I now have an actual blog that I actually update regularly, so check that out for all the news and commentaries you could ask for on video games. Two friends and I are also getting into podcasting, and are recording a 30-minute show every Wednesday, uploading the show sometime before Fridays. So if you're into video games and would like to see more news and commentaries on the things you wanna see, check out my new blog at http://updatethis.wordpress.com

I'm also looking for a PS3 writer and a Wii writer, so, if you're pretty handy at writing blog posts, feel free to send me an email. All contact details are listed on the main blog.

Looking into getting a new laptop for school and organizational reasons... I'm not really going for a gaming computer, so it shouldn't be too expensive, most likely in the $800-$1,000 range. I've looked at a few so far, if anybody knows of any stand-out models, let me know. Once again though, I don't intend to do any hardcore gaming, at most maybe WoW or something I dunno, so I don't need an incredibly powerful machine.

I hope E3's a good one this year, there 'ought to be some killer games later on. I can't really say which ones I'm getting the most excitement from, but it looks to be an awesome lineup, ranking up there with last year's lineup.

This is a very short blog post, but I don't really have much else to say, seeing as e3 is still yet to come... Mayhaps I'll post a few more things later on dealing with some of the games I found interesting...

This game looks incredibly sweet.

Co-op multiplayer, although it's limited to 2 players, will still be awesome. Customizable characters, several professions, items and stuff like that will boost up the replay value. The 360 needs a good game that isn't an FPS, I'm getting pretty tired of all of those. This should add some new stuff to the console's library though, and even though it doesn't have competitive multiplayer, I'm sure it will still have loads of replay value.

Videos...

Professions

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Release date... August 19th, 2008

*I had to put professions instead of cl@sses, because it censored out cl@sses...

So I got my 360 back and picked up Lost Odyssey to see how well it turned out. I've got to say I'm surprised. Gamespot gave it a 7.5 or something like that, and I wasn't thinking it was going to be that great. But man, so far it's been quite a killer JRPG. Seriously Gamespot, what were you guys thinking when you reviewed Lost Odyssey? Really now, you guys give 2 reasons to deduct 2.5 points off its score, and pretty crappy reasons at that...

• Protracted battle intros and other frustrations break up the pace
• Some nonbattle gameplay elements are boring, pointless, or needlessly frustrating.

What're you talking about here, and how do those two things detract from the gameplay so much that you've got to knock off a fourth of LO's score? Protracted battle intros? Wow, it takes like a second longer than normal JRPG's to get into a battle, and a lot of it is due to loading and the like. "Other frustrations?" The load times? Have you ever played a JRPG? I'm sorry, I forgot that load times are a thing of the past, this is "the next generation."

A lot of people also give LO crap because it didn't "revolutionize" the genre. This is the next generation of gaming maybe, but when does a game have to be "revolutionizing" to be good? Don't even try to pull that "LO isn't original" crap, because you know that's a lie. I think the only thing unoriginal about LO is its traditional JRPG battle system, even then only on basic levels.

I'm sorry GSpot, but if you're gonna do your job, review it right. It's not so much that you gave it a low score, but what gets it with me is your reasons for doing so. If you don't like a game, tell us what's bad about it, instead of just beating around the bush and nit-picking.