a pretty engaging story, the graphics are sweet, the action and story are awesome, and the score - don't even get me started. I'd pay to go to a halo concert where a symphony/orchestra performed the halo score...it's so good. but I'm not JUST a halo fanboy. I love single player games too. mass effect changed my life. I'm such a sci-fi geek. let's see, oh yeah, bioshock was awesome too. as a film guy I can really appreciate such incredible art design as far as the game's world goes. and I think that andrew ryan might be my favorite video game villain. I even contemplated getting "NO GODS OR KINGS ONLY MAN" tattooed somewhere on my body. but then I realized that was probably a bad idea.

I am currently playing through lost odyssey and fable 2 for single player games. lost odyssey is actually my first jrpg, but I think I like western rpgs better. jrpgs just feel to way too archaic for me, too linear, not enough actual choice. I want to be able to explore and shit. and I know you can a bit in jrpgs but not to the extent you can in like, oblivion or fallout 3 (both of which I loved). but I admire lost odyssey even though its not quite for me. the story is really, really good and even though I spend a lot of time reading I like it. it even made me miss my mom when I was reading one of the stories. and the graphics are sweet too. fable 2 is just way too short and easy. on the first day of playing it I owned like, half of albion. and the story isn't even THAT engaging. it's ok. glad I didn't buy it.

ok time for some halo.