It’s amazing sometimes the memories, or a place in time, that a particular song, or a distinct smell can bring a person back to. And just now I got hit with a one-two punch from my music player, armed and loaded with over twenty-four thousand tracks, and set to shuffle. And just like that – epiphany. Just now (actually a week ago today, as of this posting) I was listening to Jonathan Coultan/Ellen McLain’s Still Alive, followed by Godley & Creme’s Cry, and a thought that has been brewing in the back of my mind for sometime now, finally bubbled up to the top – and then as I said before, epiphany; sad, sad epiphany actually. The best gaming moments of this console generation, have very likely already come and gone . . . years ago. 
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July 15, 2012 | Categories: Entertainment, What's In Your Console? | Tags: 2010, Alan Wake, Andrew Ryan, Another World, BioShock, Bioshock Infinite, Call of Duty, Chaos Theory, Combat Evolved, Cry, Ellen McLain, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Faith, Fallout 3, Gears of War, Ghost Recon: Advance Warfighter, God of War, Godley & Creme, Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto V, GTA IV, Half-Life 2, Halo, Heavy Rain, Hitman: Absolution, Ico, innovation, Jonathan Coultan, Knights of the Old Republic, KOTOR, L.A. Noire, Liberty City, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Megaton, Mirror's Edge, Out of This World, Phantasy Star II, Portal, Prince of Persia, pushing boundaries, Rapture, Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil 4, Saints Row 2, Saints Row: The Third, Shadow of the Colossus, Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Star Wars, Still Alive, Super Mario Galaxy, The Bizarro Year, The Last Guardian, The Last of Us, Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider (2013), Virmire, Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Ōkami | Leave a comment
On the subject of the Wii U, after having a couple weeks to process everything revealed about it. Thank you Nintendo, but your services will no longer be needed. I’d maybe get one if I had kids. But I don’t. And to be honest with you, with Kinect around, I am thinking that if I actually had kids, I’d hand-me-down my Xbox 360 + Kinect to them, when I get a proper next-gen console for myself, before I’d waste money purchasing a Wii U. And this coming from a gamer who has purchased every game console, on it’s day of release for every generation since 1989.
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June 27, 2012 | Categories: Entertainment, Tech, What's In Your Console? | Tags: Assassin's Creed 3, Assassin's Creed III, Batman: Arkham City, Bioshock Infinite, casual gamers, core gamers, Dishonored, E3, E3 2012, Far Cry 3, Fisher-Price, Gamecube, GCN, Grand Theft Auto 5, Grand Theft Auto V, GTA V, GTA5, GTAV, Hitman: Absolution, Kinect, mainstream gamers, Metro: Last Light, N64, Nintendiots, Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Playstation 3, PlayStation 4, PS3, PS360, PS4, Rainbow 6: Patriots, Rainbow Six: Patriots, SmartGlass, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Tomb Raider (2013), Ultra 64, Wii, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 720 | Leave a comment
What the Hell am I Doing? 