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on the gaming front

Ill be dead honest. I feel as of now "only a few moths in worldwide" their maybe only one PS3 game that deserves a 9 and higher. Im guessing thats RESISTANCE? I only played it a hour or so. Will play threw it hopefully this weekend??? But that being said. The 360 has been out 2 years almost. And I only see 1 game that may be a 9 or over on that system. Oblivion is not a 9 and over on any system. Even if it is better on the PS3. The only reason it got a 9+ on the PS3. Was because the gave it a 9 something on the 360. If it would of came to the PS3 first, your looking at a 8 something game. Which is what it is. But I think the 360 now has shown pretty much its full load of what it can do. Where as the PS3 has not shown hardly anything that is possible on that machine. And programmers/gaming comapnies have to watch. If a big name programmer cant make something look great on the PS3. And some small time company pops out something that looks out of this world. The big names are gonna look like idiots, which most are. And also those big comapnies may start to loose their strong holds if their made foolish because their games are not as good as some of the smaller companies. Alot of Gaming companies are gonna loose it this Gen do to ignorance. And will see a whole new breed by the time this is all over.

I mean lets face it. PRG5 is now a plain jane racer to Gamespot. If it indeed is a thrid party. Tell me Im wrong on that. See now you start to see youare truley vary biased, and you truley overhype things.

My take: "I would play/link the vid, but my voice stinks, and I hate the way I look on vid."

Halo is going to be huge of course. You could just put the name on a box and sell it, with average content. But they wont give those guys a bad game thow. They have to much in that one basket to do so. A tun of work has been done on that game im sure. I do feel that for the 360, it is the must show game. Its the game that says "this is the 360 at full go, this is it!" Where as with the PS3, were knowing that programmers wont get it right for a little while longer. And as of now, were just getting tiny tastes of what the PS3 will be latter. But were not seeing anything full go on that hardwear yet. Yet with Halo, its more of a "We have been out for a while now, this is us full blast." So will see the 360 at full go. And of course it will be a hit. Mainly the 360 online community will flock to it again. And no matter how bad or good the game, that community will make things feel special.

And yea the Haze release date is kinda interesting. Haze does not have the time behind it thow I dont feel. I still think the weights on latter FPSers for the PS3. Killzone 2 would be the first out of that bunch to really look at. With Haze its more of just a beta PS3 test.You have to look for little signs. Just see if its shows that this system can look as good in the FPS area. And does it have the potential to look much better in the future." With a short development, I dont see Haze as a huge game. If it is, it would be a huge surprise. Epically with a Killzone 2 coming up. And for fans of these FPS. You have to look at those two of course. But than you also have to think RESISTANCE 2 latter, and of course Unreal Tournament. Thats quite a bag of FPS's, once all are lined up in your PS3 collection. Can you see HAZE, RESISTANCE 2, Unreal Tournament, Killzone 2, All in your little FPS PS3 library. And that not counting the Orange Box or Army of 2, or any of those. Just with the PS3 only ones, you still have a nice little FPS play area their. Even more so for a system thats going to probably play off of RPGs and 3rd person action adventure more so latter on.

So Halo comes up, and you know their gonna hit a good one. But than their will be the shots heard after that. They will be what is looked at more so. The next Gen is just barely starting. And whats after 07? Whos big in 08? I mean some of us are already making are Halloween plans. Man! its gonna be 08 soon. Summers over. The year of MGS 4 and others is coming. Halo 3 will have been played. And will be looking for what is next. So were getting close to the time to where I will start to really look at whats coming in. Winter hype for the 08 summer will soon come. And than of course the games of 08. So will see. Ive said it a billion times. Mid 2008, and than on threw after, is where it starts. Thats where the race will just start. And its getting closer and closer every day. And all I mentioned here, was some stupid FPS games. A area of games so old and stale, that FPS should be dead by mid 09. No race games, or anything other. So were not even talking about the true Next Gen. Were not talking about 3rd person action/adventure games, or action RPG's, or any of the true next steps. Were not talking about games that might come close to using the PS3's full power, instead of 50% of it. Were not talking about steps that will define the next Gen. Were not quite their yet. Were talking about old stale "learn to play paintball, its funner" FPSers. So the real questions of getting into the Next Gen come after Halo and Haze. And I guess you could call GTA4 kinda the true start. But again thats just the start.

And my thought of the day. I look threw the 360 boards all the time. And I notice that at lot of 360 owners have vary high levels. Meaneing their like level 20+ on Gamespotsmeter. Yet most PS3 owners are like level 9 or whatever. But when you look at joined date. Most all equal out the same when it comes to that. Why do 360 owners post so much more than PS3 owners "not counting paid spam?" Some of their posting rate, has to be up their with hours a day. They dont even needs 360s. They never play them, their here all day. It fits right into "when I was kinda a Xbox fan with my Xbox." I would get on and ask about KOTOR help or something. And I would notice the main trash talkers were on so much. I had to wounder when they played? I was not talking trash back than, because I was clueless as far as who Microsoft truly was.So I owned every system.But PS3 people and 360 people are way different. 360/Xbox people love to get online prestige. They will play stupid games all day just to get merit. And their big fans of the whole Paint ball online junk. They love online, and they love talking on message boards. PS2/PS3 people dont like message boards nearly as much. They love games, but dont care to much about merit of how they look on some list. They like online, but many have been doing it since the early 90s on the PC. So their not as impressed by it. So they just play online for the fun of it. Not for merit.

That brings me to the point of gaming for merit. Its like when I raced motocross for points and championships. It got to a point that I was not riding for fun anymore. I was so obsessed with state championships and whatever. I forgot what riding was about. I did not even smile and ride anymore. I just thought what I had to get. It was not, "Oh lets go try this jump for fun." I lost all that. It was, I have to race here and their and their, to get these points and those points and so on. And I really messed myself up by the time I figured out that I did not care about riding anymore. I had already killed riding for along time. Worrying about how well I did, so I looked good. By the time I realized I was killing it. It was to late. I forgot how to have fun and ride. Are gamers gaming now to really game?? Only they truly know?

I love what the Next Gen can be. And it should be, It should be way beyond anything we see now. It should blow past the FPS greats of the Xbox "original" and some of the RPG action story games of the PS2. It should take us into works like Pans Lybi "whatever" and suck us in. But the real Next Gen wont only just look good, it will play long, it will tell stories beyond before. But thats a few years off still. In till than, the game Im looking forward to the most is MANHUNT 2. Althuogh I did not like the first one. I though it was sorta linear, and kinda the same stupid thing over and over. Almost like some kinda of weird fighter, where your doing the same basic fights one after another. Rockstar hits or misses. Bully was great, and the video game version of the movie "The Warriors" were spot on games. So I wont judge what Manhunt 2 could be from Manhunt 1. After all, GTA 3, VC, SA were all way different games. And all added so much more from one to another. So im interested to see if they really open this game up, give it a background and wild story. And make it the game it could have been. And so will see. PS2 still has alot of decent hits. My wounder is where did Xbox stuff go, why is no one making anything for the Xbox? That was like dumping your best friend for some girl out in the desert for good. But I guess some work that way? When you should keep both.

Also on MGS4. One thing I have learned more so as I get older "to old." Is that alot of these kids have no clue what MGS really is. Some dont know what Final Fantasy is, besides maybe a few glimpses at the last one. Only word of mouth has gave them opinions on MGS. But I think the new trailer is showing them. "Wow, this is not some basic war game like I thought. This is some wild freakish story, based around "real" old wars. And now with 4, a new middle eastern war." And although the guns, areas, and wars are based on real one. The war Snake is in, is a magical fictional out of this world one. MGS is not a sim of war. Its always been a over the top amazingly told story of war. With bad guys that even rival "or exceed" those of the best comic book villins. Theirs enough amazingly colorfull, deep minded bad guys threw the first 3 MGS games. Enough to make 20 games around just each one. And enough boss fights to fill 20 game endings. But they did it threw 3 games. But its not just a boss fight. Its not go into the area, and fight some cool freak. Their is more than that. They dictate their own story's into snakes. Thus stories and emotion are flying everywhere, but somehow find their way into each other, and into the main story. And boss fight may not even be the right word for how you deal with these. MGS solid cant be explained threw words. Its just to deep and to wild. Hopefully 4 will be able to at least explain 1 threw 3 to these others, while it plays into itself as 4. I mean when you really think about 1 threw 3 and all the people and stories. In some ways nothing has ever really touched that high of a level in action gaming.

And on me saying Stuntman 2 is to hard. Its is. I dont want to hear you BS on how its not sim enough, and your a great driver blaa blaa blaa. You know who I am by now right? Some of you right. Fact is I will tear anyone! And i mean anyone on gamespot, "member or guest," a new A Hole on any real track with 2 wheels or 4. Dirt or pavement. Ive been doing well since 5 years old. And Stuntman 2 is to stupidly hard. Its one thing to beat it. Which anyone can. Its another to say how easy it was after it took you 50 tries to get threw it. Teens have a problem with that today as well. A game is either hard or easy. Its never just right. But what it is to them. Is its to hard for a long time, in'till they beat it. Than its like "Oh man, im so cool that was easy" Dont give me that BS. In fact just quite with the BS in gaming. I hear enough of it from Microsoft. Game could of been great. It was not. Hell the site lines on like movie 4. In the snow. The 3rd take. Where you go nitro 3 times in a row, Why ice is falling everywhere. You cant see a dang thing on were to go. That has nothing to do with driving, thats blind luck, literally! Because you cant see anything.

And here is another thing that just frustrates me with this game being considered decent. If you go back to last gen you had a vary underrated smash/race game call Destruction Derby "eve of destruction." This game nailed down the small town hick/fair racing feel PERFECT. Yet, it gets no recognition, and a bad score. Than another "much better than Stunman" was Flatout. Not quite the same small town feel and aura as Eve of Destruction. But a tad better physics, and when Hooked to a Xbox thew a HD "in HD" last Gen, it looked pretty sweet. Yea I still hate Microsoft. But the Xbox threw HD cables was the way to go for third party games like that last Gen. In fact my Xbox threw HD next to a 360 does not fail in comparison to bad. Now next to PS3 stuff latter it may fail major? But enough smack talk. You get the idea. Stuntman could of been another great wild take on driving games. Like those 2 games did a few years back. But I dont think its as good. Because for one it is a tad hard. But more so, you just have to go over and over some of the runs. But its close to being great. And so many tiny things could have made this game amazing. But how its gets considered decent over Flatout is another reason I get ughh on this game. Flatout is a way better game. Heck the low scored Eve of Destruction is a blast, and better game. Old style derby and some wild backwards and pole racing, some car/almost supercross fairground racing. It was a blast. Plus you had this cool little home town hub you worked and repaired and bought and sold,, and even street raced out of. So That game I feel was way underrated. Stuntman could be a great franchise. I think another sequel, may be what takes it to the next level. But Its just so irritating to see something so close, but so far.

And dont think hard messes me. I beat GTA SA and VC with no cheats. But I still feel a few of those missions were just a tad to much and ruined those games. But I did beat them. And I think those games could of been great also. With a few changes to just loosen up how hard they are some. Not to easy, but just a bit.

Any idiot knows that Bioshock has already been in the works for the PS3. Micro could only buy part of that idea for a limited time. Unlike most of their other ideas they buy. So the spam nation of 360 buy out posters, must of thought this was the one to gun at as their hit. That big paycheck getting spam area, Must be dumber than I thought.

I said it once for many reasons and Ill say it again. If Microsoft some how found a way to win this gen. Which they wont. Good gaming as we know it, will be over! And will see alot of crappy eye candy for the next 500 years of gaming. Its everyone's choice thow so?