Endangered Gamer

Halo 2 is the most played game ever. for me, anyways. on the eve of it's end, I've decided to plop down some thoughts on the game and what it's meant to me over the years. I still remember the day i bought my original xbox. i had ignored the launch, since i already had a PS2 and plenty of games to play on it. then i read the reviews for Halo. at the time, i was a pretty hardcore gamer, without a wife, mortgage, or car payment. i spent a shitload of money a week on games, and bought any game (and i mean ANY) that caught my interest. I subscribed to 4 or 5 videogame magazines, and read the few blogs and gaming sites obsessively. so when the reviews for Halo begin to come in, i decided to get a system. being a few days after launch, it was pretty hard, and i had driven to 3 or 4 stores before i pulled up to a target. inside the tv/dvd/game department i found a employee walking from the back room with a xbox, and asked him were they were. he replied " dude, we ar...

The Halo: Reach beta test has a solid deployment date, May 3rd 2010 . it's about time, i've been waiting for Bungie to do a proper sequel to Halo 3 (ODST was just not up to par).

take a look at a badass tech demo that rumor says will make it into Crysis 2, coming to consoles sometime this decade. i've always wanted to destroy stuff on this scale since the first Red Faction .

so i just started AC2, and i'm hating the money system. AC 1 was perfectly fine without it, and it just doesn't feel right. the game also starts abruptly, without much setup and minimal backstory. i'm just a few hours in, so my opinion might change, but so far.....meh. and i got accepted into the xbox live ambassador program. w00t!!

so this blog's gone all to hell, totally ignored in 09. i bet i've had less than 50 posts this year, and considering it took me 3 years to get to 1000 posts, that's fracking sad. anyways, let me drop a load off here, and give you a rundown of the year's best games. 11.Xmen Origins: Wolverine, Xbox 360 10.Battlefield 1943, XBLA 9.Killzone 2, Playstation 3 8.GTA Chinatown Wars, DSi 7.Halo 3 ODST, Xbox 360 6.Scribblenauts, DSi 5.Resident Evil 5, Xbox 360 4.New Super Mario Bros Wii Edition, Wii 3.Shadow Complex, XBLA 2.Trials HD, XBLA 1.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Xbox 360 yeah, i know Uncharted 2 isn't there, as well as Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Left 4 Dead 2, DJ Hero, Wii Sports Resort, Trine, any and all PC games and a assload more that i'll probably never get to. Batman, Uncharted 2 and Assassin's Creed i might get to, but dont' hold your breath. in other news, i bought a house, i have a stepson and my wife is pregnan...