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  • Too Many Good Games…

    The KniceGuy Household xbox360 attachment rate increased over the weekend. Again. Every time we have a family event (in this case, it was a celebration of 7 years of marriage for Mr & Mrs KniceGuy), we have to buy a game or two to celebrate.  We thought about trading in a few games, but then we went through our entire library and couldn’t find a single game we didn’t want to keep playing. If I counted correctly, we’re up to 26 games now, counting two copies of Call of Duty 4 so both of us could play online together.

    When we went to GameStop to buy PGR4 and Bioshock (both used) and preorder Fable 2, I caught myself saying “There are too many good games coming out!” If I was made of money and time, I would have preordered Fallout 3 and Infinite Undiscovery on the spot. I find myself organizing my time based on what game will be coming out. It’s a great problem for gamers these day – too many great games that make it hard to choose what to play.

    So here’s MrsKniceGuy’s schedule of games for the next few months:
    1. Finish Blue Dragon.
    2. Finish Mass Effect playthrough #4 on Insanity (I’ve already got my level 60 Vanguard, it shouldn’t take long now).
    3. Trade “the Allies” Mass Effect for Lost Odyssey.
    4. Spend days of life (and several boxes of kleenex if the GamerchiX are right) playing Lost Odyssey.
    5. Play the Fable 2 pub games in August while waiting impatiently for October 21.
    6. Rent Infinite Undiscovery on September 1, and decide whether to buy it.
    7. Preorder Fallout 3 after a pay day in September for the October 8 release.

    And see? I completely forgot Bioshock, PGR4, more COD4 online, Geometry Wars 2, and about half a dozen other games I would really love to play. Like I said, there are too many good games out these days. But I won’t complain.

    I’m sure MrKniceGuy has a completely different list – and if his response to playing PGR4 yesterday is any indication, I bet it will involve a lot of motorcycle racing.

    So, what games are you currently enjoying or looking forward to? I’d love to add more to the plethora of gamer goodness on the schedule.

  • Bungie E3 Announcement Officially Shelved

    Bungie has updated its webpage – everything is back to normal, folks.  They have a news article posted to make it all official. You can sense some frustration in their post – Bungie is like a groom who just got stood up at the altar.  I feel bad for them.  I hope that when the announcement comes, it makes up for all of this.

  • The MYS7ERY Continues…

    Last night, Bungie posted a letter on its countdown homepage, stating that it had a change of plans due to its publisher. The letter sounds too harsh to be a part of the original hoax (and if it is, I say it’s in poor taste). It looks like this alternate reality game, or ARG, just got a little more interesting.

    I have to say that I’ve spent more time thinking about Bungie this week than I ought to. I absolutely love these kinds of things – finding all the clues, putting the pieces together, watching everyone else try to sort it out.  I think it’s pretty amazing that Bungie has the type of fan base that can take this seriously enough to pull it off. And with the latest setback, they are getting even more publicity – part of the original plan? They did say to EXPECT DELAYS.

    Another conspiracy theorist found a website to a radio station (real? alternate reality?) that was running the Bungie countdown at the same time. After yesterday, the script was changed. Now the last two lines read:

    COUN7DOWN 7O 7HE END:

    followed by a countdown that ends on August 7 at 7:07 pm. Knowing Bungie’s love for the number 7, we can only add that to the list of conspiracy possibilities, and imagine that, if they don’t have an announcement attached to EA’s presser this afternoon, we’ll have to wait until August to see what’s up their sleeves.

    I hope against hope that this is a brand new franchise by Bungie, something completely unrelated to the Halo universe. We’ll find out soon!