Evil of Evils...

Tony's XBox broke...so we don't know if he has to buy a new one yet or if the graphics chip can be fixed (that's what broke). He swore that one way or another he'd have an XBox by the time Resident Evil 5 comes out.

He's convinced this game will be as wonderful and grounbreaking as Resident Evil 4. It kinda looks the same to me with better graphics and the less-hot Chris Redfield. I like Leon better because then Ada tags along...Whatever. Maybe Jill Valentine will show up?

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays here! 2008 is coming to a rapid close and there's still so much of it left to enjoy. It gave us a pretty decent year in gaming, less so in anime. In terms of gifts, it gave us a lot to ponder.

Every one of my friends but myself has an Xbox360 now. I'll probably get it sooner rather than later now. With my latest friend getting an Xbox (Seth) we also got to experience Rockband 2 and create characters! It's incredibly addictive, though as the singer of the group I didn't know as many of the songs on this playlist as I did on the first one. There is an option to port over Rockband 1's playlist over to 2, so hopefully we'll get around to that. I'm pretty much going to try and hang out at Seth's as much as possible now because this game is just that fun. Also now that we're not playing on the Wii the controls work much better and character creation is too fun. Seth and I were fighting over who got to spend money on whose character while Tony and Larry rolled their eyes at us.

Prince of Persia came to a close a while ago (it's almost criminally short) with a controversial but (in my mind) brilliant ending. Also, it sets up for a sequel. I feel less good about that given Ubisoft's track record.

Tony was a doll and got me Blood + season 1 box set (with a great T-shirt in the box, though the full series would have been acceptable) so I've been watching the DVDs. I keep forgetting that Adult Swim used to edit a lot of the blood out so it's more of a gore fest than I remember, but that only adds rather than detracting from the experience. "Saya!" Never gets old.

Ouran High School Host Club 2 will be out in two or three weeks. Cannot wait. Love this series.

Death Note boxset 1 is out for a reasonable price (first half of the series for $50.00--that's around 30 episodes). One of the few Madhouse series to not have gallons of blood to spurt at high pressure in every episode (the other series is Monster if you were curious) and has lots of crazy "intellectual" twists. It's hella fun to see Light and L go at outsmarting each other and all the moral issues involved with Light's actions. Definitely worth the cash.

Can't really think of anything else noteworthy to squawk about right now. Maybe later. Happy Holidays once again!

More E3 Blarg

Forgot to mention that Final Fantasy XIII is being released on the XBox360 as well as the PS3. This was Square Enix's way of effectively killing any franchise-exclusive potential the PS3 ever had going for it. Namco-Bandai might release Tekken 6 exclusively to the platform, but that's really a drop in the bucket compared to what FFXIII guarantees number-wise. Hilariously, the XBox's core demographic (re: FPS, zero-depth, frat boys) would appreciate a regular fighting game more than the PS3's core demographic (re: nerdy otakus). Apparently the XBox is becoming the new PS2, really. As you can well imagine YouTube is being barraged by angry PS3 fanboys bitching about Square-Enix's fateful backstabbing. How dare they acknowledge the Xbox's sales figures and try and earn their international money back that way!? MADNESS, I TELL YOU!

Seriously though, the Xbox360 and their core demographic is changing. While it used to be just for Halotards, it has come a long way in terms of game releases for changing the demographic. The best games are now found on the console (unless you're a die-hard Nintendo latchkey kid and can't concieve of a universe outside of Hyrule or Mario's).

While the PS3 had been selling itself on future potential, it seems that the future is always at a distance for the platform. It never comes. They do have one feather in their cap, however, before I proclaim the almost-certain death of this platform. They have joined with FUNimation and Bones to release streaming video of completed anime instead of that retarded disc-by-disc nonsense we get in actual media stores. Imagine entire seasons at once downloaded directly to your television set. It's incredibly tempting, I give them that. And they're marketing it at the right people as those who own PS3s probably have a sizable anime collection as well.

The Xbox360 is still better, though. ^_^

Forgot to mention as well that Fallout3 has a choice between genders! You can play as a male or female in this dystopic future, blowing up psuedo-zombies and other mutated beings. Let's give a gigantic cheer for kickass female leads!